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This is just a quick follow up to my previous post about connecting to a Windows VPN (pptp) from Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). Using the tip from lloles that was left in the comments, I managed to go to this post on the Ubuntu forums dealing with configuring routing for the VPN. Thankfully, it has worked. However by doing this, I’ve run into another problem. Insteading of pasting my entire problem here, I will link to the post dealing with my Internet being very slow after I connect to a windows VPN server. It’s such a weird problem. I haven’t looked much into it, but I’m just so confused. Hopefully I will have some sort of good news to report once I figure things out.

Typically, I am against reading comments in any sort of social-anything site but there are very few times where I am linked a fantastic comment that deserves its own post. This is one of those comments. From Reddit.com, the bug finding program comment by user G_Morgan:

I have a bug finding program. You pass in the name of a code file and it returns a truth value if there is a bug in that file or not.

The current prototype is:

bool hasBug(String &progFile) {
    return TRUE;
}

G_Morgan’s function could not be any more true.

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Back in April, I wrote a post about how to connecct your Ubuntu box to a Windows VPN server linking back to another person’s blog explaining the setup. The install itself was pretty bumpy, but ultimately worked. If I recall correctly, the information in that post was mainly for Gutsy Gibbon. After upgrading to Hardy Haron, I was never able to get the VPN working again. I kind of left it like that. Now that I’ve installed Intrepid Ibex, I started working on trying to get VPN to work again. And thankfully after a few hours of work, I got it working in Gnome. I make no assurances that this will work with KDE or any other enviornment. Here is the process.

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A few months ago, I received an email in all of my Hotmail accounts that Microsoft will be disabling the Dav protocol which will break Outlook Express functionality. This was disheartening because I, for one, really dislike Hotmail’s web interface. I find it extremely clunky and slow and would never actually use my email if that were the only way for me to access it. Yes Hotmail is no longer my main email, however I do still maintain three accounts with them for legacy’s sake. From the email/website:

As of June 30, 2008, Microsoft is disabling the DAV protocol and you will no longer be able to access your Hotmail Inbox via Outlook Express. As an alternative, we recommend that you download Windows Live Mail, a free desktop e-mail client that has the familiarity of Outlook Express and much more.

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I have been working on a post for about a month now titled “The Distributed Human” however, and sadly, life had been getting in the way of actually completing it. In a way I was bummed to see Kelly Sutton of HackCollege post up his blog, Applying Distributed Computing Concepts to Real Life. Bummed because in a way I’ve lost the desire to finish my post now. But he’s my friend, and I’m happy for him. I’m glad to see he is turning into such a great computer scientist. I’m sure an idiom such as the one about the early bird is applicible here, but I won’t give you the satisfaction.

Ok Best Buy I’m sold. Where can I get a iPhone 3GB? 8GB and 16GB are just way too much for me.

I’ve been looking into picking up a new Dell Latitude Mini 9 now that it is released (Dell if you’re reading this and want to send me a FREE, fully upgraded Ubuntu model, I’ll happily review it for you!) and came across this image from Dell’s website (click for the full size version):

“Upgrading” from Ubuntu to Windows XP? That is not what I’d call an upgrade. This puts Ubuntu in a really bad light if read by people who don’t know better. This sort of false advertising and misleading the public with opinion rather than fact is pretty bad in this case. I’ll meet you half way on this and won’t say that Ubuntu is an upgrade from Windows (since my personal opinion doesn’t matter here). It’d be more honest if you suggested that Windows is an alternative to Ubuntu, rather than an upgrade.

Hot off the heals of the latest internet uproar dealing with Google and the End User License Agreement for Google Chrome, I’ve been thinking a lot about this licensing business. What I have to say is not coming from a legal background, rather coming from a much more “open source” background.

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In response to: http://www.cmsimike.com/blog/2008/08/14/final-fantasy-7-release-on-the-playstation-3/

It is with a sad and heavy heart that I report that there doesn’t seem to be a Final Fantasy 7 release for the Playstation 3 today. Not at the Best Buy in Pasadena anyway. Seems like the internet was right once again. And, in a way, I didn’t think it would happen either. I just had some hope. Hope that is now crushed.

If you need me, I will be in the corner sulking and watching Spaced.

I really have no other information on this other than these pictures I’ve snapped at the Best Buy on Sepulvida Blvd in Manhattan Beach. The pictures and poster suggest the Final Fantasy 7 will be released for the Playstation 3 on August 16th, 2008.

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A friend of mine linked me to this post that also talks about Final Fantasy VII PS3 Version releasing August 16th.

If anyone has any other information, please let me know.

*Edit* Here is the original Kotaku link.