Sometimes you realize you really are weird

I don't mean weird in a good/bad/cool/uncool sense. Just in a different-than-other-people since. Recently WotC announced* that they're going to have a tool to play DnD over the 'net. But it only works for Windows. My response was, "people still use windows?"

Now, obviously, they do use windows. My mom uses windows. I still use windows at work.

But I don't use it at home. I can't imagine using it at home. I was about to post an angry post asking "what do you use? XP-which-is-about-to-be-discontinued-by-MS? Vista-which-is-XP-with-fancy-graphics,-more-system-requirements-and-a-higher-price-tag?"

Naturally I realized that would be a dumb post and restrained myself**. But I felt a gulf between myself and my fellow EnWorld posters (and it's weird to feel that when you're on a message board that self-selects for players of a specific game in a niche hobby).

*Where announced equals wrote down on the internet somewhere and it was pounced on by a rabid Mac fan.

**OK. So maybe I didn't. But I thought about restraining myself. And nobody decided to respond to my flamebait so it's like I didn't post. Right?

(Computer) Utopia Comith

So Ubuntu 7.04 has moved to beta and Firefox 3 is stable in alpha (you've tried it for five minutes! it's been a very stable five minutes).

Of course Firefox 3 doesn't have much in the way of extensions going yet, but I'm hoping soon. (because otherwise you'll have to figure out how to revert to FF2...? I can do that...)

I am (not) l33t

[this is gonna be good]

Stop it.

[was the original heading going to be something else... maybe three letters long?]

I was -almost- l33t.

[And then what happened?]

I failed in my attempt to install the alpha verision of Ubuntu 7.04 and wrecked 24 hours of work.

[Why?]

Because getting sound to work on Ubuntu 6.10 was irritating.

[So you decided to move from the difficult-to-use relatively cutting-edge verision of Ubuntu directly to the alpha-verision-bleeding-edge. Because you thought it would be easier to get the sound working.]

Yeah.

[you rock!]

The technologically impaired wish to know: What's an SVN?

So I found a bug in the otherwise awesome dvd-slideshow. Its awesome in a Linux kind of command line way, but I can do command line. [It took you days! -- ed. No Comment.]

Anyway the nice people commented on my bug telling me to look at the Subversion Repository. They even linked it on the main page. Can I figure out how to get this SVN code into my computer?

No. No I can't.

But Subversion Repository sounds really cool doesn't it. Maybe it's like that warehouse in Indian Jones, but the boxes are filled with lots of revolutionaries like Marx and Che.