Hugh's Worthless Blog

Version 4.0.2 of Knoppix finally came out last week and now wuarchive is proud to hoouse both the CD and DVD versions of the English versions. I think is it interesting how if you access wuarchive via HTTP you cannot see the large DVD iso images (larger than 1GB), but if you use FTP you can! How weird. It must be something with Apache. Late last night I checked distrowatch and noticed that a new Puppy Linux release (1.0.5) had finally come out after 2 long months. It sounds like they made quite a few changes. But another thing I noticed was a distribution called featherweight linux based on version 0.7.5 of Feather Linux . Version 0.7.5? I thought 0.7.4 was the last and final release! It looks like someone else has taken over and has brought Feather Linux bask to life. Good for them!

A long awaited Games Knoppix release has come out, albeit only now on DVD. I do have a few DVD burners at work to try it out, but it did take while to download the ISO with BitTorrent yesterday. You can FTP the English version from ftp.wustl.edu . I will probably end up burning the beast on Monday on our iMac G5, since the older Dell system I have available with a DVD burner only burns DVD+R/RW but I only have DVD-R/RW media right now in the office! Time to buy a combo drive that burns both, but should I get a dual layer burner too? Decisions, decisions... The Cards have clinched the Central Division but the Astros have refused to lose the last two nights and the Cubs came back and beat the Cards last night. They had better not lose two to the Cubbies this weekend! That champagne is getting stale!

Last night the Cards beat the Pirates and the Astros lost to drop the magic number down to 4 . Amazingly neither my wife nor my daughter seems to care. How sad. But the Rams lost to the 49ers on Sunday, looking amazingly as bad as they did last season (Wow, horrible special teams, again? Is anybody surprised?) Switchfoot's new album, Nothing is Sound was officially released today. Now I must deliberate the difficult decision of which version to get! Get one with a bonus song at Wal-Mart or Target, or just get the one with a bonus DVD for an extra $2. It is pretty annoying having to decide on what version of an album to get. There were already 3 or 4 different Beautiful Letdown versions, some with extra songs or a DVD or with a free album, etc. What ever happened to the idea of just releasing the same old recording? Cheap CD and DVD media makes it too easy to make a billion different versions of everything. Anyway, the album sounds good from the (*cough*) "online" versi...

Hmm, not too much. The Cardinals are cruising through the rest of the season now with their magic number down to 10 after last night's win over the Mets. Carpenter is up to 21 wins and looks the the Cy Young winner for the year. Good for him! No new Linux distributions of note in the past few weeks. MEPIS 3.3.2 should be finalized soon, but it is just an update. Version 3.4 should be a more substantial update when it moves to KDE 3.4. I am also awaiting the CD version of KNOPPIX 4.0 which should be pretty soon. I am currently listening to the new Audio Adrenaline CD Until My Heart Caves In , which is the first CD of theirs I actually purchased. I think the new AA sounds nothing like the old Bloom/Zombie AA which I never really cared for back in the mid-90's when I first started listening to Christian music. I much prefer the "Tyler Burkum" sound which is now their mainstay. But hey, I always preferred the more "pop" style of Christian music as you can tel...