Yum Yum Yuck!

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=142170

Problems with Fedora Core 6 -- "Another application is running which is accessing software information." -- when trying to do anything remotely package related -- and here's the fix from the above site!

su
password
killall -9 yum-updatesd
exit
pirut

Terminal Server on Linux -- wow!!!

This one will save you a buck or two -- forget the stupid phone dialing crap --

The XRDP Project is here to save the day for all of us crazy kids without access to the VNC-ness of the universe but that DOES have access to a RDP client. And at this point, just about everyone and everything has an RDP client. This is pretty significant -- between this and WINE -- you could really do some damage with enough ram under the hood.

Here's a copy of my comments from sourceforge:
Thanks for starting this project -- this is really huge stuff, and it can only get better! Tried this first on a Ubuntu 6.10 installatoin, but like some other users reported, the Xvnc connection on Ubuntu was a bit too shaky.

Figured that everyone's plain Jane vanilla Fedora would run this just fine, therefore, and sure enough it does!

Here are some notes that I took for anyone else who may have issues in the future, about as detailed as I can make it.

I installed Fedora Core 6 (i386) straight on through, and at the software selection point I picked "Office and Productivity" and "Software Development". As it went on through the install, I disabled the firewall (just to test it) and I set the SELinux to "permissive" (again, just to test it). The install proceeded just as normal, and it shuffled me off to the gnome desktop.

Downloaded the xrdp source, un-tar'ed it, and, just as the installation instructions said, to a folder underneath my home directory. Going to Applicaitons-->Accessories-->Terminal, it opened up a command prompt.

cd xrdp-0.3.2
make
su

make install
exit

Because I was using gnome, it required a quick change to the startwm.sh file. Again, opening up a terminal:

su

cd /usr/local/xrdp/
nano startwm.sh

I commented (using # at the start of the line, naturally) anything related to the KDE install. I also uncommented (deleting the # at the start of the line) the 4 lines underneath #gnome to allow all of the gnome-specific information to be accessed.

Then, to get out of nano, Ctrl+X, and Yes to save.

To get XRDP started, then, while still at that command prompt:

./xrdpstart.sh

Hope this is helpful to someone -- and thanks so much for this project!!!

Hilarious Christmas song!

Hehehe --- Billy West's Christmas in Kenmore Square

Castlevania: Proletariat of Ruin

This time, the Belmont descendent has to team up with Dracula to stop the angry mob of villagers queuing up for the pre-orders.

Couldn't pass up my own Sophmoric humour here

Hehehe, love that BBC:

Sophmoric Humor and other Observations

So we're busily learning about "Edge" organizations and how the yellow buses should be fitted with GPS trackers so that bus companies can interact directly with the parents and take that responsibility away from the school districts, and all of a sudden we need to get another "chalkboard." So the professor lifts up that section, and lo and behold, we once again realize that sophmoric humor is still pretty funny for the undergrad sophmores. It read:

"Don't Be A Loner, Get A Boner"

The whole class chuckled at the absurdity of it, and our professor quickly got rid of the offending remark -- still, it only serves as a reminder that going to grad school brings back those college days.

And another interesting piece from the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/europe/6205744.stm

Apparently, this Swedish town makes this huge straw goat and every year someone goes and torches the thing, one apparently not even making it through it's first night in the wild.

"No-one is going to get our goat this year," says a local spokeswoman with confidence.

You know, it must be a lot of work to make this huge goat of straw, and I feel really bad for the people that make the thing -- they put a lot of hard work into it and then some young punk kids up and burn the thing -- that sucks, man, royally -- although a flaming arrow a la Men In Tights would be humorous... "Every time they make a Robin Hood film they burn our village!"