The Artisans of Fake Vomit

Wow, you can always depend on BB to amaze, entertain and inform.

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Fixing Wine for Desktops

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Google and Facebook Smackdown Imminent

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Whacking a Dead Horse: Windows ME in the Comics

I love xkcd, it’s one of my favorite web comics, click on the comic to visit the site.  You’ll lose hours of productivity, but you’ll have laugh lines.

Ever Wondered Who Does What in Movies?

I sure as hell did.  That is, until I read this post from the FreshDV site, now I know what “best boy” and “key grip” are, and so can you.

Enjoy,

iMB

The Rules of Civility

I have two rules:

1) If someone irritates or annoys you and it persists, find some little but significant way to serve them.  Sooner or later they’ll be vulnerable in some way, when it comes take the high road and do the right thing, it’ll balance it out and they’ll feel in your debt, even slightly.  I swear, this works like a charm every time.

2)  Traffic is a good metaphor for life.  For instance, if I’m in a lane and someone really needs to get in, and they approach nicely, I’ll do it most times.  If someone approaches it with privilege and demands it, rot in the other lane, buddy.

Want to Playback DVD’s on SLED?

Come on, you know you do.  It’s the last thing besides Call of Duty 2 that keeps even a single instance of Windows anywhere near most real techies.

With this article, you’ll know how to hack OpenSUSE 10.x, which translates pretty neatly into hacking SLED 10, including some information that might get you in trouble with the various bloodsucking, erm, umm, legal types.

Read at your own risk, and enjoy that DVD, hmm?

RossB

Wallpaper, 1 Each

Image of Tux in the background, sort of blurry, but a nice wallpaper.

Wallpaper of the, Well, Whenever.

I collect wallpaper, love it, particularly like the wide-screen 1440×900 ones like I find at webshots.com. In light of that, I’m going to start posting my favorites from Linux-land and Open Source that I have collected.

If you have any that you want to contribute, email me with them, monkeyboy [at] gmail [dot]com and I’ll add them to my Flickr feed and the site.

Enjoy this [some variable time period]’s image and look back for more.

Website Bans FFox Users, Lashes out at Mozilla Corp.

I won’t post the guys site, it’s nothing that I would be going to anyway, but you can read about it without viewing the site or driving this idiot’s hits up.  Besides, I can’t visit the site, I use Adblock and Firefox and refuse to load IE of any version for any reason.

The whole deal is that advertisers have GOT to understand that I and many others will refuse to visit sites with those damned pop-up ads that obscure part of the screen, or the ones that blink and move, or at the very WORST the ones that have music or sound in them.  Just the other day I hit a particular site with a non-Adblocked browser and some pop goop blasted out of my speakers (which had been turned up, my fault, for a fragfest on COD2) and scared the crap out of me and the poor dog, snoozing nearby.

You know, like the line from Field of Dreams “If you build it, they will come”, site owners need to understand that “If you build it crappily, with annoying ads that try to wring every bit of concentration out of your visitors, they’ll quickly find other sites to visit”.

Nuff said.

RossB