ChaosEngine

A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing….

Revenge of the Penguin II

From my earlier post on Vidalinux a few things have changed in my linux world. I had everything close to working, but was never able to get my nvidia card working with the accelerated drivers. I decided since Vidalinux was built on Gentoo that I would give it a try and see if I had [...]

My MP3 Player is in New Jersey

Yesterday I ordered a Creative Muvo mp3 player. I have a 6-7 year old Creative Nomad MG player, which while still functional is way behind the times. It has 128MB of memory, about 2 hours of battery life, and its getting harder and harder to convince XP to talk to it to load music. I [...]

Revenge of the Penguin

I’ve been an advocate of linux for years now (once rabid, rather tame nowadays). I’ve been a believer in open source software and use it where I can. Problem is that I’ve had to admit that for most of my personal desktop type use linux just hasn’t cut it for some time. I haven’t been [...]

One for the guys

Ok, a couple of weeks ago I posted a rather sexist commentary about the problems of going to the store and dealing with women and their shopping cars blocking the aisles and such. Well today I encountered the male equivalent. I went to Cabelas, an outdoor and sportsman outfitter store. Evidently if you put a [...]