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- no more cable tv for me. Saving $53/month!
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- I just got 2 achievements on Spore! http://raptr.com/djotaku
- just started playing Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. http://raptr.com/djotaku
- just started playing Spore. http://raptr.com/djotaku
- just started playing Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. http://raptr.com/djotaku
- Awesome concession speech by McCain, I actually felt really sorry for him
- obama won!
- Partaking in the age-old tradition of following the election all night long.
- just started playing Solitaire. http://raptr.com/djotaku
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Oct
25
Fedora Core 6 update
Category: Fedora | 
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I’m almost ready to do my first review of FC6. However, I’m still working on getting all the neat AIGLX effects working. After all, that was almost the whole point of upgrading. So far I’ve installed the Compiz package, which gave the the System -> Preferences -> Desktop Effects menu. That didn’t work, so I hit the IRC servers. I was told the latest livna nvidia driver doesn’t support it, but the version in the testing repo should support it. So I’m going to be trying that soon. I also had to add Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “True” to my xorg.conf. I haven’t setup the dual head again yet, but that should be a snap in comparison.
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Oct
25
it is FAST! OMG is it fast! They weren’t lying about the optimizations with the latest GCC! It loads into Gnome so much faster than it used to and all the programs launch much faster as well!
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Oct
25
I now have Fedora Core 6 installed
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The new version of Fedora is installed. So far, only the X server didn’t work right. It didn’t feel like supporting my dual head setup, so I’ll have to investigate that over the next few days. Other than that, it appears to have installed just fine. By the way, it didn’t take until now to be finished. It finished around 11 last night, but I didn’t want to reboot because I didn’t want to deal with any debugging until today.
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Oct
25
BitTorrent’s Legality begins to be recognized!
Category: Internet, Linux, MPAA, Technology | Leave a Comment
BitTorrent - up until now, mentioning legal uses of the program was likely to garner snickers from your audience. Afterall, it’s just for downloading music and software illegally, isn’t it? Actually, for the past few years, it’s been the way that most people download their completely legal copies of Linux operating systems. In fact, for Linux distribution companies it has been a HUGE load off of their ISO servers to allow people to be able to use BitTorrent to download their software.
However, companies like the MPAA obviously via Linux with disdain at best. (Otherwise they’d release legitimate copies of DVD-playback software, among other things) So they failed to appreciate the above arguement for BitTorrent’s legality. However, as this article points out, they are finally starting to see the light! Hollywood studios are beginning to get the clue that if they want to do online videos, they should embrace the technology that the “kids” are using. (Witness Fox buying myspace.com) It also will give them huge bandwidth help. I’m glad to see them seeing the light before they pushed ISPs or, even worse, the government to put out some stupid legislation that would kill the medium for people like me who use it legally for Linux.
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