Super John

HAPPY BIRPHIN DAY TO ME!!!!!!!!!

Tonight I go to see Aaron Lewis, this is a gift from my wife.

WOW, I haven't posted since October. Who'd of Thunk it.

Anywho.....

Today I was with a few friends of mine and we were discussing random tidbits of this and that. Well one of my friends was handed a Golf ball by his mom. My other friend made the comment, be it that he was still inebriated from St Patty's Day festivities, that if you put it under a heat lamp a Mexican will hatch and mow your lawn. This completely threw all of us for a loop, i myself busted out laughing. Through the laughter he continued to say that is the reason so many of them are mowing the greens on Golf courses due to this being where Mexicans come from. This just caused the laughter to continue and me saying that I would post this to my live journal.

As a Disclaimer, well to be honest fuck a disclaimer. The above statement was made in good fun among friends. It made me laugh no matter how it might have sounded to anyone else.

I really should post to this more often, I do find it very therapeutic at times, other I find it as a task that I could or could not do and the later mostly wins out.

But thats ok, about 2 weeks I had my 250GB drive in my Linux box die on me. I had finally come to live with the fact that I couldn't bring it back to life. The other day at work we had a drive of the same exact size and from the same manufacturer crash, the platters were damaged I think. Well I had heard that I could change circuit boards on drive of the same size and same manufacturer and if the board was not the issue from the other drive that it could resurrect a non-powering drive. Well I did this and my god if it didn't work and now I'm a very happy camper and I have my 250GB drive back.

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams

BOO!

It appears that someone wnats my livejournal name, or at least thinks that mine is their's. This is the first time I have ever received a password change request that I didn't do myself. I guess it happens to the best of us.

It's offical the StumbleUpon Extention for FIrefox has ruined my free time. DAMN YOU BEAUCHAMP! :P

NASA - Huge Storms Converge: Very interesting even though I don't follow Astronomy very much

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. - Steven Wright
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is. - Chuck Reid
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. - James Feibleman
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte

neoteric: recent in origin; new.
pleonasm: the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea.

Why are Diesel-powered vehicles being held back in North America?: Seems like a good idea to me even though Diesel is a worse fuel to use then Gas

Curmudgeon Gamer: History of Console Prices (or: $500 ain't the worst...): THis is a very interesting story about the price points of system past and present. GIve in both absolute prive and Inflation based prices

well, I have done it. I have spent the last 3 weeks using my Linux Desktop for my normal day-to-day activites, email, LJ, listening to music and Websurfing. I've only used my WIndows box for Games and DVD making, mainly b/c it is the only one with a dvd burner in it. It's not been to hard to use it, since I've already gotten used to using the CLI on my server. The only real obstical that I've ran across is finding the software I wanted to use for each thing I did. Of cource I picked Firefox for Websurfing, I picked Thunderbird for email, I hadn't really givin it a fair try when I was using windows mainly, but it's not too bad. I use a program called Logjam for my blogin with LJ, real easy to use and seems to work well no crashign or slowing of the system. I've currently using XMMS, a great WInamp clone, as my mp3 player, but I'm running into issues with it crashing since I'm pulling my mp3s from my server. I'm looking at mpg123 but I haven't used it yet.

On another note, I've been using gmail for awhile and I started to use Goggle Calender and it seems to be working well, now to get myself to put more info in to it is the only thing, but that will come in time.

Chao
The Super Toilet

This has been a good weekend.

Friday = weird and slow.

Saturday was better, went over to a friends house and helped him finish putting up his pool, I try to be a good friend and I've been helping him on his yard and his expansion to his house.

Today was cool, got with a couple of friend s and went Putt-Putting and saw MI:3. It wasn't the best movie in the world, but it was better then some. The ending of the movie just plain sucked. But we won't get into that conversation.

Chao
The Super Toilet

HEY MOO MOO YEAH! <-- Yesterday in a nutshell

Well, my search for a linux distro is over, I tried OpenSuSE 10, Gentoo, Lunar, and Debian. Debian won it in my book. I have use Debian for servers and currently have a debian server but I haven't used it as a desktop. Well, the biggest thing with Debian for me as always been the ease at which you install software. Apt-get and the new tool apitutde. it goes like this, you have a souces.list file located at /etc/apt/ that stores the location of software stores, internet and local, from which to get software from. In order to get software you just apt-get install package-name, as root of using sudo, and boom it locates and either gets it from CD or downloads it and also gets all other packages you need to make that package work. Very easy to use.

I have used KDE and GNOME for most of the installs I have used over the years, but I read about a nother one called xfce, it in release 4 currently and is very lightweight and works better then the bloated GNOME and KDE do, you don't have some of the Control panel items like you do in KDE or GNOME but it is a nice X Manager,

More later

Chao
The Super Toilet

Linux search complete, will start trying ti use it exclusively

Linux, the final frontier....... this is the saga of Me migrating to Linux....... Exploring strange new UIs and seeking out how to install software to the right locations........... To boldly go where most Windows users have never gone before.

I'm currently trying to find the right desktop Linux to use. Right, as in right for me to use, not right as in Red Hat BAAAAAAAAAAD!!!! slackware GOOOOOOOOD!!!!! *flashes back to the Metallica parody cartoons about Napster*

on another note, I got me an Xbox, free of course since the misses whouldn't let me buy one. I only have 2 games for it and we will see if I will play it more then the last console I had, a Playsation One.

Chao
The Super Toilet

this weekend was a good one I think. I spent Saturday and Sunday Morning shingling a roof with a friend of mine, they built an extention onto there house. The room will be a game room, pool table, foosball table, projection tv, xbox, computer etc. etc. Sunday afternoon we went to the Pink Pony Pub and had dinner then played a round of Putt Putt. Overall a good weekend, until 10:30 After doing all the work over the weekend I have to pull an all-nighter to redo a client server, it was suppost to be done last Thursday night but things arose that stopped it from happening. Anyhoo, it's all good in the end.

Chao for now
The Super Toliet.

I take this headline from a LJ friends User pic, brandogreenman, he is also talking about the art of the pun, always a good thing to stark throwing around the office to lighten the sprit.

Anyhoo, my linux server bit the dust this weekend. It will only boot 1 out of 5 attmeps and them only stay on for a few minutes then shut down. So now I'm in the market for a new system. We have an old file server at the office that I think I might attempt to Aquire, it has a nice black full tower case, I have 4 HDD's in the current linux system I have, the full tower will allow these drives fit nicely.

Last night I downloaded some Morrissey, I had forgotten that he was the singer for The Smiths, what prompted the Download was a PVP Online comic and my creaving for songs older then 2000 to listen too.

Slashdot, now more female friendly and in Pink.