Month: March 2010

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WVU moves on to Final Four

WVU beat Kentucky last night 73-66 to move on to the final four. The team flew back from Syracuse to Clarksburg last night. I was listening to the air traffic controller in Syracuse and it was rather entertaining at one point. The ATC actually said “Sorry bout that guys, I just woke up”. (It was in reference to him telling them to go to one run way and then take off on the other end of that run way.)
Delta 8930 leaving Syracuse audio with the Tower.

Anyways, Justin and I went to the Coliseum around 1:30AM to meet the team coming back. There had to be about 150 to 200 people there if not more. It was loud as hell. There was even a group of people that brought a little charcoal grill and lit it up and was grilling hotdogs on it till the cops came and made them get rid of it.

Congratulations to WVU. First time in the Final 4 in 51 years.

Some pics from the game:


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Bad Oracle, Leave Solaris free

I just read Ben Rockwood’s post about Solaris No Longer Free. All I can say is I am severely disappointed in how Oracle has pretty much killed Sun and it’s products. One of the best things that Sun ever did was allow people to use Solaris for free. The caveat was you only got the Security patches for free. About a month or so ago, Oracle decided that you couldn’t get any patches unless you had a support contract. Ok I can sort of see your position on that, but why the hell are you now going to start charging for the OS as well. You have taken one of the best OS’ in the world for servers and basically killed it. What you are going to do is push more people to Linux (eck, I hate linux..). I am not sure why a company that has the number one OS would ever push people away from its OS. Linux is still immature in many ways and can’t scale at all unless you want to scale out and use up more power/floor space.

I hope that the Solaris user community will come around like they did when Sun tried to kill Solaris X86, and let Oracle know what a bad idea this was.

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Firefox 3.6 changes

One of the changes that was in Firefox 3.6 that I didn’t like was when you open a new tab from a current page, instead of it going to the farthest right on the tab bar, it inserts it right after the current tab that is “related”. I did not like this, so to fix it;

1. type in “about:config” in the URL box
2. in the filter, type in “browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent”
3. Double click it to go from True to False.

Much better.