Me ves pirao por Roosevelt avenue
Con mi tabaco y mi baston
Siempre me escondo cuando viene imigracion
Soy un emigrante ilegal en New York
I’m an alien, I’m an illegal alien
Emigrante ilegal en New York
I’m an alien, I’m an illegal alien
Emigrante ilegal en New York

Algunos cruzan el borde en avion
Otros en burro o en camion
Y los coyotes hacen dinero por monton
Be yourself, no importa what they say
I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien
Emigrante ilegal en New York
I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien
Emigrante ilegal en New York

Suenan las sirenas
Nos patearon la puerta
Abusan del emigrante sin razon
No salio en la prensa
Pero si salio en el callejon
De noche las velas brillan mas que el sol

No eres mas macho por usar un uniform
O en la cintura un pistolon
Enfrenta a tu enemigo
Pero evadelo when you can
Caballero camina, pero never run
Si los modales hacen al hombre
Entonces es el heroe of the day
Y como un hombre sufrir la ignorancia y reir
Be yourself que no importa what they say
I’m an alien, I’m an illegal alien
Emigrante ilegal en New York
I’m an alien, I’m an illegal alien
Emigrante ilegal en New York

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In case you might have been wondering why the posts have been lacking a bit of substance, it’s because I’ve been in England for the past month. I’ve been very busy (it was a business trip) and also did a lot of exploring for pictures.

I learned around the time I was in middle school that it takes 21 days to form new habits. I had been gone for nearly 30, so everything at home seems strange now. When I went to take a shower last night, it seemed as if Niagra Falls was coming out of my shower head. The water pressure was so much greater than the pressure in England, that I just couldn’t comprehend it. I was extremely happy to be home, but home was slightly foreign to me. Even being on my computer now is a little weird. It’s different than my laptop, and being on my Windows computer is even stranger.

I had always wanted to travel on an extended business trip in order to see the world. I’m not so fond of that anymore. It was actually quite miserable to be away from home without my wife. Well, I’ll probably be writing about some of the good times I had over there after I get some of my pictures uploaded to flickr so that I can have an illustrated story.

See you then.

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Fedora Core 5 is out. I’ll probably download and install it on my main computer over the next few days.

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I saw something today that disgusted me. It’s relatively old news, but it’s the first time I’d actually seen the story on tv. It seems there are some Christians who have made it a point to undermine Christianity at all costs. What makes it even worse is that these guys are a bunch of Baptists, which is what I was raised as. The churches my parents went to were never so ridiculous. What I’m speaking about is the group who is protesting at soldier’s funerals. This made me so sick and outraged! They claim that 11 Sept 2001 was punishment because America is tolerant to gays. They also believe that the soldiers have done evil because they are fighting for an evil administration.

Despite the disrespect to these brave soldiers who are putting their lives on their line and widowing their families, the idea of protesting at someone’s funeral is so outrageous. Apparently these supposed holier-than-thous haven’t read the new testament where Jesus says that God puts rulers in charge of countries. That means that God wanted Bush to be president, so if you are going to be a radical Christian, be radical all the way, not just with select passages.

Sure, we have adapted a policy in the religious world of dissent against wars that were waged for arbitrary reasons, however, we are still supposed to obey our leaders. Read the Bible for once instead of being on the news and making people think, once again, “It’s those kooky Christians.”

Long-time readers of this blog and its predecessor will know that I am firmly against this war. Afghanistan was iffy, but we had to go after the Taliban, so I was generally for that one. I don’t really like the idea of preemtive wars, so Iraq just didn’t seem like a just war to me. HOWEVER, I have always supported our men and women in uniform. Most of them are just kids - even younger than I am! And we are asking them to go to a type of war we’ve never fought before (other than Vietnam). Iraq doesn’t want us there and they the opposition just cowardly blows people up instead of fighting head-on. Sure, it’s the smart thing to do if your army is crap compared to the US, but it still is a pretty shady thing to do. (Whatever, there are no rules in war and I’m digressing) Anyway, we owe these kids and their families our respect, and their funerals should NOT be used as a way to protest.

Luckily there are 16 000 motorcyclists who are mostly war vetarans who have decided to work hard to help these families out. They go to soldiers funerals and block out the protestors with large American flags. Way to go guys! As a quick aside, despite their hard image, I’ve found bikers on the average to be a very sympathetic group. When I worked at CB Smith thousands of bikers used to come every year with toys for tots and drive in with as many toys as they could on their motorcycles.

So if you don’t like the war or just don’t like gays, go protest at 1600 Penn Ave. Bush took us to war, not the soldiers. They have to fight whereever we decide to fight. Lobby and protest and write letters to Congress, but DO NOT abuse our soldiers. I think God will rebuke you quite strongly in the final days for pestering these innocent soldiers.

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I have come to see the most annoying thing in my known universe to be having to urinate as soon as I get out of the shower. It’s like dropping your clothes in the mud on the way back from the laundromat. This, for me, is second only to people chatting on their cell phones on busses and trains. I have no problem with people talking on their cell phones in these places. Perhaps they need to coordinate the night or let someone know that they are running late or running early. But chatting is quite annoying. It’s worse when all I hear is “really? wow” and other such utterances that let me know that I’m clearly listening to the wrong half of the conversation. I don’t think it would bother me at all if both halves of the conversation were there. If someone was going to talk loud enough for me to hear, I’d at least like to hear both sides.

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Wear green!

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I first read about Xen while still at Cornell. I think it may have been my Junior year. I don’t have the magazines with me at the moment, so I can’t verify. When I finished reading about the new technology in Linux Format Magazine, I racked my brain, but couldn’t find a reason to run it. I mean, I could see a reason to run it if you were running servers, but not at home. So why put it on Fedora, Debian, and all the other distros? The paradigm wasn’t there, so I couldn’t figure it out.

Then I began to use VMWare. Suddenly I was able to try out ReactOS, test version of Fedora, and other operating systems without messing up anything on my computer. Finally, I saw the importance of getting all kernels, even the Windows kernel, to recognize Xen. Using VNC and other technologies, a user could run as many operating systems as they want at the same time and change all of the auxilary ones without affecting their main OS or file system.

Here’s one great example I was thinking. Let’s say you’ve put the money out for a 64bit system with 8 GB of RAM. 99% of the time, when you aren’t doing video or photo editing, you won’t be using your system to the maximum. Now, let’s say you have a son or daughter who wishes to have their own computer. You could go out and spend the money on a new computer for them. Alternatively, you take an old computer you have lying around and set it up as a dumb terminal. On this computer you set up the ability to VNC into your awesome 64bit system. Then, using Xen, you create a virtual computer for your child.

Now, they have their own OS and if they mess it up with viruses or adware, it won’t mess up your computer. They get to access your computer’s awesome resources. Finally, you didn’t have to spend twice the money of that awesome computer and you both get to use it.

That’s just one of the ways Xen will be helpful for the family computer user. (Albeit, one with a technical person in the family capable of setting it up)

Another use, in brief, is running a virtual computer with windows so that you can always load that up when you need an exclusive MS program without having to reboot each time - wasting time and causing you to close out of all of your Linux (BSD, etc) programs.

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It’s March 14 or 3/14 or 3.14 so happy Pi Day

3.14159….

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