I am here....

I am now in my apartment at UT Tyler.....

Pretty much done w/ the packing and what have you....

This is going to be a good year, I hope....

It is good to be back....

Well, I will be sure to post more later....

-ME-

Keep Yourself Alive

Well, NOW I REALLY LOATHE microsoft....

First I get a some error messages, then I can't log in anymore. In Fedora Core 4, I search for the error messages. Learn I can't do anything about that damn problem. Well other then reinstall the crap thing. Thankfully nothing of importance is ever on my C Drive.

Anyway...now I get this darn Windows Activation deal. Which I have done oh so many times before.

Anyway, apperantly I can't do web activation, really pisses me off. So I call Microsoft Tech Support "India", well that is where I assume the call went. So after the automated part of the call, I talk to this guy who I have to repeat everything to three times and then he wants to know why I am activiating again. So I said, because XP sucks and I had to reinstall it. After that he didn't say much beside that code they give you.

I hope this is the end of that....

I was told a million times
Of all the troubles in my way
How I had to keep on trying
Little better ev?ry day
But if I crossed a million rivers
And I rode a million miles
Then I?d still be where I started
Bread and butter for a smile
Well I sold a million mirrors
In a shop in alley way
But I never saw my face
In any window any day
Well they say your folks are telling you
To be a super star
But I tell you just be satisfied
To stay right where you are

Keep yourself alive keep yourself alive
It?ll take you all your time and a money
Honey you?ll survive

Well I?ve loved a million women
In a belladonic haze
And I ate a million dinners
Brought to me on silver trays
Give me ev?rything I need
To feed my body and my soul
And I?ll grow a little bigger
Maybe that can be my goal
I was told a million times
Of all the people in my way
How I had to keep on trying
And get better ev?ry day
But if I crossed a million rivers
And I rode a million miles
Then I?d still be where I started
Still be where I started

Keep yourself alive keep yourself alive
It?ll take you all your time and money honey
You?ll survive

Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive
It?ll take you all your time and money
To keep me satisfied
Do you think you?re better ev?ry day
No I just think I?m two steps nearer to my grave
Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive mm
You take your time and take your money
Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive
All you people keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive
It?ll take you all your time and a money
To keep me satisfied
Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive
All you people keep yourself alive
Take you all your time and money honey
You will survive

Keep you satisfied
Keep you satisfied

The unwanted blatantly militant rant

Okay, you know, this has been bothering me for a while and after something I saw yesterday, it bothers me again. I would first like to say, if I have ranted on about this before, I apologize, but I don't remember and I don't feel like looking back.

This nation, regardless of what any televangelist says, is not, and as far as I am concerned, will never be a "Christian Nation". I say this in no way to demean any religion, but only to make something very clear. That is, this nation was founded on a principal of religious freedom, which is why in the Constitution of the United States and the amendments that follow it, the words God and/or Christianity or any derevation there of show up.

And don't even think about saying, well the people who first came to this country were Christians. That is the problem, that is the reason we are in this mess. I say screw the people and think only of the documents that describe our current form of Government. Further, and I hate it when people do this, as nice as the Declaration of Independence is it isn't really a binding Governmental document any more. Technically it served its purpose some 200 years ago and then it was basically just a document. Now don't pull the anti-American card here, because we all know that is total crock, Okay! Sure that documents contained references to the Almighty, but you know what, it had to, it was a very passionate appeal. The constitution on the other hand is a "dry" document. It is intended to explain the role of Government, not much more. I may demeen it by saying that, but I don't want to get into deep philiosophical debate over the Constitution right now.

I just wish people would not be so ignorant and understand that. Now, bear in mind I said ignorant, not stupid. The two are not one and the same. I just wanted to clarify that.

Further, and I realise now this issue is slightly less relevant now that the Supreme Court has had its say, but posting the Ten Commandments on government property, in my opinion, is still hokey. I say this first for two reasons. Only two of the Commandments, can be connected to actual laws we have. Don't kill and Don't steal. Search the US Code, see for yourself. The US Code, for those of you who don't know, contains the laws of this country. Also, now I could be wrong here, isn't the posting of the Commandments slightly sacrilegious? The second Commandments says something to the effect of "You shall have no other gods besides Me...Do not make a sculpted image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above..." Now the way I look at this one is, you shouldn't worship false idols and statues and things like that. So how is posting statues of the Ten Commandments every place following that Commandment? I just want to know, because to me it doesn't work.

Sure, we could all use some blind faith once in a while, but when the blind begin to follow the blind, we end up going in the wrong direction. That's all I am saying.

By the by, if you want my little history on religion, I will tell you. I was raised a Lutheran. After I became a confirmed member of the church to please my mom, I became an agnostic. As far as I am concerned we don't have souls. When we die, worms eats us and that is it. I could go into more detail, but that should suffice.

Success...almost...

Okay, so I found out what the TV Tuner is, FINALLY!! Thanks in part to google and a chinese website and subsequently another google search and a usenet group.


Anywho, now I need to find the next closest supported tuner or possibly this one if it is a choice and reonfigure the kernel w/ this one. Wish me luck, for I know I will.


BTW, for the curious the Tuner is made by some company called Tenna Electronics. I think the link in the title will lead to their website. I hope this works and I can start watching TV in Linux. Not that I can hook it up to a cable connection right now, but that doesn't matter.

Debian is scary

Okay, I tried out Debian 3.1r0a and all I will say is, "never again, never again!" I found the installation to be slightly troublesome, of course I am used to graphical installers, so that is why. Then when I was finally past that and logged in everything was foreign to me. Sure it was Gnome and I saw everything, but it was so, awkward.


Anyway. Now I am using Fedora Core 4, something I can easily understand.


However, regardless of the distro, I can not get my TV Card to work. I still don't know the specifics of my Tuner. I know the chipset and all that, but the Tuner is foreign to me. It just has a sticker that says IN and the N is a like an up arrow. I dunno. Maybe I'll figure this out soon.

Firefly/Serenity

Okay, now I finally got around to watching Firefly. However, I have a question.


In one episode called 'Trash' there are a few scenes w/ a dumpster. In these scenes you see a computer screen. Here is the question: why did the screen display an obvious Windows desktop? Most likely Windows 2000, from what I could tell.


Seriously if this is set 500 years in the future, what the hell? This makes no damn sense.


Anyway, seriously looking forward to the movie, and if any fan jargon is true, a series revival.

aaarrrgghhhh!!!!

That did not work.

I will try again later w/ Beta 2

Hope things turn better.

Also am going to try out Fedora Core 4 and Debian , don't know what it is, but need it...