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Month: March 2008

“Renaming” ethernet adapters in Debian

I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950 server running Debian Sarge. It recently experienced the joy of a motherboard replacement (which will hopefully make the hardware faults go away). This normally isn’t a big deal, except for the fact that I use the onboard gigabit NICs. See Debian “knows” which network card is which by MAC…

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Linux

Dropped Cedega for Wine 0.9.57

So a while back you may remember that I posted about switching to Ubuntu, and a second post later about running Warcraft under Linux. Up until yesterday I was running WoW using Cedega 6, and its been working “good enough”. Occasionally I’ve had problems with WoW not launching, crashing on launch, or launching wrong (no…

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Linux

Your Real Birthday? Better not be in 1910.

I was recently mucking about with my profile on Facebook and accidentally set my Birthday to 1910 (first year in the list). It threw me back an error message saying “Please enter your real birthday.”. I found this extremely odd, just I fiddled about a bit with the birthdates. As it turns out — Facebook…

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Stupid Companies

Doomsday

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD — That being said, this is a review so that should be obvious. Doomsday is a post-apocalyptic thriller, sort-a-kind-a. Basic premise is that there is a virus outbreak in Scotland/Northern England. So like any good government, the Brits build a wall to trap the infected and anyone who might be infected. Fast…

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Entertainment

Don’t use IGE – EVER

I’m going to completly skip the subject of RMTs (Real Money Transfer) and just say that I do. You can dislike it, that’s fine. But for those of you that also do RMTs (in order words you pay money for gold in World of Warcraft, or any other MMOG) — heed these words. DO NOT…

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Games

Prius – Day 2

Well even though Day 1 didn’t start till almost 8pm — we’ll roll with it (if you excuse the pun). I didn’t get to drive that much today, only a couple of errands. I do find myself wanting to drive the Prius — mainly because its a new toy and… I love to play with…

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Vehicles

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