I'm loading Ubuntu Linux on Lister (the primary home machine) as we speak. I FINALLY got everything copied over to the USB hard drive (talk about slooooow), so now I'm waiting for Ubuntu to copy over the files. Almost there... almost there...

While browsing Dell's site looking for some CPU info on a machine, I came across this animated graphic for their new quad core CPU machines. Suddenly I was enlightened why the average user would need one of these CPUs (look in the top right corner of the CPU diagram):

(For my dad, who still thinks Windows is the bee's knees)

Slashdot | Dell to Sell Machines with Ubuntu Pre-Loaded

Here's another reason not to fear the penguin. If Dell thinks there's money in selling machines that have Linux preinstalled on them, then there's definitely support out there.

Just some food …

I just updated my copy of Rhythmbox on Lister (my home machine) to 0.10.0. Since Lister is a Fedora Core 5 machine, that wasn't a small feat, but I managed (and will post RPMs and instructions if anyone wants them). One of the cool new features of the …

The results from the voting for Pyweek #4 are in, and I'm happy to report I placed 11th out of a bunch of individual entries. I'm pretty excited about this. One poor soul played the game until level 122, which is amazing to me since the game stops getting harder …