manchicken here…

Now I know you all are now asking yourselves “why the hell would manchicken hyphenate the title at the syllable?” Well, once you see this video you will–like me–be hyphenating everything at the syllable. So here’s a teaser about the video…
This is a Microsoft commercial, obviously from the ’80s, about Windows 386. [...]

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… and it’s all my wife’s fault!
So I go have a somewhat stressful day at work on my birthday, and I come home to my wife who has made me a fantastic lasagna, chocolate bars, cake, and the promise of a video game that I’ve been unable to find in stores anywhere–and those of you [...]

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Sorry folks. No post today. Today is my (* (/ 1 4) 100)th birthday. I plan on playing eating lasagna, and being embarrassed by all the people who think they’re clever by singing happy birthday to me. Particularly in public.
I shall return tomorrow to give you all a nice tutorial on [...]

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Okay, so the time has come to tell you about the Adept Manager. This is by far the most frequently used program on my computer, next to kontact, konq, and konsole. I love this program almost as much as I love my kitty-cat. Have you hugged your kitty-cat today?
So, let’s begin. [...]

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The CLI Edition
Okay, so I must confess up front, I’m not going to give you any information about adept here. This is related to adept, though not actually about adept. This is about how to get behind the scenes of package management. I invite all you happy people to comment on this [...]

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Okay, as promised, here’s the second installment of the adept rundowns. Let’s do this in order. First I’ll do Installer, then I’ll do Manager, then Updater, and since Updater and Batch are essentially the same, I’m going to skip Batch. Also, remember that my bird-brain can only hold so much information at [...]

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Just a word for those of you tuning in, this will be a multi-part post on Adept, what it is, who uses it, and how one uses it.
Yes, I’m talking about Adept. What’s Adept you ask? Well, check out the write-up on Adept on kde-apps.
Who uses Adept you ask? Well, the simple [...]

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So I’m getting a lot of people who’re trying to justify a loss, get angry at the Colts, get angry at Rex Grossman, whatever. Hey, there there. It doesn’t matter if you win or lose, it’s how you play the game. And the Bears didn’t play the game very well at all. [...]

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Man, I’m on a role complaining about HP lappies today. Check this picture out…

Those are three Free Software Foundation DRM warning labels that are now protecting my laptop from static shock. It would seem that HP forgot to properly protect the sound card from static shock. Every time the tiniest little static [...]

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Right, so I’m frustrated. Why am I frustrated? So kind of you to ask. It’s because I was suckered into buying an HP laptop with an ATI Radeon 200m graphics card, and an ATI IXP sound card. Why is that bad? A good question. It’s because ATI doesn’t know [...]

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