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Pulling a little “hold on there, tiger” action on myself. Don’t want to jump the gun with all this hot dual-boot action here… (and not because “I have enough problems” with Detonator-3 to begin with … hardly!) While I’m smitten with the Fedora Project … this whole Ubuntu thing threw a curve at me. So now I’m back to what feels like square one, asking myself questions like “How much disk space am I going to need to partition off for this?” and “What’s this about a /dev/swap/ partition?” and “Wait why am I doing this again?”

I admit pretty readily that most of this is simply to satisfy the urge for some deep-geekery. All the swapping of power supplies and other parts recently has put me in the frame of mind for it. I like having these frustrations/projects in my life, I guess.

But there seems to be so little advantage to having Linux of any flavor on a desktop around here other than for the “I did that, too” factor.

I keep my Windows box pretty clean by (1) not downloading porn and (2) steering myself clear of those pesky P2P networks (make no mistake, they pack a wallop!) and (3) generally refusing to open any attachment I didn’t ask for. This doesn’t make Windows any less clunky but it does make my user experience managable. (And as long as Work leans on the Windows crutch, I’m kind of stuck there anyway… Damn you ActiveX!) And while there are plenty of reasons to opt for a Linux over Windows, I also recall that I don’t want to spend 40 non-working hours per week just making sure my machines talk to each other nice. Really, I just want something stable. I want something that just works. Maybe there’s dual-boot in that future…

Wonkette posts the Debate Drinking Game and Not Drinking Game. I’ve never been this interested in politics in my life!!

While reviewing/re-formatting the July and August 2003 posts, I stumbled across one in particular that felt timely and worth re-visiting…

Partly SG’s fault, partly Mike’s: Detonator-3 is soon to be a dual-boot system.

If you’ve worked with Adobe Illustrator, then maybe you have insight into how amazing these illustrations are. If you have a pulse, then your can at least acknowledge how awesome they are ^_^V…

Timely(?) article on kuro5hin.org that basically boils down to a “where does it end?” question on personal privacy vis a vis employment.

I would never consent to a contract with verbiage like:

I understand that my employment may be terminated [if I test positive], if I refuse to consent to testing or to a search, [or if it looks like I cheated the test]

…and yet somehow in my naive “must-hang-on-to-job-for-dear-life” frame of mind, I agreed to take on-call rotations. Meaning that I essentially

• surrendered my “home as sanctuary” status
• completely de-valued any “extra” or out-of-office work that I might have otherwise chosen to do
• agreed to take on stress in excess of what I think I can handle
• did not think through the series of ethical conundra that comprise “after hours technical support”

As I type this, the little black company-issue Motorola rings. And my relaxing evening after a full day of work plunges me right back into the colon of hell.

Because there’s always room for new obsessions: Yes, the Earth really is flat. Or so says the Flat Earth Society. Oh, and while you’re at it: Idaho is a myth. Not to mention England.

Maybe I’m a little behind on this, maybe not… But here’s Kodawarisan’s iMac G5 anatomy documentation. Neat!

Could this be the point from which the major domo name originates?