The Blog of InfamousEric

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 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 [...]

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

I don’t even know why I have any social networking sites. Myspace, Facebook, Twitter…
I mean I barely ever go there, and if I do, I don’t participate. Hell, I don’t even know where to find what my facebook address is…
Well, I guess you gotta have them in this age of social nerdism, but crap…
Do I [...]

For the living room. I wanted to build it slow. You know a couple parts here, a couple parts there.
Eventually, it would play Blu-Ray, but I figured I start simple. I had an old MSI board with a Sempron 2800, and 2 gigs.
So I figured I use that as a base, knowing I’d be changing [...]

When you lose your internet connection, your entire world comes to a standstill.
Well, at least, my world does.
Practically, everything I do revolves around the net in one way or another.
My net connection drops at work, nothing gets done. Sorry all you customers who want to buy product. I can’t even get a price for [...]