Updated My Rig

Figured I'd post the specs...This replaces the Athlon 2600+ that I've had for like five years now.

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon 32bit
Intel DQ965GF
Intel Core 2 Duo T6300 1.86Ghz 2MB
2GB Kingston DDR2-800
160GB Western Digital SATA
Asus Lightscribe DVD-RW
APEVIA X-QPACK-NW-BK/420
I'm borrowing the Nvidia 7200GS 256mb pci-e card from work because the Q965/GMA3000 is blacklisted by compiz

I was able to get the board "open box" from newegg for less then half the price...so that was kind of the selling point on building the thing...looking back the only thing I might change would be starting with a 1333Mhz board for the faster cpu's that sell for about the same price. This is more then fast enough though.

VW Progress...and snow

Got a lot accomplished today on the volkswagens.
We hauled the Kombi's engine into the basement so we can start tearing it down.
Also moved the bug on to jack stands (not too bad, even without an engine)
We'll drop the engine next weekend I guess.
I pulled the clutch and pressure plate off the Kombi's block and removed the bolts that hold the case together.


Also, here are pictures of the *first* snowing. Not the one who's radar map is on the other post.

First Snow

I'm Not Your Stepping Stone

okay I *might* have been...but I do know that you were definitely a stepping stone for me.

I thank you for it, one more person to truly show me what to look for in a relationship (friend or othwerwise) and what to look for as official warning signs to get the bloody Hades out of there while I still can.

I wish you the best of luck and hope you do well. Maybe we'll meet someday and differences between us will have gone. For now, your life is much too complicated, and my life doesn't need any more complications then it already has.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for telling me to get out of your life, you have no idea how much that means to me over other routes that could have been taken.

Snow...

It snowed last night and this morning...Here's the weather map this morning from weather.com :)
Greenville, SC isn't supposed to get snow :) bloody Global Warming



I'll get pics of the snow later...on flickr

Engine

I came *THIS* close (shows finger representation) to getting an engine for the beetle. I got it in my head saturday that I needed to get the beetle back on the road as soon as possible. Between gas prices and the fact that I just flat out miss it. So I get on thesamba.com and start looking through the Classifieds....their is a longblock (block and pistons and heads basically) and some extra stuff on for sale in Atlanta for $200. I emailed the guy and he said it ran two years ago and it looked to be in good condition. So I planned on driving out there next Saturday and buying it...emailed the guy today and he emails back that it's been sold already. So I'm back at square one on that. My friend just IM'd from work though saying this crazy dude came in trying to sell an early 90's Nissan Pathfinder with manual transmission and 4x4 for like $400....so I *really* want to check that out. Yeah yeah, $400 can be spent on something a lot more sensible...like VW parts...but I'm intrigued by this thing...doesn't hurt to look right?

Spring Loaded Folders

So last night I'm at home trying to organize some folders and realize that it would be really great to have the functionality I had in OS X with hovering over a folder and it opening to the contents of the folder.

This morning I did some quick searching and found out that it is called "spring loaded folders". Apparently this *was* a feature of Gnome but Apple has it patented and had Gnome pull the feature. Its amazing how corporations can have so much power over something as stupid as graphical interface enhancements. If your operating system is that insecure that something like spring loaded folders has to be locked up, then maybe you need to look into a redesign. Seriously.

Sadly it's this kind of "locked down experience" that made me stop using OS X in the first place...only I was seeing the effects from the inside then.