Why I suck…

In a figurative, not literal, sense.

 

FLASH!

Well, I thought Christmas at Teh Table (via Josh’s house–and thank you to Josh, and pass along our thanks to your mother for putting up with us) went rather well.  My thanks also go out to everyone for showing up, and for the wonderful gifts I received.  They were all excellent.

On a completely unrelated note, when I returned home, I got the 64-bit Flash plugin installed for Firefox in Fedora, and now everything on Linux works flawlessly.  Better than flawlessly, to be honest–it’s vastly superior to Windows in most ways, and I hadn’t realized it until I struggled with Windows for the better part of a week and still failed to accomplish what basically took 15 minutes of waiting after clicking two buttons upon switching over to Fedora.  I’m going to go install Wine now, and get Guild Wars running.  Then I don’t think I’ll ever have to leave Fedora again, and I’ll have to go ahead and change up my boot loader, so it doesn’t send me to Windows first.

 

A Safe way to have a raffle

Recently, due to a change in management at my church, the Council has been going through the old church archives in an effort to cut down on the amount of useless crap we’re storing.  They came across an old safe similar to this one:

Chubb-Leamington model 6000 safe

but much smaller.

 

How would you taste to a cannibal?

Created by Recipe Star

 

More on Shells

My Chosen Prompts:

bash on Red Hat Enterprise Linux:

bash on RHEL 5

Ignore the blue border – I’m using my mom’s windoze box today.  The green “green” is the current SANS ISC INFOCON, updated every 10 minutes.  The rest is the default bash prompt for RHEL out of the box.  “imbrius” is my username, “dustpuppy” is the hostname, and ~ is the current directory (~ is shorthand for the user’s home directory).

 

A Video Card that Really Sucks

Don't buy the FX5800 - you're getting ripped off!

See for yourself:  http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/graphics_extravaganza_ultimate_gpu_retrospective?page=0%2C6

 

Catching up with Syre

Since WoW is down today (it’s Tuesday), this is a good time to post the screenshots from what I’ve been doing all week.

 

Introductions

Actually not an introduction, since I’ve posted here before.  But now I’m an author which new and scary things for you all.  Mostly I intend to ‘inform you’ about games the SGC is running that you may or may not be interested in.

Other than that, cringe at my poor grammer and plot holes!!

(God, I need sleep … )

 

Alone in the White

All alone sitting in a chair, in a room:

 

Confused about the weather

My Alienware runs RHEL 5 with GNOME and my Sun runs Solaris 10 with GNOME.  Both have the little GWeather applet in the toolbar.  Both applets point to the same ZIP code and the same weather feed.  However, all morning my RHEL box has said “Mist” for Milwaukee while my Solaris box has said “Light Drizzle:”