Gentoo vs Fedora Core 2

Gentoo: Linux for those who just can't seem to waste enough time.

Just reading through the Fedora Core 2 test 1 release announcment thread on Slashdot. Seems that every other thread is about how much fun it is to compile all your packages for i686 and gain minimal speed increases after waiting hours for it to complete. I'd say that Gentoo is the home for the Linux zealot/purist crowd. No regular user wants to be bothered with compiling. Heck, even I hate compiling.

Employment: Terminated.

So yeah. I've been fired.

So the server had to be relocated. As a result, lots of stuff is in a weird state right now. Most things should be up an running properly again, but I'm still working out some DNS quirks and an email problem. If you happen to notice something odd or wrong, please let me know and I'll try to get it worked out asap.


Know anyone in the Fox Cities (Appleton/GreenBay) or Twin Cities areas looking for a Network Administrator with 6 years experience working for an ISP? Let me know.

Unofficial Patched Gaim 0.75

Rejoice all you noobs who hate patching and recompiling as I do:


I've recompiled the Gaim 0.75 FC1 RPMs with the recently released security patch. You can get them here.

And there was much rejoicing.



Update 2/5: Win32 (Windows) builds are now available! Refer to the above link for the installers.
Update 2/6: For all you Yahoo freaks :-) Both the RPM and EXE builds are now patched with Amatus' new Yahoo re-implementation patch (found here).. Therefore Yahoo is now functional again.

Google Tampers with Rankings for Liberal Lean?

Compare the "filtered" (links specifically not excluded) rankings for Miserable Failure against the standard unfiltered rankings for the same search. Now Google, why would the ranks for the same search differ? Hmmmmmm?



Sounds like there's some covert political motives within Google.


Update 2/2: Just got an email from Aaron at the MFP this morning. He seems to think it's just a Google quirk and says that the rankings have been screwed up all week.