Pariah's Ponderings

This guest post from Hong Alexander Nobody would have guessed a few years back I’d be running my very own bed and breakfast. I was all about the big business world and it was tough for even me to imagine me doing anything but climbing the corporate ladder. I can only imagine what my family thought when I first told them I was going to do this! Anyway, here I am looking into Texas Electricity Providers and satin bedding and you know my life is totally changed for the different. I love that each and every day I get to interact with new customers and that I can make my own decisions about how the business is run. There’s something to be said for having your own business and being able to be flexible and you know, I can’t think of anything else I’d rather be doing. I mean, I love that I made such a big decision for my life and I’m thankful I’ve had so much support to get me where I am today.

URL:   http://pariah73.blogspot.com/ I post all the time to my Blogger account..in fact, I use it to make a few bucks here and there. However, it's rare that I actually log in to my account, so when I did, I noticed there is a whole new look and feel to the settings and there is now a template designer. Of course, as I get bored easily, I like to change the looks of all my blogs, sites and everywhere else I am after a while. I took the opportunity to use my own artwork as the background for my blogger page, so check it out (yes that is MY artwork on the background, isn't it purty!) Sorry for the urine-yellow of the font but otherwise my posts would barely be legible. Make sure you drop by and leave a comment, criticism or just say hey! See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a1ik14

I recently had an opportunity to test out Gnome 3.  I have already mentioned that I dont like it but I hadn't expanded on why that is.  As the owner of two websites devoted to help new Linux users, I always appreciate when applications try to cater to being newbie friendly.  However, I feel that Gnome 3 is a giant step in the wrong direction.  Gnome 3 is very limiting to the end user in general.  Everything is pretty much set up in the way it is set up and that is it.  For all the people who hate the limiting manner of Unity desktop, you are going to feel right at hate with Gnome 3.  Everything is decided for you, layout, categories...no customization.  Sure there are work arounds..aren't there always but should users have to use a ton of work arounds in order to get a desktop that does what the user wants it to do? Isn't that defeating the purpose of using Linux?  More than anyone I understand the importance of making applications user friendly but to make everything dummy

Seriously? Just because Stargate Universe sucked, which to be fair it did, now they are scrapping the Stargate Atlantis movie plan?????  This blows goats in the worst way possible!

Guest post written by Kimmie Sanders As far as I'm concerned, if something doesn't let me have a little bit of creative flexibility, I just don't really care about doing it. I really like expressing myself in everything that I do in life. I think that anyone who walks into my home can definitely tell that too. I'm always creating things to hang up on my walls or taking on little projects to spruce up things to fit my own personal style. I also like to get all kinds of ideas by following some of my favorite craft and interior design blogs with my wireless internet Portland . It seems like I'm always finding a new project to take on, however I don't know if I can always do all of them. Maybe if just doing that was my job, I could! Well I took on the challenge of coming up with some really creative fall decor for my house. I got the idea to make some pumpkins a little better than jsut regular old ones. So I bought an assortment of cheap rhinestones and glued them o

Amplify’d from www.theregister.co.uk Windows 8 secure boot would 'exclude' Linux Microsoft wants firmware to only start authorised OSes By John Leyden • Get more from this author Posted in Developer , 21st September 2011 11:20 GMT Computer scientists warn that proposed changes in firmware specifications may make it impossible to run “unauthorised” operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD on PCs. Proposed changes to the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware specifications would mean PCs would only boot from a digitally signed image derived from a keychain rooted in keys built into the PC. Microsoft is pushing to make this mandatory in a move that could not be overridden by users and would effectively exclude alternative operating systems, according to Professor Ross Anderson of Cambridge University and other observers. <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/N6978/jump/developer/developer;tile=2;ct=ns;unitnum=2;pos=top;dcove=d;sz=336x280,300x250,300x600,33

Okay, I downloaded Fedora 15..but not to review Fedora Linux..but to review Gnome 3. There are several things to like about it, such as the simplicity and ease of navigation..and it shore is purty. But, I don't like it. I use Linux for one main reason. It looks and does EXACTLY what I want it to do, not what some corporate entity wants it to. The feature set is exactly what Gnome needs. The taking away of customization is a horrible step in the (Windows) wrong direction. I get the need to revamp, and appeal to newbies, primarily refugees from Windoze..Clean it up, Team Gnome then I will be back to revisit this. Amplify’d from www.gnome.org GNOME 3 Applications About Us Get Involved Search: Get things done with ease, comfort and control. Simply Beautiful G

Finally, last night my phone spontaneously started showing a new icon, the H+  Yes, I was confused.  So Google informs me that it represents HSUPA? was it? anyway..supposedly denoting the existence of and usage of 4g..of course I am nobody's fool but my own so I figured out this actually meant I have 3g at last.  Yay me.

URL:   http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en To the amazing Freddie Mercury, your talent was amazing and you were inspiring..happy birthday! See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bn190

via getyourfix.org my dog's profile is on here if anyone wants to help sponsor his getting neutered

URL:   http://www.music61832.info/news-blog.html Check it out! You know you will just because I've made you curious as to the cool things on it See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a1c6x0

https://plus.google.com/116364238496193945708/about Check out Google+, the latest social network from our awesome friends at Google..they just keep em comin! See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a1c1k2

This is a test post for the Android app Smart Keyboard Pro.  There are so many options for customizing the keyboard that I can't even name them all.  For one, typing this post has been really fast and the prediction and word correction are amazingly accurate.  Right now I have auto caps turned off, choice of prediction word color, key size, keyboard types for both portrait and landscape (I'm using t9 in portrait mode), gestures, skins and tons more..it will even pull words from the apps u use..so oft used words pop up in the prediction ..and I have a lot of words that exist only in my head..this  typed out pretty fast.. and I find myself not using the correction key nearly as much as with other keyboards..I may actually keep this one

Thanks for the post from Noe Castro I have found that one of my favorite shows of all time is "the office". This show combines dry humor with possible real world situations. In doing so, you are able to laugh at what is happening to the characters while realizing that it is something that could have easily happened to you at the same time. There are not too many shows that are able to pull that off, and that is exactly what I like so much about it. My favorite episode would have to be the one titled "the duel". This is an episode in which two of the men of the office challenge each other to a duel in order to try to best the other in competition for a women who works in the office. The randomness of this event is what really makes the show so great. You know that nothing like this would ever happen in the real world, but you suspend your belief system for a bit just to make the show fun. I personally enjoy watching every episode of this show on my Satellit

I got to update to the long awaited Gingerbread version of Android a few days ago and let me say just some of the improvements are fire!!  I love how I can go into my application manager and now be able to download 3rd party apps (although I think that was an AT&T thing) and I can go to the media area tab and choose which apps I want on my memory card...love the longer battery life, the darker skin, ability to choose what to clear on the notifications bar, and eagle is more awesome now too.  The market update is weird though..I like it less.

I just  got my gingerbread update yesterday for my Motorola Atrix and do far I am loving it!  Swype is more responsive, the notification bar is improved, the skin colors are different and darker, and holy big bird! My battery life is showing a massive improvement and it was good to begin with!  Can't wait to try it more stuff!

Never thought I would live to see the day that American space shuttles would all be retired...with seats on Russian shuttles going for about 10 million each..American astronauts have effectively grounded for the next 5 years while private companies make their own shuttles to get astronauts to and from the space station.  To me the question is..what is up there weshouldnt be seeing?  Keep that question in mind in case all of a sudden China and Russia decide to ground their shuttles too.  I just find it hard to believe that we are not going to be competitive in the space program anymore..since when does America give that stus up to anyone without a fight?  I'm just saying it's a little weird..even with the future goals planned.

Guest written by our friend Trent Horton When my grandmother died I decided it was finally time to learn some southern cooking basics, especially since I grew up in Georgia and knew very little about preparing Southern classics. I was tired of being asked questions about Southern cuisine that I just didn't know the answer to, so I checked out some WIRELESS INTERNET pricing and started doing research about the basic cooking techniques from staff. Turns out, southern cooking isn't all that hard, it just requires a lot of patience in addition to a lot of salt and butter! Paula Deen sure knows what she's doing so I've been watching a lot of her shows lately to try and pick up some additional southern knowledge. That is, when I can even understand what she's saying! I feel much better prepared to make something delicious and authentic for my family this Thanksgiving and they're all going to be shocked at how well I know my way around the kitchen. I may even ask my co

Guest post of the week by Deangelo Spencer My absolute favorite restaurant is Burger King. I can think of no other restaurant that I would rather go to than a Burger King and every time that I go I always get a char grilled whopper with extra fries and a sweet tea. This meal makes me salivate just thinking about it. In fact, as soon as I finish this blog post, I will set the home security alarm (/) and hop in the car to my local burger King to grab a quick meal. I love Burger King because they are very informal and their staff is always friendly. I never have to wait in long longs or make a reservation to go eat there. When I am hungry, I simply go and get my food. They even hav! e a drive through so I don't even have to get out of my car if I don't want to. I love eating at Burger King because they have all kinds of burgers and chicken sandwiches, as well as excellent fries and incredible milk shakes. Their food is excellent and it all has a flame grilled flavor because they

spread the word! Amplify’d from www.facebook.com           Pariah Patty Willett SUPPORT METAL Only group members can see this post don't forget, we at Music 61832 are trying to expand our services so we can help our local musicians..if you have helpful links or info that we can use, please let us know!! MUSIC 61832 music61832.info Music 61832 resources for musicians and fans 9:47pm (about a minute ago) · Like Unlike · · Unsubscribe Subscribe Write a comment... Press Shift+Enter to start a new line. Read more at www.facebook.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a112jx

I am loving this phone! I just switched from Sprint, which I had endless network issues with, not to mention the Evo 4g which has all the battery life of a full size digital camera (ugh) to AT&T.  I really wanted to go back to Verizon but I just couldn't afford it.  I really miss my Droid.  Now tho, this new phone I have is great. The Motorola Atrix is an awesome phone, very much like a Droid without the keyboard.  The last month I had my Droid I didn't even use the keyboard anyway.  I'm a total Swype addict.  I always said I wouldn't get a touch screen only phone but Swype changed that.  The best part is I can actually use the internet again!  With the Evo I pretty much had to plug the damn thing into the wall just to see a web page!  I haven't charged this phone figure since yesterday and I've all still got half the battery! Lovin it!

URL:   http://www.flock.com/faq.html Flock Browser is shutting down..interesting..and abrupt..apparently the Flock team (in its entirety?) is going to join Zynga to develop social gaming for all platforms..interesting choice of changes..So is this the end of Flock? I have to wonder if someone might come and rescue Flock from its imminent demise, considering how many people actively use it. See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bzzql

Make sure you check out the revisions that have been made to the Music 61832 website! http://music61832.info

Changes are coming to the Music 61832 website..now with contact info, shorter web address and lots more changes to come.

Flying the American flag upside down is a symbol of distress.  In Danville Illinois the American flag is flying upside down in several locations.  The man responsible states he is doing this to signify that this country is in distress.  Some find it disrespectful, but Songer says he is not being disrespectful, as he is a veteran, but showing the fact that this country is in trouble and he says he will leave the flags upside down until Congress passes a law protecting military pay in the event of governmental shutdown.  I happen to agree, this country us in major distress.

Whether I love it or hate it, I am excited to try it out. Can't wait! Amplify’d from www.gnome.org GNOME’s new desktop takes elegance to a new level. We’ve swept away the clutter and made a simple and easy-to-use desktop, and we’ve made this the most beautiful GNOME desktop ever, with a new visual theme, a refined new font and carefully crafted animations. An overview at a glance The Activities Overview is the portal to all your computing activities. Quickly accessible using the top-left hot corner or windows key, it provides a single place to access windows, applications and even messages. The dash allows you to see which applications are currently running and the workspace switcher can be used to group windows. Integrated messaging GNOME 3 incorporates a unique, built-in messaging system. Messages can be directly responded to from notification popups, and you can access your previous communications from the Messaging Tray which is always available from the bottom of the screen.

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Speed dial in Opera is awesome. I use it every day. All my favorite sites, with thumbnails, right in front of my face. Opera changed this for those who wanted infinite speed dial to a page of huge thumbnails and if there are more than 9 the page starts scrolling..if you have to scroll to find your speed dial box of choice, it becomes somewhat redundant. Here's my fix. Amplify’d from pariah.posterous.com Fixing Speed Dial in Opera 11.10 In case this doesn't get fixed in the final version of Opera 11.10, here is the fix for the giant speed dial boxes that scroll, thereby defeating the purpose of speed dial in the first place.  In the address box type the following with no spaces  about:config  Then, in the search box, type speed dial, which will bring up the speed dial config section under user prefs box, there are some options: number of columns, speed dial file, state, etc.  Under speed dial zoom level, lower the amount from 100% to about 70%. 

In case this doesn't get fixed in the final version of Opera 11.10, here is the fix for the giant speed dial boxes that scroll, thereby defeating the purpose of speed dial in the first place.  In the address box type the following with no spaces  about:config  Then, in the search box, type speed dial, which will bring up the speed dial config section under user prefs box, there are some options: number of columns, speed dial file, state, etc.  Under speed dial zoom level, lower the amount from 100% to about 70%.  This will make it look about like before.  Enjoy!

The other day was quite the adventure when I decided to dual boot Meego Linux on my new Acer netbook that came with Windows 7 Starter.  By the way that is the worst OS EVER!  I repartitioned and installed Meego only to discover that upon reboot, it would only boot into Meego.  No bootloader! Grrr! So I finally get back into Windows only to have it reinstall from the backup partition! So then it would only boot into Windows...after googling I found one person doing the same install as me and posted a tutorial.  Unfortunately the steps didn't work for me.  So, to see if the problem was universal I installed Ubuntu Netbook edition.  Bootloader worked fine..unfortunately I despised UNE. So I took that off and rebooted...to have a grub error!!! More googling got a quick fix for that..back into Windows..then to reinstall Meego cuz I really like it.  So then I got back into windows, just to have it run the repair again..ugh..then I downloaded a program to make a bootloader..after reinstal

Well for a long time I've been needing a portable computing option but I hate trying to use the internet on a phone so I got a netbook.  Its an Acer aspire one and its great...except that it has windows on it...ugh i had  forgotten what a pain in the ass it is!  Downloading Linux as I write!

Hey check out this addition to the music community for the East Central Illinois and West Central Indiana (and anyone else who's interested). We are MUSIC 61832 and we support local music! Amplify’d from www.facebook.com Remove Post Pariah Patty Willett was invited to join the Music 61832 Admin team..thanks for the vote of confidence..hopefully I do a good job! Stop on by and sign up..we need more music lovers signed on to support the music..keep checking in, I plan on some design changes to the website that ought to really kill!! HOME PAGE music61832.weebly.com MUSIC 61832 2 seconds ago · Like Unlike · · Share Write a comment... Press Shift+Enter to start a new line. Read more at www.facebook.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bv4t3

URL:   http://www.petitiononline.com/Linflix/petition.html We need Netflix to understand that they are losing a large number of potential customers (12,696 at last count) just because they are snubbing Linux users. If you support Linux, please take the time to sign the petition and be counted. See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bt2ma

If you are getting an error on the update manager (For Lucid Lynx or Linux Mint 9) which goes something like this: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/lucid/Release.gpg Something wicked happened resolving 'packages.medibuntu.org:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname) then check out my fix here I don't know if this error is distro or version specific or if it was entirely due to my new modem. See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bs9ud

URL:   http://www.zedge.net/ringtones/1229030/my-balls-ringtone/ Check out the new ringtone I made from the song You Ain't Seen My Balls See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/broje

URL:   http://www.zedge.net/ringtones/1228570/zombie-love-song... I made a ringtone out of the Zombie Love Song.enjoy! See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/brnmt

I am looking forward to a release candidate of Haiku. It is not based on Linux but rather implements BeOS for a supposedly better end-user experience. Amplify’d from www.haiku-os.org About General FAQ Haiku Slideshow Haiku Gallery Haiku Movies Project History Haiku, Inc. Trademark Policy Community Development Documents Search this site: Home What is Haiku? Haiku is an open source operating system currently in development that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the Be Operating System, Haiku aims to become a fast, efficient, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful system for computer users of all levels. What's so good about Haiku any

Here's a couple of new web browser reviews for your sleeping enjoyment! Amplify’d from www.weebly.com http://www.newlinuxuser.info Your old subdomain pariah73.weebly.com now forwards to your new domain name. Let your friends know your site has been published. Read more at www.weebly.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/brk4a

Here's a couple of new web browser reviews for your sleeping enjoyment! Amplify’d from www.weebly.com http://www.newlinuxuser.info Your old subdomain pariah73.weebly.com now forwards to your new domain name. Let your friends know your site has been published. Read more at www.weebly.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/brk4a

Here's a couple of new web browser reviews for your sleeping enjoyment! Amplify’d from www.weebly.com http://www.newlinuxuser.info Your old subdomain pariah73.weebly.com now forwards to your new domain name. Let your friends know your site has been published. Read more at www.weebly.com   See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/brk4a

Guest post written by Cynthia Hankins I thought that it was about the greatest thing ever when my kids found all of my old paperback books at my parents' house when we went and visited them over the holidays. My mom told them that it was okay for them to take all of those books because she obviously wasn't using them. At first, before I let them have them I looked through them in case there were embarrassing notes or anything like that in them, but they were okay. One of the books that I really loved that was in there was Pride and Prejudice, which made me want to go online to put the movie version of it with Colin Firth in my Netflix queue. While I was online doing that I also came across a CLEARINTERNET online offer that sounded really great, so I decided to sign up for it and change over my internet service for it. I also decided to reread Pride and Prejudice and it just got me into why always love Jane Austen's books so much.

Okay no more triple Tweets and missing Identi.ca..life is good.  The only thing in life I could really use right now is a vehicle that gets better than 18 miles per gallon. Seriously, a beater with a heater at this point is all I really would need as long as it gets good gas mileage . Of course, I would never get rid of my beloved Blazer. He'd be my backup man lol. Anyway, all is now (finally) consolidated into Firefox, for which I am grateful because it was my first web browser outside of Internet Explorer and I hated for it to be so utterly useless. I can now be rid of the giant albatross hanging from my neck, affectionately known as Flock. It was great for what it did but it didn't come close to integrating all of my social networks and blogs. Often the blog poster was buggy or it would forget login information seemingly at random. Good times , she says sarcastically. Now, using Amplify, I can link to Posterous and Ping.fm, and this combination now takes care of al

Okay I got those pesky multiposting issues taken care of that was plaguing Twitter..i.e. the 3 times posted everything lol.  Now I'm still trying to solve the issue of posting to Identi.ca..which apparently hasn't been posting anything at all from the service I used to use to post to it, Ping.fm.  Now I have Amplify and Ping.fm set to post to Identi.ca and still nothing.  No wonder I never had any comments from it :D At this time, not sure if it's a problem with the API or what.  On a side note, I've been thinking about purchasing a new domain for all my 'non-Linux' content See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/brfxs

final test post tonight, hopefully this works, no more triple tweets and missing identi.ca See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/br8yu

identi.ca isn't posting at all..here's another test post See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/br8wu

This is a second? test post due to the triple postings on Twitter..hopefully this works :) See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/br8vv

Today I finally got to watch a movie I saw when I was about 6 and didn't know the name of..all these years no one else knew the name of it either...well, I posted what I could remember on a website forum for horror movie fans such as myself :) called Best-Horror-Movies.com  and they have an entire section of archives for people searching for the names of movies they've seen.  I got a response for mine and actually got the name of the movie, which incidentally is called Something Evil (1972).  Even better was that someone had posted it on YouTube in parts, so I got to watch it..not a whole lot like I remembered but there were bits where I was like oh yeah, I remember that.  So, oddly enough, a weight was lifted that I hadn't even realized was there.  Odd how a movie can stick with a person to the point they look for the name of it for 20 years (okay, more than that)..... I'm doing a little happy dance right now. See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/bqo4y

this is a second test post to make sure that there is no double or triple posting going on due to Amplify being connected to Posterous and Ping.fm http://amplify.com/u/bqi2t

Posterous is a great way to update many of my  sites  at once. Currently I'm trying out Superious which is a user developed android app for Posterous.  Seems to be going well.

I have way too many ways to share information http://amplify.com/u/bqfng

Hi Amplify friends... I'm new here. Looking forward to sharing interesting things, learning something new and engaging in conversation with you! http://amplify.com/u/apoax