Fedora Core

I decided to run an update on my FC4 box today after about 3 weeks of being away from my desk.

• Install 2 Package(s)


• Update 85 Package(s)


• Remove 0 Package(s)


• Total download size: 226 M

Anyone who uses this OS and doesn't feel like a complete guinea pig please raise your hand. :)

Sin City and others

I've been to a few movies over the last couple months and none of them were all that great. The big exception would be Frank Miller's Sin City. Wow, beautiful women in every other scene and more violence then you can shake a stick at. "The Hard Goodbye," staring Mickey Rourke was far and above the best story of the three. I've only read the first two graphic novels but its amazing how detailed and faithful the adaptations are. All the other Frank Miller comics/graphic novels I've read have been great. Hopefully we'll see more and more of them in the future. Shooting on Sin City 2 and 3 start in February of 2006.

Some of the stinkers I've seen include "The Ring 2" and "Sahara" (worth a rent at best). I was pretty disappointed by "The Ring 2." The first film was pretty good and very creepy so I was really looking forward to the sequel. Oh well, can't win them all.

Fedora Core 3 (Ok, so maybe not)

I went back to FC3 at work. FC4T2 is showing a bit more promise as well. I liked Ubuntu but its very young, and has almost no configuration tools. They use gnome system tools for most stuff, which at best are flaky. Oh well, it was worth a try :) I still stand by the Debian on the server though. 9000 packages are hard to ignore.

Fedora Core 4 Test 1

Well, I think they've done it. FC4T1 is officially the most unstable and most broken test/beta/alpha software I've had the pleasure to install. To make matters worse the development repo is usually out of sync which means you cant do a dist upgrade because of unfilled dependancies. I've been a big Redhat advocate since the RH3 days. I'm pretty much all but convinced that Debian on the server and Ubuntu on the desktop might be the ultimate combo. The only thing really missing from a major linux distro is some kind of binary diff so updating a system can happen as quickly as possible.

The Wicked West (Image Comics)

I had been looking forward to this book for quite some time and I wasn't disappointed at all. The story is a horror western about a drifter who has a run in with vampires, after taking a local teaching job, in a small town called Javer's Tanks. The artwork is excellent and so is the writing.

Another thing I liked about this GN was the price. If I remember right I got it for about $7.50 after a discount and it must retail for around $10. That is a pretty good price for a book that is over 100 pages. I'm really looking forward to any new GNs that are released detailing the "adventures" of the main character, Cotton Coleridge. The GN is by Todd Livingston, Robert Tinnell, Neil Vokes, Scott Keating and was published by Image Comics. Check it out!

Halloween 2004

For some reason, I just wasn't in the mood this year. It kinda ticked Kristi
off cuz she says its the only thing we have in common. ;) We did catch the
5hr special on Bravo which counted down the 100 scariest movies of all time.
First was given to "Jaws"; second to "Alien" and third to "The Exorcist." I
guess I pretty much agree with their choices overall. I do think that "The
Exorcist" should have been #2. Personally, its my #1 but a lot more people
have seen "Jaws" so that has to be taken into account.

Since it rained not a lot of kids showed up and I didn't spend much time handing out candy. Kristi (dressed as a witch) handed out candy with a co-worker who came over dressed as an Orc. I walked up and down our subdivision following a few groups of kids in my Michael Myers costume. I only made a couple kids cry though, muuuhahahah!! I'm a pretty big dude so I sell it pretty well ;)

Vertigo

I finally caught up on all the Hellblazer issues. I think I'm pretty much addicted to that comic book for good. :) I picked up a complete set of Sandman TPBs and a complete set of Lucifer TPBs as well. Once I'm done with those I'll probably try to read all the Volumes of Swamp Thing. I don't know why I like Vertigo so dang much.