Paco's Blog

Happy Birthday Son

Today is Paquito's 21st birthday! This was going to be a very special one for any good all American kid getting ready to party in Las Vegas. I ended going with Monica and Maria to Boi Na Braza for a great lunch before heading out to the cemetery. That Churrasqueria was the last place I took him for dinning out two days before he left for Kuwait. While in Iraq, he once told me that he was going to proposed to Mirela in that very restaurant. Although lunch was as succulent as ever, I kept breaking down and sobbing like that first week after his funeral.

In the end, I figure I give the community a little Paquito Birthday present with a few up to date installers.

Interesting Mono 1.1.11 installer with Cecil and more
Finally, have a Gtk# 2.4 Installer for .NET

I used to question the need for hard drives bigger than 40 GB for end users. Even if you are a developer I would argue that with an MSDN installation and parallel installations of Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2003, MS Office, Open Office , Cygwin, Mono and a few other tools you still could make due. With Linux, 15 GB was plenty unless you want to have a multimedia content.

I since discovered VMware Workstation for Linux. For the first time I see my self looking in NewEgg, Fry's, Office Depot and others for them big 160+ GB drives so that I can have a native OS of SUSE version 10 x86_64, VMware and a few instances of Windows XP and Windows 2000. Even today as began revisiting Mozilla builds in Windows, I added a "new 18 gig drive" to my Windows XP Pro instance used for Mono Installer builds and research so that I could move Cygwin and host the upcoming bulk of Mozilla source code. Oh, the flexibility!

Syriana is a must see. In a year when so many movies were crap, it was long overdue. King Kong is surprisingly good also.

Solar energy is finally starting to make sense since fossil fuels are now so expensive and their prices will not likely decline again. I am a big Tree Huger so this pimping of clean energy would not surprise any of my close friends. But the the bottom line is Evergreen Solar (ESLR) is going places. Now you can make some money and still be able to sleep at night!

Posted by martinf at December 16, 2005 07:43 PM