03 Jun 2002
This is from Jason, my long time friend and co-conspirator, whom I’ve know since I lived overseas
Actually I’m sitting in an internet cafe in Bangkok, Thailand […] on all someone elses tab. :) Sometimes life deals you a royal flush. This trip has been such a blast. In the last week alone I have seen the Great Wall of China, a cock fight, thousands of dirt cheap DVD’s, the Forbidden Palace, met the VP for the largest telecommunications network in the Middle East and been almost killed numerous times ridding in a took-took. Asia is awesome! […] PS. Want any DVD’s? I can get Episode II for $2.
Grrr…. and I have to go to meetings….
03 Jun 2002
Nevermind writing a paper saying open source software works, Germany just went with Linux across the board. Actions speak louder than works.
You will fall Mr. Bill. :)
02 Jun 2002
Some jackass wrote this claming Open Source unfit for DoD use. Please, someone write a good counter paper, please?
02 Jun 2002
blanu and I were talking about low cost computers, which would be handy for my new job (more on that later). He sent me to idotpc.com which actually has (hold on to your seat now) a decent flex atx case with no ugly floppy drive hole. (Like I would put a 3 1/2 disk drive in a computer like that. The fact that people still use them is prove that the devil exists.) It even has USB ports on the front for game controlers.
So now I just need a Flex ATX MB with an AGP slot (or built in 3d with a linux driver) and I can get started on a combo PVR, game system (mame + snes9x + whatever), mp3 player, picture viewer.
02 Jun 2002
Tonight I’m frustrated with my GUI set up: I have too many window types. We have
- Normal X windows
- PowerShell Tabs
- Joe windows
I get lost remembering which key to hit to switch back to the last window.
If my gnome panel (which runs down the right side of my screen, where my mouse still naturaly goes to after so many years of not using a mac) wasn’t already full of konq windows, I would switch to rxvt some gui text editor.