The Life and Death of Mr. Badmouth

While Delhi was under attack last night — oh I dunno who it was. Mush, Bush or the Bajrangis? — it gave me a serious headache. Adding to that, with all those things exploding all over the place I’d become partly deaf. It’s times like these that I think why on earth did I not invest on an underground bunker ever.

So, after the warring sides called for truce, possibly in the really early morning hours, I thought of finally sitting back and chilling now. However, what I just heard was the following…

No kind words are coming out of your mouth
Plenty goes in but nothing good comes out
Badmouth, sad mouth, you were an unhappy child
That doesn’t make your lying tongue alright

Wash it out, wash it out, wash it out

Is that really funny or am I just silly? Who the hell is PJ Harvey anyway? OK I’ll leave ya with that. Adios!!

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Stop Whispering

Jess said Robin’s puter is messed up again. So posting pics of the Waters concert will take some time. hmm… Meanwhile, if you’re a sucker for pictures, found the following at Miguel Carrasco’s Real World…

Well, nothin on my puter is from Microsoft. yay! lol!! Anyway, I’m not really that smart to discover cool blogs. Thanks to Puthali for putting the above in the Google Notebook share. Adios!!

P.S. –> And here you can read geek chick Puthali talk about NAM 3.0, whatever that is.

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The moment of clarity…

Robin’s gonna be at the Roger Waters concert starting 8pm Pacific time (Oct. 12). Lucky bum!! She has promised me some cool snaps if she can sneek in with a camera, so ya’ll can expect some of the stuff here as well. Adios!!

Oh Me, Oh My!

Came across this thingy that said: Torvalds takes bite of Mac mini. After it was all over some fella said the followin’…

Just a reminder: this is the same guy who said the iPod was never going to take off; that Apple was switching to Intel because they wanted to get out of the OS business and just use Windows; and he comes out nearly every other year to announce that ‘this year will see the death of Apple for sure’.
Honestly, how could someone be that biased against a computer manufacturer! I could swear he just bought Apple computers to somehow legitimize his constant cacophony of insults and nay-saying towards Apple.
He needs to just stop talking about Apple, it would really help him look less insane.

Interestingly, the comment was headlined: Who cares what Torvalds says! lol!! It’s funny. However, I didn’t know that Linus dude predicts so much about Apple’s future than anything else. Gosh! Some people have all the time in the world.Anyway, I wish the commenter wasn’t this humble and left a few references so that I could read Linus trashing Apple.

Meanwhile, while I’m in this Internet cafe thingy using a Windows computer I keep seeing these neato tricks all over the place. Like this one, a pop up from the taskbar, is very interesting as it says: Security Alert: NetWorm-i.Virus@fp. Pretty neat eh? Windows is so smart that nowadays it knows how to warn ya when it detects viruses and stuff. I bet Billy’s next move will be to have a tool that removes the virus auto.

Besides that I see every now and then a Norton AntiVirus pop-up in the center of the screen blocking my view of the naked chick I’m staring at. Generally, I’d be pissed if someone blocks my view when I’m busy lookin at naked chicks, but this one from Norton, as I see it, was important. I mean it did quash a virus, so it needs to report to me. Oh but Norton takes it a step further. When I click “OK”, it still pops up to report me the exact same thingy. Now, this is what I call good PR.

Man these are all such nifty features, why cant I have em in me box? Life sucks big time!! I really should get me the latest and the greatest from Intel and stick at least 2 GB of RAM along with it. Then get a GPU with another 512MB ram for itself and finally get me that Microsoft Vista thingy. They claim it’s even better.

On a not-so-related news, while flipping thru the channels last evening I saw Bush talk. He still hasn’t lost it, seriously. We love ya Bushy cuz your speeches always rock! Adios!!

I Can’t Quit You Baby…

Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk.

Ok axe that milk part from there. But isn’t it cool how I can put in two songs by two bands from different era and make some sense outta it? Hell yuh… I’m pretty neat at this stuff. And what’s up with Sufjan Stevens? What kinda name is that? Oh well, people can be really funny sometimes.

So, the other day I was like walking down the road and I see this kid with an axe trying to act like really smart. So I ask him if he has some change for 10 bucks and he raises his eyebrow like I’m a loonatic of some sort. So what I do is wack him real hard on the face and move on.

Anyway, the above was just A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But for Very Good Reasons. Adios!!

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And when your hand is on your heart…

So it begins! ‘Twas released on Tuesday and I had fired KTorrent to go grab it. The problem: too many leachers and too few seeders, thus resulting in an awfully slow d/l speed. Then over at Beranger’s I notice that FTP sites are already available for d/l. So today, located a Taiwan mirror to grab me my bite. Hopefully will install it in a couple of days to let you know of how it fairs. Meanwhile, you can read Beranger’s take here and here.

On related news, just noticed over at Umma’s that Gabriel Kelley of Gabriel Young fame has finally put up his Web site, and u can listen to some of his new stuff over there. In fact as soon as the home page loads it starts streaming stuff. Pretty good stuff indeed, tho a bit different than the Gabriel Young that I’m used to. You can also listen to the stuff over at Umma’s Radio Blog thingy here. Besides I’d recommend you go click that last linky cuz in the way u’ll end up noticing how I’m actually really famous and have me name showing up all over the Internet. OK, so on just this site. Damn! OK, just this weblog entry. Nonetheless I’m at least a bit more famous than u thought I actually am, eh? Adios!!

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Over, Under, Sideways, Down…

Debs has been a firmware writer for a while now, however, she’s specializing in device drivers for embeded stuff. Had an interesting discussion Sunday evening, which kinda left both of us more confused. Apparently, she’s still using the kernel 2.4.x series to write stuff, and I was insisting how 2.4.x is not that widely used now. I may be wrong tho, cuz I know zilch about embeded devices. The stuff that left us both confused was when I pointed that the API in the 2.6.x series is not stable, and sometimes has been reported to break backward compatibility.

She said API doesn’t matter or somethin like that. (I don’t wanna misquote her cuz I only have a vague idea of what an API’s function is and the specific area where she’s workin.) She also tried to explain me the difference between the 2.4.x and 2.6.x series of kernels on how functions or instructions are called and executed. Well, I’m no geek, but I can say this confidently that I understood absolutely nothin. Bal and Suchos, who’re both computer science students and later switched to pursue MBAs and were getting pretty irritated with the discussion, also pitched in with some basic stuff that seemed pretty advanced to me none the less. Anyhow, since the other two were really not interested in the discussion, we thought of just letting it go. But hey it’s fun to talk to geeks man, cuz most of the time u don’t really know what they are explaining. lol!! OK but I’m serious.

Anyway, y’day being a Monday, was reading the DWW and Ladislav mentioned how two Mandriva developers have criticized (one, two) the kernel developers and derived how “Linux” will never be ready for the desktop. Interesting thing they’ve noted and again pointed to the same thing how the kernel API needs to be stable so that third-party hardware vendors can write drivers which work alright even after a kernel upgrade. So I’m back to square one: Hello kernel API!! Now the real problem arises from the fact that I’m not a technical person by any means, Debs on the other hand is an electronics major who’s just recently starting to take a hard look at Linux. (Please note that when I mention Linux, I mean only the kernel, otherwise I’ll say GNU/Linux.) So, anyone who can chip in with some info in lay-man terms will be very helpful.

Meanwhile, certain kernel developers like Greg KH need to get over their ego and pull their acts together so that they can offer a stable API, which others have been asking for a while now. Certainly the Mandriva developers made some sense, too bad that most of the DistroWatch readers and the site itself bashed the company over nothing w/o trying to give it a thought. Was the first one way off mark when he said: “…Now if those kernel-developing idiots would get their act together and give us a 2.6 kernel that was a) stable and b) supported for more than a week, then I’d really be pleased”? I don’t think so.

The two blog entries were constructive criticism. Besides other high-profile kernel developers like Alan Cox and Andrew Morton have also wanted an API that is stable and doesn’t break stuff. Over to Beranger’s if u want the quotes and sources from a while back… Adios!!

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