Well, it looks like some crackers got busy at SCO while the tryptophan was kicking in over the holiday weekend. As you can see in the first of two screenshots on the left, the graphic that should have contained an advertisement for SCO parnter webinar information (according to the image’s alt tag info) was replaced with one that says “SCO - WE OWN ALL YOUR CODE - pay us all your money”. It’s apparent that the crackers put both time and effort into setting up the hack. The graphic was done nicely and fits in with the existing theme of SCO’s site.
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I’ve moved my workstation to my new AMD 64 with 1GB DDR400 RAM. The MB that I got is an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Deluxe. I’m very happy with the system and I’m running the 64 bit version of SuSE 9.2. I’ve seen little problems with the distro so far. There have been a few things however.
As you can see in the screenshot, xmms and a few other programs have display problems. I don’t know if this is due to something messed up with the 64bitness of the distro or not. I have a couple other programs that are like that too (zinf, another GTK media player shows similar problems), all are GTK based…hm…maybe a showing of SuSE’s lack of focus on Gnome in the past. I assume this will change as they become more integrated with the fine folks at Ximian.
So, instead of using xmms (for some reason the display isses bug me enough to look else where), I tried AmoroK, a KDE media player. While the interface is decent and the playlist editing is better than xmms, there’s no clear way to listen to stream without sharing them with the world. I just want to add my local NPR station feed and don’t want the world taking the stream server’s bandwidth.
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Well, as far as social networking communities out there, ala Friendster, Orkut, Multiply, etc…it seems that there are too many. It’s always nice to have competition but there’s a point where too many choices presents a situation where none take a leading role. When there’s no leader, there’s effectively no competition as there’s no one to be better than. Interesting anyway and it may not hold true.
One of the things I’ve noticed on Orkut is that it’s lustre has faded. I’m not really sure why that is. I don’t think it’s because the populous is now 60% Brazilian. I don’t mind that at all. There was an annoying point at which several posts and conversations in English communities were held in Portuguese. I felt that was kind of rude and inconsiderate and didn’t see any other nationalities doing similar. I see from several other people’s comments in the communities that they feel that Orkut was sort of “taken over” by Brazil. Again, I don’t mind having multiple cultures - in fact, I think it’s one of the best features and pluses of the Internet and Orkut. I believe they were pissed off because of the rude attitude shown by some Brazilians. I personally saw several rude comments on both sides.
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I added one of my favorite pages to the links - the Astonomy Picture of the Day. Their tag line: “Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer”.
I’ve had two machines for quite some time: a dual PII (Celeron) 300MHz w/374MB RAM and a PIII 800 MHz w/512 MB RAM. The dual has been my primary server, hosting several web sites (www.mrchaski.com, www.mecworks.com, www.dikayl.com, www.localfilmmakers.com). It’s been a great machine, quietly running and currently has an uptime of
8:50pm up 383 days, 3:42, 9 users, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00
Cool! 8^)
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UPDATE Oct. 28, 2005: Check out the new leaked D200 picures!
So, I’ve been looking at digital SLR for quite some time. I currently am using an Olympus C-5050z which is a pretty nice camera to be sure but I would like to do more with lenses and filters plus get a faster lens that what I’m stuck with currently. It’s a 5 megapixle camera and I’m able to take pictures that can print fairly well. Most of what is currently in my gallery was taken with the C-5050.
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So, I havn’t had much time to add stories to the sllug web site. When I was consulting between working at Caldera (I left before Darl McBride came on-board decided that money was more important than morality) and my current employer (Novell - which rocks!) I had much more time to research on the ‘net and find local Linux related stories to post on the site. It’s been a few months at least since a story went up. I imagine that I’ll post something soon. We’ll see when I have some spare time.
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Thomas, my roommate moved out this week - he bought a house in a nearby city. While I wish him the best, the search for a new roommate has begun - not in earnist though. Im pretty picky about the roommates I get so the search may take a while. I’m probably going to get a grad student from BYU. Someone who’s studious and preferably in an engineering dicipline so they won’t mind sharing the DSL bill, one who doens’t party yet is social.
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