Pariah's Ponderings

For those random people having random issues with logins lately..it may not be your Linux distro.  Apparently a nasty bug has creeped into ext4, which is causing all kinds of mayhem.  Make sure when installing a new distro, you mount your /home directory as something besides ext4 in order to keep your data safe.  See this link , scroll down to the Section entitled Tips and Tricks (by Robert Storey) to see more of what's going on, in case you are affected.  Not a lot of people are at this point, supposedly just randomly.  The chief maintainer of ext4 is working on a solution now.

For those random people having random issues with logins lately..it may not be your Linux distro.  Apparently a nasty bug has creeped into ext4, which is causing all kinds of mayhem.  Make sure when installing a new distro, you mount your /home directory as something besides ext4 in order to keep your data safe.  See this link , scroll down to the Section entitled Tips and Tricks (by Robert Storey) to see more of what's going on, in case you are affected.  Not a lot of people are at this point, supposedly just randomly.  The chief maintainer of ext4 is working on a solution now.

There is one chore in all my world that ranks right up there with going to the laundromat as "things I hate to do the most" and that would be shopping.  I admit, I'm a girl and I don't like to shop.  Unless it's rummaging, which doesn't qualify as shopping in my view.  Every so often, though, I have to work up the will to go to actual stores and hunt around for a pair of pants to wear at work.  Dockers, a brand introduced by Levi Strauss & Co., has been providing classy jeans and work pants since 1986. With fits ranging from Classic to Slim, there is a pair for everyone. Check some different styles out here !  I'm just not a fan of going from store to store, trying on pants. Every time I do this, I end up feeling crappy about my figure.  I don't have a butt, my legs are too skinny and my waist is far too wide for the rest of my little self.  Therefore, as one might imagine, shopping for pants is not a happy time for me.  Shirts aren't so...

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Recently, my boss told me that her son is about to have his very first birthday party. I am amazed at all the work this seems to involve. Not only do you have to get the must have presents perfect for the boy who is about to turn one year old, but also there is a lot of thought involved about how to plan a party where lots of other small children are going to be. Most of them will be between one and two years old. This can be pretty chaotic if you ask me! Another thing I noticed is that in addition to gifts, a lot of attention is being paid to preparations for games and invitations. I guess it is pretty important to keep that many small children occupied and happy, unless you want to hear a lot of crying and screaming! I did notice that my boss spent a lot of time picking out just the right birthday invitations for her son's party. When she asked me for help in choosing a design, I was happy to help. I got pretty hooked on going through them all, trying to find just the pe...

Guest post written by Mimi Lawless We don't have a whole lot of room in our kitchen. So we decided to bump out the room a little bit in a big remodel. That's giving us all kinds of room for things in our kitchen that I've never thought that we would have room for. But that doesn't mean that I haven't been thinking of all of those things to add in my kitchen and making mental notes. One of the things that I was thinking about is some kind of wine storage in the kitchen. While I was looking for some info on that, I saw some information on sears cabinet refacing and I added that to the list of all of hte things that we're going to do in the ktichen. I think that we're going to do with a little wine fridge right beside of our regular fridge so that everything will be the perfect temperature and keep from taking up extra space in our regular fridge, which is a bit of a problem now.

Guest post by Jewel Cole My boyfriend and I thought it would be nice to move into an artsy neighborhood, but the more time we spend here, the more we realize we totally don’t fit in. At first, the street festivals and art shows were fun, but now we are just sick of all of the hipsters and crowds that come in from other neighborhoods. There is never any parking on the weekends, and we always wake up to garbage in the streets that doesn’t get cleaned up for days. Sometimes there are positive new things that happen like farmers markets and animal adoption events, but it is just exhausting. I get angry at how people behave and have realized that maybe we are too old to live in a trendy area. We decided that we are just going to spend more time at home instead of trying to be involved in all the activities. We signed up for a directv promo, and we hope that will keep us entertained until we save enough to buy a place in a different neighborhood. We don’t want to move right no...

Guest post written by Natalie Rickman I'm at the point where I really want to make my home my own. I spent a lot of money on it so that I can actually call it my own and now's the time to decorate it to wear it actually looks like a place that I would live. I really love retro style and I thought that it would be a fun idea to buy a bar cart to use in there. When I was online looking around for a reasonably affordable bar cart, which can be kind of hard to track down, I came across some info on Sears cabinet refacing . I really hate my kitchen right now and would love to give it a makeover, so I'm going to start there. I foudn this one amazing looking bar cart that was exactly what I had imagined in my mind. It was a little more expensive than I had wanted to pay, but I found a coupon code for it and bought it with that. No turning back now!

I'm currently downloading the latest offering from Linux Mint 12, 64 bit with KDE.  Normally this wouldn't be that big of a deal news-wise but with the fiasco known as Gnome 3, everything has been turned upside down as Clem and the gang try to keep their loyal fan base from scattering to the four winds as the majority of Linux users have been suddenly left out in the cold.  Lefebvre shows his usual genius by creating a brand new desktop that has gotten rave reviews even in its beta form.  Other Linux users, such as myself, have suddenly been turning to other desktop environments in the wake of the chaos caused by Gnome's sudden and intense desire to copy Unity desktop which, outside of newbs, is useless for most end users.  Add to that the new Gnome project policy of "we don't care what our users want" and its no surprise that even the most loyal Gnome 2.x users are now looking at KDE in a more "how you doin'" kind of way.  In about an hour I wil...

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I appreciate the guest post, Emerson Moses My wife is probably the best cook I have ever known. When I was younger, my mother made everything out of a box. We practically lived off Hamburger Helper and Better Crocker. There is nothing wrong with that, but I was not used to good, homemade cooking. My wife’s mother, on the other hand, has always been an elaborate cook and I am sure that is where my wife gets it. However, I have seen her searching through our direct tv northern virginia guide looking for cooking shows. Perhaps she is getting it from Paula Dean or Rachel Ray. Wherever she is getting her skill and inspiration, I am just glad she is cooking for me. I should probably try and make her Hamburger Helper sometime and see what she thinks. Believe it or not, she has never even tried it. It is hard for me to imagine never having the stuff. I am sure it will be a shock for her when you consider what she is used to eating.

I know..I'm quite famous for my rants, both long and short, but today I'm going to do a rare Rave instead.  So today's Rave is about the French fries at the McDonalds in Georgetown Illinois.  They are always fresh, always hot.  Not once in the 6 months since I have moved to this town have I ever gotten anything less than steaming hot French fries, no matter what time I go in there.  Not to mention their service is fast too. 

I really think I might be going slowly insane from waiting for Linux mint 12 KDE to arrive.  I'm starting to wonder if I am going to have to abandon Mint entirely for a while until the SICK JOKE that is Gnome 3 gets a massive fix.  I'm not really a KDE fan but I'm willing to give it a shot..in the meantime I'm distro surfing again..sigh.