MrCopilot

Moses dead at 83 , seems like only 40 years ago Charlton Heston was freeing his people from pharoah and laying down the law. Sure he was Ben Hur, John the Baptist and Moses ( IMDB ) but Heston is most memorable to us geeks for his portrayal in 1968's Planet of the Apes. Spoiler: This is the Ending. A few words from an admirer of Chuck's And finally you can watch for his appearance in Tim Burton's remake. The full movie is here, and I promise Chuck is in it ;) How'd you like to be the coroner's assistant? Bill, go in there and pry that gun out of his hands will you? Too Soon? MrCopilot

Last week I did a house full of Kubuntu installs as recounted here . I went back to check up on the tweens and see if they needed anything. Everything seemed to be going fine, although they needed a little help connecting to a USB drive shared over the network from a Vista machine. Simple enough add network folder. Guess what, they needed write support and that is unsupported in network folders and Dolphin. Alrighty then. Add bookmark to smb://hostname/foldername. Asks for Username and password and all is good. While setting this up for them I notice a little game one of the girls is playing. A cute little anime style mmorpg The Mana World . Hmm, I bet my daughter would enjoy that. I finish up my work and spend the rest of the night playing with compiz on another machine. Wow, after you get it working (no small feat), so purty! But that is another story for another time. When I arrive home, I "sudo apt-get install tmw" on my Debian machine. I call my daughter in and set her ...

In a triumph of marketing and (alright, alleged) ballot stuffing, Microsoft's OOXML has garnered enough votes to be approved as an ISO standard . Bringing with it all the benefits therein. Mainly, conforming to the various government agencies around the world who have enacted the sensible regulations requiring their documents to be in a format that is vendor neutral and have meaningful archival lifetimes. Now the fun really begins. Watching Microsoft try to implement the augmented standard in Office. While simultaneously implementing it in Open Source Software, Koffice , OpenOffice. I've argued in the past that Microsoft has a format they call OOXML right now shipping in Office 2007, and the new standard with the changes made to get it past ISO are going to cause us and Microsoft difficulties. I hope I am wrong on this. OpenOffice has already begun that work, with limited success in the upcoming version 3 now in alpha scheduled for September. KOffice, has been pretty critical...

After conquering the Console space on the industry leader XBox and XBox360 Microsoft has finally decided to throw their hat into the Linux Gaming space in a big way. http://code.google.com/p/openhalo/ Microsoft thinks its high time some quality open source games are released in the Linux market. Okay, you got me, it's is April 1st after all. Microsoft has no interest whatsoever in open sourcing Halo. Does that mean us Linux users are left Master Chiefless forever? Nope. Not at all. Halo does in fact run in wine and quite well. For more info on how to set it up see: How I got Halo: Combat evolved working on wine 0.9.39 and http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/11/halo-combat-evolved-on-linux-with-wine.html The other method, my preferred method actually, is through a native Linux game. Unreal Tournament 2004. In the now defunct Mod Project Torlan. Halo "feels" a lot better in the UT engine and running natively. Downloads are still up, even if the site is in a state of disrep...