Pretty interesting creation:
Category: General
The webcam is back
One of the weekend projects is to clean my office, and right away I found my old 3com HomeConnect webcam. It’s been years since I ran it, plus I think my kids have been using it as a toy, so I decided to see if still works. After a getting the driver and finding some simple webcam software, the webcam is back in action.
Why and how to drive slower
Zenhabits has posted a great entry called 5 Powerful Reasons to Drive Slower, and How to Do It. I’ve been a ‘slower’ driver for years, and I can attest to some of the reasons to drive slower, the big one being save your sanity. When I’m driving, not worried about how soon I will get someplace, or being the first car in a group, I actually enjoy my time behind the wheel.
Also, looking at the list, I think ignoring other drivers is the number one easiest way to drive slower. It seems most drivers are in some unspoken contest with all other drivers around them. This invisible competition makes people drive faster and more aggressive.
Anyways, cool article and worth a read. And next time your on the road, keep it in the right hand lane, let everyone else pass you and enjoy the drive for once. You really won’t get there that much later!
Mopeds making a comeback?
Back when I was in high school, I owned a Honda Spree. I also had a car, but I rode the moped whenever I could. There was actually quite a few of us who rode mopeds, we were almost like a little moped gang. But over the recent years, I haven’t seen a lot of mopeds on the road like there was when I was in high school. Maybe kids nowadays are just ‘too cool’ for them. Hey, we were cool. We even souped them up to get more speed out them.
I’m starting to think that mopeds will be making a comeback. Just today I seen multiple mopeds in our parking lot. It makes sense, with gas prices being what they are. Anyone else noticing more on the roads?
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Save almost $1000/yr by bringing in your own lunch
Good info. I just wish I was discipline enough to do the same.
Frugal Lunch by Clever Dudette at Clever Dude
Total savings = $19.00/week * 52 weeks = $988.00
via: lifehack.org
Finally have a working Arch Linux install
For some reason, I’m really drawn to Arch Linux. I’ve used it in the past(probably a couple of years ago), with decent success. However, recently I’ve been wanting to try it again, but am having many issues. I won’t go in to the issues I’m having, yet, as I haven’t researched deeply in to them, and want to before I start bad-mouthing the distro.
That being said, I got a full working Arch Linux install up and running last night in a VirtualBox virtual machine. The only trick I had to do was choose the IDE-Legacy boot option during the install. After that, everything just worked. And what was amazing to me, is that networking was working from the get go on it, and I was using my laptop via wireless. So VirtualBox must pass whatever networking the host computer is using to it’s virtual adapter. Thats was cool and somewhat unexpected.
Once the base was installed, I was easily able to install gdm, gnome, xfce , and fluxbox and everything worked perfectly. I’m really liking Xfce, and Arch already has the latest(4.4) available in its repositories. So that was cool to check out. I did get an error installing xfce4-goodies though, but it wasn’t a show stopper.
Arch is fast. Even in a virtual machine, everything is very snappy. I really want to get it working on my workstation or even my laptop as the main install.
No more TUX Magazine
I am sorry to inform our readers that Issue 20 of TUX was the last produced. While we have received an amazing amount of positive feedback about the magazine, the financial reality of the situation made it impossible for us to continue publishing TUX. Current revenues didn’t cover current costs, much less allow us to expand the publication as we wished.
This is really the pits. I liked this magazine. However the concept of PDF only release is probably what did them in. They recently changed their structure, from a free subscription to a paid subscription. And I guess people showed little interest paying for a PDF only format. I had no intentions of paying them for it. Could they have turned it into a printed periodical, I would have subscribed in a second. Maybe it’s time they bring back Maximum Linux Magazine.
Thought of the day
If I were to start laundry with all the clothes inside-out, would they come out of the dryer right-side out?
Starting to dislike Sams Club
What a racket! Ok, Sam’s Club, here’s a place that you have to pay a yearly fee just to have the luxury to shop there. Then they have some of the longest lines I’ve ever had to stand in, and the people in front of me are literally buying a truckload of stuff. Now to top it off you have to stand in yet another line just to get out the door so some drone can put a yellow line on your receipt. Furthermore, stuff isn’t nessessarily any cheaper there. The only reason I continue to go there is there is some stuff that we go through a lot and it’s nice to but it bulk. I stopped in to pick up 2 items today, and it took me 45 minutes from the time I walked in to the time I was out the door. That just seems nuts!