Monthly Archives: January 2008

…and so ends my 10 month long temporary employment at Novell. My leaving is bitter-sweet. I will miss my coworkers deeply. Brad, Kyle, Mikey, and Steve-o where some of the greatest people to work with. My leaving is very abrupt, and rather selfish, but as a temp working in a department that may not exist … Continue reading »

KDE 4 has been released, and it is very very pretty. However it isn’t stable or all that complete (insert Vista joke here). The new icon set is very attractive, and the rounded window edges for about all windows give a clean and completed feel to the desktop. As much as I LOVE gnome, and … Continue reading »

I’ve backed up my system in preparation for blasting it all away and starting over from scratch. I’ll be installing several Linux distributions as a personal experiment, so I figure I’ll share my experience. I’m going to try a few popular distributions: Fedora 8, OpenSuse 10.3, Sabayon 3.5, and Ubuntu 7.10. I’ll rate them on … Continue reading »

Not that I really care who is winning or losing, I find it interesting to see a product from a company I dislike (toshiba) flop. When deciding to buy a new HD player, take the following into consideration. This is how a handful of major studios stand as of today. Blu-raySony – Blu-rayWarner – Blu-rayNew … Continue reading »

I was at Wal-Mart last night and I saw an odd looking couple pushing a cart full of corn oil.. Like 25+ gallons of corn oil. And atop this oil they had probably 50 or so bananas. They were shifty, very quiet, and looked very much like they were suffering from malnutrition… I don’t think … Continue reading »

I installed Vista Business edition on my machine 2 days ago… So far I have had 2 reboots without my asking, while I was in the middle of work. 150+ “Cancel or Allow”s.. 2 blue screens, 6 incompatible applications, and an update configuration that took nearly 35 minutes on a system with dual 3.2Ghz CPUs … Continue reading »

Me: “Novell Services, this is Troy, may I have your name please?”Cu:”19003982397″Me:”How can I help you?”cu:”19003982397″Me:”How may I help you sir?”Cu:”Long distance. 19003982397″Me:”I’m not sure what you mean. Are you trying to call Novell?”Cu:”19003982397, dial it. Now.”Me:”I’m sorry sir I can not dial that number for you.”Cu:”Fuck you then, ain’t this a call-up sex talk … Continue reading »