http://turfyman.strangled.net Just another WordPress Blog Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:41:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few days ago, I decided to take the e-plunge, and install the next version of Ubuntu. I always dread the upgrade, because the update manager always makes you choose if you want to keep your current configuration or install the package maintainers configuration. This is troublesome because ... http://turfyman.strangled.net/2008/07/08/the-latest-and-the-greatest/ Yesterday the snow began to fall and as of today, there will be upwards of 16" of snow on the ground. This has caused a lot of problems on the roads and a lot of delays around the area. Today is definitely a "sit-at-home-and-relax" day. Besides the snow, a ... http://turfyman.strangled.net/2008/03/08/snowed-in/ No, thats not my age! Today my blog celebrates it's Two-Year Old Birthday. It happened to be by pure virtue that I was browsing in my archives today, and noticed that my first real post (besides test posts which I should delete) was on December 19th 2005. HISTORY OF ... http://turfyman.strangled.net/2007/12/19/1051920-minutes-old-and-counting/ A couple weeks ago Greenpeace had a naming contest name a whale. Well of-course the internet being what it is, tubes and pictures of cats with ill-formed grammatical statements, there was an overwhelming push to have the whale named "Mr. Splashy Pants". And after the final voting, out ... http://turfyman.strangled.net/2007/12/10/save-mr-spashy-pants/ Ruckus, a music service that universities and colleges are starting to use to try to keep their students out of hot water with the RIAA. Students of participating institution can sign up with their school provided e-mail address and download music for "free". The ability for it to ... http://turfyman.strangled.net/2007/11/05/making-a-ruckus-over-ruckus/ So, the new Ubuntu distro has made it's debut, and I can say I'm pretty happy with what it has to offer. The upgrade this time was a much less invasive process, compared to 6.10 to 7.04. It only took me about a total of 5 hours of ... http://turfyman.strangled.net/2007/10/22/ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon/ Most "self-proclaimed gurus" have determined that the only real difference between 64-bit OS vs 32-bit OS is the amount of supported memory... This is the most obvious difference, however this is far from the only difference. I was catching up on my digging this morning, and I came across an ... http://turfyman.strangled.net/2007/10/22/more-bits-is-more-pwning-power/ Just saw a cute cartoon over at xkcd and wanted to share it. Engineers/Mathematics majors will get a kick out if it. http://turfyman.strangled.net/2007/10/08/mathematics-and-love-dont-mix/ Coming soon to a computer near you! Try Linux today! <img id="countdownimage" src="http://www.ubuntu.com/files/countdown/dist/710countdown_default.png" width="199" height="164" alt="Ubuntu 7.10 - Coming soon"> Support FOSS and ride the OSSM! http://turfyman.strangled.net/2007/10/03/72/ I was reading through my previous blog entries today and I saw that I had an entry about BF 2142. At the end of the post I made a comment about how it feels like good games are few and far between. Well at last there is a ... http://turfyman.strangled.net/2007/08/28/welcome-to-rapture/ I don't read too many news stories that effect me in a way that this one has. I've known now for a while that Microsoft was trying to get their new Office Open XML document format ISO approved. I figured that Microsoft's OOXML format was good enough, and ... http://turfyman.strangled.net/2007/08/28/ooxml-defective-by-design/ Wow, Transformers, probably one of the best movies I've seen in a long time! I thought Michael Bay and ILM did an awesome job making the Autobots and the Decepticons look amazing detailed and believably realistic. The story was good and the action sequences were even better! I guess ... http://turfyman.strangled.net/2007/07/08/giant-money-making-robots/ I thought it might be nice to put up a quick update of what's been going on lately. I have tons of stuff to talk about, so I'll have to post some more later. And no, I don't especially love Vanessa Carlton, I just liked the sound of ... http://turfyman.strangled.net/2007/07/03/just-a-day-just-an-ordinary-day/ So, i was just sitting here, really trying hard to find something to do (that didn't suck), and I started typing a really long section of commented code in to my VB app... Then I realized that essentially I was writing what I should write in my blog. ... http://turfyman.strangled.net/2007/05/11/67/ So, I guess this is my first post of 2007. The year so far has been a good one! I started my co-op position and its going quite well. The job can be fairly boring sometimes, however so far there have been quite a few challenges. ... http://turfyman.strangled.net/2007/02/06/another-year-another-winter/