Odd Video For A Laugh

A friend sent me this video to look at. The background behind such things is too long for this post.

I've got to get going to work.

But here is the video:

I hate Hewlett-Packard

So much for good omens.

My upgrade was a miserable failure. I had to ignite my system. I'm very tired and very depressed.

I need a Linux server and fast.

Deliver me!

Come On Baby Run Linspire!

Come on baby run Linspire!

Good Omens

Still waiting while the system is backing up, it occurred to me that I experienced what I will interpret as "sign" or "good omen" on the way in to work this morning. As I flipped through my preset radio stations in the car, I heard the old Hugh Masekela song "Grazing In The Grass" on the Classic Rock station in my town. It was completely strange because just yesterday I was creating a wish list on Amazon which included to my utter amazement a record with this song on it!!!!

Now if that isn't a good omen, I simply don't know omens.

Upgrade Blues

I'm sitting at work right now. It's Saturday morning, about 7:45 a.m. Backing up my HP-UX server so that we can upgrade the O/S from 11.0 to 11i.1. Needless to say I'm nervous. Fortunately for me, we've hired one of the baddest Unix gunslingers in the area when it comes to Unix. He will assist, hell, he will do the upgrade and I'll sit here and watch and hope I pick up a few pointers. I can only hope that this will go easily. I don't feel prepared for this upgrade like I have in the past for Unix upgrades. In fact, this will be my first HP-UX upgrade ever! I've lived through some Ultrix, OSF1/Digital Unix/Tru64 Unix upgrades before, but never have I participated in an HP-UX upgrade. I keep trying to convince management that we need to consider a move to Linux eventually, to save money and take advantage of all of the benefits of the Linux world. The glaring example of this is the lack of the ability on the HP-UX to snapshot it's Vxfs filesystems without paying the "Man" some money. In the Linux world, it's all there for you.

Anyhow, I don't want to bore the vast majority of my readers with technobabble, hell I don't understand half of it myself anymore.

Just know this people, this DRM stuff you're hearing about when it comes to MS Vista, is a very bad thing for people.

For a philosophical perspective, I tend to be on the side of Richard M. Stallman, father of GNU and certainly can take a heaping share of credit for the development of the Operating System that we call Linux.

I would encourage my readers to check out a book about Stallman titled "Free as in Freedom" which can be purchased at O'Reilly Books or is available, for free, to be read online (click the links to begin reading).

Digital rights management is what I believe Stallman calls "Treacherous Computing" and I wholly agree.

'nuff said, start reading, I want book reports next week!

Palm Photos

This is essentially the view from my office window.

Looks pretty, right? Pretty cold!

Cold As Hell

Today it was a balmy 7 degrees Fahrenheit (around -14 Celsius) today which was a vast improvement over the past three days where it was -4F and -2F (-20ish C). Kids were kept home from school for the first two days of this week due to the cold.

The cost of keeping your home at 65 will be horrendous this month. I expect to have a $200 bill just to try to keep warm.

Update: 02/19/2007. I started this post a few days ago and just left it, wanting to get some pictures for my 5 readers. One of those readers asked for a post and well, I didn't want to disappoint.

This picture was taken out of a window with my Palm. It is the back of my work. Better pictures will be forthcoming as I understand a lot of this will melt soon.