Archive for November, 2004

Quickies

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

A couple of quick thoughts:

World of Warcraft: Kicks ass. Err.. a little too much actually. Eats up hours of time even when I’m “just playing out my bonus”.
Digital Fortress: Doesn’t kick as much ass. More of a story than previous works (”Da Vinci Code”), but uhh.. maybe it’s because I know the subject better (computers, […]

Gnome 2.8

Thursday, November 18th, 2004

I upgraded my Gentoo machine at work from Gnome 2.6 to Gnome 2.8. It runs much better. I’m really impressed with the work the Gnome people have accomplished. Performance is noticeably better. And the file dialogs don’t suck. I’m upgraded to Evolution 2 as well. Primarily because the attach dialog was crap in 1.4. Too […]

On the Blink

Friday, November 12th, 2004

I am having some rather poor luck with hardware lately. I’m monitor is on the blink. Quite literally. *blink* *blink*
I was surfing the web, and it started blinking. At first I thought maybe I had kicked the cable loose or my powersaving settings had tripped out. But it continued to blink even after I unplugged […]