Frozen Industries

Screens I look at on a normal weekday:

• iPhone 4 (3.5″) (960 x 640)
• iPad (9.7″) (1024 x 768)
• Netbook (10.1″) (1024 x 600)
• Work MacBook (15.4″) (1440 x 900)
• Work Desktop (27″ + 24″) (2560 x 1440 + 1920 x 1200)
• Home Desktop (30″) (2560 x 1600)
• HTPC (42″) (1920 x 1080)

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 computers which were used as my primary machine count.

1. IBM 486SLC2 66 MHz
2. Intel Pentium 166 MHz
3. Intel Pentium 2 266 MHz
4. Intel Celeron 300A 300 MHz @ 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+ 2.0 GHz
10. AMD Opteron 165 1.8 GHz @ 2.2 GHz
11. Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz @ 3.0 GHz

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.