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If you haven’t seen Strong Bad’s newest email Virus go check it out. It is the best email in a while.
“Did the quadratic formula explode? I see a ‘Strong Ba’ in there, but it’s getting eaten… by some Linux or something”
All of the goodness of StrongBad in one email.

So I went and changed to WordPress as a backend for my journal because Blosxom was to annoying. It made it impossibily hard to edit posts since everything was based on the timestamp of the file.
I learned I don’t care about having plain text files as much as I thought I would.
Either way I still [...]

I didn’t attend any Penguicon functions today because we needed to leave to get back to Tech at a decent time. We ate a really big breakfast and then hit the road 9.5 hours later arriving in Houghton. The weekend was a blast my fellow LUGers were awesome and I can’t wait to do it [...]

Day 2 started out really early, we arrived at about 10 to the con. I sat in on a Samba session by Chris Hertel. It was very intersting and gave me a better background into Samba and where it is going. I then got in on about half of a panel on the “Gender of [...]

Today was awesome. Went to the con around 12. They were still in setup mode so we wasted time by going to Best Buy and went and watched a flick.
Around 4 the fun started. I went to two different sessions and then went and listened to Neil Gaiman read a short story. Even though he [...]

So the MTU LUG got their act together and two car fulls of Techie LUGers are going down to Penguicon this coming weekend. We are leaving tomorrow(Thursday) at 12. I am really really looking forward to the weekend. The con is a mix of Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Linux people so not only will there be many [...]

So SCO has been in the news recently with their fight against IBM and Linux users. Check out http://sco.iwethey.org/ for a good summary of the lawsuit.
And linking there won’t hurt to get the page higher on google.

For the same reasons, Linux is worth trying. It is a strange country indeed,
but you don’t have to live there; a brief sojourn suffices to give some
flavor of the place and–more importantly–to lay bare everything that is
taken for granted, and all that could have been done differently, under
Windows or MacOS.
– Neal Stephenson “In the Beginning [...]

Check out Switch Linux nice flash animation. So I guess if this holds true all use linux users have higher motives then just living. Also check out Menuet OS graphical OS that can fit on a floppy. And if you want some laughs and serious thinking check out Deep Thoughts

In linux it is really easy to do MAC address spoofing. All you need is the trust command line tool ifconfig.
Enter the command as follows:
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:AA:AA:AA:AA
Change eth0 to your card name and “00:00:AA:AA:AA:AA” to the address you want to spoof.
Before issuing the command you need to take down the card by issuing [...]