Blog Archive » October 2006

Ubuntu Edgy Eft Released

October 26, 2006

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 6.10, codenamed "Edgy Eft". This release includes both installable Desktop CDs and alternate text-mode installation CDs for several architectures. Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by def...

Hilarious Bush Impersonation

October 26, 2006

Hilarious Bush Impersonation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Iyu-iAqek

Just trying to get some gas is all!

October 20, 2006

I pulled into my local BP gas station this morning to get gas. I hopped out, pushed and pulled my bank card from the slot and got nothing but a bunch of beeping noises. I waited for a couple minutes to see if the machine was going to work itself out or not. Nothing. I walked into the store and told the lady what was going on. She acted angry at the pump and told me to please try an...

Big companies suck.. always.

October 20, 2006

Trying to check phone messages on my residential land line this morning was a no-go. The number I've been calling for several years suddenly stopped working today. It was treating me as if I were an outside caller trying to leave a message instead of just giving me the messages. I called the phone company and had to go through some automated "crap" before I could even spe...

Death by caffeine

October 19, 2006

This site says for my body weight, 210lbs, I would need to gulp down 260.59 cans of Mountain Dew to die instantly. W00t! Try it yourself: http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine/

New password rules

October 18, 2006

As a programmer, I am constantly creating new passwords for clients, ftp logins, ssh access, htaccess, you name it. I use pwgen mostly, unless the client specifies a password in advance. I really like pwgen because I can get a bunch of passwords at once at most any level of strength or length. I have an alias on my system for my prefered defaults: alias pwgen='pwgen 10 -s' ...

RSS Feed

October 16, 2006

I finally got around to publishing my blog entries as an RSS feed. It was pretty simple once I actually got down to doing the work. Here's the link: http://destiney.com/rss

Green Lantern

Updated: October 16, 2006October 13, 2006

Seems I'm Green Lantern Green Lantern 70% Batman 65% Spider-Man 60% Iron Man 55% The Flash 55% Supergirl 50% Hulk 50% Catwo...