Kennon’s Space

Know your place in life is where you want to be,
Don’t let them tell you that you owe it all to me,
Keep on looking forward, no use in looking around,
Hold your head above the ground and they wont bring you down,

Anthem of the heart and anthem of the mind,
A funeral dirge for eyes gone blind,
They marvel after those who sought,
New wonders in the world, wonders in the world,
Wonders in the world they wrought,

Live for yourself — theres no one else more worth living for,
Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more,

Well, I know they’ve always told you selfishness was wrong,
Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song.

–Rush

Bet they wish they had a second amendment. If that had happened around here they would have been airlifting people, just not anyone in my family. Wonder if these blokes had just got done at the milk bar…

“At the turn of the [20th] century, of course, the Armenian people were subject to extremely heavy oppression by the Ottoman sultan. Entertaining tragically misguided hopes of being aided by the European powers, some inexperienced and naive Armenian leaders embraced a very regrettable strategy—one which even more regrettably has not been abandoned to this day: they attempted to enlist the imperialist powers to intervene on behalf of the Armenians… In an almost pathetic attempt to establish such a common ground, some Armenian intellectuals pulled religion and linguistics out of their hat… Well, subsequent events—and one and one-half million martyrs—show how convincing this line of argument was for our “Indo-European brothers.”"
—Monte Melkonian, The Right to Struggle, p.6

Well…100 years late is better than never I suppose. And yet our American president still prostitutes his morals for Turkish favor in his “war on terror”. You will rarely catch me saying anything nice about Nancy Pelosi, and even though I know it served her political agenda well, this once I will say thanks. Kind of wish my grandmother was still around when this happened. It would have meant a lot more to her than it does me. But nonetheless it is nice to see the truth win out over strategic partnerships.

I know most people think of me as a die hard SUSE zealot. But those of you who’ve known me for more than a few years know I, like sooo many other Linux users started out as a Red Hat user. So occasionally I will load up the latest version of Fedora Core on my home machine. I usually end up switching back to OpenSUSE within a few weeks at the most but this time…Fedora Core 7 time…I am sticking with it. I actually installed OpenSUSE 10.3 right after it first came out and it was rock solid and fast until I loaded Compiz-Fusion up on it. Then I had nothing but problem after problem. Firefox and Thunderbird were crashing constantly and my window decorator in Gnome was crashing along with a bunch of other problems. So I said…I will try the 32-bit version. Maybe the 64-bit version doesn’t like all the 3-D effect goodness of Compiz-Fusion. Much to my dismay I ended up having all the same problem in that version as well…Now, I know the Compiz-Fusion stuff is optional and I will tell you that prior to loading it up everything ran great. I was super impressed with a lot of the new features and the improved Yast interface as well as the boot time and the general snappiness of the system. But in the end if I can’t run my eye-candy desktop effects on my home workstation then I feel like I am using some ancient operating system. So I loaded Fedora Core 7 back on and it has been kicking ass ever since. It is actually good for me to run a Red hat based distro at home. I only have one Red Hat server at work and the rest are SUSE. And lets face it, even though Novell is making some strides in the Linux market, Red Hat is still king. So staying up with file locations and quirks regarding the difference distros is in my best interests.

Maybe I will load up OpenSUSE 10.3 again in a month or so far some patches have come down the pike.

But until then, this is where I’m at today with my home distro. Some bad ass transparent/glx-gear driven/reflection having/cube goodness. Enjoy!