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Goodbye Comcrap

Posted 10-03-2010 at 04:31 AM by peonuser

Tired of hearing the lies from Comcast. They have yet to pay for down time they owe me. They did not honor the reduced price they promised me. The FCC and Congress will hear from me.

The fun part I have to rewire the mancave. it is only time.

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Loving the new Ubuntu Font

Posted 10-01-2010 at 02:21 AM by Kenny_Strawn (Kenny the one-teen comittee to stamp out Proprietary $uckware)

The new Ubuntu Font is here; just came in a clean installation of 10.10 RC (had to clean-install, as the SSD filled up when installing updates). It is extremely amazing; well, look for yourself:

If you look closely in this screenshot, you'll find out that the font actually is smaller and goes along better with the new Ubuntu branding.

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Upgrades are so much fun.

Posted 09-30-2010 at 04:05 AM by peonuser

Well the php was screwed up on my server, but I was able to unload and reload it. All seemed fine. Had to update some of the code on the pages I wrote though. command line is so much fun especially when you have to do it remotely.

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My Choice of Avatar -- The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Posted 09-29-2010 at 10:45 AM by SaintDanBert

I have been asked why I use The Sorcerer's Apprentice glyph as an avatar. To answer that, you need to understand his story.

Mickey worked for a powerful sorcerer doing odd jobs around the castle. He carried wood and mopped and cleaned. All the while he watched as the sorcerer worked magic with his book of spells and magic hat. One evening, the sorcerer left his hat behind and went to bed. Mickey, tasked with sweeping and cleaning, borrowed the hat and magicked the broom to carry pales...

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Feel guilty about winning an easy bet.

Posted 09-29-2010 at 04:40 AM by peonuser

Happen to be talking with an mswindows admin about disaster recovery. He was talking about how it was a challenge to do recovery. I made a bet that I could have network of computers running in no time and not even use a single hard drive. I would need one cdrom though. Of course I was told it could not be done. You can guess what happened next with the wallets.

Anyway, we went around and made sure that all the machines would pxeboot except the system with the cdrom drive. I booted...

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