The Blog of InfamousEric

I apparently am not the type who can work from home.
Over the last week, I’ve woken up later every day, haven’t done any of the things I planned on doing…
Sure, I can blame it on the fact I haven’t taken a vacation in years, or I haven’t found my “groove” yet, but I don’t [...]

I’m using Songbird on my Linux machine to listen to music. The cool feature, IMHO, is the addons.
Anyway, I’ve added “LiveTwitter”, which I have set to post to Twitter, on every song it plays.
I figure this will annoy the someone about 15 songs in or so…
Take that friendwhores…

So since my kids were little, I would always take them to Six Flags for Halloween. We normally would go the last Friday before Halloween, as the park wouldn’t have much of a crowd during the day, leaving the rides pretty much open. Sure there would be lines on the newer rides, but some of [...]

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been having net connect problems.
The connection speed would dive to less than 1kbps and stay there, than it would jump to near normal than dive again.
A couple days ago I saw a download speed of 246 b/s…
Spoke with the ISP, they know of the issue, but haven’t been [...]

So I’ve now put together a backup/media server for the house.
The intent is to set it up to backup the client machines, configs & docs.
While at the same time serve as a media server, for movies, pictures, music, etc…
I’m using Ubuntu Server 8.04 64bit, the thing is fast and clean.
It’s a Sempron 2800, with [...]

So I went ahead and changed to Linuxmint 7, KDE Version.
The wife has been using the Gnome version for a few weeks now, and I figured, I’ve had enough of the Microsoft headaches for awhile.
Of course, Linux is not as polished, or easy to use as Windows, but it also doesn’t have the inherent [...]

So we are rearanging the house.
It seems like everyroom is changing in some manner.
Welp, there goes my 3 day weekend…

Installed Linux Mint 7 on one of my machines at home this last weekend.
Looks like this is the version to have, setup was a breeze, does all the basic stuff I want it to.
It’s clean, fast, and secure…
I used the Gnome version, but I think I like the KDE version better

So I downloaded the RC copy of Win7. I figured I’d try it out before committing to purchasing yet another MS Win version. As I was installing I get an error, stating that Windows cannot find the cd/dvd drivers. Yet it’s read the data off the dvd that I booted to. Why am I [...]

So my daughter is about to go into the Marines.
We had her go through a highschool that was designed for kids who wanted to serve in the armed forces, law enforcement, or fire prevention careers.
Well, she chose the military. Of course, like any parent, we’re a little apprehensive watching our little girl take this path, [...]