This past weekend was pretty crummy weatherwise. After all the rain I have a feeling the “Fall” weather pattern will kick into gear making it really feel like September. I don’t have a problem with this as the Fall months are my favorite time of the year. As a result I got around to installing […]
I purchased my new AMD64 system from Tiger Direct for $218. Pretty sweet. Part of the savings was $100 in rebates. Unfortunately having your teeth pulled is probably an easier and more pleasant experience. Tiger Direct uses a 3rd party company called OnRebate to handle their rebates. Basically Tiger Direct lists the rebate code and […]
Everyone in my household has been dealing with a summer cold. Fun! There’s nothing like being all stuffy, achy and coughing while it’s 90 degrees outside! I was particularly bummed out because we were not able to attend the tikibar festivities with Dan and Erin before they move to Virginia. I wish them all the […]
In my last blog posting I talked about trying to compile the closed source Nvidia drivers in Debian ‘testing’ on my new barebones system. Well I decided to try installing Kubuntu via the alternate non-graphical install CD. This time it installed without a hitch. Once I got it installed the system immediately started acting very […]
Well I put together my new AMD64 based barebones box and decided to try Kubuntu. The installer starts up ok but dies about halfway through. Total lockup. Not good. I try this a couple times with the same outcome. I then install Debian ‘testing’ for AMD64 via netinstall. It installs without issue and looks great. […]
In a previous post I mentioned how Apple screws over the 3rd party application development community. The most flagrant example of this is when Apple releases “new” features into the core of OSX. Well Apple has done it again with the release of Leopard. Here are the applications about to be destroyed by Apple. […]
So Apple loves Open Source Software again? I think this anonymous posting at slashdot sums up my feelings regarding Apple:
“To say Apple is open source friendly just shows how diseased Apple fanbois really are. Just ask the developers of KHTML how well Apple treats the open source community. For every miniscule contribution Apple makes to […]
I picked up a second hand M-Audio Delta 44 professional sound card/breakout box a while back:
Basically this is a PCI card that will be able to do fairly professional sounding audio recordings. It has a break out box with 4 in/outs. You would basically connect a mixer with individual channel outs to each one of […]
Well my new ISP is up and running. I’m using the same exact cable modem as I had before. The speed seems to be better than my old ISP but it is not what they advertise. I’m supposed to be getting 6 Mps down and 768k up. I did a couple of speed tests […]
I am switching ISPs today so I will probably be off-line for a bit. Today I checked my current speeds and they are the fastest they have been in quite some time. Go figure. I have a cable modem so it tends to slow down as more people get online in the neighborhood. It must […]