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	Phil's Blogservations Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Posted by philgomes 9:00 AM What I'm Working On What I'm Working On I have another installment of that "Edelman: Year One" series in the works. Things got busy all of a sudden, so I've been pecking out said installment a little bit each evening. You've probably also seen my experiments with Kubuntu Linux. What can I say? Some people build ships in bottles. Some work on old cars in their garages. I screw around with alternative operating systems. I must say, I've been very impressed with Kubuntu. What I've been tinkering with most these days is helping to craft Edelman's own take on the social media press release meme that Tom Foremski started and Todd Defren has pursued with aplomb. Getting there... In one of my year-one installments, I mentioned my work on a distance-learning system. This has been continuing, though the pace of innovation these days challenges one's ability to separate the wheat from the chaff. As cool and relevant as some new search tool or memefriending site might be, for example, (and as much as I want to share it), is it necessarily something I want to put in front of 2,000 Edelfolks? Then again, am I screwing up by not getting it out there fast enough? "There are a lot of interesting problems out there," SRI's Curt Carlson once told me. "We have to concentrate on the important ones." (Written on a plane while listening to selections from A Band Called Pain's demo, Sepultura's Under A Pale Grey Sky, Lacuna Coil's Karmacode, and Black Label Society's Hangover Music among others.) Update: Link corrected. Technorati Tags: edelman, public relations, pr Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Posted by philgomes 7:40 PM In My IM In My IM I'm a hit with the physics majors... [17:32] pgomes: two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar [17:32] pgomes: one says "I've lost my electron." [17:32] pgomes: the other says "Are you sure?" [17:32] pgomes: The first one says, "I'm positive." [17:32] pgomes: HAHAHAHAHAHHA [17:32] pgomes: i kill me [17:32] Colleague: OMG [17:32] Colleague: Are you drunk? [17:32] pgomes: no [17:32] Colleague: Too bad -- if you were you'd have a good excuse for that joke. Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Posted by philgomes 11:09 PM Dear Author(s) Of Automatix Dear Author(s) Of Automatix My Kubuntu box went from fun toy to dream machine in under a half-hour thanks to you guys. Thanks to Tim Tuck for the tip. Technorati Tags: linux, kubuntu, ubuntu, automatix Sunday, September 10, 2006 Posted by philgomes 11:29 PM Bill Lockyer's Heirarchy Of Stupidity Bill Lockyer's Heirarchy Of Stupidity There's definitely a lot to hate about the tactics that HP's Patricia Dunn apparently condoned in her efforts to ferret out leaks in her boardroom. But there's a lot to like in terms of state attorney general Bill Lockyer's response. I've been entertaining myself with what I've come to call Lockyer's "Heirarchy of Stupidity." Based on these excerpts, pulled courtesy of GMSV, we have: "Collossally stupid" "Felony stupid" And, later: "Stupid Cubed" My questions: Is "Stupid Cubed" less severe than "Felony Stupid" or more so? How many levels are there between "Stupid" and "Colossally Stupid?" Technorati Tags: hp, patricia dunn, gmsv Tuesday, September 05, 2006 Posted by philgomes 11:50 PM Screw Your Productivity Screw Your Productivity All your bandwidth are belong to this. Posted by philgomes 10:12 PM Installed Kubuntu Linux 6.06 Installed Kubuntu 6.06 On my way back from my annual fishing trip in the mountains, I made good on a promise that I made to my buddy Tim Tuck for about as long as I've been in LA — that I'd buy a computer from him. I picked it up — a Shuttle PC dream machine with a cinematic 16:10 monitor — and it was made-to-order: half the hard drive had Ubuntu Linux and the other half booted to Windows XP. After about a month of experimentation, I replaced the Ubuntu partition with its cousin Kubuntu. Why? A newfound preference for the KDE desktop over GNOME. One item continued to vex me, though... Kubuntu didn't seem to want to take full advantage of the cinematic aspect ratio. Objects on the screen that I knew to be square got "stretched." It's tough to "RTFM" when the "M" is potentially millions of pages. However, a Google search pointed me to a clever hack that someone once applied to a Dell laptop. Here are the initial results: This is my fifth Linux distribution, after having messed with Mandrake (now Mandriva), Red Hat, Slackware, and Ubuntu. Clearly, this will be an ongoing experiment. I'll put more and more findings up here over time. 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