Phew! Finally found some time to write about the happenings last week. I almost considered doing a vlog instead but haven’t worked up the courage to put one together. Anyhoooooo…
Last week started off with Jillian’s birthday! As she’s been telling me since I turned 25, she’s now almost 30! I tried to take her to Latin King on Monday but apparently Italians are lazy and don’t work that day. Actually most restaurants we tried were closed.. seems to be an industry standard that I was completely unaware of. Great time to learn that one huh. We ended up settling for Legends (that teacher hater place! Oh no wait the teachers were probably just as rude as the owner and omg I’m not getting into that…) and had some drinks and a decent dinner.
Its only a flesh wound!
Monday night we noticed Oscar chewing on his leg like something was bothering him. Sure enough, he had some kind of growth that had split open and was irritating him. So, to the vet we went on Wednesday to have it removed. The patient came through with flying colors and a huge hole in his leg, that he continues to lick and irritate so it would seem we’re back at square one. The vet didn’t seem to be concerned so w/e.. I tried to keep a bandage on but within ten minutes I’d find it laying somewhere and Oscar licking his leg-crater. It seems to be healing just fine so we’ve left him alone. The growth was not cancerous, instead they think it was a massive wart and said not to be worried about any long term effects. Besides the massive hole in his leg I guess?! Tito was sure interested in Oscar’s new fashion statement and was sniffing him constantly, much to the dismay of Mr. Skur of course.
Tuesday at 12:13am I finally had a copy of Final Fantasy 13 in my hands. I’d been waiting nearly three years since the game was announced to play it and I displayed my overly geeky side by attending the midnight release party at GameStop. Needless to say I’ve been playing it non-stop since. So if you’ve called, emailed, texted and I haven’t responded that’s likely why. Mwahaha
In the spirit of Saint Paddy’s, Jillian made an excellent Irish stew with a huge slab of corned beef. We’re taking the left overs and making Rubens tonight!
Seriously how many instalments of this crapass series must they make?!
BTW.. after 3 years of anticipation, I got my hands on Final Fantasy 13!!
I’ll be playing that bad boy for the next 2 weeks solid, then maybe I’ll toss up a review on my Console Gaming section. Until then, do not call / text / email as I’ll be buried in my sofa growing a 7-day beard covered in sea-salt and vinegar chip crumbs and my hands firmly wrapped around the PS3 controller. I may even just soil myself without worry or care.
When people hear the word distro they typically think Fedora or Ubuntu (unless you’re a non-techie then you think I’ve just misspelled “disco”), they rarely think in terms of Slackware, Debian, or Red Hat. That’s natural seeing that the top 3 spots on Distrowatch are Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, openSUSE.
So what’s the big deal? In the recent years where Linux is finally gaining some notoriety as a viable desktop alternative to the chicken wire, duct tape, Swiss-cheese-security-model madness that is Windoze, people often assume their distro of choice has just, well, always existed somehow. True in a sense but let’s take a look at the Linux cro-magnons and how the distro forks came to be.
This article from Linux Magazine details the Big 3 Linux forks that are responsible for nearly every distro in existence. Interesting read.
For a graphical representation of the forking time line (LOL forking time line… haha, ooooooh that’s forking funny!) click the pic below.
Debian, Slackware, and Red Hat
This week has been crazy nuts, but I’ll try and have the latest Yahtzee vid and FOSS Thursday up this afternoon! I know you’re all on the edge of your seat…
Like this guy says, I feel like a broken record these days when reporting on the latest IE bug/exploit/virus. As I’ve said before, do yourself a favor and run FireFox, Chrome, Opera or Safari. If you really love yourself you’d just install Linux, but you already knew I was going to say that 
More pics from this month have been added to the Feb 2010 Album including the new computer build!
So apparently my scheduled posts aren’t showing up this week, so I apologize for the late FOSS post!
It has been a long quest of mine to find a quality video editor for Linux that worked with my old hardware. Now that I have a beefy new machine I was able to download and compile Avidemux.
This full featured editor works great even with the newest of video/audio codecs. My MP4 wrapped avi’s are no match for this beast. While the interface could use some intuitive improvements, once you overcome the learning curve you can rip through basic editing tasks like Tiger’s wife through an SUV window.
The audio support seems to be the most lacking however, but I think this is due to my installed codecs. No fault of the editor, more fault of the compiler (me). I would also like to see Avidemux take advantage of multi-core systems during render time just to speed up the process.
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