Browsing Posts published in January, 2009
I installed the Windows 7 beta today. It is running as a virtual machine in VirtualBox on my Fedora 10 machine. I gave it half the ram recommended – and the underlying hardware is a few years old – so it isn’t screaming along or anything but it is decent – and interesting.
I’ve already seen this said in a few places, but the similarities to KDE are striking. This is especially true with the launcher thing. VirtualBox doesn’t support the aero or glass or whatever it is – so I’m not seeing it with all the bells and whistles. I don’t run KDE that way either. The machine just can’t really do it well. It can do it, but things get too sluggish.
Anyway – I’ve installed a couple apps. Anti-virus and a special application I need for work. This is a test bed to see if I can run Linux as the primary OS on my next work laptop while windows runs as a virtual machine under that.
No time to sit down with a nice fat novel but you like to read? Just got a bad case of ADD and don’t want to try to read page after page, not even a whole paragraph? Twitter to the rescue. What twitter did to blogs is now being done to stories.
I am currently aware of two edited twitter zines. @thaumatrope and @Outshine. They both deal in speculative fiction type stuff so that is right up my alley.
And as a bonus – do you think you could be the next great 140 character or less author? Well both will pay for accepted submissions. If you are interested check out the submissions guidelines for each. It looks like thaumatrope bills themselves as the highest paying zine on twitter. They pay $1.20 per accepted submission. And Outshine shells out five bucks per accepted submission – which they call prose poems. (So I guess thaumatrope should drop the highest paying claim.) They also take poem poems apparently, such as haiku. Outshine officially launches tomorrow. (January 14th, 2009) thaumatrope has been going for a while and is pretty sweet.
Follow @bashcookbook on twitter and get daily bash tips.
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configuring cas w/ccci info
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examples for CAS setup
The first time I saw the Blue Angels flying their Hornets was at Luke AFB. I was with my dad and we had scored passes to their practice show before the public shows they did that week-end. It was pretty sweet. They did the awesome bit where we were watching the diamond when the solo jet came cruising up low and fast from behind us. He was ahead of the sound so we were all looking up at the other jets when suddenly there he is – and then the wall of noise hit us. A lot of people yelled and jumped – not me though. (right?) Anyway that was such an awesome day. One thing that might top it is catching them at Fleet Week in San Francisco.
And if you will indulge me – there is nothing more beautiful than sailing under the Golden Gate bridge after a cruise. We had to lower some of the antennae on the island to squeak under but it was all joy coming home.
