The Onion and cheese are the best things from Wisconsin. Working for them would make living there bearable. Yo, check it:

"Five a.m. is when the facility is most vulnerable to attack, when the morning shift security personnel replace the overnight crew," said Adib Dhakwan, the cell's second-in-command. "Unfortunately, Starbucks doesn't open until six, and I don't know about you, but if I don't have that first cup of coffee, forget it."

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But all these extra things—where do the Americans put them? How many times will you use a taco-shell holder? 'Oh, I really need this silverware-drawer sorter or I will have fits.' Shut up, stupid American."

Pizza and Coke?

Wow FIC has come out with this sweet Linux phone. Drool.... I love it. I'm way more excited about the future of this than the iPhone.

Intel is pimp. I hope this does wonders for their stock price.

Maloney also talked about Intel's upcoming 45nm processors, and in particular the new Silverthorne core, one that will likely be featured in upcoming UMPC's as it is an extremely low power part, likely around 1.5W.

He also brought in ASUS's CEO to introduce

a new and surprisingly inexpensive laptop that is designed to spread the internet and computing to less affluent regions of the world. Shih announced that the Eee PC will have two models, one priced at $199 and the other at $299. Shih revealed some specifications of the Eee PC as well, noting that it had 512MB of memory, was running Linux, and that it was designed to be an easy way for the rest of the world to get connected to the internet.

I say this is any easy way for ME to get connected to the net. I'd love this cheap mini lappy. That looks sweet.

I need suggestions. The gist of the problem is our Ubuntu server changes IP address at random times.

The router does not seem to reliably reserve an address for use by a specific computer in the DHCP service so I setup the Ubuntu machine with a static IP (x.x.x.3) outside of the DHCP range (x.x.x.4 to x.x.x.100). Then the web traffic is routed to x.x.x.3 by our router.

However when it appears the website is down, I run "ifconfig" to see if there are any problems with the interface and I find that the IP has changed to an address in the DHCP range. For instance last time it said "inet x.x.x.7".

To fix this I open the networking GUI and find that it says I am on my fixed address x.x.x.3. So to get this setting to take effect I disable the ethernet adapter in the GUI and then enable it again. When I go back to "ifconfig" it says my address is now x.x.x.3 again.

What the heck!?!? Why does it keep changing? Is there someplace ELSE where I need to disable DHCP or hard wire the IP address.