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posted by Oddball Kink at 4:52 PM
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Thursday, October 26, 2006
it is amazing how when elections come so do the terrorist threats.....
with congressional elections around three weeks away it is ironic that yet again, another terrorist threat emerges out of the media.
This time the chatter is revolvong around NFL games in several cities. This was reported on www.nfl.com and i am sure elsewhere. Even though the threat level indicator ( what a joke) has not risen it just seems conveniant that around election time the threats come out. The republicans are falling in the polls and have reached their lowest point in fourteen years, according to a NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll released last week suggests, meanwhile Reuters reports that "Forty-seven percent of respondents said they were less in favor of keeping the Republicans in congress".
Sounds like a good time to pull the good 'ol ace out of the sleeve and issue some kind of terrorist threat. With the war spiraling somewhere near out of control the repubs are reverting to a tactic they have successfully employed before. Wheather it is a media or government tactic is unclear in my opinion but what is clear is that someone is afraid of losing control. I may sound like i am out of my mind but why do these threats always appear around election time. Is it merely by chance or is it deliberate. My money is on deliberate. The last threat level change and talk of potential attacks was around election time, everything else was captures and terror cell dissections and thwarting plans of terror. Another story that ran kind of under the radar was a story by a news outlet that Hezbolla had penetrated the american border through Mexico. So it is not just the "chatter" of Football terrorism but now stories on terrorist are infiltrating our borders. These are great scare tactics and i bet they influence the vote more than any ad a congressmen could run.
This time the chatter is revolvong around NFL games in several cities. This was reported on www.nfl.com and i am sure elsewhere. Even though the threat level indicator ( what a joke) has not risen it just seems conveniant that around election time the threats come out. The republicans are falling in the polls and have reached their lowest point in fourteen years, according to a NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll released last week suggests, meanwhile Reuters reports that "Forty-seven percent of respondents said they were less in favor of keeping the Republicans in congress".
Sounds like a good time to pull the good 'ol ace out of the sleeve and issue some kind of terrorist threat. With the war spiraling somewhere near out of control the repubs are reverting to a tactic they have successfully employed before. Wheather it is a media or government tactic is unclear in my opinion but what is clear is that someone is afraid of losing control. I may sound like i am out of my mind but why do these threats always appear around election time. Is it merely by chance or is it deliberate. My money is on deliberate. The last threat level change and talk of potential attacks was around election time, everything else was captures and terror cell dissections and thwarting plans of terror. Another story that ran kind of under the radar was a story by a news outlet that Hezbolla had penetrated the american border through Mexico. So it is not just the "chatter" of Football terrorism but now stories on terrorist are infiltrating our borders. These are great scare tactics and i bet they influence the vote more than any ad a congressmen could run.
posted by Oddball Kink at 12:08 PM
Monday, September 25, 2006
oh boy...random thoughts...cause the brain is tired....
another class down. I can not wait until i am done with school. I will have a BS - i am majoring in bullshit. Seriously, it is a BSHS. A bacholar in human services- wooohooo.. whatever. I cannot even spel bacholar - that is kind of funny.
Monday. comes to fast i remember as a kid that the days seemed to last forever, now that iam an adult - at least in age- time seems to move much faster.
The madden tourney is coming here in tampa on OCT. 29th and i am stoked. I am going to enter but if i can not find away to stop Vick, i wont last long. It seems that he is a monster and is very difficult to stop. It is worth allot of money for who ever wins.
practice -- where is yoda when you need him..
Monday. comes to fast i remember as a kid that the days seemed to last forever, now that iam an adult - at least in age- time seems to move much faster.
The madden tourney is coming here in tampa on OCT. 29th and i am stoked. I am going to enter but if i can not find away to stop Vick, i wont last long. It seems that he is a monster and is very difficult to stop. It is worth allot of money for who ever wins.
practice -- where is yoda when you need him..
posted by Oddball Kink at 11:49 AM
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Freespire update
Since the last writing I was able to get my WIFI cardbus working. The netgear ma521 works like a charm now. I had to open up my wlan by disabling the WEP, Not the best thing but since the signal is not available ( i sat in my driveway and tried to access it) outside of my home i am ok with it, especially since this just about completes my transition to Linux full time. Now, if only my online school and job would support Linux i could leave M$ xp behind for good, especially since i own an xbox 360 it was a gift but i must say it does kick ass and i am hooked so getting out of the habit of using thier software is even greater now because thier software for PC'S suck. As i have stated i have used many linux distro's and now i have finally found one that after some minor tweaks works the best. I am not sure why the card did not work under other distros, i was using ndiswrapper with them as well so it is kind of wierd. I also like it because i can play Windows media files, primarily videos which has been a problem for me in the past. I am not a linux expert so it was nice to have this work from the get go. I am going to be redesigning the website using gimp and NVU a free wysiwyg HTML editor for linux. So finally a fully working linux laptop, i am stoked...
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posted by Oddball Kink at 3:03 PM
Thursday, September 14, 2006
madden o7 - saints row
after almost a month of playing madden 07 i have come to the conclusion of, despite some of the minor glitches i love this game.
When i found out that there was not going to be defensive playmaker i was extremely dissappointed, but after playing madden i think that the developers (EA) are bringing this title along nicely. The graphics are just outstanding and even though they have done something never done in a football game before it leaves you wanting more. the puddles and deteriating field are kick ass. Now i want to see the water splash and bead up on thier helmets.The play is much more precise. There seem to be issues with the run and pass commit, as well as getting the DB'S hands up to swat a pass, it is very sensitive as to the timing you must have in order for it to be successfully defended. All in all the more i play it the more i like it.
SAINTS Row
well this is what the xbox 360 needed. I love this game and i am hooked like a heroin addict. Even though it is a GTA like game it does stand on its own two feet. I enjoy being a virtual gangbanger and doing all of the crime, for some reason it feels so good to get out of your car go to the car behind you and just blast them through the windshied. There is just enough weapons to make it interesting, the demolition derby is fun as hell. There are numerous mission types and you never really get bored. It seems that if your just piddling around you will get a phone call telling you that one of the rivial gangs are trying to reclaim thier turf. Away you go into great gun battles. The FPS shooting mechanic is great and allows for some great control when shooting. I recommend this game to anyone who enjoys this type of game.
When i found out that there was not going to be defensive playmaker i was extremely dissappointed, but after playing madden i think that the developers (EA) are bringing this title along nicely. The graphics are just outstanding and even though they have done something never done in a football game before it leaves you wanting more. the puddles and deteriating field are kick ass. Now i want to see the water splash and bead up on thier helmets.The play is much more precise. There seem to be issues with the run and pass commit, as well as getting the DB'S hands up to swat a pass, it is very sensitive as to the timing you must have in order for it to be successfully defended. All in all the more i play it the more i like it.
SAINTS Row
well this is what the xbox 360 needed. I love this game and i am hooked like a heroin addict. Even though it is a GTA like game it does stand on its own two feet. I enjoy being a virtual gangbanger and doing all of the crime, for some reason it feels so good to get out of your car go to the car behind you and just blast them through the windshied. There is just enough weapons to make it interesting, the demolition derby is fun as hell. There are numerous mission types and you never really get bored. It seems that if your just piddling around you will get a phone call telling you that one of the rivial gangs are trying to reclaim thier turf. Away you go into great gun battles. The FPS shooting mechanic is great and allows for some great control when shooting. I recommend this game to anyone who enjoys this type of game.
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posted by Oddball Kink at 10:14 PM
Thursday, August 17, 2006
freespire 1.0 linux
linux has just turned an important corner, if you ask me. I have been tinkering with various distros including some flavors of BSD.
What i have learned about linux is that i love it, however some of the distros dont need to be produced. Instead i think a concetrated effort should be made to make linux "just work" if it is to compete for the everyday user market.
Freespire is that effort. Freespire is free open source version of Linspire ( formily known as lindows) that is based on the debian and linux kernal 2.6.14, glib 2.3.2 and x.org 6.9.0.. Freespire 1.0 will challenge the OSS community because in one of its forms it contains propritary drivers that include mp3, dvd playback, windows media, flash plug-ins, quicktime, real player, graphics card drivers for nvidia, 802.11 wifi and some modem drivers as well. The install went quick and painlessly and i had a operating laptop in about 25 minutes.
One of the odd features i have found in my test drive was that the root account was disabled, i discovered this when i tried to run apt-get in the konsole. After correcting this minor oddity i was able to use #apt-get to download the software i want and need. A newb can utilize the click and run feature that comes with all Linspire distro's. Click and run is a subscription service but it does have a huge libary of software available to the end user. For the more linux savay #apt-get works just fine and it does not require a subscription, just some repositories. Repositories can be added to the etc/apt/souce.list and then # apt-get will download, resolve dependancies and install all of your favorite software. Freespire comes with openoffice 2, firefox and some other goodies. I did have to download the gimp but since freespire came with Nvu the wysiwyg html editor i was set.
One of the main issues i have with Freespire is the boot load time. It takes forever but once it is booted the presentation is clean an organized which makes it simple to navigate. It uses KDE as its GUI and for the average linux user it will feel just like any other linux distro. The other issue, although not limited to just Freespire but all linux distros, is a pcmcia wifi card ( a netgear ma521) does not seem to work, even with ndiswrapper. I will probable need to purchase a more compatiable wifi card down the road. So far these are my only issues, which is great as most if not all media plays "out of the box" even windows media files, which any linux user knows can be a real pain to tweak wine to play this stuff. I have posted praises on this blog for suse 10 and pc bsd and free bsd but i have found an even better Linux OS for myself. I am not a hacker nor am i a programmer, no i am just a guy who loves computers and one who wants the most stable and secure operating environment.
Hardcore linux users may be put off because of the ease of use with freespire, but i say to them that it has Debian under the hood and it just works in most cases where other distro's stumble. One does not have to be a geek to have Freespire work for them. It has satisfied me and presented me with a viable windows replacement, although work requires a windows system my other computer is linux and i will not be putting Suse 10 back on it, no i think i am going to go with freespire and leave it at that.
What i have learned about linux is that i love it, however some of the distros dont need to be produced. Instead i think a concetrated effort should be made to make linux "just work" if it is to compete for the everyday user market.
Freespire is that effort. Freespire is free open source version of Linspire ( formily known as lindows) that is based on the debian and linux kernal 2.6.14, glib 2.3.2 and x.org 6.9.0.. Freespire 1.0 will challenge the OSS community because in one of its forms it contains propritary drivers that include mp3, dvd playback, windows media, flash plug-ins, quicktime, real player, graphics card drivers for nvidia, 802.11 wifi and some modem drivers as well. The install went quick and painlessly and i had a operating laptop in about 25 minutes.
One of the odd features i have found in my test drive was that the root account was disabled, i discovered this when i tried to run apt-get in the konsole. After correcting this minor oddity i was able to use #apt-get to download the software i want and need. A newb can utilize the click and run feature that comes with all Linspire distro's. Click and run is a subscription service but it does have a huge libary of software available to the end user. For the more linux savay #apt-get works just fine and it does not require a subscription, just some repositories. Repositories can be added to the etc/apt/souce.list and then # apt-get will download, resolve dependancies and install all of your favorite software. Freespire comes with openoffice 2, firefox and some other goodies. I did have to download the gimp but since freespire came with Nvu the wysiwyg html editor i was set.
One of the main issues i have with Freespire is the boot load time. It takes forever but once it is booted the presentation is clean an organized which makes it simple to navigate. It uses KDE as its GUI and for the average linux user it will feel just like any other linux distro. The other issue, although not limited to just Freespire but all linux distros, is a pcmcia wifi card ( a netgear ma521) does not seem to work, even with ndiswrapper. I will probable need to purchase a more compatiable wifi card down the road. So far these are my only issues, which is great as most if not all media plays "out of the box" even windows media files, which any linux user knows can be a real pain to tweak wine to play this stuff. I have posted praises on this blog for suse 10 and pc bsd and free bsd but i have found an even better Linux OS for myself. I am not a hacker nor am i a programmer, no i am just a guy who loves computers and one who wants the most stable and secure operating environment.
Hardcore linux users may be put off because of the ease of use with freespire, but i say to them that it has Debian under the hood and it just works in most cases where other distro's stumble. One does not have to be a geek to have Freespire work for them. It has satisfied me and presented me with a viable windows replacement, although work requires a windows system my other computer is linux and i will not be putting Suse 10 back on it, no i think i am going to go with freespire and leave it at that.
posted by Oddball Kink at 10:43 AM
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