Its Square Root Day The next square root day is in 2016 Regards Biff
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Hyena and the Screenshot.
My friend Hyena, sent me a screen shot. I made one too (running FVWM but with the Gnome tool bar). UNIX geeks love screenshots because the graphical application is not part of the kernel like it is in windows. This means that you can run any number of windows managers, and most of these are […]
Continue ReadingPeople of the Book
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks – great book. About a woman who restores books. It’s about her, and the history of the book. It’s a great book.
Continue ReadingBank of America shares II
on Feb 4th I wrote a post about “Bank of America Shares”. THe stock price has fallen once again to $3.04 at the time of this posting. Anywho, *OUCH* I’m lucky I’m not there.
Continue ReadingJoe Rogan on Kelloggs and Michael Phelps
Joe Rogan’s Blog Entry sets Kelloggs on its ear
Continue ReadingH1-B program; the beginning of the end.
Those of us American born technologists HATE the H1-B program started by our govt. to allow foreign programmers into the US to fill technology jobs at a very cheap price. This started during the late 1990’s in the middle of the dot.com boom. We technologists found that many of the coders from overseas often didn’t […]
Continue ReadingSenate hearings re. TARP funds, with CEO’s of Wells Fargo, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, BOA
I’ve been watching the senate hearing regarding TARP with the CEO’s of all the major banks that accepted the funds. Most of the Senators were Democrats, though there were a few Republicans. I’ve come to the conclusion that most of the Senators are functional idiots. Seriously. Some of them could actually pass as “short bus” […]
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Bank of America shares now at $4.70
Ouch. I’m sure glad I don’t work there. They plan to cut more then 35,000 jobs over the next three years. The stock is tumbling because there are fears that Bank of America will become Nationalized. I once worked for a large “Bank In America” myself. The place that I worked for wasn’t all that […]
Continue ReadingVMWare, Win7 and FreeBSD
I downloaded VMware Server the other day. It took a day or so to get it working. Apparently there are a few known bugs that are not very well documented. At any rate, I’ve decided to build a few VM’s. I started with FreeBSD and the beta copy of Windows 7. I’m impressed with Windows […]
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