People trying to run both together may find that unlike peanut butter and chocolate, there is less deliciousness. Specifically, a bunch of keys (like arrow, insert, etc) may stop working.
There’s a fix for the lost keys here.
I also had some issues making the virtual network connection between the host and virtual machines. I think that [...]
Archive for October, 2008
VMWare Workstation 6.5 and Ubuntu 8.10 lost keys
NO!!!!!!!!!!! Wah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m going to spiral into a deep deep depression now.
Fear and Loathing 08
I really wish HST were around to cover this year’s election crazy time.
GSA Vigilante Assaults Photographer
At one point I point to the GSA guy and say, “I don’t need to talk to that guy” at which point he yells, “Fuck you” I say to him, “I’m gonna need your name and your supervisor’s name.” and I snap off several pictures of him to record the event. He again explodes and [...]
Batman Returns…
Sorry Zinger… no amusing tale of me working at the Family Fun Festival at the Pre-School this year. Less than an hour from coming home from a birthday party that had a Batman Ice Cream Cake, Lorelai was sick every 1.5 hrs from 7pm ET to 9:30am ET Sunday morning…. Let’sjust say Batman Returns has [...]
Why is everyone saying “fail” all of a sudden? – By Christopher Beam – Slate Magazine
Epic Win: Goodbye, schadenfreude; hello, fail.
Why is everyone saying “fail” all of a sudden? – By Christopher Beam – Slate Magazine.
My favorite quote:
It’s as if LOLcats coincided with a global outbreak of some feline adorability virus. The financial crisis also fits neatly into the Internet’s tendency toward overstatement. (Worst. Subprime mortgage crisis. Ever.) Only this [...]
“Reflections: The Cleve Cartmill Affair: One” by Robert Silverberg
One anecdote out of science fiction’s history that almost everyone has heard of is the tale of how Cleve Cartmill, a competent writer of middling abilities, published a story describing the workings of the atomic bomb in a 1944 issue of John Campbell’s magazine Astounding Science Fiction, fourteen months before the first successful atomic explosion [...]
8.10 Technical Overview | Ubuntu
Ibex comes out in two weeks, I’m excited.
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New Features since Ubuntu 8.04
8.10 Technical Overview | Ubuntu.
CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos – washingtonpost.com
The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.
CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos [...]
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