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Social (in)Security

March 14

I wish the Bush administration would stop saying the sky is falling, and SS is bankrupt.  This is a lie, plain and simple.  At the current rates, it can pay 100% of the benfits until 2042.  Doesn’t sound like much of a crisis to me.  After that, they can pay over 70% for just about forever.  This is with the current system, with NO CHANGES!
To ‘fix’ Social Security, raise takes slightly, remove the +$90,000 income loophole, and stop stealing fron the trust fund to pay for the nation deficit.  That’s it.  Fixed.
Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out.  That moron of a President it trying to drive this country into the ground.
Something for Bush to think about from the founder of the GOP

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

 

Posted by on March 14, 2005 in Political

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Updates

March 12

Changed the message board over to an embedded frame.  As long as it keeps working, I will leave it as it is.  See the words section of you want to add your comments.

I have added some more reviews to the Zaurus software section.  I will be adding a few a day until I have everything that works on the SL-6000 listed.
In other news, it must really suck to be a judge.  With crazed Polish Electricians (sounds like the name of a band)  gunning down your family, and violent offenders taking you out in the courtroom, I hope they get paid ok.
The new job is working out nicely, it pays nicely, and the work is interesting.  When I am happy, Cyberphreak.com gets updated more.  Got a new keyboard for my computer, it is a membrane type, like a laptop, with a similar arrangement.  It is easy to type on, and when Tiffany need to use my computer, she likes it since it is very close to her laptop layout and feel.  (This works both ways too, if I need to use her laptop.)

Well, that’s about it for now.  I am having a belated birthday tomorrow, hope I get some good gifts.
Dave

 

Posted by on March 12, 2005 in Zaurus

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What’s new?

March 07

Been working on a few things.

Linux Section:

Updated Zaurus Kino2 reference, the new 0.4.2 is out, and it is pretty sweet.

I found a problem with my tutorial for encoding movies for the zaurus.  The audio sync is messed up again.  The only way I can get it to work is encode the video with mencoder, then use AVIDEMUX to encode the MP3.  I will update the section tonight.

As a work in progress, I have most of the DVD9 to DVD5 tutorial up.  A dozen or so more screenshots and it will be complete.
In the words section, I brought over a Blog entry and expanded it out a little.
Linux never ceases to amaze me, though.  On my Athlon XP 2200, I was ripping/encoding a DVD, listening to OGG music, chatting online with a Java application, editing my webpage, with an FTP client open, while compiling the latest mplayer, all at the same time…on 512 meg of ram.  I would love to see windows do that.  The music never skipped once either 🙂

 

Posted by on March 7, 2005 in Linux, Zaurus

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Food Food Food

March 04

Does fast food scare you?  It should.

Just (somehow) get a hold of the nutritional information for a typical fast food joint and prepare to be amazed.
There are shakes that are over 1,200 calories, burgers well over 600, and lets not mention the fries.  Just about every fast food place you go to is a death trap in terms of food health.  There are, perhaps, 10% of thier menu items that don’t exceed the fat/sugar/sodium intake guidlines.
A single typical meal at a McDonalds, Wendy’s, Burger King, et al is your WHOLE DAY.  Lets take an example:
Big Mac 560 Calories 30 Grams of Fat 47% Daily Value

Large Fries 520 Calories 25 Grams of Fat 38% Daily Value

Apple Pie 250 Calories 11 Grams of Fat 18% Daily Value

Medium Coke 210 Calories, 0 Fat

Lets do the math now, shall we?

1540 Calories, 66 Grams of Fat, 103% of Fat.
Well, that’s it, you are done now.  Hope you are full.  For a typical American, you don’t need 2000 or 2500 calories to live, 1500 is just fine.  Just ask diabetic patients losing weight.  Sick, isn’t it?  You ate your whole day at one meal
As a personal note, my wife and I have been on Weight Watchers for a year now.  She has lost 60Lbs, and I have lost 76Lbs. We stopped eating fast food, and learned what a portion size should be.  I hope the rest of America learns before this generation has a shorter life expectancy than the one before it.

 

Posted by on March 4, 2005 in General Comments

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Commentary for March 3rd, 2005

March 03

Commentary for March 3rd, 2005, from a former Blog entry.

Listening to the radio on the way to work inspired this entry. I heard ad after ad about ‘geek squad’, Anti-virus software, and the new AOL which protects you from the all the bad guys. Well, I just makes me chuckle how much money is made off of Mircosoft’s shoddy products. I know why Linux is unsupported and slow to adopt in PC’s. None of the software companies want to loose their revenue stream of fixing, essentially, broken products. My Linux computer just zips along, working and working and working. If it wasn’t for having to move, my uptime would be in the the YEARS range. That’s right, my computer has never crashed, EVER. It has not locked up, slowed down due to adware, or really changed over time. I don’t run a server, it is just a desktop machine, and that’s it. I am connected to the internet 24-7 and I don’t have a single virus, adware, or hacker on board. I have a modern, non-fragmenting file system. That’s right kids, I never have to de-frag my 3 hard drives. I have a journalized file system, a real one, NOW. Not like WinFS, which may never appear. How much did the software cost me? Nothing. Is it legal? You betcha. Can I just hand you a copy and not worry about violating copyright law? Sure can, in fact, they encourage it. Is it perfect? No, but it sure is fun to play with. I do have security updates, which don’t require me to re-boot my machine. Anything short of replacing the kernel does not require a reboot. My software is updated often, and quickly as new vulnerabilities are found. Well, all I can say is enjoy your buggy, slow, virus/ad/spyware ridden computers.

 

Posted by on March 3, 2005 in Uncategorized

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