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…what has happened to a server that keeps falling over. 2 Million (a number I just pulled out of my hat) geeks are descending on your server.

I’ve been playing around with a CrossOver Office trial from CodeWeavers. It’s awesome…absolutely awesome. It installs and runs "supported apps" quite well. Some non-supported apps run great too. Noteably (no pun intended), NoteWorthy Composer runs very well. CXOffice even adds items to the KDE menu and desktop! Of course, when I installed MS Publisher, it added an IE “shortcut” to my desktop :S.

Apps that I’ve tried so far include:
* Internet Explorer 6 (Installer worked great, app works great–as well as IE can work, anyway)
* Microsoft Publisher (Installed fine, runs slow and is pretty buggy)
* Dreamweaver MX (Installed great using the install routine that CX Office provides. Runs good, kind of slow with major holes)
* NoteWorthy Composer (Installed Great, Runs great!)
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Also, I’ve been hacking out the design of the Icewater website. Tell me what you think.
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Also, check out these pages with cool pictures on them:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/photos/photos.htm
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~ph76a/snopix2/snopix.htm

Yay! Macromedia released Flash 7 for Linux. It’s suspossed to be faster with a few new features. You can download it from http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash.

Installation was pretty easy. I couldn’t get it to install for Mozilla…I don’t know why. I have three mozilla-* directories in my /usr/lib folder, so that could of been the issue. I specified /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox and it installed and ran fine. Then I told Konqueror (my default/favorite browser) to look in the /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox directory for plugins, and scanned. Flash 7 showed up! If you want to test your new Flash capibility, then try http://www.foxone.fr/intro.swf (Slashdotted probably…)

Also, this comment on Slashdot really caught my eye: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=109149&cid=9275274

Anyways, enjoy!

Total Transfer remaining this month: 32MB.

Sheesh, I wasn’t even Slashdotted…instead I mirrored KDE 3.2.2 for 10 days.
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I’ve been working on Icepack lately and have an implementation of dependency resolution plan on a piece of paper. Maybe I’ll get enough time to implement it this week. Hell’s Half Acer (The lettuce disease nursery at GTF)needed weeded, so I’ve been hoeing 4800 little lettuce plants and celery.

Anyways, maybe I’ll be able to work on Icewater and maybe even get it’s webpage up. Have a good Memorial Day, everyone.

Wow…a lot’s gone on this weekend. As I said in my last post, we went to a fiddle contest. Had a good time. Lots of great fiddling! My brother and I competed in the twin devision and placed 5^th out of 10 places. The next day I competed in the junior division…placed 9^th of 10^th (sheesh…I know…). Many thanks to my guitar backups, David Hargraves, Dan Emmert, and Rod Anderson!

Today, we had the WCO orchestra concert…it went pretty well. But then our card broke down…stupid cooling fan burned up. Oh well. At least it didn’t break on Hwy 99.

Anyways, I’ve had fun this weekend :).

Bye! I’m off the the Oregon Old Time Fiddling Contest. I’ll be playing in the twin and junior divisions. See you Sunday!

Anyway, you might want to check out this page:
http://www.hometownmotocross.com/pages/asinine_laws__all_locations.htm

Heck, won’t I ever stop posting depressing stories? Maybe, but in the mean time more depressing news came up.
The feds want Bev Harris, ownder of BlackBoxVoting.org to pony up her access logs that tell who visited her site. Looks like they’ll get their way too. The logs probably weren’t even redirected to /dev/null, sheesh :(.

Gosh, I’m probably on the list *now*.
If you care, you can read about it in the Seattle Times.

Well, it happened.
Shame, shame on them. How long before we see the first patent on a button or scrollbox? What will happen to SuSE and all the other European Linux distros?

There is of course a /. article.

The family of Professor Edward Kasner is sueing Google over their name. Kasner first used the word Googol in his book Mathematics and the Imagination to describe a very large number. A Googol, by the was is a 10 raised to the 100^th power.

It does appear that Google is a play on Googol. But you can trademark an amount?

…is what Alexis de Tocqueville Institute says. This is the same person who crafted the report proving that terrorism works better with Open Source software and that all the US’s IT troubles are because of open source.

Never mind the fact that these studies were funded by Microsoft.

A quote:

“It is clear that people’s exceptional interest in the Unix operating system made Unix one of the most licensed, imitated, and stolen products in the history of computer science. Over the years, many have envied the startling and pervasive success of Unix. For almost thirty years, programmers have tried and failed to successfully build a Unix-like system and couldn’t. To this day, we have a serious attribution problem in software development because people have chosen to scrupulously borrow or imitate Unix.”
–Kenneth Brown

Nuhuh.