Dec 12 2008
Thank goodness, the Senate killed the “Big-Three-Bailout” last night. I guess they too realize that we live in a capitalist economy. That means that if your product sucks, then you go out of business.
Bye bye Unions, GM, Ford, and Chrysler. We won’t miss you.
ABC News has more.
Dec 11 2008
Imagine this, you’re in class, at work, wherever, and you give a Linux distro to a buddy. Out of nowhere, you are tackled by Knoxville’s finest and thrown in jail for illegally distributing software without paying for it! Well, it’s not that bad, but it is that stupid.
From PC PRO News:
A teacher has thrown a student into detention and threatened to call the police for using Linux in her classroom.The teacher spotted one of her students giving a demonstration of the HeliOS distro to other students. In a somewhat over-the-top reaction, she confiscated the CDs, put the student on detention and whipped off a letter to the HeliOS Project threatening to report it to the police for distributing illegal software.
“I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to happen in my classroom,” writes the teacher, identified only as Karen.
“At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. I will research this as time allows and I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows.
Of course, the guys from Helios wrote a reply. Here’s an excerpt:
“Please…investigate to your heart’s content. Linux is a free as-in-cost and free as-in-license operating system. It was designed specifically for those purposes…
“I don’t know when you attended college Karen but the Linux of even two years ago pales in feature and ability to what there is available now… and that in turn will pale in a year’s time. Linux is superior to Microsoft Windows in so many ways, they are too numerous to mention here.”
Wow, what a moron.
All this talk about insubordination makes me wanna get my criminal on. I’m about to do something totally illegal! Here’s a link to the newest release of Ubuntu, 8.10.
Sep 04 2008
So that old grumpy guy, aka my neighbor. Yeah, I saw him walking across the street to get his paper this morning as I was going to work. Guess he woke up on his own today, without the help of my dog.
Aug 28 2008
About 2 weeks ago, the place I work for had an Employee Health Day. I found out that, although healthier than most of my co-workers, I was apparently unhealthy. Not the the point that I was going to die soon, like Mr. JackASCII, but still not good. Taking these statistics, I started trying to get back in the swing of running again. Let me say that running outside is totally different than a treadmill or an elliptical. It seems that I can do a lot more thinking outside when I am experiencing a lot more pain.
In my thinking moments, when I wasn’t focusing on not focusing on the lactic acid building up in my legs, I thought that perhaps I should create a new web site. Not some here and there, sometimes I blog, sometimes I don’t, but something informative, creative, etc. For example, at the moment, I am using some of my webspace to test applications such as osTicket and HelpDesk Live! I may open these up to the public at some point, but for now, they are hidden in directory structure 
So, what is my purpose? Well, for one, a lot of pictures. People love pictures, no matter what it is. I’ve always thought that vlogging, or video blogging, was lame so I won’t be doing any of that. However, I will try to be as informative as possible with whatever I am doing, such as installing these webapps or what I’m experiencing at work, such as installing Oracle 11g.
Yeah, hopefully mostly tech, but comedy should come of it as well. Here’s to something new…
