Category: Life in General

2/21/2007 Originally uploaded by imurdock LOL! My apologies for plagiarism to Ian Murdock, but this is too funny to not do… =;) In other news…. I’m holding onto my hope that one day soon, I will be able to do that which I’m most passionate about professionally…. =;)

<vanRijn> also, do not upgrade all of your KDE packages without logging out/in again <pusling> vanRijn: you could just have run kbuildsycoca manually 😉 * pusling only recieved about 10 bugs in kde abouth the upgrade to 3.5.7 broke their installation <vanRijn> pusling: meh. Real Men Zap X (TM). =;P <pusling> 😉 <vanRijn> heh <vanRijn> I just went through re-install hell the last 2 days <vanRijn> got 4 hours of sleep 2 nights ago <vanRijn> went from opensuse 10.2…. <vanRijn> installed fedora 7… <vanRijn> apparently my cryptoloop-encrypted home partition is completely unusable with kernel 2.6.21. i blame the new pata drivers. <vanRijn> so downloaded opensuse 10.3-alpha4 (all 6 cd’s, ’cause they don’t have a dvd iso, grr) <vanRijn> installed it Read more…

I have seen these published elsewhere, but I got these from my beautiful daughter recently and meant to post them. They are very funny and not at all outside the realm of me being serious about them. =:) Rules for Dating My Daughters If you pull into my driveway and honk you’d better be delivering a package, because you’re sure not picking anything up. You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter’s body, I will remove them. I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your Read more…

Sarah’s Band Originally uploaded by vanRijn. I am SO proud of you Sarah!! I SO wish I could have been there, cheering you on! I hope that Kiani did a doubly good job for both of us. Aftershock came in second!!! =:) Woohoo!

I have spent the better part of the last 4 days trying to figure this out, so this will serve both as a reminder to self of how to do this, as well, hopefully, as some form of help to those who come after and, like me, cannot find a stinking tutorial about how to do it for the life of them… We have about 10 Hi-8 (8mm) camcorder tapes from days of yore. However, the camcorder that we used to record said taped memories has long-since died and stopped working. So the time has come to figure out how to get these tapes converted to DVD. But how… Well, thanks to some positive reviews, the fact that Linux (and Read more…

… she continues. Although, I can unreservedly say that if, by some miracle, we manage to squeeze kpilot back into kdepim before the deadline which is 5 days from now, it is ONLY because of the totally generous and utterly amazing help from Montel Laurent. Once again, THANK YOU Montel!!!!

It has begun…  Any and all help would be Greatly Appreciated.

Take My Quiz on QuizYourFriends.com Can you Ace my quiz? Yes! No Let’s Find Out! Meh.  Okay, I know, it’s cheesy…  Blame it on my kids for starting it…

Balloons Originally uploaded by vanRijn. Well, since I’ve not blogged in a month or so =:(, I just got this in an e-mail today and I thought it was absolutely hilarious: Tired of getting stuck in slow moving traffic? Want to have your own lane on the highway??? Simple, tie these balloons to the rear of your car. Belt it down the Interstate (or any other road you wish to drive fast) as fast as you can and watch other car drivers freak out and simply get out of your way! When you get stopped by the police, tell them you thought they were real!

Just a warning, this is a bloody rant: Novell’s Nortel VPN package comes REALLY close, but it doesn’t handle PIN/RSA SecurID yet. PLEASE get this working guys!! In fact, please hire me and pay me to get it working!!! =;) The ONLY choice you have in Linux (if you find yourself needing to connect to a Nortel VPN that uses SecurID) is to fork over $100 for Apani’s Contivity client for Linux. Oh–and, by the way, you can’t use that on SUSE 10 or any other modern distribution, since it’s still looking for gcc3 and other things that aren’t found on my SUSE 10 laptop. Although, to be fair, the Apani support guys are very quick in their e-mail replies Read more…