Oh how those in power have failed us…all.

Let’s talk about the word `change`.  Mr. Obama used this word as the corner stone of his campaign.  He had thousands of people shouting it and millions wearing it either on their close or on their bumpers.  How easy these sheep were led into believing that he wasn’t like every other politician but worse…

While it is impossible to convince the persons who voted for him that this is true there are many things to remember here.  Hillary Clinton… Not change.  Tom Daschle… Not change. Raul Grijalva… Not change.  So I ask you Mr. Obama (No you’re not Mr. President yet), how do you explain this blatent lying to the public regarding your campaign?  Supports of Mr. Obama, how do you feel about being lied to?

Hillary Clinton – Yes she was married to William Clinton who many regard as a good president.  But the fact is… She is not William Clinton and she is a bit.. .emotional which isn’t a good thing in a position of power.

Tom Daschle – A lobbyist (aka in someones pocket).

Raul Grijalva – Votes against democracy. Yes I know it is a oxymoron but he started it…  This guy is as crooked and left as they get.

The entire Democratic party are liars, and no I’m not overstating the facts here.  You have state representatives who vote for bail outs that the very people they are elected to represent say no.. (Gabriel Giffords for me).

Unbelievable sad state of affairs we have here.

-S

Installing a proper Ubuntu 8.10 copy on the new Dell Inspiron Mini 9

This is the fine work of Ehud G. over @ http://www.myehud.com

The Problem

The real problem is that Dell ships the laptop with a few choices that I didn’t like.

  1. They use the LPIA (Low Power Intel Architecture) version instead of i386. What this means is that about 80% of the software I want doesn’t yet exist in a repository of this architecture. It also means that the repositories are all at Dell instead of all over the world like Ubuntu’s.
  2. They install some of the Netbook Remix stuff, which I’m sure is good for new people, but it annoys me that half my screen real-estate is tied up with ginormous icons.
  3. Their version of the WiFi driver prevents ssh working (client or server) unless you do the magic incantation (“iwpriv eth1 set_vlanmode 0”)
  4. They lock the upper menu bar to the top of the screen.
  5. Presumably because of all the customization, they are shipping a six month old version.

The Solution

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FedoraJunkies, XBMC and, the new build farm

So, as you’ve probably see in my previous posts; I run FedoraJunkies.com and I enjoy building the Fedora/CentOS RPMs for XBMC. Well I’ve added something new and exciting.

From now on XBMC will build nightly on the farm for Fedora 8/9/10 & CentOS 5 on both 386 & x86_64 architectures.  That means no one has to wait for me to get the latest and greatest SVN nightly build in RPM form.

They are available every night around 1am MST @ http://www.sourcemirrors.org/scotth/{fedora,centos}/{releasever}/nightlybuilds/{architecture}

e.g.:

http://sourcemirrors.org/scotth/fedora/10/nightlybuilds/x86_64/XBMC-svn.20081128-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm

Enjoy!

-SH