matt | April 27, 2009
So, this article had me thinking about computers, usage patterns, etc. In general, for my normal computing tasks, a processor about as powerful as the Intel atom in my netbook is enough. Maybe something a little more powerful, so that the hulu/youtube/etc isn’t so choppy (it is a very little bit choppy). The only things [...]
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matt | April 27, 2009
The laptop upgrade was a simple incremental upgrade. Nothing earthshaking, despite trying both Gnome and KDE4. I’m still using XFCE. The netbook, however, is quite wonderful. I’m now using the Netbook Remix| and the UI is quite good for small devices. Of course, I need to tweak the crap out of the base install […
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matt | April 27, 2009
Apparently Hillary left something on the seat which infected Gillibrand. She’s just as bad as who she replaced. Linky, click “votes”.
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matt | April 26, 2009
Last weekend, Liz and I stopped by Zombie Planet. They have Battletech league which runs Thursdays, which I will likely start attending some time in the next month (I have meetings the next two Thursdays). Because of the above, I picked up a copy of Battletech:Total Warfare. It’s a good thing that the pages are [...]
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matt | April 14, 2009
Added a pile of pictures of the (now much larger) kittens. Socks is up to 9 pounds!
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matt | April 14, 2009
Spent the weekend at the brother in law’s. The nieces and nephew are too cute. The plants are going like gangbusters. The pea field is tilled and the peas will go in on Thursday. I got a standard length guide rod for my 1911. Will probably hit the range this weekend. I think that’s about [...]
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matt | April 8, 2009
I wanted to install Trac into an OpenVZ container on Daisy, and when I installed the Ubuntu openvz kernel, it wouldn’t boot. Doing a little poking around, it looks like that kernel is compiled with PAE turned on, and if your CPU doesn’t support it, it won’t boot. So, the choice is to recompile my [...]
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matt | April 8, 2009
Gentoo Is Rice
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matt | April 8, 2009
While watching Star Trek: Nemesis You know what Star Trek proves? Even when you don’t need money, you still need guns.
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matt | April 4, 2009
Given the passing of the first of April, thy humble apostle, anointed with 2 stroke 40:1 mix, didst startest his new chainsaw, and with a mighty grumble, it did come to life, and the chips did fly, and care was taken, such that all digits did remain attached. When the midday time was reached, a [...]
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