blogging basics

There is, in my opinion, two major types of Bloggers.

1st. is the writer. This blogger composes long posts; very well structured, articulate and opinionated. The writer writes about important issues and knows it. They also know that they know their subject best and look to inform others.

2nd. is the novice. This blogger writes in the moment; short attention spans abound. The novice is free to write about anything, at anytime, from any position. Most of the posts of the novice are expressions of self, thoughts; much of it incoherent from the readers viewpoint (because some posts are comments about recent situations).

I guess there is a third, namely the combination of the two, but this seldom happens. The writer blogger normally won't write like a novice. The novice can from time to time write about something not-so-completely useless, but will resort back to being the novice.

signed, the novice.

I'm all tinglingly

For the past few years we have been hobbling along with a old laptop that had seen its better day.

One of the fans went out so amongst the random overheats the laptop sounding like it was experiencing a death-rattle for the last 2 years. We actually missed the entire Vista release (which I hear wasn't much) I also just found out that all my old IDE drives won't work with the SATA motherboard.

But I don't care. I am in computer overload.

Just recently I got working with Ub10

And we just got a newdesktop (dual proc) running windows 7

So, for the span of 10 days, I have been been on full computer overload.

I am happy because win7 actually has user level access control on network file shares (something I could never find in XP (don't know if Vista had it)). And, I actually have UB10 and Win7 playing nice on the network (where my Win7 account authentication is valid for the share).

So, I know why I have been staying up later than normal.

Computers are actually fun again (if even for a little bit)

No time, or something like that

Right now there are many things I want to do but do not have either enough desire or enough time.

the end.

Ub10 login keyring ?!?

I decided to change my login password to something with a higher strength.

Once I did this I started getting a message about my login keyring no longer matches my login password.

WTF! I looked all over the place for the "keyring"

Nope, nothing.

Found the following article that got me in the ballpark.

For Ub10.10 if you get this message, here is what seemed to work.

Go to: System> Preferences> Password and Encryption Keys

It won't say anything about keyring, but...

Under the Password tab (far right) there will be a entry called "Passwords:login" Right Click on the entry and at the bottom of the pop-up menu, select "Change Password"

Then hopefully you remember the old password.

But after you update this, you will no longer have the login keyring nag screens when you start to use the internet.

Just taking it easy

Who would have every thought that you would need to recoup from vacation time?

After taking a week and a half off; going back to work (if only for 3 days) was like I worked a full week.

Don't know if my body was adjusting to the sudden change in climate (guess Al Gore is right at least once a year); or if I just became a victim of the laws of Physics and was forced to violate them (the body at rest part).

Pretty much, I am just going to take it easy for the rest of today; tomorrow, I guess, I should actually get my butt in gear and get back to the land of the living.

Its been a good run.

Socially Awkward

I have tried and tried but find that I am socially awkward. The whole concept of social networking is lost on me. I have tried FB, MySpace, different Forums, etc; and I am just not too sure what the hell I am suppose to be doing (socially that is). I mean, what is the point? I'm here doing my thing, and other countless folks are out there doing their thing- how are we actually socializing?

Mostly it just seems like people use the Social aspect to argue with people they don't know about shit that really doesn't matter.

I think it has become too much really. And as far as the amount of Flash and Shockwave that these site use. I loaded Myspace and opened Chromium's task manager : Damn flash plug-in was chomping on 22% of the proc, just loading the page.

Farmville, mafia, and alike (boring and repetitive as they are) (honestly, why the hell do people play this shit for more than a week?)

Too MUCH FLASH PEOPLE

Linux -Restoring my faith in humanity

I got a version of Ubuntu a couple years ago, in hopes of getting my wife interested in Linux based operating systems. She is not much of a computer geek and just wants to be able to play Farmville and other FB games, while occasionally printing some things off the internet.

I recently downloaded Ubuntu 10.10 and absolutely love it. I remember installing Slackware and Redhat 4 just to find that I couldn't get the monitor to run X. SCO, Solaris, Debian, etc if it had a X (even OSX for Mac) I tired to run it. I even once bought an old SunSparc unit.

Ubuntu 10 is an outright out of the BOX OS which can rival MS and Mac.

Yes it is true that I just bought new DELL with Windows 7 (64bit) and look forward to using in it. But I love the fact that I can browse the net on my Toughbook and fear very-very-very few virus threats. I might actually use MySpace again :)