CoffeeMan's rant...

CentOS default workstation install is a far better operating system than windows 2000.

That is all.

Since I have had almost no time to update this thing...

• Wedding plans are coming well... We're almost down to two weeks now before the big day... Argh.
• The new position rocks, it's more fun than I would have thought it would be.  I still have no title yet, or paperwork from HR, but I'm playing with things that interest me all day.  I'm such a geek.  That said, I'm not the one getting paged... yet :)  My excitement is most likely fleeting.
  
• Sold the old car, and it's now on the street awaiting pickup.  Also we got rid of the huge rust stain and got the holes patched.
• Since 90% of what I do is OS independant and I have recently given up Warcraft, I installed CentOS since it's the closest to RHEL whis we're using at work.  It's now been 4 days since this machine booted windows :)  I just wish I could get the ATI drivers to allow me to drag windows between screens, and choose the workspace that each one is using.  Probably possible once I look at aticonfig, but I just installed that today :)
  

Speaking of that final point, any experiences with using VMWare to run windows apps when you really don't feel like rebooting into windows?  Had any wierd/bad/good experiences with the free client?  We've got a test box at work that I'm going to be using shortly, but I'd like to try at home too.

It's true, I AM white and nerdy.

Thanks Kevin for showing it to me at work.

Look at what the US could have done with all that money instead of having a war in Iraq.

Consider it another use for all the teenagers entering the military.

Things tonight have varied between insanely busy (yay patching!) and slow-as-heck. With that in mind, I've actually managed to run out of things to surf, at least for today at work.

My question is, what entertains you at work when you've got nothing else to do? My usual vices are generally news sites (google news) or occasionally youtube clips.

I was bored at work (imagine that) and found a really good video on google videos of Robert Newman who has an alternative view on the war in Iraq, and sadly it makes more sense than WMD. It runs about 45 min, but is worth it.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7374585792978336967

I was working on writing a script to startup djbdns (what I'm using for a DNS server instead of BIND) at startup because it doesn't look like the install from ports installed one, or at least one that works.

Unfortunately it looks like somewhere along the line it broke my startup at home, and the server is now hung... Being remote to servers sucks when you're rebooting them, but I suppose this wasn't the best idea to begin with :)

As an aside, other than getting a server with an iLO or RIB or purchasing something expensive like an IP KVM, is there a way to recover from such sillyness on my part while I'm remote to the server?

The worst part of working nights is that if you don't bring something to eat you're stuck eating something vile like McDonalds. Or in the case of tonight, if you don't bring enough to eat then you're stuck eating something vile.

*twitch*

I have no access to my home network right now, since for some reason SAK isn't responding to ssh, and rebooting it didn't solve the issue (yay for Allison!). Anyway the point of this is I am very dependant on it to have something to do at work which isn't work.

Maybe I need to re-consider what I do in my "down time" at work... Posting on my blog here I come I suppose :)

Crazy security deal at work...

http://www.nuvo.com/news/2006/2006-04-10.pdf