Slashdot friends = 32

Multiply friends = 18

Facebook friends = 75 (and I have tried to keep only those I personally know and want to keep in touch and know will reciprocate and not just add me randomly because their brothers sister's fish got eaten by the school hamster which was then eaten by the school bully which you heard about 8 years after you graduated)

And by the looks of it Multiply updates haven't really been that plentiful, and I haven't been there in a while. I think last time was late July? Either way, it's been a couple months and I only had what seemed like a small handful of stuff to go through. Not to mention I don't believe we're connected over there.

Sounds like I should finally give in and delete the slashdot account. Maybe the Multiply one as well. "No goodbye's, no see ya-later's, just gone. Left. No nothing. That's what I think about between the 10 seconds when I pull up to the curb and get to your door. I don't know much, but I know that."

This kind of feels like I'm about to start a flame war, but I wasn't aware that Synergy couldn't do multiple monitors on multiple screens. In fact, I have a friend at work whom I know has many multiple monitors and machines and I believe he is only using Synergy.

Now I could be wrong, maybe he is using Synergy+, but I'm pretty sure that you just have to add the names and locations of screens into Synergy. Unless they're is some kind of limitation when you throw linux into the mix. That's not to say that having another project that branched off and has contributed to, and improved upon, an existing piece of software that has gone silent isn't a good thing. In fact, that warms the cockles of my heart. I always wished I could contribute more. I keep telling myself I will, but can never fine the time. Seems like those skills I wanted to enhance might not ever see the light of day. At least until I perfect my current set for my job and part of my personal life. I guess that's the next step up I've been waiting for. And to clear that up I mean coding more and having it feel more natural. I can still code some, but they still feel kiddy-ish.

Nice. I'll have to give that a whirl.

Hahaha, I remember that scripts hay-day. I'm pretty sure even I still have it around. Can't remember the last time I ran it. Probably before Slashdot went and made the site even uglier and its horrible use of javascript via jQuery. Such a shame too because jQuery is a pretty interesting and good use of javascript. Which says a lot because I hated javascript but started messing around with it now thanks to jQuery.

But I digress. I had even made my own little java app to do pretty much the same thing as LPetr's perl script. I wanted to do a few more things though that required some UI. Funny how it never quite worked out. Well, I shouldn't say that I still get use out of it at least once every year to make my journal.

whoops, I'm like 9 hours and 2 minutes too late. Sorry about that. Didn't get the email until just now :P

And no, not from a GMail account.

no problems.

I know you don't crosspost to Slashdot, but did you not say, and I quote,

"I haven't regularly posted to my journal here on Slashdot in a couple years. Meanwhile, I've posted over 1000 blog posts elsewhere, and recently started using simulpost tools to post to several different SN sites I'm on. However, there are still folks here who aren't in those places, and, of course, there's the wonderful world of the Firehose and the exhilarating risk that some of my idle musings might hit the front page. (If I'm averaging almost three posts per day, there's bound to be something interesting in there...)

What I'd like is the ability to post to my Slashdot account using my own script. I remember the Early days of Slashdot where some folks were using third-party clients to participate in the commenting system. It'd be nice if it were possible for us to do that again today, but with journals."

Sounds like someone's little project waiting to be born ;)

Correct about the fourth slot. It will run slower if you don't put the same speed stick in. Otherwise, yes I could get 4 GB sticks. But I've only found one set so far and it cost $799, so I think I'll pass on that.

The reason I wish I had 12 now is because Workstation allocates all the memory for a VM at once, rather than ESX/ESXi which starts at the minimum and grows as needed to the limit. So running more than 2 big VM's and 4-5 small VM's will cost me about 5.2 GB. My system still runs fine, but just think of how much more I could get done if I had twice what I do now.

Thank you for the links. Seeing my old school user page was nice.

I wasn't however able to modify the layout to my pleasing. I remember when they had the "beta" layout, but now it seems to not stick out. Call me stupid, but I'm guessing it's the Dynamic Index under Settings. It seems that the site doesn't care when I tell it to use Classic Index and turn off all of the other bells and whistles. I still get the same old, new crappy boxes. I really despise that automatic page extender when you get to the bottom, and the filters.

By the way, I saw your post about the (11). I also have that, but it wasn't always 11. As I was attempting to make Slashdot usable again I found that if I clicked on the Today box at the bottom of the page the number would change to (1). Then scroll all the way back down to the bottom, let the page extend, and the number turns *voila* into (12).

My conclusion?

The number has to do with the stupid filtering system.

What was the original piece of VMWare software you were going from? Was it VMWare workstation or the free VMWare Server (not ESX or ESXi)? Do they even still have that free Workstation/Server around? Actually, I think they do. I think I had to go digging around for it not too long ago because lazy co-worker couldn't do it himself.

Did I mention the new box I put together months ago? Beastly Intel i7. I upgraded my copy of Workstation from 5.0 to 6.5 and forgot how much I like Workstation in general, but also the new features in 6.5. Unfortunately I figured out after the fact that I should have bought one of the motherboards with six slots instead of four so I could get 12 GB of ram. I'm really wanting that extra memory. Another co-worker tried to convince me to install ESXi instead stating it handles memory Much better, but I do other things on that box. And no, I don't want to make a VM to do that work in. The idea of running Visual Studio 2008 on a Vista x64 just doesn't seem like a good idea.

Bummer about the linux conversion troubles.

I was on and off Multiply at least twice that I can remember. I still post over there, but not much. I tried coming back here but with the way things are the navigation makes it so frustrating that by the time I figure out how to do what I want I don't want to go any further.

I'm still bummed that the one project we were all supposed to support and move to never worked out. I've often thought about trying to resurrect something useful, but I don't think I could convince anyone. Especially with so many other options out there and that are already in place and working.

Thanks.