OpenSolaris and a netbook

..., lan, wlan, audio, camera, usb). Only the sd-card-reader on the left side needs a driver-update (the one on the right side works). I added several repositories for software-updates (blastwave, sunfreeware,...) -... tried some of BBF's 720p mp4 videos - no problems at all. Sound quality is good - the windows driver doesn't do so well (generates noise). I got to like the ZFS filesysstem - It's really ...

Dream: On the schoolbus going... somewhere it's taking too long to get to school. People on the bus are people who rode to school with me when I was in junior high, and the bus driver is the one from elementary school(I haven't thought of her in decades). Riding past rural roadside attractions and this weird shopping center with odd bubble fiberglass out structures in the parking lot (they're too ...

Asleep at the wheel

...)- again, very hard to deal with in the car. listening to music (and singing along) only works for short periods of time, and when I'm already awake enough to sing along. Really, is there anything else I can do for an hour in the driver's seat? I'm willing to try out other podcast type things, but I don't have an ipod or itunes, so they have to be free and accessable some other way. Thanks!

Mamma I'm home again

..., yet its a nice feeling to be there - for sometime! I travelled from Kolkata in the evening to reach home at 01:20 hours enough to get mom entirely worked up. And it is a Big Deal because the driver was drunk, the weather foggy and the terrain hilly. I've decided to start off with a tour of the North east while I am here and starting with near home, so the visits to the Shillong Peak, Matilang ...

an update.

... only a couple months old. This man was my father for the better part of my 30 years of life. When I went into grade school, I was enrolled under his name, Ackmann. When I turned 16, and started driver's ed, I was forced to return to my mother's maiden name, Dyer, because technically Dad never adopted me, so legally my name was still Dyer. He didn't like that, and felt offended that he had raised ...

PR RPM 3: Rain

... It is pretty cool. It's too bad they showed the statue of liberty. Would have been cool to leave it as a total mystery as to just where Corinth is. You can't even go by the cars: Scott's, the driver's side is the left, Dillon's, it's the right. Also, how come the Statue of Liberty is still standing? It's gotta get knocked over in every invasion story. It's the law! Dillon suits up and goes...

News You can Use

... of horror slowly creeps over the town like an invisible fog, haunting and looming about. We follow a car that passes as the driver looks over in sadness as one of the body bags is taken out. The driver is seen looking into his rearview mirror at himself. Then at his child who is asleep in the back seat, a tear rolls ...

New Fic: Conversations in Real Time Rated: PG

...you to relax. He wanted to greet you himself but is working on something important at the villa. We’ll be there in about 30 minutes. There is chilled bottled water in the cooler at your feet.” The driver said pulling away from the airport and into what Archie assumed was highway traffic, he couldn’t be sure because he tilted his head back and closed his eyes as soon as he settled into the seat. He...

Secrets Among Friends Chapter 3

Title: Secrets Among Friends Chapter: 3 Pairing: RyoxTegoxPixJin Rating: PG-13 Arriving at the café he stepped from the cap. “Thank you”, he replied to the taxi driver as he looked though the window of the café. Jin was sitting by himself in the far back corner tapping his fingers against the table.  He continued to walk into the café, breathing in the full body smell of coffee as he walked...

Murder in Overland Park chapter 9 pt 4

... Then we can go in and grab the nerd okay?”   Tony just nodded. They were about to go make that call when the fate stepped in. A pizza deliver car drove up and pulled into the ally. The driver got out opened the side door and let himself in. “Man you called it. You got a talent for this shit.”   Twenty minutes later they had a subdued computer nerd sitting between them on the bench as ...