One of my favorite quotes:

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those … moments will be lost in time, like tears…in rain. –Roy Batty; The Blade Runner

I had installed Kubuntu 7.10 a week ago so I could ssh tunnel some remote X apps that FreeBSD doesn’t have native support for. This means you Adobe (Flash) and VMware (server console)! Anyways, this morning for some reason the box had reverted back to it’s old DHCP assigned IP address vs. the one I had set in /etc/network/interfaces . Yes, I did restart the network service when the initial change was made. However, I will give Kubuntu the benefit of the doubt and let that pass. However, when I tried to check the network preferences I found out that the system settings center is not installed by default. Ummm… Joe user won’t know to edit /etc/network/interfaces to switch from DHCP to static addressing. Okay, fine. I look for the package manager. Nope. It’s not installed either. So, one apt-get install kde-systemsettings later I have the “System Settings” panel. I go to Network Settings, enter my password for admin mode and error. You don’t have the knetworkconf module installed. Ummm, yeah. Good call devs. So, back to konsole and apt-get install knetworkconf and all is well.

Kubuntu is supposed to take after Ubuntu and be a moderately user friendly for your parents distro. It failed. In review: There is no package manager installed by default that I can find in the Kmenu. Although there is kcontrol for most things, why is the kde-systemsettings package and some of its modules not installed by default? Just seems silly to me.

Before I get shredded, just let me state that this a comment on a small section of Kubuntu which in my mind makes it unusable for the average user. Personally, I run FreeBSD as my desktop and server of choice, followed by Xubuntu if Linux is a must have or Debian for a server. Solaris takes 3rd place and Windows is a long, long shot at 4th. I love KDE apps and even though I run XFCE as my primary desktop, the K apps are always installed and I’m really looking forward to KDE 4.1!

A good quote for the sys admins of the world:

When a problem occurs on a Windows machine the Windows admin says "What happened?" When a problem occurs on a UNIX machine the UNIX admin says "What did I do?"


Thanks Chris.

It’s cold and it will be snowing. The winds are howling around the house with gusts up to 80mph thanks to the Taku Glacier and we’re supposed to get up to 2ft of snow between now and Sunday night. Netflix only delivered me one DVD, so we’ll have to read some books and just stay inside. Not to mention, I’m a little under the weather so hiding out under the covers sounds nice

So, for the last couple of weeks I’ve been having some wierd power issues in my place. The front half of my apartment would lose power, but everything else worked fine. This morning however I woke up to find pretty much my whole apartment having issues. The heater wouldn’t stay on, the power kept cycling and the lamps, etc.. were dimming out and then turning off all together. I checked with my neighbor and she’s been having the same issues for the last couple of weeks. So, we called up AEL&P and they came out, on a Saturday, and climbed the pole. It seems there was a loose wire due to all the wind we get here. So, thanks for AEL&P coming out on a Saturday and braving the wind and the cold to fix that!!! It’s good to have heat again

Thanks to my dad for pointing this out. I made it into the Juneau Empire. The music was actually rather entertaining with a nice mournful, yet very rock beat to it. Queen’s “We Will Rock You” sounded very interesting on the bag pipes All in all, a decent band to check out if they’re ever at a bar near you.

That’s my back to the right of the guy in the kilt

The image gallery is now online. Check it out! I will be adding some posting for many of the images and better captions, etc…, but for now feel free to browse.

Would it work? Dunno. Is it funny? Yes.

A rather confident 007 walks into a bar and takes a seat next to a very attractive woman. He gives her a quick glance, then casually looks at his watch for a moment.

The woman notices this and asks, “Is your date running late?”

“No”, he replies, “I am here alone. Q has just given me this state-of-the-art watch and I was just testing it.”

The intrigued woman says, “A state-of-the-art watch? What’s so special about it?”

“It uses alpha waves to telepathically talk to me,” he explains.

“What’s it telling you now?”

“Well, it says you’re not wearing any panties…”

The woman giggles and replies, “Well it must be broken because I am wearing panties!”

007 taps his watch and says “Damn thing must be an hour fast!”

Well, there’s your chauvinistic joke for the day!

I think I finally finished digesting all the food from Thursday and all the booze has been flushed out of my system. First time for a deep fried turkey and I must say it was pretty good. Jeff also did a good job and didn’t shoot it across the driveway, so that’s a plus.

My green bean casserole was a little soupy, but a couple of hours in a warming oven and it turned out pretty good. The herring salad on the other hand didn’t go over so well. Oh well, more for me. It is an acquired taste, but I didn’t think it was that hard to acquire. So. note to self for next year: 4lbs of green beans and not 2 and a small bowl of herring salad for me and make a 2nd dish for everyone else

All in all a good Thanksgiving weekend, although I hear I missed out on some venison stew with knoedel at my parents house. Dry-ice and Fedex Overnight

Well, another Sunday afternoon spent with Zaine at the pizza place for some pizza, football and shooting the shit. Nothing says “relaxing Sunday afternoon” like pizza, a nice coffee and Gelato while chatting with friends. Why can’t everyday be like that? Oh yeah, money

Also, I don’t care what Chris says about the service at the pizza place their pizza is damn good and worth waiting for. Sometimes they do forget to refill your cup though which is annoying. Agh well, if I was a food critic I would give them a passing grade.

Looking forward to some cold pizza for breakfast Mmmm….good!!!