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So, I took a quiz to see what OS my personality matches. I got Debian, “People have difficulty getting to know you. Once you finally open your shell, they’re apt to love you.” Heh, they said “apt”. 🙂

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So, I did a whole bunch of things this last week that are worthy of review. So I’ll dive right in. Knockaround GuysMy wife’s a Vin Diesel fan, and I like the kinds of movies he’s usually in, so we see quite a few. Knockaround Guys wasn’t quite what I expected, but it was good. […]

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This past friday, Chris Rice was in concert at Sunshine Community Church.. At the time, I thought I had never heard of anything he wrote, but he wrote the song at the beginning of the Jonah movie. Because WCSG sponsored the concert, I was asked to be a runner. Runners have a van and do […]

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So, I’ve been playing withj it for a couple hours now, and I’ve found more goodies. VNC didn’t want to work right for me in rh8. It complained about mismatched color depths, when I know that was bunk. Also, moz1.3gtk2rh8 and galeon 1.3.3 installed from rpm flawlessly. This is the first time gnome2.2 has been […]

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Well, I installed it this morning, and I’ve had 10 minutes to play with it. Now my kids are eating and I’m watching Dragon Tales with them. 🙂 In those 10 minutes I learned: They fixed the bug in 8 that made my onboard soundcard not work. The upgrade path works VERY well. The upgrade […]

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I stopped by today and there were NO posts on the homepage. Then I rememebred that it’s only showing posts for current month. I should change that. I made a basic page for the CULUG last night while I wasn’t sleeping. Here’s hoping it takes off. I’m downloading RedHat 9 cd’s from a s00p3r SeKrIt […]

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This morning I watched the briefing from Qatar, and the man giving the briefing mentioned that the Iraqis have no regard for the laws of war, which he described as rules which govern violent conflict. I’ve thought about that before, but I was struck again at how ludicrous that term is. The only people that […]

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I just have to say:[topher@boktor topher]$ uptime3:12pm up 65 days, 22:26 I found more cool toys on thinkgeek today. Update: There’s now also an Activision controller with 10 more games. The Joystick This is the way TV video games were meant to be controlled. Even after all these years, the wierd nintendo game pads still […]

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Author: Ben Bova NOTE: This review will contain spoilers for the last book, and a few from this book. I’ll start right off by saying I enjoyed this book much more than the last. There was far less politics and earth-bound shenanigans (though not completely gone). Rather than politically funded, this trip is largely commercially […]