1999 redux

Man I really need to get out more often. Despite spending most of my life online, I don't seem to have any fucking clue as to what's really going on out there. I new about the networking craze, even got myself onto Friendster and Orkut (thanks lex) but I din't realize a VC craze was brewing.

Mybe I just need to narrow my area of interest....

from CNN:
NEW YORK (AP) -- If the U.S. Postal Service delivered mail for free, our mailboxes would surely runneth over with more credit-card offers, sweepstakes entries, and supermarket fliers. That's why we get so much junk e-mail: It's essentially free to send. So Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates, among others, is now suggesting that we start buying "stamps" for e-mail.

Heres the full article

Jeezus, this is NOT in any individuals best interest. Its a blatant attempt at defining yet another fucking business op. That's it, end of story.

Just make spam illegal already.

This little video has caused me immense pain and joy. I can't even think about it without laughing. Unfortunatley, it only hurts when I laugh.

Madonna Wannabe (swf, 403 KB)

Now if those two things aren't reason enough to check out a site, I just dont know what is....
http://www.excitementmachine.org/

OK, maybe I overexagerated just a bit.

G's original idea was to take a windows luser and put them in front of Knoppix to see what happens. Since Knoppix was about the only thing I could get running on my system, I didn't see much of a problem there, and decided to get all clever by suggesting we try some of the distros like Lycoris, Xandros, or Lindows.

Unable to find any ISO's of Xandros or Lindows, I decided to get really fucking clever by downloading Undeadlinux. Not exactly a distro for the fresh windows refugee, but probably the distribution with the most attitude per byte. Not to mention more spelling errors than one of my webtips.

I actually started preparing for this little adventure24 hours before Miss G actually arrived. Old HD out, fresh mini HD in, Lyoris burned, installed, and......
nothing.

System not found error.

Fuck that, lets try undead linux.

Repartition, reformat, and.....
faulty installation script.

Okay, I can deal with this, get the newest undead, burn it, and...

System not found error.

I am not the most clever guy, and fdisk and cfdisk still makes me kind of nervous. I realized I must be doing something wrong, but had no idea what so I figured I would see what windows did. Besides, it seemed like a good excuse to finally see if XP is really all that its cracked up to be.

Aside from the fact that the installation seemed to take forever, I have to admit I was impressed. It didn't make me restart the machine 162 times, recognized almost all of the hardware, and actually ran for more than 5 minutes without BSOD'ing on me.

It also gave me a raging migraine that took 2 parkamed and a blindfold to get rid of. That is one BRIGHT UI. I kept waiting for Tinky Winky or Po to wander across my screen and scream BIIIIIIG HUUUUUUUG. Where do you suppose MS hired their designers from, Playskool?

I wiped that drive faster than Shrub can say "Wheres my Daddy".