Archive for April, 2004

1-800-PBLUG-HELPDESK

  • April 28th, 2004
  • Posted in pblug

It seems that yesterday afternoon was my turn at manning the PBLUG’s IRC channel help desk. This was a new experience for me as I have never done tech support over IRC for a Linux system before, and it was a great experience. With all of the work that I have been doing with Linux [ READ MORE ]

Gentoo inside. Part 2

  • April 24th, 2004
  • Posted in pblug

After one hiccup with emerge gnome X w/ the gnome desktop environment was successfully installed as is working perfectly. For those of you wondering, it took about 6 1/2 hours to complete the build, not including the time I spent figuring out and resolving the gnome-panel-patch error. If it wasn’t for my fellow pblug [ READ MORE ]

Gentoo inside

  • April 22nd, 2004
  • Posted in pblug

So I decided my first project w/ VMware would be to install gentoo and start learning how to use that distribution. For one thing it helps if I could learn how to type correctly or at least check for typos before rebooting into a new kernel. As I type this gentoo’s emerge is building the [ READ MORE ]

VMware, where have you been all my life?

  • April 16th, 2004
  • Posted in pblug

My fellow PBLUG members got me interested in a software product product called VMware Workstation 4.5, from VMware. So upon finding a decent price I placed an order for two, one for my workstation at work, and the other for use at home. So what does this VMware do you ask? VMware Workstation enables software [ READ MORE ]

Amazing: Girl in wreck survives 10 days on noodles, Gatorade

  • April 14th, 2004
  • Posted in Misc

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — A 5-year-old girl is in stable condition Wednesday, a day after she was discovered by highway workers near the scene of a car crash that killed her mother about 10 days ago, according to police and hospital officials. Link to CNN article. [ READ MORE ]

What is This World Coming To?

  • April 11th, 2004
  • Posted in Misc

When something like this happens: Children on Easter egg hunt find guns instead [ READ MORE ]

Caught With Their Pants Down

  • April 8th, 2004
  • Posted in pblug

I went wardriving last night for the first time in about a year. Last time I went I used Netstumbler on Windows98, this time I did it right and was using Kismet on Fedora Core 1. I drove around Midland for about an hour and a half and I really had a good time–it was [ READ MORE ]