Wow... just... wow. I was trying to be serious this time and I started World War III apparently. Check it out.

So I installed Ubuntu 6.06.1 on a machine around here recently, mostly because I need TeX for some stuff I'm doing and MiKTeX on XP seems to butcher some of the stuff I throw at it. Anyway, I noticed that the default install of Ubuntu now has a BitTorrent tracker running on it.

Okay, earlier today the article about OpenOffice.org failing at security was posted by Zonk, again. I was right in the middle of posting a "DUPE!" troll and when I clicked submit, it bitched that "no article or comments were found" or some such shit. That's the first time I've noticed a story being taken down for duping. I guess Zonk's feelings were hurt by the masses yelling "DUPE!"

My main machine had (correct use of past tense) a 160 GB Seagate IDE hard drive in it. I bought this because everyone says Seagate is the creme de la creme of hard disks - they're supposed to be reliable and such. Anyway, I installed this in February... and now on Saturday the thing died. Wow, how reliable. I have a replacement disk on the way, a Western Digital. Anyway, it's under warranty, but the Seagate replacement disks are refurbs - which doesn't exactly make me feel comfortable.

I recently had a Maxtor drive in an external enclosure die on me (yes, I know, Maxtor sucks) so I was in the market for another disk. I had a 120 GB Western Digital in this machine and Newegg had 320 GB drives of the same brand on sale, so I bought one to replace the 120 GB. Now, this machine has 1x 160 GB and 3x 320 GB inside, with the 320s set up as a RAID0 volume. That much hard drive space ought to be able to handle a LOT of porn, don't you think?

So I tried to wipe Windows XP off my main machine Monday night and replace with the new release of Ubuntu. I figured that Vista was going to be kind of gay, so why not try Ubuntu?

Last year I held this competition on Trolltalk but given that 20721 is in a perpetual state of crapflood I figured I would hold it here. However, there's no need to even hold an election as we all know it's still GNUALMAFUERTE. Unfortunately, he hasn't posted in almost two months. I wonder if I finally got to him?

I posted a few months back about wanting to find some adapter to mount a 3.5" hard disk in a 5.25" bay. I ended up not going that route; I just replaced two of my disks with 320 GB SATA disks. I have a ton of storage now.

The system runs Windows XP Professional, and right now, both hard drives are set up as a spanned volume along with a smaller 120 GB IDE disk. I know that this isn't redundant, but I make frequent backups and stuff so I should be okay.

LOL

Proof is here.

A few weeks back VMware stated that they were going to give away their server product for free. Today I downloaded a copy and it's just like the old workstation product was and better, but it brings me to an interesting question: who in the hell is going to bother downloading the player now? The player is basically just the old workstation product sans the ability to create VMs, making it crippleware. The server product is free as in anal sex from Taco's wife and has the ability to create VMs

Last weekend I was browsing digg and found this story. I was intrigued; was someone going to announce a project that would revolutionize the software available on the Linux desktop (not that I care since I don't run it)? I forget about this little snippet a few minutes later (it was really impressive).

Looking over here, you can see that GNUALMAFUERTE hasn't posted in a month. I therefore declare victory over GNUALMAFUERTE's RMS felching antics.

Now, I will start looking for my next victim.

Try doing a Google Image Search for my handle; you'll find this. Wow - they're HAWT!