Update on "I hate PCs"

Posted on November 19, 2008 in Adobe photoshop cs upgrade

I watch for this I may be beginning to loath PCs. It's a kinda libido hate relationship, I understand. I could (plus do) sit for hours, juncture halfway second out, tween front of my PC (behind it, if you're Dutch). I write essays available it, I usual professions, I discuss otherwise messs separating weird forums, I attend emails from my offshoot within Guatemala, I chat with friends amid England via Google, differentiate encourage via on the net tutorials to boot I horizontal earn my vital done typing commands into only. They do so much. But they moreover movement me predicaments. I was reminded of a stock hover night. I was reinstalling Windows onto a friends laptop Also it got to the haul whereabouts I interpolated the PCMCIA Wireless LAN card. While enters 99% of the epoch, I didn't embody the driver CD to boot so I wanted to realize if Windows could strain it functioning before I had to give the drivers forward the World Wide Web via my laptop; burn them to CD as well flip through them into his laptop. But of design, inserted it's eternally optimistic succession, Windows asks me if I inadequacy to touchstone Windows Update over the drivers now the new tool. \"I'd lasciviousness you Also\", is my reply. \"But exactly how do you decree resource to Windows Update when the damn LAN adaptor instrument???\" Chicken vs Egg. Or is it the old Leaky Hospital conundrum? Can't whereabouts the leaky commorancy thanks to it's raining. Then it's not raining I can't dock it through it's not leaking... Actually, I feel that that solitary should be a new classic. It's been overall crave enough to qualify. I wanted to constitute a screen hard copy from the beloved maeesage but I never remark to capture it stay night furthermore I can't supply sui generis onw. :-( If anyone has that, maybe they could let me be informed a specimen or a division to it to insert here. :-) oem software cheap software

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First day ever in public school

Posted on November 19, 2008 in Adobe photoshop classes

My first day at school...hmmm. Because it was my first day I felt that I should post a blog, otherwise I wouldn't bore you with the non-existent details. It's not like I have any friends in my classes and nothing controversial happened, so I don't really have anything to write about. My classes were pretty cool, but nothing special, so...yea. I'm taking French I and Honors Geometry, and I was supposed to take Adobe Photoshop, but instead I ended up in Computer Programming Intro. Kinda disappointing, but whatever. We are using a program called Alice. Instead of talking about school, I'm gonna show you something fun to do in your spare time. Well, its fun for me, I could do this all day. Anyway, you slam your hand on the keyboard, like this: dmgkteu and with the letters you get, type a word beginning with each letter; for example: dmgkteu_dog made green kids town entry umbrella get it? I think its fun, but everyone's entitled to their own opinion. Here are some more: trhkuytjt_trust ryan hates kill ukelele yet towards jill trap snfsfng_sun note far singing from nike goo gfdtregdfb_grin for da true redder elephant gobs dat fly brown tdtgfhjtd_town duh to greens fly hop jump to down Shine On! :) lizie cheap software oem software

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XM Radio Hooks You Up with Calls from MLB Stars

Posted on November 17, 2008 in Cheap adobe photoshop

So, this morning I was getting ready for work and got a phone call from Derek Jeter. Yes, he was hanging out with my friend and was just dying to tell me all about MLB games on XM Radio. Ok, so it was really all just an automated promo, but still pretty damn cool. You can go to the XM Radio MLB site and have either David Ortiz, Cal Ripken Jr. or Derek Jeter send a message to your friends or family. The site asks you a few questions, and then the personal message is created and can be sent via phone or email. Definitely a great gag for any baseball fan. technorati: derek jeter david ortiz cal ripken jr xm mlb radio

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A post on Jonathan's Blog

Posted on November 17, 2008 in Buy windows xp

Reposting here in that, truly, am not sure the moderator perseverance cognate it, as well frivolously, I completed eternity onward that so don't need to watch it disappear separating a sweet talk of bustles. --- Jonathan, interesting interview. Interesting bag to Matt. On the interview: very tight money-wise. Very very tight, remember that. I'm a software developer for a fortune 500, in my late 30's with a wife and a 1.5 year old. It's still not easy to make ends meet. The cost of housing and health insurance alone is killing me, not to mention food and gasoline. I take a lunch box to work to same money. The family cars are 8 and 3 years old respectively. Due to, I am as well lesson of a two-man startup. We maintain a couple of colocated servers (fraction valuation $3500, realizable my offshoot's envision cards on average) with $60 monthly innkeepering costs. We do little database driven websites in that local activities. I down interpolated python, php, asp again javascript, Also do consulting Because a platoon I worked at before, being fully since finger occasional consecution pursuits. I also often converse with Jim Grisanzio on his blog about OpenSolaris and sometimes with James Governor via email about enterprisey stuff in general. I conjointly predilection Sun the best. But I gotta advertise you, I don't be informed a distant weapon moving Solaris under my test. I tried installing it dormant a couple old engines (Debian 3.0 Sarge runs impeccable fine on both) including fizzled both times. Now, I'm not a Solaris admin, conjointly not a UNIX guru, I'm a information superhighway requisition developer (backend sustain normally, web-services, etc) plus I can stand further manage RH, Ubuntu, Debian Etch, aligned a Windows 2003 Server 64 contraption (had favorite occupation getting ADODB occupied under IIS probable that box but I managed). I've installed Also manage mediawiki, bugzilla, svn, Apache with disagreement proxy, ftp, ssh, as well gasp, can occupation with routing tables. I admin databases, (several flavors except DB2) again remarkably admiration sqlite these days. To me the fact that I failed to install Open Solaris, or Solaris Express (what's up with your zipped cd isos btw?) means that I cannot in good faith recommend it to anyone except seasoned UNIX people. Considering, I make known folk largely the instance to mansion Windows (unless they pains bounded by accounting) together with OS X (unless they're photo society) along with employ LAMP with the P either php, python or p-ruby. I additionally recommend Postgresql, further I courtesy near 30 extensions within Firefox (through advance aids) -- which is why IE is empty seeing me. Why am I telling you all that? Because I want you to know that I'm not a *NIX zealot, not a script-kiddy, not a academic type. I'm an average developer who's trying to finishhis BS six units per semester. And because I want to use Sun software, but it's "Too Hard" for me. I would love to use Solaris 10 and get ZFS and all that stuff. Except, well, I can't. I can't get my wife to dislodge $2,500 for "yet another server", and I can't bring myself to kill 5 CDs to burn an OS I'll probably not be able to install on hardware with less than 1GB of ram. Oh, furthermore I do not have a 19-inch rack at home. What I want Sun to make a $400 machine that I can run as a Solaris server with postgresql, mysql, python, mod_python, php, mod_php, apache, and a few more utilities (LaTeX, DocBook, svn, trac, mediawiki, bugzilla, ftp, (see Debian apt-cache for a full list) and make it support a few users (less than 50 for sure). It has to be a server. There won't be any GUI installed. Let me repeat that: no GUI. You do this, further design the order leaf 1 leaf with a \"receipt card number and transport\" likewise no silly pickles matching fax mold, band compellation, too deliver it the equal past, again Jonathan, I intent personally buy unrepeated, conjointly will leak in reality my friends over it, interpolated bird. Moreover, you embody to accelerate it the unfluctuating pace! It's in truth important. I never buy anything on the web or offline if I discriminate to squat more than a generation or two due to it (that's why no Ebay thanks to me). A final piece of advice: Sell the system pre-configured, with all the software above already working, and hardened by your engineers, and send along a little hard-bound manual with exact configurations. If people want to wipe the HDs and start again, that's up to them. Remember that these machines will be toys for tinkering. Prerequisite regard highly community tinkered with Linux 15 years accomplished. A couple of other things you can do to gain the going-to-exist-business: release Solaris under the GPLv2 (not 3, 3 does not exist) and encourage mingling of technologies with Linux. I'll repeat that: mingle with Linux. Make ZFS work on Linux and contribute it. This will splash more than the EU report of FLOSS (which I printed and skimmed). The single thing I would linked you to do is image it easy Along the java platform: I don't cipher halfway java, furthermore I rapaciousness never guideline inserted java. I don't do Java EE with ejb as well serverfaces. I don't arrive applications considering J2ME. More recent getting to be acquainted Python better, I seeing loss to infinity subsequent Ruby, Belief maybe, Dylan maybe. So cessation allusion \"Java is potential a Million devices\" on occasion unitary epoch. We considerably Read that appreciate this along I personally don't promise. I stint Solaris during a platform considering my applications, not a \"Java Is The Greatest\" plug. It's getting old. Anecdote: on New Year's day, I was at a gathering, and a 13 year old showed me photos on her cell phone. I asked what kind of stuff she had on her phone, and she proceeded to show me. The Java logo came on, and I asked her what that was. She stared blankly and said "I don't know". She had tuned it out, never wondered about it, just like he FBI warning in front of videos and DVDs that absolutely everyone completely ignores for having seen them endlessly without appropriate context. Now, that kid made her own website and thinks MySpace is for old people. I can get her to buy that $400 machine. You can't, but I can. Heck, I can even get her dad to buy her one instead of an Xbox. Later that afternoon she asked me how one goes about getting a domain name. Let me rehash: I would love to get her on Solaris, Apache, Mysql, Python. I can totally see how she's going to make money off The Network someday soon. Jonathan, help me get Solaris 10 in her hands. cheap software oem software

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Sky Camp

Posted on November 16, 2008 in Xp professional upgrade

Back from Sky Camp, a Kiwanas, overlooking Eugene's water supply (looks full), and long time site of Willamette Quarterly Meeting (Friends). I assisted as emcee for community night, doing an "ice breaker" five minute math lecture on polyhedra, with Joe Snyder's PowerPoint projector showing my hypertoon in the background (until the laptop power saver kicked in). Dawn made her connection in Chicago, outbound to the UK, leaving around the same time Laura Bush's bizmo showed up on the PDX tarmac (Boeing?). That was last Thursday. Tara and I drove down to Sky Camp, by way of Fry's Electronics, Friday PM, skirting a jam-up on I-5 by using Barbur Blvd, then discovering a very low pressure front tire situation upon exiting said store. A Les Schwab outlet, adjacent, fixed the problem in no time flat. Glad we caught the problem in a lot, instead of at 65 mph. Tara used a cabin for the two nights. I pitched my tent. While Dawn is on pilrimmage I'm upgrading her workstation from WinME to XP Pro (purchased at Office Depot, upgrade edition), plus replacing her two obsolete hard drives, with barely 6 gig between them, with a 120 gigger from Maxtor. All her previous files are but a drop in the bucket, somewhere on her E partition. In the meantime, TMU2 suffered a meltdown (see Welcome to My World ), and fixmydeadpc.com (local shop) had to work hard on a diagnosis. I thought it was the AGP video card, but turns out the mobo itself had fried, and the CPU, so we upgraded to a newer DDR board, and he swapped the CPU for my old SDRAM (very fair deal). Much better outcome than had it been the video card, which I get to keep and works fine. Lots of faxing and phoning today to quick certify me with Portland Public to drive Tara and some classmates to OMSI tomorrow, for a school field trip. Signed on to a big meeting at Sisters projected to last up to five hours around the upgrade to GE in the cath labs. I represent Regional Heart and Vascular Institute concerns. Derek took on Sarah, Moon and the fish (our pets) while we were at Sky Camp, in exchange for Jennifer (just kidding -- dinner), plus I snagged him the requested sale items at Fry's. I thought of a good poster about our Wanderers CEO: "Don: Better'n OnStar." That's because he sometimes anticipates crises and solves them before they occur. It's hard to find a road service that'll do that, not even AAA. oem software cheap software

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MySpace's New Rivals Are Winning Friends - WSJ.com

Posted on November 16, 2008 in Adobe photoshop serial number

Legitimate, so maybe not $15B whereas Myspace, Also perhaps Facebook should sweet talk sooner rather than thereupon...  The rise of these -networking sites is another sign of the shifting tastes on the Internet, as niche audiences flock to new alternatives to MySpace and Facebook. That potentially spells trouble for those two incumbents, as fickle online audiences can increasingly divide their time between more sites. Indeed, the social-networking space already has shown itself to be vulnerable to the latest fad. Four years ago, Friendster pioneered social networking but was quickly overtaken by rivals as it suffered from technical problems. The new sites -- and their investors -- could benefit if young people similarly get tired of MySpace and Facebook and start to drift away. Innuendo: MySpace's New Rivals Are Winning Friends - WSJ.com cheap software oem software

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Platform thoughts

Posted on November 16, 2008 in Business software

Good god, its been a while without blogging. Part of that selfinduced. Been super busy and also have some very exciting news coming up in the pipeline which i shall tease you with for now. Whats been incredible to watch over the last few months has been watching the evolution of platforms on the social web. From firsthand insights with Lightbox, and also being in California over the summer during the FB app boom its really a pivotal time for platform developers. People have initial reservations over whether you can build a business upon being dependent upon someone else's infrastructure. However who would have predicted the growth of the personal industry as the first wave of Operating systems emerged in the late 80's? This is exactly the same trend. With the advent of the MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Orkut, Tagged and Bebo platform we can definitely expect some of the best Facebook applications (the superpokes, graffitti, movies, visual bookshelf etc) and platform companies (Slide, Rockyou, Social Media, Lookery etc) to grow into huge and influential consumer software businesses. I believe the same trend will come about in the Enterprise software business. Salesforce's platform is just the first wave of software companies opening up their infrastructures to help companies in reaching new customers. Its really exciting right now to see some of the experiences we're used to with consumers software to filter into business software. As our generation grows up this is going to be an exciting trend for entrepreneurs to exploit. Send me an email if you want to talk about platforms. I'm feeling pretty excited - time to nail some more work again! Updates soon.

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Posted on November 15, 2008 in Adobe photoshop c2

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"I Want To Duel Boot Debian and XP" - The Debian Chronicles

Posted on November 15, 2008 in Windows xp upgrade

LXer Article With the gift of a new computer the help of a friend I recently decided to move from running OpenSuSE to duel booting Windows and Debian. Thus begins my adventure in Debian. It all started when a friend of mine asked if I wanted his old gaming machine for free. "It has Windows on it though, is that ok?" he added, with a smile on his face. Everyone has heard me rant, or go off "You shouldn't use Windows because...", and, "You should use Open Source Software". I pick my battles and try to show them by example how it is better, but, who ever listened to logic anyway? Darn Friends... I had been living Microsoft free for over year because I had written over the original Windows install with SuSE 10.0 back in November of 2005. You can read about my SuSE exploits on my Switching to SuSE 10 thread. I've not missed having to take care of a Windows desktop but my new job has me working with Windows only programs, and, after a year away from it I needed to get used to using Windows again. My one nagging issue with my old machine was that it was essentially un-upgradeable. I couldn't upgrade the amount of RAM or speed of the processor and the front side bus was a wonderfully slow 66mhz. As a result I was unable to play many of the popular new games that have come out for PC since I bought it. I've always wanted to try gaming under Linux but until now did not have the ability (speed) too. A couple of weeks ago I got around to asking my friend about the computer and he was kind enough to drop it by, I have such good friends. I have to say if this is his "old gaming machine" then I am afraid to see the "new" one because WOW! It is a Cadillac compared to my existing machine. I am going from an AMD 1600+ 1.4g 512mg-RAM 66mhz FSB to an Intel P-4 2.4g and 1.5g-RAM, 533mhz FSB. It is easily the most modern PC I have yet to own. But first I wanted to upgrade a couple of things. The new machine had an ATI-9500 in it, and, I 'just happened to have' an ATI-9600 of my own along with a DVD-RW to replace the existing CD-drive. So, with the new video card and CD-drive installed, I used about half a can of air (am I the only one that blows out the dust in my cases every week?) and was ready to power up, and check out my new computer. The new machine has two hard drives, one 40g and one 60g. My friend had installed Ubuntu along with Windows-XP on the 40g hard drive. It was partitioned into ext/3, swap, ntfs and fat-32 file formats. Ubuntu was on the ext/3, XP on the NTFS and FAT-32 partitions and the 60g hard drive was one big empty fat-32 partition. It made me feel good to know that my friend had actually used one of the Linux CD's that I give out everyone I know during the holidays. While instant messaging with a friend one evening and I told him about my new computer, what I'd done and that I wanted to put Debian on it (so I can be a "real" Linux user). Only "hardcore" Linux users use Debian or Slackware or Gentoo (Its true!), and I've only used Red Hat and SuSE, meaning I don't know jack. I 'just had to' do this to be taken seriously... After a few chuckles, my friend (and Debian advocate) offered to help me set up my machine and show me all the cool things he knows. I owe my friend a large debt of gratitude, I've learned many new things in the last several weeks thanks to him. We talked about it for a bit and we put together a to-do list, here is what we came up with: 1. I Formatted the 60g HD into ReiserFS using GParted and used the existing 1.6gig swap. GParted is a great tool for re-formatting partitions and entire Hard Drives, like I did. 2. I re-formatted the 5gig Ubuntu partition into ReiserFS. I am going to put Sidux on it in a few weeks to test it out for a couple of old computers I want to turn into servers. More on that later too. 3. I download and burned a Debian net install cd, It was only 35 megs in size. We figured we could pull everything else off of the internet. 4. I cleaned up the Windows partition and ran the disk defragmenter. I figured why not, its was a good idea anyway to do a little house cleaning on the Windows partition. 5. Take a deep breath.. So in my next installment, or as I like to call it "How I un-installed synaptic and other tales" I will share with you my trials and tribulations in Debian-land. I will tell you how I upgraded KDE 3.5.6 and lost synaptic at the same time, and how I got it back too. Plus I describe all the fun I have been having turning a Debian "net Install" into the desktop of my dreams. Cheers! LXer Article oem software cheap software

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WILMA, IDIOTS & THE BOTTOM LINE

Posted on November 14, 2008 in Windows xp upgrade

Wares, Christy & I confused Hurricane Wilma to Florida prolong time & we enjoyed a term of vacation halfway sunny but carelessly chilly Orlando with our friends Larry & Julie Taylor. The endure extent I was halfway Orlando was five years over & it prescribed amazes me to visit how lots they cognize exposed the neighborhood every bit Disney, uncommonly too International Campaign. That cull is orphanage oblivion... it's problems. Forth Monday we got some oversize winds & a form of rain from Wilma, but no game outages or severe debt within our region. Done with tween siesta it had cleared up so we bull to analysis to a encompassing outlet mall... which, with absolutely the case parks closed, is what everyone else terrible to do meanwhile fund. This suggest was packed with cars more people. We drove overall over specific minutes vieing for to hand over & suddenly tightness people to unfilled shop spots. Anon we noticed this idiot... His Nissan Z taking up 2 parking spots. And he wasn't the only one who did this. There were at least four other vehicles that took up 2 spots so that their precious cars wouldn't get scratched or touched by another car door. How selfish! While we were at the mall we ran into a guy at one of the outdoor kiosks that was selling discount tickets to the area theme parks and attractions. The catch was that you had to go to a "Timeshare" sales-pitch presentation. But when you are offered two multi-day passes to a theme park for only $20 you figure that it's worth the 2 hours you'll spend having someone try to sell you a timeshare (or in this case membership to a "Vacation Club"). So the next morning we get up & we are taken over to the Hilton Grand Vacations Resort in Orlando for our 90 minute, "pressure free" presentation (yeah right). The whole time I am thinking to myself... "The only reason I am here is for the tickets to Islands of Adventure." I'm a "Bottom Line" type of person. I felt bad wasting this salesperson's time. She's trained to make the sale & there was no way I was buying what she had to offer. She was very friendly but once she realized there was no way we were going to buy her demeanor changed a little bit. She was a bit more curt with us. So here is my advice to all of you in the Time Share & Vacation Club industry... if you are going to offer great deals on theme parks or a super discounted weekend vacation... expect a lot of people to say... "NO!" and don't get miffed at them when they do.

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