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I'm going to be in this. I don't have a lot of information, but I do know that Lyda Morehouse will be there, too, and she is awesomecakes with awesomesauce on top, 100% certified grade A awesome. And, of course, there will be me, so you should plan to come see it if...
I can has Debian.
Yeah, I realized yesterday that the Ubuntu upgrade had blown away my old xorg.conf, and that the new one didn't appear to know that I had a video driver at all. I considered digging it out of backups, but no, I'm too lazy. Debian. And I restored my old home, so all my...
Annoyed.
My newly upgraded Ubuntu 8.04 box continues to boot to a black screen from a cold boot. Sure, I can go into recovery mode and then it works when I reboot, but I don't really want to fix my machine every time I boot it. And I'm still not alone. My commitment to Ubuntu...
Ubuntu Hardy, the morning after.
I woke up--slept in, 'cause I was up late upgrading--wandered over to the computer, and pressed the power button. It ran through the startup process into a black screen. Meh. Luckily, escape at the grub menu, running the recovery mode, and picking xfix solved my...
*chews fingernails*
One of my other machines is busily upgrading from Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) to 8.04 (Hardy). I did both a full backup and a backup of home first, just in case anything ends up hosed. Yikes. No, I don't live dangerously. 😉 Sadly, Ubuntu has discontinued their PPC support....
Feminist ramblings.
Someone recently asked me how I became a feminist. Let me set the scene for you. I'm ten years old, living in Ogden, Utah. My father is stationed at Hill Air Force Base, and I'm merrily exploring hitherto unimagined depths of unpopularity at Horace Mann Elementary. As...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.