Journalism ceased to exit this week when it comes to the passing of our former President. In the US we have suffered a whole week of unbelievable sickenly sweet testimonials about the former President Reagan. Maybe it was under some standard of etiquette the press was following that says something like don’t speak ill of the dead but this was a public official not un
G4techtv channel sucks. Not only does the channel suck but the new website that combines the G4 channel and techtv content sucks. They should have kept the basic setup of techtv’s web pages. The new channel, which is ridiculously placed way up in the hundreds on the Comcast Cable system, is not worth going to. May I suggest the honchos at G4Techtv jettison al
A documentary won the Cannes film festival. This festival is one of the most prestigious in the world and is attended by international critics, actors and others in the entertainment industry. Fahrenheit 9/11 a Michael Moore film won the top prize at Cannes, which is the Golden Palm. I hear Fahrenheit 9/11 is very critical of the Bush administration. Looks li
I really don't want to go any higher in price right now. I'm waiting for the prices of LCD monitors to drop significantly. It may be a long wait but I hear there are advancements in the manufacturing process that may eventually bring the price down substantially. I would like you to give me more technical detail about the "burn out" of a monitor because that would be helpful in the analysis of the Vivitron.
I now have another monitor. Like the Gateway Vivitron this one is used. The specs. are about the same as the Gateway so I gain no improvement in performance. The good thing is the price was the same as the Gateway brought a few years earlier. It came in at twenty-one dollars (tax included). It is a Dell Trinitron (I’m beginning to think all I basically did
My Gateway2000 Vivitron monitor is on its way out. It’s kind of too soon for me. I had no intentions of buying a new or used monitor any time soon but circumstances seemed to have spoiled that plan. The monitor was an excellent bargain when I purchased it. It came in at a nice twenty-five bucks. It was used of course but it has performed well. The time has b
The pictures coming out of the Iraq prison torture case reminded me of a porn film that prominently featured Arab actors and a bazaar and bathhouse (Turkish). I have blogged about this film elsewhere in the past I think. It is called Sex Bazaar (Harem), which was made in 1984. I think the director (could be producer) is Jean-Daniel Cadinot. It is in French with no sub
I found Mandrake the easiest to get up in running a couple years ago. At that time RedHat dominated the market. Now, RedHat is going after the server market and is not that interested in people who use it on a desktop. Suse Linux is going after the desktop market and many people who know more about Linux than I now recommend it (I think Novell now owns most of the Suse distro). I have messed around with various versions of Linux (but not the latest ver
Boy, it has been a long time since I last posted to this blog but I have been posting a lot on my other blog. It comes down to time. I don’t have the time to write and post to both blogs and how things look right now I’ll probably have even less time in the future so it seems like I’ll be posting to my blogs in spurts. In other words sometime I’ll
I was never a part of the Fraternity and Sorority system at the college I attend. I never really wanted to be part of a collective where one must go through strange initiation rights and other practices throughout the college years. However there are advantages to being a member of Sororities and Fraternities. The network created just by being a member is an
A visit to an evangelical church: I was working out in the college gym where I met this guy. After talking to him a few times and continuously running into him at the gym he invited me to attend a church service. I did not want to go and told him on several occasions that I really wasn’t that interested. He was very persistent and every time I ran into him would
Shopping for replacement computer parts has enabled me to see the brick and mortar stores (or warehouses) that have good prices (cheap) and those with bad prices (expensive). The stores I went to looking for replacement parts for my computer were Circuit City, BestBuy, Office Max, CompUSA and a warehouse seller that also sells at computer shows (I can’t give you an ex
I was lying in bed the other night using my remote channel surfing when I came to a program on the Scfi network called Tripping The Rift. It is an animated series in the tradition of South Park but there is a distinct difference (in appearance of characters). One of the female characters on this series is generated to look like a very voluptuous female with f
Paul Allen the co-founder of Microsoft and owner of Techtv is selling Techtv to Comcast the cablevision company. It is said that Comcast will merge the channel with their gamer channel called G4. I consider this move a loss to broadcasting. I believe in diversity of ownership of media outlets. Having too few individuals and corporations owning media outlets l
Lately I’ve been sampling the Howard Stern radio program again. I don’t listen to the entire program because that would not be tolerable. I had completely stopped listening to his program because I am not that into his type of humor, but all the controversy has got me back into it. So for an hour or so either at the beginning or end of the program I tune in. I guess i
Well, I am back up and running with a new mainboard (motherboard), swap drive, memory, and hard drive. My Athlon 1800+ chip is working fine. With a little assistance from the seller of this board I was able to get the CPU running at its proper speed. It was not damaged in some way when I burned out my old motherboard as I initially suspected. My hot swapper
I was and am having a lot of computer problems the last week or so. First my online Maxtor hard drive went bad. The symptoms of this problem were very subtle. Event Log in Windows 2000 Professional started indicating severe problems with the hard disk. I could not copy files or play music files and all functions became sluggish. I guess it was time for the drive to go. I have reformatted it and installed various types of operating sy
I was very surprised that Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion Of The Christ was as good as it is. The last A grade movie I saw that used subtitles was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (A grade). There was an English dubbed version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that came on TV a couple months ago, which felt weird since I saw it twice in the movie theaters with subtitles (I think its better with subtitles). Believe me, if I sit through a subtitl
Mel Gibson’s The Passion Of The Christ is a winner. The story is kept tightly on topic and deals almost totally with the crucifixion of Jesus. It starts with the betrayal of Christ by Judas. We get a sampling of other moments through flashbacks that occur throughout the story. The story meditates on the process of the crucifixion. In this regard it is very bloody. Gibson is very descriptive in showing the process and the audience feels the be
Howard Stern, what is called a shock jock on FM radio was dropped by the Clearwater radio broadcasts network in several key markets today because of the sexually explicit and racist content of a segment on his program. I use to tune in to Stern once in awhile (pre divorce-which I knew was coming). His program consist of very irreverent, juvenile, and sarcastic humor. As is common in this type of humor groups that are considered minorities are
After thinking about my last blog entry at joeuser I realized that I was beginning to get sidetracked. Reading comments is one thing but then answering is quite something else. I was reviewing some of the blogs on this site and noticed that there were varying opinions on what a blog should be. Many of these opinions do not agree with my view. There is nothing really wrong with that. I guess a blog could be pretty much whatever one wants it to
You have some good points there One man. The miracles were impressive.
The blog comment feature may not be such a good idea after all. I read a comment to one of my blog entries posted by a JeramyG. This person called me a foolish teenager (I’m no teenager) because of my ‘unsupported’ comments made about Microsoft. I have read some of JeramyG’s post and I have no intention of posting such formally written, and wordy entries to a blog page. To do so would be ridiculous in my view. If anyone comes across
Speaking of the movie by Mel Gibson tentively said to be called ‘The Passion Of Christ’ there are a lot of historically based or themed movies coming out in the next months. A movie called Troy is due in theaters soon. I read there are two movies about Alexander the Great being made. When watching movies with historical themes one must keep in mind that they are not for the most part accurate even when the director is aiming for historical acc
Microsoft Windows is a garbage operating system. In a recent news article they stated that some of their code had been illegally released which may create security problems. I never heard something so foolish in a long time. If someone exploits security holes discovered in the Microsoft operating system then the code is written very poorly. Linux is open source. It is available to everyone and can be exploited by anyone but it is more secure than Microsoft and exploits that are found are plugge
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