dgoodwin's blog

Several things I've been meaning to post but haven't gotten around to it.

For starters we finally have our dog, he's a 4 year old adopted greyhound and his name is Seamus.

The breed's supposed to make exceptional pets and he's doing great so far. Remarkably calm and well behaved, almost never barks, completely leash trained and batting 100% on house training so far too. Still haven't had much luck getting him assimilated with the cats, he's prone to try to get too close to them, they hiss, he barks, they freak out. One's pretty unphased by him but the other is still terrified.

Up and running with Fedora 9 on both my work system and my desktop. preupgrade failed on both, first due to this bug, and the second system failed with an unable to find stage2.img message (iirc), haven't debugged this one yet. In both cases I resorted to a trusty (completely unsupported and probably dangerous) live yum upgrade. Working great on both systems post upgrade, stuck with the nouveau driver for now but it's behaving nicely with just an occasional switch to the console and back to alleviate this slight performance problem. I'm actually strongly considering replacing my desktop system as it's about 3 years old now, ridiculously loud, and refuses to suspend/hibernate which I'd like to use every night. Have my eye on Dell Inspiron 530 so far but suggestions would be appreciated. I read that it's pretty quiet, and within the price I'd like to spend to get a quad core system with a integrated Intel graphics (really sick of dealing with binary graphics drivers).

Rounder 0.0.1 is pretty much ready, like packaged up and ready to roll pending just a little bit of testing. It should have been released several weeks ago but I've been distracted because...

It's been a *HUGE* month for PS3 owners. Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, Grand Theft Auto 4, a new Warhawk expansion pack, there's just too much to find the time for. GT5p is visually stunning but I didn't find as addictive as I thought I would, just not enough content to keep me going and the online play really sucks. (chaotic, rude drivers, and no way to play with friends yet, just random matchups) Once GTA4 hit I've left it aside for now but will be returning sometime soon. GTA4 on the other hand is just stunning, easily the greatest game I've ever played. It looks fantastic but most importantly the whole city just feels alive. I could wander the streets in this game for hours on end, really enjoying it and the break from fast paced online gaming. Had some good times just screwing around in free roam with friends in the multi-player mode as well, but spending most of my time enjoying the single player experience.

I've caved and joined another cursed social networking site. You can find me as dgood on twitter.

I guess that's it.