Never buy an Abit NF7-S2. It locks up when there’s a high ambient temperature, I’m pretty sure that it’s causing the issue with the NVIDIA binary drivers (AGP bus issues?), and I just haven’t been all that impressed with it. I think I’ll go with an ASUS next box I build, the P5-A in the […]

The Pilot, our local newspaper had an article that our principal is a finalist for a superintendant’s position in Alabama. While I’ll be glad to see her go, this quote disturbed me:
“I’m ready to make that next move, and I love Alabama,” The Star-News quoted her as saying. “I turned around a high school, along […]

Some people need to decide on their priorities.
Some people need to follow through and honor their commitments.
Some people need to either put up or shut up.
Some people need to learn to quit armchair coaching.
Some people need to realize that searching for something to blame on someone else to hide their own blame is pathetic.
Some people […]

From “DebConf6: Call For Papers” on the Debian-Devel-Announce mailing list:

If using slides, please consider that your audience will consist of people who use free software, and your choice of application to prepare and display the slides should reflect this if at all possible.

In other words, if you use PowerPoint, you will be flamed, quite […]

This story is about the Vatican coming out in support of Evolution and against Intelligent Design (ID). I think this is great. ID is faulty science (not that it really is science at all) and the fundamentalist movement behind it is threatening both America’s standing in the scientific community and the integrity of science as […]

From joeyh:
“It takes more keystrokes to enter a windows license key than it takes to do a complete Debian desktop install!”
Go figure. Good job to you and the rest of the D-I team.

So, for those of you I haven’t yet told…..
I’m going to ISRAEL!
For my graduation present, I’m going on the “Israel Journey” trip sponsored by Passport2Israel (P2I) this summer from June 18th to July 9th. P2I is part of BBYO, that partners with another travel agency, so hopefully there will be lots of BBYOers on the […]