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Everytime I logout of my bank’s online system, I see this ad.  Everytime I see this ad, I feel there is something plainly wrong about the ad.  I figured, why not examine the ad together?

The kitchen is brand new.
Are these two remodelling a brand new kitchen?
If so, does the bank want people to frivolously [...]

For a while, Eileen and I have been using our Epson Stylus 777 over the network for all our printing duties. It has served us well. We do cringe everytime we go to Fry’s to pick up a new ink cartridge. Up until right now, I did not do a calculation [...]

This is a follow-up post for my “Uncompatible Linux” post…
I’m getting into my CEO Armchair right now and will attempt to give Larry Ellison some advice for his Linux aspirations. I will break it down into bullet points since I know executives like Larry don’t have much time to read:

Stop the FUD. [...]

I have had some more time to play with FC6 and I have to say that it is: new, pretty and about the same. That is not a bad thing, it is just not something that will convince me to move away from CentOS.
The biggest feature talked about around the internet is [...]

I downloaded Fedora Core 6 yesterday, but didn’t have a chance to install it into a VM until tonight.  I only had a few minutes to play with it, but it looks really nice.  I like the new theme.  FC6 will probably never go “bare metal” on my notebook because I like stability.  I [...]

Wordpress 2.0.5 is out! Yup, it’s named Ronan this time around. I just finished up upgrading and like always…the upgrade was a breeze. Thanks Wordpress developers for putting out such a wonderful product! Download it now.

Ok, I downloaded Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux to give it a spin in VMware. Initial thoughts: It’s broken, I call bullshit, Larry Ellison!
I downloaded the four CDs from Oracle, they were in zip format. The CD ISOs are about the same size as CentOS CDs. (And for those of you curious, [...]