A Man and his Penguin

Here’s just a quick update.

I went over to the person’s house and set up her computer. It’s got a Pentium D with 2 gigabytes of RAM, so it runs Vista quite well. Once you turn off all the warnings.

I tried to find where to set a 15-minute timeout for UAC, like Sudo, but I honestly could not find where to do it. Some of the help files described options that weren’t there either, and the control panels referred to buttons that were actually just items in popup menus.

A bit of a jumble, but I got through it. Vista does feel odd to me, but then I guess XP does too.

My protest against the Beijing Olympics continues, and I’m successfully not standing around watching it when things are slow at work. Apparantly, the girl at the opening ceremony who sang the song was just doing a Milli Vanilli - the real singer was apparantly deemed too ugly to appear. Bloody commies. I also heard that *all* the judges for the shooting were Chinese, and awarded hits to the Chinese shooter when he was actually missing.

I bought a Big Mac today and discovered that it came with a free Coca Cola glass. I thought this was pretty wicked… until I got it home and found the Beijing Olympics logo on the other side of it. I’ll still keep it.

My workmate asked me if a particular Pinnacle TV tuner works with Linux, so I did some research and found that it does. Even the remote can be made to work the way it should… or you can pull pranks on someone by reassigning the buttons to different actions like "play fart.wav" or "firefox http://goatse.cz". My workmate put in an order and the stock should be arriving soon. I decided to get one as well, so I’ve got an excuse to install MythTV.

Guitar Hero? I finished it on Medium, and since then I haven’t touched it. I really need games that are not shallow and cannot be completed within 6 hours. Unfortunately, few Wii games seem to have the same depth as something like Bully. I’ve seen Zelda Twighlight Princess second-hand at my local EB Games and I guess I should get it some time. Not to run Linux or homebrew on my Wii, I swear - just so I can play a game that I won’t complete in two days.

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