Posted in Music on October 29th, 2006 1 Comment »
Earlier this month, Dena and I saw Roger Waters for the first time. After the show, we picked up a kick ass poster, numbered and signed by the man himself. Dena found a great frame for it and now it sits in our family room.
Posted in Linux on October 27th, 2006 No Comments »
Dena got tired of me stopping in the magazine section to flip through Linux Journal every time I went to the grocery store with her. Being the smart woman she is, she grabbed a subscription card from one of the issues I bought and signed me up for a subscription. She wrote the […]
Posted in General on October 27th, 2006 No Comments »
Yes, webcams are passe. So 1998, right? I don’t care. I bought an iSight from Jorge a few years ago, and I finally have it setup somewhere that it can be permanently mounted.
Now the whole of the internet can deal with my silly self visually.
Posted in General, Linux on October 16th, 2006 2 Comments »
So I decided to give SUSE a try. I had a evaluation copy from Linux World. That worked fine, compiz and all, but was out of date. GNOME 2.12 has been out more than a year now and I couldn’t figure out how to upgraded it via yum. Maybe I’m just […]
Posted in General, Linux, GNOME on October 13th, 2006 No Comments »
I popped in one of the evaluation SUSE CDs that I had from LinuxWorld last night and installed it to a spare partition on my laptop. The installer was decent and I was booting up to my desktop quick enough.
I haven’t used an RPM-based distro since the Red Hat 7 days. I’ve been Debian/Ubuntu ever […]