Hugh's Worthless Blog

Luckily for the Rams, they only had to play the "lite" version of the Eagles on Monday night and they were able to pull off a win. Now it is all down to the Jets game this Sunday. If they can win and either Seattle or Minnesota loses they are in the playoffs. Big deal. Even if they make it into the playoffs they are not going anywhere. Why kid themselves? It sounds like the Games Knoppix folks are going to release a second version on Jan 6 (The Three Kings version). I will try to grab that as soon as available via BitTorrent and put in online at WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU . Other recent releases are the Beta #3 version of ProMEPIS (ProMEPIS-2005.b03.iso) which is also on wuarchive and the latest versions of Puppy and Feather linux on my site on optinemailpro.com .

Ugly would be a kind word to describe the Rams against the Arizona Cardinals yesterday. Yes, Chandler stunk it up pretty bad, but he had plenty of help from a defense that generally made the Cardinals offense look good, and Marshall Faulk being completely underused and unaffective when run against the pitiful Arizona run defense. Let's see, Stephen Jackson and Arlen Harris are both healthy and both showed they could run the ball. Why does Martz not use them? Instead he wants Chandler or Martin, those two powerhouse quarterbacks, to throw to the talented Rams receiving corps. News to Martz: great receivers mean nothing when mediocre quarterbacks with poor protection are getting the snap. I thought this guy was supposed to be an "offensive genius"! I cannot wait to see his genius moves against the Eagles next week... On happier news, I have now been given a MEPIS directory on WUARCHIVE where the latest SimplyMEPIS-2004.06.iso and ProMEPIS-2005.b02.iso have been added. T

Well, as expected the second team Rams self destructed against the second team Panthers. Chandler tried valiantly and made lots of good throws... to Panthers. Arlen Harris tried valiantly too, but it was not enough. At least they have the Cardinals next week. I have now have write privileges on the main RAID on wuarchive, so I have created a knoppix repository there with the new official 3.7, as well as the PC-Welt Professional and Games Knoppix versions. See my little Knoppix 3.7 site there for more information. Of the three I still prefer the Games version, just because I like the default xsnow background!

Well, hurray, after last weeks pummeling by the Packers (who themselves were pounded by the Eagles this week), the Rams won it yesterday without Bulger or Faulk against the lifeless 49ers. Chris Chandler started out looking pretty good, as did Steven Jackson who looked a lot better than Faulk has been looking lately. With two away games at weak teams for the next two weeks, they may actually win another game before they have to face the Eagles on Monday night Dec 27 and get obliterated. On the Linux front, Game Knoppix 3.7 was just released today, so I grabbed the ISO via BitTorrent (hey, that is legal for a Linux distro!), and put it on my home space o n wuarchive.wustl.edu . I had to stuff it on the tiny 4GB file system where my home directory lives, but hey, it still works. Mandrake 10.1 official is finally available for public download too, but I am not putting it on my mirror site due to the high traffic it has been receiving for Knoppix ISO images. Hey, you can find Mandrake m