Rams, Knoppix for Gamers, Linux Mirror News

Well, since my last post the Rams have gone an unimpressive 1 of 3, first getting clobbered by the unstoppable Patriots, then winning in a solid game to beat the Seahawks, but then reverting to their more typical inconsistent selves to lose to the Bills. And what was the genius, Mark Martz's solution to fix the team? They fired their very reliable punter, Sean Landetta. Wow, what a stroke of genius! When the other team returns punts for touchdowns it is the punter's fault, right? Or could it possibly be the awful return coverage? No, then it is too hard to figure out who to replace. Just replace the punter instead. Tonight they get to play the Packers in Lambeau Field. I am guessing another ugly Monday Night collapse by the Rams in the deep Wisconsin cold. Amazingly the Rams would actually move into first place in the NFC West if by some miracle they show up and actually play and win tonight. That just shows how bad the Seahawks and the rest of the NFC West are playing.

In the Linux world of things nothing new of note has come out recently. However, next week there will be a Knoppix for Gamers public release which should be quite interesting. It had been
released in a German gaming magazine, but due to the popularity they will release it is a public ISO. Once it is available I plan on grabbing it and putting it on my Linux ISO Mirror site. Someone has already submitted a game packed "Pol and Ona's" linux remaster of 3.4 which I have there, and it works quite well. Incidentally, a few people have listed my Linux ISO site on a couple forums and now the traffic there is going through the roof. It should end up at about 500GB for the month of November, which is luckily still only 50% of the quota for the site. Since the WUARCHIVE folks still haven't decided to give write access to anybody, I will leave everything there as long as I can.

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