By RangerRick, on February 1st, 2003%
I’m sure everyone else has seen this, but space shuttle Columbia broke up on reentry this morning. I hope this doesn’t mean the death-blow for the US space program, although a part of me wishes that were so, to finally make room for private enterprise getting into space without getting beaten down by the government.
Sometimes at times like this, you need a little levity:
<@lovelace> Does anyone else see the irony in an Israeli astronaut breaking up and falling down to… Palestine, TX?
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By RangerRick, on January 26th, 2003%
Just saw this on the TriLUG mailing list:
From: “H. Wade Minter” <[email protected]> Date: Sun Jan 26, 2003 2:53:09 PM America/New_York To: [email protected] Subject: [TriLUG] fork(); exec(“/usr/bin/baby”); Reply-To: [email protected]
There’s a new Open Source user in town. My wife and I spawned our first child process, Hayley Anne-Marie Minter, on Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at Rex Hospital.
She’s 7 pounds, 15 ounces, 18″ long, and quite the looker.
Baby pictures can be found at http://www.lunenburg.org/hayley/
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Linux discussion.
–Wade
Congrats!
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By RangerRick, on January 23rd, 2003%
So we’ve got a bit of a snow day today. <sarcasm>There’s nearly 2 inches of snow out there!</sarcasm> C’mon, people! It’s only 2 inches! You can barely make a decent snowman out of that! Sure, you need to drive a bit more carefully… You’ll live. =)
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By RangerRick, on January 1st, 2003%
OK, I think Tasty Pirate has to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen since bash.org. They basically have a daily list of weird search engine search strings, and there’s all kinds of whacky stuff in there. So far, my favorite is “i am just looking for evil clown pictures“. Something about that just cracks me up. Oh, and uhhh… Happy new year. =)
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By RangerRick, on December 30th, 2002%
Made it back home fine. I must say, even though they’ve scaled down from what they started with, Midwest Express is still a pretty nice airline to fly. Doesn’t hurt that I get a direct flight from Milwaukee to Raleigh, either. I really hate dealing with hopping around to get where I’m going. Got some good loot for Christmas. The best was a huge suprise — Dad got me a pair of Etymotic ER-4P headphones. These are in-ear, very hi-fi headphones that block out pretty much all ambient noise. Until you’ve heard a pair, it’s really hard to describe just how incredible the sound is. I’m going back and listening to some of my favorite recordings, and hearing things I had no idea were there! It’s really amazing. Go look for some reviews on the net, and you’ll see that pretty much everyone agrees. They’re hard to beat. I’ve been listening to music pretty much continuously since the ride home. =) Speaking of music, over at the Very Big Blog, I see that Duran Duran has gotten back together and is recording another album. I had started out long ago listening to them just . . . → Read More: Back in the USS… uhh, I mean, Raleigh
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By RangerRick, on December 24th, 2002%
So here I am in frosty Wisconsin, and I’ve come to a realization:
I’m a wimp.
Every time I come back here I think how nice it is to visit family, but dear GOD this is a frozen wasteland. You know what? It gets cold here. Turns out, the further North you go, the colder it gets!
Well, at least in the northern hemisphere. =)
Let me give you an example.
See this? (click for larger picture)
You know what that’s for? I bet you can guess. Here in Wisconsin, they get so much snow, so regularly, they have little flourescent poles on fire hydrants and other important utility stuff so that they can find them if they’re completely covered in snow!!!
That’s right. You heard me.
Madness, pure madness.
At least in North Carolina, if we get a foot of snow everyone freaks out and we get an impromptu vacation. Here in Wisconsin that’s normal.
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By RangerRick, on December 18th, 2002%
So tonight we’ve got 16 people going from work (and family) to see the two towers, or so I’m told!!! Madness, pure madness… Should be a blast. =) In KDE news, I got word from pogma that working dlcompat code is in dlcompat CVS now; I build it and tried it out and arts starts up, even with arts-tools installed (yay!). noatun and kaboodle still run like crap, but it’s definite progress. Now that that is done, the question is whether to include kdemultimedia at all, or at least those parts. They’re pretty worthless, as is, it looks like there’s some definite platform issues still. On the bright side, pogma’s changes make me pretty confident that there aren’t going to be other hidden symbol issues in other bits of KDE, so if nothing else I feel better about a release. Latest word on the KDE list is that 3.1 release candidates post-security-audit may be available this week, and a proper KDE 3.1 release is now expected in early January.
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By RangerRick, on December 7th, 2002%
So an estimated 1.2 million people lost power in North and South Carolina in the ice storms last week. I just got power today. Finally getting toasty in here again. Yay! Took some pictures while my home machine was down. I took a few more today outside our office; closeups on the tree leaning against the building, and the one on one of our sales guy’s car. At any rate, my buddy Larry let me crash at his place while I had no power. I owe him BIG time. So today I went into work and got everything set back up, luckily no whacky drive issues or anything; I took the opportunity to get some stuff upgraded, all the software updates and such have been applied now. Ahhhhh… Now I’ve gotta figure out where I left off on the KDE stuff — there’s still a lot of work to do. While I was gone, I found out that KDE 3.1 did officially get delayed pending security updates. Going by what they said on the packager list, the changes are going to touch a large amount of the code, albeit lightly. It’ll give time for us to get . . . → Read More: No Power = No Geekiness!
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