Journal of a Sysadmin

This is a good thing. GO CANADIANS!

Terry McBride of Nettwerk Music Group, the Canadian Company that produces albums for Avril Lavigne, Barenaked Ladies, Dido, Guster, Sarah McLachlan and others is joining the fight against the RIAA.

All I can say is Go Canadian Artists. I do question where some of our more libral artists are in this debate. Where are those who pushed so hard for human rights in other countries or who were so very cutting edge at one time or another?

Maybe in Tokyo? Maybe he’s Last Year’s Man?

Whichever it is I wish those people would come forward and ask the question, before the time for asking has passed.

New printer, oh my it’s nice

So, we had this Dell inkjet that, really for an inkjet it isn’t too bad but there was one problem; it was still an inkjet.

I hate inkjets. You pay $40 for the cartridge and it doesn’t last very long. If you don’t print for 2 weeks ink dries in the nozzles and it screws up. Inkjet printers are for those who don’t actually ever want to print.

So, we went to Best Buy and bought a Brother HL 2040 which is an entry level laser printer. Decent enough and it just works with Linux (select the HL2060) in 600 dpi mode. It would be nice though to have it do 2400×600 which is its max res. At some point I’ll get to that.

Wonderful and Weird Weekend

Friday and Saturday were great, Sunday was good but kind of strange at the same time.

So, Friday being jhb’s birthday (and no, you don’t get to find out which one) I took her out to dinner at a restaurant that she wanted to go to and she got to order what ever she wanted. She did, and she loved it. We’re also making a rather largish purchase towards the end of the month so technically that’s mostly her present. I still wish it could be more…

Saturday the kids and I went to Sunshine and it was increadible. The snow was really nice most places and the only other thing we could have asked for was more sunshine. This is now the 5th official snow board day for me and I have really improved. Linking turns way better and more aggressively and *not* falling down all the time. Still need a bit more confidence there but I’m definately getting there. The kids are really getting better as well and they both are able to take most hills how. They still have to learn to link turns but that’s coming (they have actually figured out that they need to know how to link turns and have started trying to learn how). Soon(ish) they will get that one under their belt.

Sunday has been odd but good. Imagine arranging a date for your puppy then hanging around, talking to your sis and her family (and having brunch and dinner with them, thanks ‘ree) then going home because the date turned out more like that junior high school dance you attended in grade 9, you know where the girls and boys joked at first then ended up sitting at opposite sides of the gym? Ya that one, well puppies can do that too… The whole puppy dating scene in itself was just odd, but I did have a good visit with part of my family and so did jhb. All in all it was a great day and a wonderful weekend.

Now, I need sleep!