Random comments on technology, politics and fnord
A few days ago, I complained about the lack of an updated Software Wars map. I didn’t think I could do it; or, it didn’t even occur to me to do it. I had originally submitted the question as an “Ask Slashdot” question, hoping some able /. reader would decide to make one. The submission […]
Father Convicted of Raping Daughter, 3
A man who was arrested after offering to have sex with a toddler live on the Internet was convicted of raping his 3-year-old daughter and could face life in prison.
If my job was to pull the switch on these sub-human degenerates, I would whistle happily on the way to the […]
Software Wars hasn’t been updated in well over two years. Since then, many things have happened: Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice 2.0 (with Base), PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache2, and more — especially Novell’s Openxchange Server. The map has no mentions of Fedora, Ubuntu or even Google. In fact, serveral whole new fronts in the War are […]
There is one truism about politics that is often repeated:
All politics is local.
Tip O’Neill said that.
I will have to add one more truism:
All politics is sleazy.
The News & Observer is reporting that Morrisville commissioners have given Lenovo tax breaks without public OK, and the law allows it. They will rubber stamp the deal in a […]
Even with Republicans in control, trends are decidedly in favor of massive redistribution of wealth. Some great commentary by Patrick Chisholm. He succinctly covers what I’ve been saying for years.
He just spits all the facts out like a machine gun. And none of it is good news.
“Republican” is no longer synonymous with spending […]
We needed to buy a coffee table. For years we had been using an old travel trunk as a coffee table, but we got rid of it. Right now we don’t have a coffee table.
The thought of going to various department or furniture stores to find a decent coffee table was not appealing. I […]
… Design.
Ha. Got you, didn’t I?
You thought, just for a second, that hell had frozen over and the Raleigh City Council grew a brain and decided to boot the whole Downtown Convention Center, didn’t you?
We should be so lucky.
Well, maybe you aren’t as hopeful as I am, but I had to read the NBC 17 […]
My performance review coincided with the end of year, so it is easy to do some year-over-year comparisons.
Income for 2006
2005 Income
+ Merit Raise
- Higher Medical Witholding
- Higher Gasoline Prices
- Higher Natural Gas Prices
—————————–
Less than 2005 Income
With just a couple variables, you can see that my household will have less disposable income in 2006 than we […]
I fiddled around with the system some more today. I’m still loving it.
I realized that the basic install didn’t give me mysql or apache.
A couple google searches pointed me to the Ubuntu Packages web site. It really, truly only took a few minutes to install devhelp, mysql, subversion, apache (w/ mod_php and mod_per), eclipse […]
I reinstalled Linux on my primary home computer last night. I switched to Ubuntu from Fedora.
Overall, I’m fairly pleased.
With Fedora, I got tired of getting stuck in rpm dependency hell when I wanted to install something outside the norm. In order to get all the multimedia packages and some other software I wanted onto […]
