Any of you who have seen the great movie “Office Space” know this song. It’s when Peter gets promoted and just acts like an all around badass with his new found powers. He even goes as far as undoing the static laced doorknob to avoid the pain of being shocked. Tonight, I raised the bar with my cell phone knowledge and data mining to a new level. The song above represents how I feel after my game of cat and mouse. It’s locked in the next entry due to reasons beyond my control. If you want the code, just contact me on AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, e-mail, IRC or phone/text me.
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Book Review Soon to Come: “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson
I must thank my good friend Russ (custom local jeweler – Dare2Dream) for passing me “Snow Crash” to read. I have been rather addicted to reading it when I am on my lunch breaks at work and well… It makes my vision of dreams more than plausible. It’s one that any computer or internet geek should read, because it almost paints a picture of what the internet could/should be in a decade or two. I have had days where the ‘net just seems no fun to me so “Snow Crash” is a rather nice way to wind down before bed. Keep a look out for the blog and my thoughts on a great book.
Technology Review Teaser: Doing a Network Overhaul
Tonight I did one of the best things I could have with my free time tonight… It has made my internet experience even faster and more streamlined as possible. It took some bravery and logic, but it is well worth it. I turned an old Buffalo WBR2-G54 that my parents bought back in 2002 and turned it into a $600 super router with a hack to use the Tomato firmware. To sweeten up the speeds, I changed my DNS addresses to OpenDNS’s numbers for a much more clean experience.
I’ll go into more detail about my install as well as provide advice and tips about things tomorrow. Keep your eyes out until then!
A Request: Philosophy Page and Etc.
A while ago, I added a philosophy page to explain my “ideal” of ZeroXR as a school of thought. I need some feedback on if it makes sense or if I should clarify things within it. If anyone wants to clarify things with me, please let me know. E-mail or comment me about anything that could use revision.
Anyone know any good anti-spam plug-ins for WordPress to prevent e-mail harvesting robots from grabbing my e-mail? If you do, let me know!
Thank You Everyone for Your Support!
When I launched ZeroXR 13mg, I did not expect it to grow much. I figured that it’d just be a work space for me to just develop my work. After having my application to a tech blog get rejected from lack of a writer’s resume, I wanted to get some quality work generated on here. Amazingly enough, just from linking a few of my friends… I seem to have traffic coming in from friends who have returned me the favor of linking back to me. This has actually gotten me RSS subscribers as well as regular readers!
I have loved the feedback I have gotten from my friends, cousin Sol, and the members of Ubuntu Dallas. Casual readers who have stumbled on my site from me dropping a link, your comments have been inspiring as well. My personal posts seem to have inspired some of you who have wanted a pearl of advice. That is probably the thing that makes me smile knowing that I have helped you find guidance in your own lives.
As for the site, I just need some help in designing a logo for the site, a business card logo, and a business card design. If there’s anyone good with CSS that can design a slick looking header for my WordPress, feel free to let me know. Anyone who’s available to help me do some logo design would be great!
I am in debt to the readers of my site, keep me inspired! I am looking forward to this year already!
Another Angle to my KDE 4 Test: Installing KDE 4 Core to Suzaku
I decided I gotta be a little nutty just to have some fun… So I was curious if there was a way to install the KDE 4 core packages to get an internet experience with KDE 4 on my laptop, Suzaku. Sure enough, the process to install it for Gutsy was detailed here: Kubuntu.org – Be Free with KDE 4.0. Unfortunately with my family’s ADSL connection, it may take me a while to install the packages. The boredom of slow downloads is pretty painful or in Bender’s words from the movie “Bender’s Big Score”:
Suicide Booth, Gimme your best shot! Electrocution please, a side order of poison! Helloooo… Kill me, you stupid machine!!! What the..? Local calls 50 cents?! It’s a street corner telephone parlor!
Though I imagine that when the downloads finish installing and provided everything functions… I will probably feel like saying another one of Bender’s great quotes from the same movie:
People will call me a failure! Others however will call me the world’s sexiest killing machine, who’s fun at parties!
Welp, time to wait for the download or even possibly prep for the gym.
Update: 11:20am – Seems it finished… Time to reboot my X session and kick into KDE 4
Midnight Excitement had a Wrench in the Works
Well, in child-like excitement, I decided to spin a copy of the KDE 4 Live CD on Suzaku to play before buckling down for a full review… but there was a bit of a problem. I was hoping to directly play with things that involved internet connectivity, but the CD did not bundle in any wireless network apps. From first impression, it’s a clean looking environment. I am really looking forward to seeing it in real action on a production level operating suite such as Kubuntu, openSUSE, PClinuxOS, etc. Maybe tomorrow when I am more awake, I can sit down and play with what all I can that doesn’t require an internet connection… Unless anyone doesn’t mind me coming over to jack into a LAN port to play around with some serious eye candy. Hell, the Live CD recognized my native resolution to boot!
I will leave a bit of humor to close this short post… Nothing more embarrassing than having the KDE 4 log-in and log out sounds just blasting out of your laptop speakers at 2am in the morning and completely waking your family, all because openSUSE doesn’t recognize my onboard volume controls and refused to mute.
Wine Review Teaser
From Wednesday night, I had the flight of Cabernet Sauvignons from The Parlour Wine Bar when I went to drink with my friend and cheer them up. It was a unique test in flavors and had quite a bold finish towards the end. I’ll throw it online tonight when I get a chance after work. The ambiance and mood of the site was quaint enough to provide me just the concentration to focus on savoring the flavors from the wine and it was well worth the time that I had spent there.
Trial: U3-K2 Theme
Found this little gem of a theme from browsing around the web and I will leave it up for now. It’s pretty slick and allows for backtracking to entries without having to reload the entire blog. The green and white create a serene color set and look pretty nice. If the theme ends up being annoying to you, let me know and I can revert back.
Seeking Feedback: Are the fitness posts inspiring?
ExxonValdeez from #ubuntu-dallas mentioned that he’s been inspired from my posts on ZeroXR 13mg that it has almost made him want to workout again. I know my friend April has been one of the more vocal people on the site to vocalize her cheers. I am curious about the other people feel about them.
I will still continue to post my results from each work-out, no matter the results. If there is a way to make them more informative or entertaining, please feel free to comment and let me know.