I was reading Bill Higgins blog post about converting from Windows to Ubuntu on his work desktop. While I am impressed with his little write up I would like to offer him a little something if he has not already found it.
WINE or Codeweavers Crossover Office :: Crossover for Linux
So I am going to give Southwest a thumbs up today for hang the smarts to kick off a family of people who with two adults with them could not control 4 kids. I am not heartless, I don’t think it sad they got stuck, and two of the kids have some kind of problem that would make them a bit to handle, but slippery slop of doing nothing has to stop and I think it’s starting to stop now. I think you can see by the video that Soutwest was justified for the removal, these people don’t seem like the organized, disciplined type.
*Airline’s grow a pair - Kicks poorly behaved family off flight*
The always quiet chisel faced British F1 driver announced today that he is retiring. Link to F1.com
“With his home race just days away, Red Bull’s David Coulthard has announced he is to retire from competitive Formula One racing at the end of the 2008 season. Coulthard, who started his F1 career back in 1994, will continue to work for the team in a new testing and development role.”
Good luck David, You were always great fun to watch race!
I am not a big fan of Mercedes Benz. I will admit it openly. I love the way the cars look but the badging is all wrong. You have no idea what they are talking about when they call half the cars C320s and the car next to is an SLK? What is that all about?
What I will tell you is that I have always been a fan of racing, and if you like racing you have to love Porsche, you have to really like BMW and Audi, and DTM is some of the coolest racing known to man. Well it beats the hell out of NASCAR any day, but what doesn’t?
So a year or so back AMG released the CLK DTM. What that means I don’t know, but I do know what t he DTM means….racing!
So this past week Top Gear reviewed the new CLK DTM AMG Black and I now know what I want if I can’t have a nice perky Porsche 930 or 911. I want me a Mercedes Benz CLK DTM Black. Yes, One please!
link to Top Gear : Link to Brochure
I like to post things like this. Seeing and hearing people talk about using Linux for the first time. Of course when I say “Some Guy” I am not being mean, I just seemed to fit my mood today.
“To my surprise, I found the experience pretty good.” - Erik Huggers
I didn’t cry this week when George Carlin died, I just wondered if he got his chance to meet God and God got to tell him he was wrong. I didn’t get upset when Bo Diddley died either, but I made me listen to his music for a few days. I felt bad when Tim Russert passed away all of a sudden and really just thought that was sad, but I didn’t get really upset. In the past few weeks we have seemed to lose someone important in America and this weekend one of the most important icons to me passed away.
Kelly read it to me out of the paper and I think we both cried a little, and I was heart broken. See here is the issue, UGA holds a special place for anyone who grew up in Georgia. I still have the collectors Coke glasses my grandfather purchased went The Bulldogs had the greatest season ever. I still think Hershal Walker is a magical person, and that name alone makes me warm inside. But when you say UGA, meaning the bulldogs that Sonny Seiler owned UGA and lived in Savannah, GA, then and only then do you get my true and undivided attention.
UGA VI you will be missed.
If they would have had an open public funeral I would have packed up Peaches and been off to Athens. I know he and all the other UGA’s before him will be happy in that special place watching those special games, being the most admired mascot in all of college football. Not only is UGA a Bulldog, an icon, be he is also like me and Peaches a Savannian! and a great one at that!
I am a little wet around the eyes now thinking about it all, farewell to a great DAWG, I think this year UGA needs to romp and stomp like a Bulldog does and show UGA VII what college football like played the UGA way! While UGA VI may have been the winning-est UGA, I want UGA VII to help inspire Bulldog Football to be the most impacting and hard football the SEC has ever seen. I want to them have another 1981 all over again. I want to watch good Georgia Bulldog SEC football and I want the LSU Tigers to know, you don’t bring a Tiger to a DAWG fight, cause your going to get Bulldogged all afternoon. UGA VII the weight of the Bulldog nation is upon you and I stand up proud, never have been to Athens, never have seen a Georgia Game in person, knowing I am from Georgia, I am from Savannah, and I own a Bulldog and I love UGA Football! Go DAWGS!
Damon Evans, the university’s athletic director, called it a “sad day for the entire Bulldog nation.”
Link 1: Link 2 : Link 3 : Link 4 : UGA Photos
You have to love it that Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot.
“You gotta love it. Microsoft has decided that it will ho ahead and kill off easy access to XP on June 30th. On behalf of desktop Linux users everywhere, and our first cousins, the Mac fans, thanks. You’ve given us the best shot we’ll ever have of taking the desktop.”
“As the cost of shipping continues to soar along with fuel prices, homegrown manufacturing jobs are making a comeback after decades of decline.
While it once cost $3,000 to ship a container from a city like Shanghai to New York, it now costs $8,000, prompting some businesses to look closer to home for manufacturing needs.”
I got kind of choked up when I watched this video. I saw some of the Lego kits I had when I was a kid.
Link to : The Lego Secret Vault
I can’t tell you how much this makes me crazy, that some 8 years after MacOSX was released companies are still not able to support Apple and the new and improved OS. I am sure the learning curve is hard to grasp and has taken most software companies by storm so much so that it will take them well over 8 years to start working with it instead of fighting it.
Let’s look as one of the largest problems with supporting MacOSX. For one it’s built on BSD which is so hard to understand and then to make that even worse they give away the developer client called xCode. Microsoft makes you pay for these tools, but Apple gives them away freely with the purchase of the OS. Shame on them, this must be the point of confusion. If something is FREE, it’s worthless. Take Linux for example. We all know it’s complete crap becasue it’s FREE, and nothing says CRAP like when you have to give it away.
So much for that. I think we all know what Mac is so hard to work with. Now shame on all the companies, IBM included that don’t play nice with MacOSX. Shame on Lotus, Shame on IBM i and shame on all the places like Tango/04 who don’t think it’s a good idea to want to sell products to all of it’s customers base?
Why would you decide to only reach part of the market? Why would you limit yourself to just supporting the Windows platform? I know its been a big seller but times are a changing. IE is out and Firefox is in. I am going to say it again, it’s only a matter of time before Microsoft losses it’s foothold and you have to think about that time now.
I read Jim’s blog everyday and sometimes, check your stats Jim I am sure you will see me hitting it, more than once a day maybe every hour or so, or at least I check it. So it goes without saying I like Jim, I like his content and I like to read what Jim has to say because it either reinforces my beliefs or it make me think a little about my views.
There I said it.
I also like to read Jim’s blog because he lives in Japan and I used to live in Japan and in a funny sort of way miss it and would love to live there again if the occasion was to arise, and with that said I give you the reason for the post, working from home or working from the office….
Jim lays out some good thoughts for you all wanting to work from home. I have done both and right now am doing both. I can tell you that in the office there is not much privacy, while at home I have my entire office to think, scream, talk to myself and just be me, while that is not the case in the office provided for me which is not an office in that it has a door and such, but a large room with 3.5 foot cubes with little to no way to think or be away from all the action and bustle of office life.
So read Jim’s Boog post : Working from Home (or anywhere)
“Place shouldn’t matter. Results should matter. Being tied to an office as the only place of work is outdated at best. But I also value the concept of everyone getting together in the same space at times because I believe that face-to-face contact is essential to getting quality work done over the long term. Local teams can get together weekly in the office for meetings and white board sessions, and distributed teams can get together quarterly or bi-annually. And in between team meetings, various members can be interacting at conferences or user groups. In other words, there needs to be a balance of face-to-face and digital-phone relationships. “
Thanks Jim for the insigt!
It was almost 20 years ago when I got into IT, and my first desktop PC was an IBM AS/400 e90…I think it cost $3 Million. I of course was sharing it with 700 other users, but what a great beast!
I just wanted to wish the IBM i (AS/400) a very Happy Birthday, next year we can all go out drinking!
Link to Chris Maxcer’s Blog about the Birthday and IBM
-Oh I was not invited to the events in Rochester this week and to say I am hurt is an understatment. From the leading IBM i Blogger on the web to, some goofball at in Charlotte writting about technology. It’s a long fall!
There is a PDF of the timeline
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Title: Senior UNIX Administrator – Red Hat Linux
Location: Denver, CO
Type: Full Time
Compensation: $85-100k target range; 15% short-term incentive bonus + Benefits
Purpose/Objective
This position will support the company’s UNIX environment including Oracle E-Business Suite application hosting. The UNIX Administrator will be responsible and accountable for the implementation, maintenance and administration of the company’s UNIX environment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
· Day to day management of a large highly available, highly visible application and other Linux Servers.
· Architect and configure a highly available and recoverable environment
· Suggest & implement server scaling methodologies.
· Design and implementation of the OS security model.
· Maintain security audits & reports of server access and activity.
· Responsible for system uptime & disaster recover planning per corporate guidelines.
· Installation, support and maintenance of RedHat Linux ES/AS 5.1 servers.
· Installation, Support and maintenance of App server platforms to include Oracle’s Fusion Middleware.
· Troubleshooting all aspects of the RedHat Linux operating environments.
· Performance tuning, networking, system security, IO monitoring and analysis.
· UNIX Scripting (SH, KSH, Perl)
· System security (wrappers, SSH, sudo, logging, auditing, intrusion analysis)
· Work with core Internet technologies: TCP/IP, firewalls, DNS, SMTP, HTTP/SSL, Sendmail.
· Patch and package management, user and group management.
· Rack mounting of servers.
· System backups
· Other duties as assigned.
Programming QuizJune 17th, 2008 No Comments »
I am no programmer but I have tinkered with just about everything out there. Would be nice to get really good at one and just focus on it.
Download Firefox today!June 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
New Features - Firefox 3 sets the innovation bar very high with exciting new features, including one-click bookmarking, the smart location bar and lightning fast performance. Security - Keeping you and your personal information safe is our top priority. Firefox 3 includes phishing and malware protection, plus our new instant site ID info. Productivity - With features like built-in spell checking, session restore and full zoom, Firefox 3 makes it possible to work faster and more efficiently on the Web. Custimization - Your taste and needs set you apart from the rest. With Firefox 3 you can choose from over 5,000 add-ons that help you customize your browsing experience. Pledge Map for todays world record! Opera web site crashed Firefox?June 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I am all for conspiracy theories but this was just odd. I was reading about the new Opera 9 client and it crashed my Firefox browser.
Interesting view for Apple and IBM relationshipJune 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
“This announcement puts IBM under severe pressure. Lotus maven, Ed Brill is valiantly defending the line, but with the iPhone now becoming a legitimate Enterprise device some of the bastions of Notes will come under pressure from senior Executives to deliver an ‘integrated’ messaging solution.” G. Mark Lweis & Studio121 on the new HP MonitorsJune 10th, 2008 No Comments »
G. Mark Lewis made me a better photographer and I love him for that. He is not the feature of a video about some new fangled Monitor from HP. They look sweet and I want them all now. Way to go Mark! Categories
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