http://www.salaud.net/blog salaud speaks Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:42:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The juice of love’s fruit is sweet but it is of such quantity as the skin and meat which contains it allows and only then as much as the Earth has seen fit to package ... http://www.salaud.net/blog/?p=60 In response to this article on a "terror" group caught in NC. TERROR GROUP Geez, I'm quaking in my boots with fear, aren't you?.... come on ... "Prosecutors said the arrests show that the threat of terrorism is still very real." Give me a break... weekend warriors who were taken without ... http://www.salaud.net/blog/?p=59 1. The apprentice asked his master, how do we exit this awful existence? Master said: You must click start to shutdown. http://www.salaud.net/blog/?p=57 I have VMWare Server 2.0 running on an Ubuntu Intrepid host with a Windows 2003 Server guest OS. The network speed, evidenced by SAMBA/SMB connections, was a crawl compared with other XP guests. I scratched my head for a long time. THE SOLUTION: Change the ... http://www.salaud.net/blog/?p=56 In life it is far better to have been a hammer or saw than a nail or board http://www.salaud.net/blog/?p=55 So I have been taking quite a bit of time I do not have to figure out how to create a Table of Authorities for a legal brief I have to write in Pages (OS X, iWork, Mac). Short answer is: You can't do it. You can ... http://www.salaud.net/blog/?p=54 In response to an article over here -------------------- I can't speak to the hacker news consumption side, except for my early temporary watching of slashdot, which I compare to my early experiences with micro-brews. I have moved on generally. I can speak to the indymedia / news production ... http://www.salaud.net/blog/?p=52 So... in what one can only think is the shaming of the whOregonian newspaper into running a full-page photo and headline about the "opposing" story about a car giving a bicyclist a hard time, the headline is now "Driver chases Cyclist"... again... forget several times in the last 12 months ... http://www.salaud.net/blog/?p=51 In response to this article on the "death" of indymedia: A few of the smaller sites have definitely become less well maintained or gone "dark". But, some of these sites were never well maintained to start with. The bulk of the network (which is freakin' huge) is still going ... http://www.salaud.net/blog/?p=50 When is a hatchet a blunt instrument? Imagine this, if you can: Andre the Giant, Lou Ferrigno, Arnold Schwarzenegger, or more probably one of their incredible fantasy movie characters lifting a 20lb bike over their head and clubbing a poor schmuck repeatedly. Hard to believe..... but, at ... http://www.salaud.net/blog/?p=49