I kicked off the upgrade to Ubuntu Dapper Drake. Looking forward to seeing if things are a bit more responsive than with Breezy. Firefox in particular seemed to be pretty doggish.
Dapper here I come
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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Sikh and ye shall find
We were driving around in the east foothills of San Jose yesterday and got a bit lost. Then out of nowhere we stumbled upon this really cool looking Sikh temple.
Sudoku 7:55
Beat my previous record last night.
Why is myspace so popular?
Do they hand out myspace logins in schools or something?
I was browsing the Technorati tag for music and 98% of the blog posts were from myspace blogs and had content that was something like this:
omg there r so many songs with such kewl lyrics so im gunna post them yay me ^_^ shot through the heart and ur 2 blame u give love a bad name 3 last…
Linux on a Compact Flash
Compact Flash Linux Project (Cflinux) is a Linux distribution designed to run on a compact flash card in read-only mode. It is as small as possible, and currently needs around 14 MB. It includes OpenSSH, quagga, iptables, hostap, madwifi, wireless-tools, pppoe, tcpdump, bridge-utils, and more.
Wednesday’s “Lost”
just rocked. Plain and simple.
We watched it last night on TiVo and it was a really, really good episode. I won’t give anything away for those who are behind.
1+1=3
This morning on the ride to work, Ronn Owens on KGO AM 810 had been talking about a controversial California high school exit exam and presenting some example math questions, to show how easy they were. These were simple questions involving basic arithmetic, fractions, percentages, etc. A caller mentioned that he was a college graduate and that he thought the exam was too easy. His chief complaint was that the exam was too easy because it was multiple choice with 4 possible answers per question. The reasoning? Because a student could guess randomly and be right 50% of the time. Hehe.