I still don’t understand the Lame Duck Challenge Free Offer, but that’s because CodeWeavers had to put up a bare-bones, reduced bandwidth version of their home page after their servers got slammed. Apparently, for some reason that may or may not have something to do with The Chimperor, they have put up fully unlocked builds […]

October is too long. Okay, so yeah, I should be working, and the house was hit over the weekend by a tornado who wears a wedding ring that looks just like mine, so I wouldn’t have time to do it today anyway, but I want Intrepid to be final release. If stupid October was as […]

I was just reading a thread in the UF about some guy, a n00b, who’s trying to get dual monitors working in Hardy; his first ever Linux setup (technically dual-boot XP and Hardy). I have dual monitors and have had since I was still using Gutsy a year ago, but I also have an Nvidia […]

I’d been running an ancient 2.1.something version of WP, too lazy to upgrade, but since P got re-infected with that stupid script (I hadn’t…yet), I thought upgrading to the latest version would at least be harmless, and might help keep me from getting infected again. I don’t remember the last time I’d upgraded because it […]

Actually, I’m not so sure that this is “desperate” so much as it is funny, brilliant advertising and even a little scary. Holy shit, I was surprised to see Andy Griffith still alive. Hell, he doesn’t look too much different from the way he did in Matlock. Light Richie and the Fonz a little differently, […]

1. Where there is a thoughtful, considerate man who loves his grandma, there is a way, even if the software doesn’t co-operate. Awwww! 2. “E de ting”. Ded of teh cute. Awwww! 3. “Giant millworms?” “Mealworms?” (confusion arose from “mealworms” spoken by a woman from rural south-central IL). They’re superworms, of course, but that’s not […]

Goodbye. I put up with YaST because it was a little faster this time, though still slower than Synaptic. I put up with no CLI to install software because…okay, because I’m lazy and couldn’t be arsed to install something else. Now, for no good reason, you fucked up my keyboard so badly I can’t even […]

What I was supposed to be doing: getting dressed, feeding the starving masses, starting the laundry, cleaning the catastrofuck…I mean…the house. What I was actually doing: giving a photo of J.’s beloved childhood dollhouse (now passed on to her daughter), a bit of a “facelift”. Grandma looked okay in her rocker, but I thought she […]

Okay, so it’s my own fault. I already know that films and TV shows fuck up anything computer-related, but I find the whole topic of “virtual humans” and androids utterly fascinating, and live for the day when I can have my very own Data. (Is it weird to have a half-crush on an android?) Plus, […]

I was late finishing the ironing and laundry tonight, but for once, it wasn’t L.’s fault; I was talking to B., and he’d said he was there for just a few minutes, so I thought, “That’s fine…I have stuff to do anyway.” I was getting fidgety because it takes him forever to type, and I […]