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It's always great to have the latest and greatest gadget. That new netbook is so small and everyone else has it. The Droid does so many cool things, even SSH. I deserve to have all of this cool stuff.

I'm getting rather annoyed with is attitude. Sure, I really want a Droid. They are really amazing. My fiancée no doubt gets tired of hearing me talk about things I'd like to have. However, I would only 'like' to have these. I'm not one to go on and say I 'need' or 'deserve' them. When I talk about them, I'm describing what I would probably do with unlimited money.

This is probably an odd concept. Maybe I'm alone. I really hope not.

I've found that online it seems many people announce themselves as Agnostic or Athiest. I used to be in that group. After meeting my girlfirend (soon to be wife) over four years ago, I started to attend church. Although I had very little religion in me, I chose to attend with an open mind.

With my mind open, I learned a great many things that opened my mind even further. Most noteably, I learned how to better manage my life. I also learned how those management techniques can help me get better with technology.

So are lawyers the worst thing in the world? Do they really not stick their hands in their own pockets until it's 40 below freezing? I've heard a lot of bad about lawyers and that's all I've had to go on for the longest time. I'm really not so convinced anymore.

Every six months these articles become popular. I've been using Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) for a few months now and I thought I'd share what I thought.

For most users

Step 1:
Install Ubuntu 10.10

Step 2:
Install the little extras you might want, such as Thunderbird, Galeon, etc.

Step 3:
Enjoy!

For cli users

Step 3:

apt-get install aptitude
aptitude purge vim-tiny
aptitude install vim

Step 4:
Enjoy!

For psychotic users like me

Step 1:
Grab Alternate CD

We tech geeks start early. I programmed my first VCR at five years old. Many of my buddies dang near wrote their first C program before leaving the womb. I just referred to people I've never met as buddies.

I'm one of the tech types that never really spent much time socializing. My parents divorced when I was about 10 if I can recall correctly. What did this do to me? I could lie and say not much.

Do you ever use F1 to bring up help pages in Firefox? Do you find this feature useful? Do you like rhetorical questions?

Personally, I've never found this F1 function useful or helpful. The times I wanted some help from it I wasn't able to get the help I needed. So then this becomes a pointless feature. I bumped it some so I kinda of got irritated.

Here's what I did to make it useful:
Open a tab
Go to about:config
Search for app.support.baseURL
Right click
Modify
http://profarius.com/?

Most anyone reading this already knows me. My name is Michael Lustfield. I'm running the servers of a starting web development company called Kalliki Software. We've been in business for a little while now. When we started we had an Apache Web server with less than one half a gigabyte of RAM. After three websites we were feeling the burn. The Apache web server was taking us down. We didn't have the resources to grow out. We needed to grow up. I turned to the two leaders, Nginx and Lighttpd. After investigating each I easily settled on Nginx.

"Jack of all trades, master of none" is a figure of speech used in reference to a generalist: a person that is competent with many skills but is not outstanding in any particular one. (Wikipedia)

Lately I've been cumulating a very large list of things I need to do. It's been getting harder and harder to keep track of what I need to do. If I make a nice simple text file and a command to open up vim with my notes then I wind up adding notes but never checking them. That helps but it's not enough. There's a lot of really heavy note taking options out there. You could make your home page go to Google Notebook. That's definitely not light weight.

What is Et cetera?...

Merriam-Webster:
Main Entry: et·cet·era
Pronunciation: \et-ˈse-tə-rə, -ˈse-trə also it-, ÷ek-, ÷ik-\
Function: noun
Date: 1597

1 : a number of unspecified additional persons or things
2 plural : unspecified additional items : odds and ends

Let's think about that. /etc/ is full of random junk. It's pretty much the configuration for your whole system. Where do you configure defaults for the xxxx app? Did you check in /etc/? It's probably there.