My thoughts on life, the universe and beer

Finally!

My first day at work after a long boring recovery is on Monday. My doctor told me on friday i could go work ….i celebrated with a on-call session for the next 7 days….

Fedora 8 is almost out, Rawhide is frozen and it is looking good. I am thinking about upgrading my laptop to Rawhide ….hmmm

On 27th of Oct i will head out to Tucson, Arizona as i am going on a IBM showcase of their SAN products (disks, tape drives, software, svc and more). Hopefully i will see something neat there.

Bah….

Laters,
Finnzi

Howdy

Since i have been spending alot of my time lately doing nothing i decided to do something really awesome with my time and logged on to ebay and grabbed two copies of Warcraft 2 Battle.net edition.

The package arrived late last night and i have been playing non-stop since 11:00 this mourning. This game was one of the reasons i did not have time for learning anything useful at school, along with Baldur’s Gate 1 and other games alike. Warcraft 2 however was one of the games i spent most of my time in.

However in the last few years i have been playing World of Warcraft alot. Blizzard does amazing job at re-create the Warcraft world in 3d. I did not remember that most of the names of the in-game countrys in WoW are from the old Warcraft world.

Bleh …gonna play some more War2 and heat up some meatballs from the amazing 1944 collection of microwave dinners ..

Laters
Finnzi

Hi,

Spent yesterday installing OpenSUSE 10.3 on a friends laptop. He is a web developer mostly writing PHP code.

Asked him if he was interested in upgrading his old SuSE 9.2 install on his 3 year old Acer laptop to OpenSUSE 10.3. We decided on OpenSUSE with Gnome since i think it is one of the most user friendly distributions for not-so-experienced people converting from Windows to Linux.
After few hours of thinking i was done configuring most of the applications he needed.

Applications we configured:

• Eclipse for PHP development
• Evolution for email
• gFTP for basic file transfer tasks
• Fluendo plugins for GStreamer for WMP streaming etc
• OpenOffice for word processing etc…
• Skype for Linux, he is already using Skype on Windows for international calls.

Overall i really like OpenSUSE, the zypper application is a very nice addition to the distribution since i really hated the ZenWorks based software installing system in the earlier 10.* versions. This one has matured a lot and is a very capable Windows replacement distribution.

He still has Windows XP installed for some graphic work but hopefully he will be booting a lot more into Linux for the next year or so…..My good deed is done for the week at least

Laters,
Finnzi

Howdy there.

I’ve been recovering from a surgery for the last 3 weeks or so….thought it would be pretty small one but ended up being a couch animal for the last 3 weeks….I have never EVER felt so bored in my entire life….

Hopefully i can go to work next week, i will meet the almighty doctor again tomorrow and hopefully things look good.

The horrible thing about all this is that i have almost not touched my computers for the entire time! …Hopefully i will be fine after this week so i can go back to being ..well ….me

Just wanted to let people know that i am atleast not dead

Laters,
Finnzi