There's so much on my mind at times that I tend to forget unless I write things down. So I present what amounts to a plethora of random junk that I will, at some point, embellish. Some of this is old and outdated.
- A bit about me.
- Pretty useful cheat sheets.
- A great Linux distro timeline that completely eclipses the Windows timeline. Why the hell are you still using Windows?! Might I recommend Ubuntu as a nice beginner's Linux distribution.
- The Mind Reader is a fairly interesting and entertaining puzzle. Can you figure it out?
- Anagrams are very interesting things. For example, take the phrase "ELEVEN PLUS TWO." The letters can be rearranged to form the phrase "TWELVE PLUS ONE." Ironically, this is mathematically correct. There are many other interesting anagrams.
- I think I'll have to make a blog of some sort because this page is becoming one and that was not my original intention. Update! I finally made a blog. One day I will integrate my stylesheets so everything will look uniform.
- I've made the decision. After all this talk about global warming, I have decided that I will become an expert. Of course, this is once I finish my dissertation defense. Now, I tend to enjoy being the one "hair that's bent the wrong way", and I just get so sick of people getting behind some popular political issue just because... well, just because they seem to need some issue or cause to get behind. Sure, global warming is a, ermmm, global issue, but 99% of the people who are harping on about it do so without having done one second of research; and no, I do not count reading the newspaper or your favorite magazine--or even listening to your favorite radio talk show host--as research of any kind. So, I will educate myself; I will find facts and statistics; I will sift through opinions; I will ponder over credible publications; I will look at historical information. Why, you ask? Well, because I have a hunch that, although global warming is indeed occuring, it is not something that is even remotely being caused by humans. I think it's all a big cycle and that, in the future, we will experience a bout of global cooling followed by more global warming, and so on. We are making a rather huge deal about it this time around because we are more advanced in terms of technology, data gathering and analysis, and so on. Think about it: the last time this happened, maybe we were just wondering why the hell it was so darn hot. And then the '70s came around and we were worried about another ice age. Sheesh.
- I think one day I will invent a new computer language that will be very good at preventing memory leaks, excel at garbage collection, and will repel just about any wet-backed programmer out there. I believe I'll call it
Teflon. Hey, that's actually not a bad idea; I claim rights to this idea! Copyright (c) 2007-2010, Jean Gourd.
- One day, I will propose a new electronic gadget perfect for the iGen (that's the Internet generation for you old fogeys; you know, the folks who absolutely cannot be spotted without their cell phone or the latest iPod, iRiver, or iWhatever). I will call this device the iCan ®, for "I can do any damn thing I want on this machine. I can check my email, I can browse the Web, I can make a phone call, I can plan my day, I can order a pizza and a nice cappuccino, I can make an entry on wikipedia, and I can even use it to send text messages while I sit in a dark movie theater." Perhaps iCan* ® is more appropriate as it implies anything following the iCan ®. For example, maybe one version could be marketed as the iCanbeat the living crap out of the idiots who text message in a movie theater ® or maybe even the iCanslap some sense in the total buffoons who spend more time talking on their cell phone than breathing ®. Hrmmm, I will have to reserve one of each for myself...
- How to fairly easily capture video from your camcorder, encode it to DVD format, and author a DVD on Linux
- A complete Ubuntu installation and setup tutorial
- A comprehensive list of Windows to Linux application replacements (including popular Windows apps such as Nero)
- A Git tutorial (by the way, this is a great way to keep track of your school assignments and projects)
- A LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) tutorial
- A Bind DNS tutorial
- How to get Hamachi working on Linux
- For Windows keys users, how to get them working similarly on Ubuntu
- How to hide easter eggs
on Web pages
- A Continuum installation tutorial for Linux (yes, this is only the best damn game ever!)
- How to mount ISOs on Linux
- How to view a DVD ISO with Xine
- How to make a single color in an image transparent using ImageMagick
- How to install an RPM on Ubuntu Linux
- How to encode an AVI to MPEG-2 (DVD) on Linux
- How to get all the Windows codecs on Linux
- How to make network shares using Samba
- How to force a file system check on reboot in Linux
- How to setup and share your printer on Linux
- A list of cool applications that make life a little easier (i.e. must-haves)
- How to setup root cronjobs on Ubuntu
- A list of useful Linux aliases
Perhaps you can
think of something else?
Jean Gourd 
