Dear Intel,

Thank you for including Windows AHCI drivers on floppy disks with your new DQ35JO motherboard. However, putting a floppy disk drive controller on the motherboard would be useful too.

Thanks,

Nick

Here’s my history of processors I’ve owned in my primary computer. This does not count second, third, or fourth computers, laptops, servers, media, or Seti/Distributed machines. Only the computer which was my primary machine at the time counts.

1. IBM (Cyrix?) 486 SLC/2 66 MHz
2. Intel Pentium 166 MHz
3. Intel Pentium 2 266 MHz
4. Intel Celeron 300A @ 450 MHz
5. AMD Athlon 500 MHz
6. AMD Athlon 1000 MHz
7. AMD Athlon XP 2100+ 1733 MHz
8. AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1833 MHz
9. AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2000 MHz
10. AMD Opteron 165 @ 2200 MHz

I have to be at work in less than 6 hours, tomorrow will be a long day.

I just discovered Ubuntu Dapper has CD printing support built-in for my printers! This makes me happy, as I’m no longer stuck with the amazingly crappy CD printing software which came with my printers (WTF is there no UNDO option), and I can use some great apps like Inkscape and GIMP. This also means my small business will be running on 100% open source software. My Mac Mini will probably move to the living room, and be one sweet Video/Audio/Picture machine.

Bought clothes today. Lots of shirts. I should be good for a while.

The source code to XGL is out, and people in the Gentoo forums are already compiling it. This may push me back to Gentoo on the desktop, or at least get me to dual boot again. The RR4 Gentoo installer could lead to a system that can do this somewhat quickly.

I’ll be crossing my fingers for an XGL LiveCD in the meantime.

Thanks to pmark leaving comments on this blog (and possibly all other typo blogs) now works the way it should. See the fix here.

The LiveCD List made the front page of Digg again today. Someone made a comment that I may be the most duped Digg, which is pretty cool. Maybe I can get up again for that

Woke up this morning to my server being partially down. My store was still up, hooray for flat html and apache, but everything else was down. I had to request a reboot. After 330 days of uptime and upgrading every package on the machine several times, including the kernel, it was probably time. Culprit of the semi-crash appeared to be filesystem corruption, which appeared to be fixed while it restarted.

Then, while driving home from work, I was rear ended. Nothing big, just some person driving 5 mph hit my rear bumper as I waited to make a right turn. It’s all scratched up now, so that sucks. I have to clear up the rest of the mess tomorrow. It’s too dark to see the damage right now.

Inspired by Time’s “Best of 2005: Television” I’m doing my own top 10 list.

1. Firefly
A good story, good characters, entertaining episodes. Why did they have to kill it?

2. Battlestar Galactica
The internal conflicts are what draw me to this show. Good thing there are a lot of them.

3. Veronica Mars
There’s an episode where Ubuntu and LiveCDs get a mention. Plus the main character is intelligent and has a strong will. But mainly it’s a fun show to watch (even with all the sad flashbacks)

4. Family Guy
They brought it back, and they managed to keep a lot of what made it funny in the first place.

5. The Office (UK version)
Thought this was a good show, I got it on Netflix. Probably need to work for a little while to fully appreciate this show.

6. My Name is Earl
I keep missing these episodes, I think they conflict with other shows and my tivo misses them. The ones I have seen have been original.

7. The Daily Show
I’m starting to get tired of the interviews, I think I has to do with the new set. Reading the news is still just as funny.

8. Harvey Birdman
I’ve seen all of these twice, and now I’m waiting for new episodes. Employee benefits: recycled oxygen, toilet paper, …

9. The Simpsons
New episodes seem to be hit or miss.

10. The Apprentice
Something about watching driven people compete against each other appeals to me. Even if it’s not in my field.