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Bracing myself for another ill conceived, passionate argument for the exaggerated, premature death of the BSD family of Operating Systems, I clicked the following link. The End of BSD Instead I stumbled across a new definition of what I thought was a familiar acronym. The term entered the lingua franca via Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker . (Relevant quote: "If he could make millions of dollars come out of those phones, he became that most revered of all species: a Big Swinging Dick.") BSDs are the perennial winners of the game of conspicuous earnings (giant bonuses), conspicuous consumption (giant co-ops and summer homes), and conspicuous philanthropy (giant plaques on public edifices). Despite the all too appropriate vulgarity, the article does a fine job of trying to explain one small piece of the financial crisis. Making sure we know at least some of the guys responsible have lost a pretty chunk of change. I know I feel better. Meanwhile, never fear, our government i...

Politics. Debate 1 Foriegn Policy War: Obama Get out of Iraq, Get more into Afghanistan, and maybe a little into Pakistan ( Couple of Predators don't really count, do they? ) Reserves the right to talk to any one at the time and place of his choosing in order to keep America Safe. McCain Keep "winning" in Iraq, Keep losing in Afghanistan, Wouldn't threaten Pakistan, Won't even look at Iranian President ( he actually couldn't bring himself to say President ) but will possibly invade his country with a Legion of Doom, sorry League of Democracies. Reserves the right to kick the crap out of Iran, Syria, and North Korea. There were also some economic discussions about a financial crisis, but really, yawn, who cares about that. What amazed me was how many times Henry Kissinger was mentioned. Giving his thoughts and opinions weight on both sides. I wasn't the only one . Mcain has experience, he has been a Senator during every military action since he belatedly g...

Last week, I mentioned my disappointment concerning Google's Chrome beta for Windows . Mainly that it was an open source browser for Windows only. Knowing the source is available, It was only a matter of time before we had a Linux and Mac version. Enter Crossover Chromium from Codeweavers 7 days later. Codeweavers is a company that specializes in Wine development. Knowing Google itself admits Chromium (Chromium is the open source base for Chrome) only builds and works under windows, Codeweavers went to work on getting that build running under wine on Linux and Mac, releasing their modifications. Kudos all around. It runs, It browses. It is free, and by free I mean free as in free. but... It is not really a fair representative of the browser, taking one of Chrome's features and making it a huge drawback. Unlike Chrome, Codeweaver's Chromium takes an eternity to load a page. Gmail is all but unusable. FlashPlayer installs and just barely runs, crashing out more often t...

So he says to me, he says, "So who do ya think's gonna win?", never having met the gentleman. Seen him around work a few times. As he put down his lunch at the table one up in front of mine, I was only slightly amazed that without any reference or implicit signals, I immediately understood the subject to which he was referring. Not wanting to politically identify myself, I responded, "I think Obama will probably win", but not in an overly enthusiastic way. He said ,"I liked what I was hearing from Obama but, lately I'm not sure where he's coming from." I had finished my lunch and I left with "I haven't heard anything I didn't like from him, meanwhile I've heard almost nothing I like from the other side." All true and noncommital. I found myself wondering all through the rest of the day, the purpose of the original question, as well as questioning my wariness to answer. First, at some point in the American experience, we ha...

This tiny news advert caught my eye last week. MrsCopilot is quite the Horror buff, with bookshelves stuffed and straining under the weight and bulk of the almighty Steven King and a DVD collection of blood, murder, mayhem and pychotics. ScareFest 2008 , Seemed like just to thing to spring on her as a surprise. Stars of Rob Zombie's "The Devil's Rejects" ( one of her favorite feel good flicks. ) Sid Haig and Bill Mosely are scheduled to appear. Off we go for a spooktacular Saturday afternoon. Lexington Convention center. Check. Yep that's a Good sign, this appears to be the place. Inside was as advertised. Creepy Artists and Collectible merchants crammed side by side with psychics and mystical crystal salesman, With back area lined with genre celebrities available for autographs and pictures. What better way to spend an afternoon than celebrity gawking and rampant discretionary spending. Admission, Tarot Reading, T Shirt, Autographed Photo, a few nick nacks, ...

Like everybody else, I was intrigued by Google's latest venture. A new browser, promising to redesign the browsing experience. Introduced by the company who redesigned all of our browsing habits. More Videos In their introductory press release, (already a plus to the Comic nerd in us all), the big G hit all the right notes. Read the Rest New Javascript VM, Tab Centric, Open Source, sandboxed pages, process manager. Where do I sign up? Oh, here (and no sign up required.) If you've been here before you know MrCopilot runs on Linux. Sure, occasionally a VM safely encompasses a Windows OS for testing. Imagine my surprise at discovering that in such an environment was the only place I could try Chrome. Which brings me to the first dulling of the shine. Chrome's download page is a little different for us Linux Users, you'll notice right off that the download link is nowhere to be found. Instead you will see links to Chromium. Chromium is the open source project Chrome is b...