Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Month: <span>October 2002</span>

Apparently Blogger’s been hacked, but my account appears not to have been compromised. It’s a shame that these losers don’t have better things to do than screw up people’s personal journals and musings. A decent hacker would work with the site to improve security; otherwise you’re just a clueless vandal …

Well, I guess life will be returning to “normal” in the DC area now that the law has caught up to those bastard shooters. I would like to point out that almost as despicable as these two piles of steaming feces are the people who sat in their cars and …

Forgot to post that Eleya and I saw an astoundingly bad movie the other night, the Kevin (“What’s happened to me?”) Costner dead-wife drama, Dragonfly. This movie was so laughingly bad starting from two minutes after the opening credits that we actually started giving it the MST3K treatment while watching …

Haven’t been keeping up here much… had to work over the weekend and left little time to goof around on the Web. In the meantime, the RH133 class went very well and I learned — well, a little bit, but it was good to hear how other people are putting …

I’m in RH133 this week away from the office. I’m boning up since so many things have changed substantially from two years ago when I got my RHCE for version 7.0. Eleya and I finished watching the third season of The Sopranos last night. Now what do we do until …

I had a great time recording at my buddy Rich’s house today. We laid down four tracks of guitars including solos and acoustic for a demo we’re producing for our friend Jenny. I really had to struggle to get back into the guitar mindset after spending all my practice time …

Recording session tomorrow. I can hardly wait to put some of my new gear through its paces. There’s interesting information at bugzilla regarding a problem with gnome-pilot in Red Hat Linux 8.0, with regard to some conduit controls that are improperly hidden from the user. This makes it really hard …

I’m really excited about the new Red Hat Linux 8.0. I’m now running it at work exclusively, with my Handspring Visor HotSync working via USB, in concert with the new Evolution PIM. It’s totally cool. I can even use AvantGo properly as well. Eleya and I saw The Straight Story …

My wife had what I think is a fascinating idea last night, as we saw a commercial for “Dr. Phil” or whatever that TV chat show psychologist guy is called. How about an amusement park (or at least an exhibit or tour) where people can get psychoanalyzed in a room …