Brian Ladd’s Blog – Notes on Life

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Debian Linux Auto Installer

http://goodbye-microsoft.com/

This is a graphic installer for Debian etch distro of Linux and will allow non-technical users to install Debian without most of the the hassles of burning media.  Pretty cool.  Need to try it some time.  And remember, if you are going to try this yourself, always make a complete system backup before starting.

September 13, 2007 Posted by brianladd | Linux | | No Comments Yet

Painful Computer Advertisement

HOLY CRAP!!! This is horrible. It’s like watching a train wreck while you’re in the car getting hit.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1774935

This is a musical Rap video for the Microsoft DOS 5 Upgrade. This video takes the idea of marketing to a sickening new level of hell and kicks it in the balls. Wow. This is bad. Keep in mind that this was done in the 80s. So forget about the clothes, hair, and makeup, this thing is bad. It’s so bad you can’t help but laugh. And for further amusement, watch the girl in the video use the mouse backwards. Don’t know what’s she’s doing, but she’s not using a mouse. And don’t complain to me that I didn’t wanr you on how bad it was.

September 12, 2007 Posted by brianladd | Windows / Microsoft | | No Comments Yet

The Ultimate Computer Virus

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/virus-warning.html

This just in :  NEW VIRUS WARNING

If you receive an e-mail with a subject line of "Badtimes," delete it
immediately WITHOUT reading it.  This is the most dangerous Email virus yet.

It will re-write your hard drive.  Not only that, but it will scramble any
disks that are even close to your computer.  It will recalibrates your
refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream melts and milk curdles.
It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, reprogram your
ATM access code, screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field
harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play.

It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix
antifreeze into your fish tank.  It will drink all your beer and leave its
dirty socks on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will
hide your car keys when you are late for work and interfere with your car
radio so that you hear only static while stuck in traffic.

Badtimes will make you fall in love with a hardened pedophile.  It will give
you nightmares about circus midgets.  It will replace your shampoo with Nair
and your Nair with Rogaine, all while dating your current boy/girlfriend
behind your back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card.

It will seduce your grandmother.  It does not matter if she is dead, such is
the power of Badtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things
we hold most dear.

Badtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up
and leave the hairdryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It
will remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows,
and refill your skim milk with whole.

It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold.

It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.

These are just a few signs.

Be afraid.  Be very, very afraid.

September 7, 2007 Posted by brianladd | Security, World News | | No Comments Yet

Ad-Supported Games

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?threadid=597322

Need to check these out.  Could be interesting.

September 4, 2007 Posted by brianladd | Video Games | | No Comments Yet