Today, for the first time in my life, I got certified to run a forklift at work. What? No fanfare? It's a big deal for me!
Actually, it's something that'll make my life ten times easier at work...
I'm not gonna go totally wild and be like Cryptie, or anything (also try this link ), but still...
(if you followed the links - was THAT fucking WEIRD or WHAT??? )
My supervisor put me through one HELLUVA obstacle course, too. The guys watching me take the test were somewhat surprised at how much I needed to do to prove my skills. I passed - thirty out of thirty questions and tasks completed successfully!
mikey on his birthday
I've been window shopping online quite a bit these days. I've been seriously thinking about purchasing a notebook computer. I just keep running into the wall of having to purchase one running Windows Vista - which I DO NOT want. I could run off on a bit of a tangetized rant here about how much that piece o' shit OS sucks, about how PATHETIC it is that Bill Gates and company want to imitate Apple, and how digital rights management is a violation of civil liberties (and how enforcing it on a machine is a total PIG on memory speed and processor power), but I won't.
Anyone who knows anything about computers knows enough to stay away from Microsoft's latest blunder.
Anyway...
Wal-Mart has an interesting little machine I'm thinking of buying. It has Vista, yeah - but a quick format and an Anaconda install later and it would be running under Fedora 7. I've got like one third of my network running under Linux right now, and I'm looking to get the whole thing running under Linux by the end of the year. I just don't dig the way Microsoft is trying to cram Vista down everyone's collective throats.
Okay...
I'm back on Vista again, aren't I?
Actually...
I'll probably set the laptop's hard drive up to run under a dual boot scenario - I'll split the drive into two partitions and be able to choose between booting into either Fedora 7 or WinXP. It's not often, but sometimes I need to make house calls on people's computers (mostly, when a 'puter is sick, I have its owner drop it off with me and pick it up in a couple of days), and plenty of times I'd wished I had a good notebook PC to get the job done quicker. I can pick up an OEM copy of WinXP Home for $89 from Tiger Direct (Pro for $139).
There're so many ways I want my money to go though...
I mean...
I want to buy GOOD servers for this network...
A GOOD camera for my little Route 309 webcam deal (I found one with an onboard Linux Debian OS that runs its own wireless thing)...
I actually want to break the cam off into its own domain, seperate from damnage. I have a name chosen for it, and it's available. I'm not going to share it yet 'cause that's just DUMB. I'm still pissed off at the little prick who scammed up damnage.org. I wanted to buy that up again, too, dammit. I owned it back in 2000, and gave it up.
Anyway...
It's late, and I should try and get some sleep...
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