Brent’s Thoughts

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Brent’s Thoughts — the old blog, 2001 onward. Mostly tech, skepticism, and family.

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Good News, Bad News

Well today I have some good news and I have some bad news. Which do you want to hear first? The good news? Ok then here you go. The first step in bringing Edmonson County Schools up on a all fiber backbone for it entire…

Junk

Letter to Marvel

Got to thinking about it today and since there is little chance that anyone from Marvel would ever browse to my site, I went ahead and did a somewhat childish thing and sent them the following letter: Perhaps this is going to the wrong address.…

Geek

Daredevil

Pauline and I went and saw this tonight. It is a pretty good flick. Marvel is really doing a good job of converting their stuff to film from wood pulp. Now everyone pretty much knows how big spider-man went over when it came out, but…

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The Links that Bind Us

Spent some time talking with maxx on Saturday. Topics of conversation ranged through several things: Jokes about thr eads on the wku-linux list , to talk about the group itself, to talk about the history of the group. X-Box mod-ing was also of much conversation…

Geek

Resurrection

I couldn't decide how to write this so I will attempt both ways..... Once still drives, click and whir. Electrons trudge through old paths once again. Lights flicker and glow. Fans stall and then begin to spin. The power supply struggles under the draw of…

Thoughts

Assumptions

(This is dug up from something I wrote a while ago) Perhaps one of the stupidest things to rant on, but hey it is my page if you don't like my crazy rants start you own page, gain a small, but loyal (BTW thanks to…

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In reality it hasn't been that long...

Though it seems like it to look at the way I am now, I haven't been messing with Linux that long. Just now three years I guess. I remember asking Lamont something about it as we walked out of our last class before Christmas break.…

Geek

Poor man's recycle-bin

So I have been running rsync backups for a bit now, and I have been saved a couple times from deleting something that I really wanted. Unfortunately, some of the stuff that I really want to keep are the things that take up a lot…

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Frying my brain with radiowaves

Yep that is probably what I am doing right now. I picked up a wireless NIC for Gears. Redhat didn't understand it by default, but one google search and three rpms later I am rolling with the wireless. It is pretty cool to sit in…

Thoughts

Stopping Evolution

If you believe in Darwin's theory of evolution then, in my opinion, there is some reason to worry about the state of the human race. If survival of the fittest is the way the lifeforms evolve then we have effectively stopped evolution by keeping the…