For those still wondering (I have not been posting nearly as much as I should be), I am still in Linux most of the time. However, because I telecommute from home to my job, if Linux flakes out on me (usually because I’m using Beryl), I switch back to Windows. What can I say, I really like my cube and other 3D effects.
This seems to be a known issue with the Nvidia drivers and there is a fix in the works (supposedly). I am willing to hold out because I know that Nvidia will get their shizzle together and get some really nice working drivers going.
In the meantime, I took the time to update to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn beta to get Gnome 2.18 since I could not find a nice article on how to upgrade just Gnome under Edgy Eft. I tried doing it through the update manager but ran into some issues so I decided to blow away my install (heck it’s only 10GB and all my docs are on my Windows partition) and reinstall from a Feisty CD. I must say that after upgrading Beryl is definitely more stable overall (I can run 2-3 days without a hiccup as oppose to the 2-3 hours I was getting) and everything seems a little smoother.
Also, I managed to get my Windows partition to boot in a VmWare instance using this helpful post. And now the only thing left is to wait until someone writes a nice importer for my KeePass database so that I can load my passwords into Revolution without it corrupting the Revelation file, because while I love KeePass, I really do not like running Wine. And no, KeePassX is not an acceptable replacement, its slow and has its own issues.
Overall though, I love my Linux install and I hate having to log into Windows to do stuff for work. Maybe I’ll just turn off Beryl when I work, but then I start to miss my cube and 3D effects. Oh well, guess I will just have to wait for working drivers on that front.
Michael Koby 
Why Comic Books Matter
The way television is today, it is hard to get a show that is not based on reality to become popular. Shows like American Idol and America’s Next Top Model dominate the airwaves and have for the better part of a decade. It was only within the last three years that shows like Lost or even Heroes took to the airwaves and help the viewing public remember that scripted shows can, in fact, be good. As one of televisions biggest shows starts its final act this week (Sorpranos), as so many before it have. I start to wonder where shows can find an audience but do so without budgetary constraints like those of a television show. Think about it, HBO’s series Rome was cancelled due largely to the budget of the show. When television shows start taking budgets that equal a small feature film (and sometimes more), a network has to really ask itself when does the show become cost prohibited and usually when a show begins to spend more than it can possibly bring in naturally it gets canned.
Enter comic books. Continue reading →