September 27, 2008 – 5:44 pm
More precisely, my better half is now officially semi-retired. Our short-lived plans to relocate to West Virginia led to her leaving her job.
Initially, I felt bad that she had resigned after 15 years to come with me on another wild computer-job-related adventure that didn’t come to pass. I guess that we both realized that she [...]
September 27, 2008 – 2:57 pm
Tuesday, September 30, is the new release date for the Fedora 10(Cambridge) Beta.
I’ll download and burn the iso, back up my home directory, and perform a fresh install.
Let’s light this candle!1
-k-
fedora, fedora10
1 It ain’t work, if you enjoy doing it.
September 24, 2008 – 6:34 am
Happy 5th Birthday, Fedora. My distro of choice. A peek into what may be included in RHEL. Hackable, but amazingly wonderful and useful out of the box.
Thanks, developers, engineers, ambassadors, and to the entire Fedora Project. You’re keeping one old geek young and interested.
-k-
fedora
September 23, 2008 – 8:54 pm
Unaccustomed as I am to citing anything from the New York Times, this post confirmed my nascent anti-bailout leanings. When an Administration official, like Ministry of the Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson writes on Sunday that:
Sec. 8. Review.
Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed [...]
September 19, 2008 – 7:36 pm
On a whim, about a month or so ago, I installed the WP Wall plugin and widget. The widget sits in the right sidebar over there. From the plugin author’s site, WP Wall provides this:
Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the [...]
September 17, 2008 – 8:34 pm
As documented here, I activated the heretofore unnoticed Automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month checkbox in the Akismet WordPress plugin.
A month or so in, and my spam trap went from ginormous1 to next to none. And I can much more easily find any false positives that make it into [...]
September 15, 2008 – 8:23 pm
tbbs-land was sans internet and land-line phones last week, starting on Wednesday, as our usually reliable Verizon FiOS service went dark. Our cellphones and Sprint Wireless Broadband card got a workout, so it wasn’t like we were totally off the grid.
Preferring to consult a proctologist named Dr. Hook than talk on the phone to Verizon [...]
September 11, 2008 – 10:21 pm
In chronological order, without comment:
December 7, 1984.
November 8, 1997.
July 30, 1999.
February 18, 2001.
January 29, 2003.
September 13, 2003.
-k-
September 11, 2008 – 8:52 pm
Ten minutes into the Candidates Forum on Service presidential forum now airing on MSNBC, and I’m wondering whether or not the title of this post might not be a more fitting theme.
McCain just spoke; I assume Obama is next. McCain just heralded the creation of the Department of Homeland Security as a landmark of [...]
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