Concerning OSes: Shame on you people for bringing up the Great Crusade versus the Maccabees, the Defenestrators, and the Tuxists. Soon this will turn to the Vs. debates. OMG TEH STAR DESTROYER CUD SO PWN TEH ENTERPRIZE!!1!!shift+one.

Anyhoo, GRUB loader died on Lazaruslappy and so I’m going to have to fix that… again… maybe this time use something even more bare-bones than Knoppix. I’m a little tired of OpenOffice wanting to re-register itself every time I open it and taking a good three to five minutes to initialize. And before anyone asks, no, Lazaruslappy is -not- that bad.

For me, I have to go to school so early it is dark anyway, so the only time it changes anything for me is right after the change, when it is light as I arrive and I feel like I am getting away with something. Of course, sunrise gets later before long, and nothing much gained.

Another benefit for some is that in Maryland the bars are required to close at 2:00 AM. The time changes at 2:00 AM, so they get another hour to drink.

Reboot it from the original CD. The doctor did give it to you, right?

And then connect the baby to the Interweb and download the updated drivers from baby.com.

I’m not *even* going to tell you where you have to plug in the cable.

I used to think you might be the logical successor to Carl Sagan.

I really did.

Not anymore.

1) Get a sense of humor.

2) Learn to read things in context.

3) Go away.

Any of these will make your life better, I imagine.

And next week, you’ll have an extra hour to do it!

I was hopeful for a minute…

I’m a senior level IT architect by trade doing large scale virtual infrastructure designs and deployments (if you don’t know what that is, it takes too long to explain here).

I run Vista Ultimate on my laptop because I have to…

…for now.

I run Linux on my laptop (dual-boot) because I want to. I’ll probably move Windows to a VM once Fedora 8 hits the streets in a couple of weeks.

My peers run Windows and Linux for now, but are all planning to switch to either Fedora or Ubuntu fully shortly (we all just got new laptops, so the timing is good). We’re all fed up with Vista’s …ummm… issues.

I told my sister to buy a MacBook when her laptop died last year. She’s never looked back. Zero problems. She’s upgrading to Leopard next week.

My parents both run Linux (Fedora). No – and I mean zero – issues with compatibility, viruses, etc. My mom can’t remember the last time her system actually crashed. She switched about 4 years ago after a virus managed to get through her (fully updated) AV scanner and destroyed all of her data.

Now, to be fair, all of the above operating systems handled the DST change automatically, but guess which OS seems to have the most issues? Most people I know who are still running Windows (as opposed to Mac or Linux) are doing so because they have to or because they don’t know the alternatives are so much better.

No, he set the clock back, but the rest of the country didn’t. So he thinks he still has an hour to go, whereas his daughter is already waiting for him (compare it to setting your watch five minutes ahead in order to be on time).

@Mike: it’s a joke, as Thomas Siefert tried to explain.

If you had included the full sentence: “Clocks are for losers who have 9-5 jobs or have to pick up their daughters from school at a certain time”, you would have noticed that he is in fact a loser himself.

Real nice, Phil. Can you think of some more ways to alienate your fans?

Don’t you bother to proofread your blog entries, or do you just post them without further thought?

You’re right! Shame on me!

The problem is my bedside alarm clock. It has automatic DST correction, but based on an internal calendar with a backup battery in case of power failure. The problem is that this calendar was programmed without congress in mind, before the change was put into place. This means that I actually have to change the clock twice, once this weekend to override its DST correction and once next weekend to set it to back to DST. It might be time to just get a new clock.

98/ME
http://www.intelliadmin.com/DaylightSavingFix98.exe

Anyway, I do have a few reasons for liking the new DST times. One is that Halloween will ALWAYS be during DST, making it easier to see ghosts and goblins when you’re driving. I like coming home when there is light, I usually work in the yard or go on a bike ride when I come home a later sunset helps these endevors.

The 3 weeks earlier in the spring actually backfired as an energy saving method, people see it is still light out when they get home, they get in their CAR and drive to the mall. Incidently, this is why it was changed in 1987; to improve business at stores.

Ben Franklin was a big advocate of DST, he thought it was absurd to sleep while the sun was up and use a candle at night. I agree and I like it. I used to subscribe to a sundialist list; those guys despise it, since it makes Sundials incorrect. My only beef–my emerson auto set clock will be wrong forevermore.

As for why just one week in the fall? Seems a bit silly, and silliness (an institution in Washington) belies compromise. Originally there was 3 full weeks extra in the fall (may have been more or less, but 3 weeks is what I recall) in the hallowed halls of congress it ended up getting haggled down to just one week.

I have poked my nose out of the apple orchard exactly ONCE. Over the following three months, I reformatted a Dell hard drive five times. Then one afternoon I came home to find my wife sitting on the floor under the desk, weeping. There was the dreaded “blue screen of death,” again–and she was 24 hours away from deadline.

Four hours later, I was back from Fry’s and she was back on track to make deadline. (We had long since learned to back up EVERYTHING. The dandy little zip drive we got for the purpose just plugged into the Mac and–how did Monkey put it? “…work[ed]…”)

I then discovered how many levels of manager you have to climb to get a full refund from the aforementioned merchant.

Seven, for the record.

If you think a computer is a hot rod, and you love to stay out in the garage getting greasy, use Windows.

If you just want to get to work, and maybe take a vacation, it’s Mac or nothing.

Let the bullets fly.

–Jeff

This is a perfect time for Mac users to upgrade to a PC. Things…work…on these machines.

Ill be throttled for this. I am aware of my fate.

Happy not-yet-turn-clock-back-day

And Tiger (10.4) is already aware of the change.

Besides, anyone with broadband Internet and a bit of sense has their Mac track off a live time server anyway.

> “You know, if you lived in Arizona, you wouldn’t have to do all of this reseting your clocks nonsense.”

And we wouldn’t have fire or indoor plumbing either. Hey, I tease Arizona.

> “Or, rather, the county they live in is changing its time zone, from Central to Eastern:”

Don’t they need approval from the Time Lords for that?

I’d prefer to get rid of Daylight Savings and let the days run their natural course. Safety studies have shows that more accidents happen when we jerk the clocks back and forth because people’s schedules are disrupted.

Yeah, but try convincing a cop (s)he doesn’t have a privileged frame of reference.

Apparently it was wrong, or enough people don’t care.