a first

   today i saw a microsoft computer with an internet connection at best buy. i was surprised to say the least. i've been browsing all of my local computer retailers for about 7 years now and have never seen a windows machine connected to the web. i played around with it a little bit but i had to resist a powerful urge to test the security. a little voice in my ear kept saying, "put a virus on it". sheesh, golly gee whiz, i didn't realize i had such an evil streak in me. i guess my contempt for microsoft comes out in weird ways. there's something about microsoft that just makes ya wanna attack them.
   fortunately i didn't know how to do anything malicious, lol. the worst thing i could think of was to download and install yahoo instant messenger and allow the bundled toolbar to hijack internet exploder, lol. (do they still do that?). instead i used the "live" search toolbar to search for linux and changed the internet exploder home page to linux dot org. haha, i still remember how to change the home page. take that microsoft.
   it did seem like a nice computer, too bad it had windows on it. if it had a GNU/Linux distribution on it i would have seriously considered buying it. i absolutely, positively, refuse to buy a microsoft computer.

http://www.linux.org/

i changed my byline

i changed my byline today.
here's my old one:
i'm really more of a listener than a talker or should i say a reader than a writer. but i do occasionally have something to say or should i say write, huh?

what is a byline anyway? well, let's look it up on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byline

i upgraded virtualbox

instead of exploring my recent batch of distros i decided to upgrade virtualbox. current version is 2.1.2. it seems to be working ok.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

http://forums.virtualbox.org/

latest batch of distros

downloading 4 distros to explore in virtualbox. should have lots of fun this evening checking these out.

distrowatch debian GNU/Linux 5.0 rc2
http://www.debian.org/

distrowatch geexbox 1.2
http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html

distrowatch pardus linux 2008.2
http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/index.html

distrowatch knoppix 6.0
http://www.knoppix.com/