November 8, 2005

Mark Shuttleworth Goes Kubuntu

Filed under: Ubuntu — WirelessMike @ 10:37 am

Kubuntu

Kubuntu comes of age and is expected to be available on “shipit” by the next release, pending the “install from live cd” option. This from Kubuntu.org:

The Ubuntu Below Zero conference is in full momentum this week and Kubuntu has been prominent throughout. In his opening remarks at the start of the conference Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that he was now using Kubuntu on his desktop machine and said he wanted Kubuntu to move to a first class distribution within the Ubuntu community. The large number of Kubuntu users at the conference was evidence as the need for this. Free CDs for Kubuntu through shipit should be available for the next release if the planned Live CD Installer removes the need for a separate install CD.

Kubuntu will soon be on my home desktop machine, too.

Kubuntu!

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November 3, 2005

Truth is Stranger…

Filed under: General — WirelessMike @ 10:10 am

Just received a link to this story from bkw:

Man Kills Buck With Bare Hands in Bedroom

BENTONVILLE, Ark. – It looked like a crime scene, but no charges will be filed after Wayne Goldsberry killed a buck with his bare hands in his daughter’s bedroom. The engagement lasted an exhausting 40 minutes, but Goldsberry finally subdued the five-point whitetail deer that crashed through a bedroom window at his daughter’s home Friday.

When it was over, blood splattered the walls and the deer lay on the bedroom floor, its neck broken.

Goldsberry was at his daughter’s home when he heard glass breaking. He went back to check on the noise and found the deer.

“I was standing about like this peeking around the corner when the deer came out of the bedroom,” said Goldsberry, demonstrating while peering around his kitchen wall. The deer ran down the hall and into the master bedroom – “jumping back and forth across the bed.”

“I could tell he was really tearing up the place back there,” Goldsberry said.

Goldsberry entered the bedroom to confront the deer and, after a brief struggle, emerged to tell his wife to call police. After returning to the bedroom, the fight continued. Goldsberry finally was able to grip the animal and twist its neck, killing it.

“He was trying to get up a corner wall and I just came in behind him and grabbed him by the horns and just started pushing down,” said Goldsberry.

Goldsberry, sore from the struggle, dragged the dead animal out of the house.

Benton County Sheriff Keith Ferguson said that when he arrived he found the deer dead in the front yard. Goldsberry intended to have the deer processed for its meat.

On Monday in Pine Bluff, the principal of Coleman Elementary School rid his building of a deer by opening a door. Students were preparing for dismissal Monday when a deer crashed through a window and bounded through a hallway.

The buck floundered on the school’s slick floor for about three minutes exiting via a door along the side of a hallway. Principal Bill Tietz said the deer was slightly injured from the glass and lost an antler. Tietz says the animal leapt a six-foot fence after leaving the school.

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Almost Satisfactory

Filed under: General,OSS — WirelessMike @ 9:15 am

Well I’ve successfully tweaked most of this blog’s settings to my minimum standards. Mostly, I’m satisfied.

I hope to have some alternative stylesheets soon, as well. I’ll be working on that later.

In the meantime, I’m ordering a ton of components for the computer. I’m waiting on the processor cause the price went up $6 over the last 3 weeks (ridiculous). I hope to have some nice graphics and pics to help update soon.

Thanx for hangin’ in there– You know who you are!

**Side-note**

I’m also working on my personal sites. I’ve already updated my “WirelessMike” site with new computer hardware info and freeware, and I’m working on my personal family photo site. I’ve moved everything to a new server, so email me for the new addresses. I’ll replace the sites on the old addresses with redirect pages as soon as I am able to ftp to that server again.

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November 1, 2005

Still Tweaking…

Filed under: General — WirelessMike @ 10:39 am

Just a note to assure you that this blog will be up and running again soon. I shouldn’t be much longer…

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