Oh glorious day; the day when a father can pass down one of his traditions to his son. In this case, it would be watching (and liking) some of my old cartoon shows - such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Not the new ones, this is the old ones from my era as a kid. My brother and I would watch this show all the time, draw pictures, record it on VHS and watch the episodes over and over and over again.
As the title suggests, I’m pretty beat down by my life. It is wall-to-wall filled with responsibilty and mayhem. Just today I had to make a hard decision of cancelling my World of Warcraft account. I haven’t played in weeks because I’ve just been so busy. It really doesn’t make sence paying a monthly subscription right now.
Work is a mad house! The uppers don’t understand what my workload is and they keep giving me their tasks as priority. Things are just piling up two tasks at a time and I’m up in my ears with people being frustrated with me. Honestly; I’m truly learning about project management - but it’s very tough thing to put into practice. I scheduled myself to “project manage” 2 hours a day - 1 hour when I get into work, and the last hour of the day (away from my computer). Do you think I’ve stuck to the plan - no! When I get in I have so many things to do that “wasting” time project managing doesn’t seem viable. In reality I need to do it. It’s wierd.
Well, I ended up installing a fresh copy of Fedora 9 this morning. Didn’t take long at all. I didn’t have the patients to try and figure out why my xserver wouldn’t work after my upgrade from Werewolf to Sulphur. When I got home yesterday I reinstalled my video card drivers, for my nVidia GeForce 8600 GT, but that didn’t fix the problem. Oh well, the good thing is I’m back up and running with the latest version of Fedora - so now I just have to remount my DATA partition and restore my home directory.
So last night I finally decided to upgrade my home desktop from Fedora 8: Werewolf (best name ever) to Fedora 9: Sulphur. My main reasoning was to get Banshee 1.0 installed and have a happier podcasting life. Lukily for me I have a seperate partition to store my data and I backed up my /home directory. Not all the files just the ones I thought were important, which included most of the [dot][files/folders].
I am experiencing a deafening silience when it comes to the audio on my Fedora box. As of this article being published I can not hear audio playing on my computer. Such as:
Ironically when I do a “Soundcard Detection” it does find it, I hear the test audio. I can even hear my recording that I just created in Audacity. I am at a lotal lost.
I’ve created a new category called “Linuxapade” - from the multilingual word “escapade“. I wanted to see if I can document my adventures with the wonderful, yet frustrating, yet rewarding world of linux. It’s a mad house over here, almost like going on a seven day adventure to the land of nowhere and you learn to build fire by your self, hunt for your food, enjoy the kill and the feast. In this case you’re actually forced to learn how an operating system works and hardware, etc. It doesn’t do it for you like Windows or MAC. There are some automated features that work out-of-the-box, but if it starts to break you have no choice, but to find a solution - no matter how many hours it’ll take you to first understand how this device is supposed to work.
You've stumbbled upon the domain of the infamous and demented FergatROn. Nah, it's really just the playhouse of Marc F Ferguson. I'm a hardcore gamer that's been forced to grow-up with the help of a wife, kids (3) and work. /facepalm