Chilly

RDR is okay. It's a decent game but the story never grabbed me enough to really get me to finish it, and the gameplay became boring after a while. Multi-platform games you should play: 1.) BioShock 2.) BioShock 3.) BioShock 4.) BioShock 5.) BioShock Okay, now that I have that out of the way, here's the rest of the top ten: 6-10.) BioShock 11.) Dragon Age: Origins 12.) Fallout 3 13.) Prototype 14.) Borderlands 15.) Peggle 16.) Resident Evil 5 17.) Castle Crashers 18.) Puzzle Quest (original) 19.) Buy an xbox, then play Crackdown, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Gears of War, Gears of War 2, Fable 2, Shadow Complex, Splosian Man, Prey, etc.

Setup's super easy now in Ubuntu, no command-line or code knowledge required.

OpenOffice.org just doesn't work well with MS Office spreadsheets & powerpoint files. It's really the only reason why I'm switching.

lol I know.

I hear you about being leery. The good part about Jungle Disk is you can choose to encrypt your files with AES 256-bit encryption, with a key that only you know. If you have to re-install the program, you'll have to put that key in again. If you lose it, well, you're screwed - the JD folks have no record of the key at all, and can't help you recover your files.

If you went with the Rackspace solution, you could just pm me and I'd go bop Travis on the head.

It's pretty cool. You can setup a network drive that acts as a local hard drive, but stores the files in the cloud. It's great for stuff like word docs, ppts, and excel files. However, it's not great for really huge files that tend to change every 5 seconds (I'm looking at you, Quickbooks). For most things, though, it's a pretty cool way to store everything in the cloud instead of your own hard drive. There's also a web-based interface for accessing your files, and an iPhone app. It has versioning and all of the usual features as well. If you setup a network drive, one thing you'll want to do is disable anti-virus scanning of the network drive if you set it up, so it's not constantly downloading files to scan. Sync folders works well if you want to keep files in sync between two machines. When it detects a change, it pushes the file to the cloud. Then, the service in the cloud notifies all clients to go grab the new copy the next time they see them online (or instantly if they are online). It's also not bad for basic collaboration features, although for that, you'll want to look at the workgroup edition (https://www.jungledisk.com/business/). It has the same features as the desktop edition, but allows more than one user to be setup. Let's say you have a small company that wants to share word document templates. It's perfect for something like that. Permissions are setup on a network-drive basis (not a folder or file level). What it's not good at, though, is being a full-fledged file collaboration tool, if there's the potential for a bunch of people to be using a file at once. It's not a real file system, so there's no file locking currently. If two people are editing a file, last person wins (although versioning can help prevent some of that data loss). However, for small businesses or groups that only have a few people working on files, it can be a cheap and useful collaboration tool. It's just not good for large user bases (you'd want something like Sharepoint for that). The server edition is pretty good too for backing up servers. The difference with the server edition is the licensing - it's $5/server, and you can have as many different user accounts as you want remotely managing that server's backups. Full Disclosure: This is a Rackspace Email & Apps product, and I work for Rackspace Email & Apps. However, I think it's a solid product, and I use it myself.

For everyone that is talking about backups, here's a great way to securely backup your data, off-site, at a rate of $2/mo for the first five gigs, and .15c/gig/month after that: https://www.jungledisk.com/personal/ If you sign up, make sure to choose Rackspace Cloud Files as the backend. If you choose Amazon, you'll have to pay bandwidth fees too. You don't with Cloud Files!

Cept I don't always just use it for 5 minutes. Sometimes its hours. (And, again, it's annoying to start up/shut down VMs for 5 minutes of work ).

Deadmau5 is ok. His most famous (and popular) song is ghosts n stuff. He's a bit too trance for my liking (I prefer breaks/house a lot more). Here's a random song I've been hearing on Area lately (and loving):

BTW, the reason why I switched is this: I *love* ubuntu. So much, that it pains me to do this. However, openoffice just doesn't cut it. I also wanted to switch to a laptop from a desktop, and I still wanted a unix base. I had a couple options: 1.) Dual boot Windows & Linux, but I didn't want ot have to spend time rebooting just to get to Office for 5 minutes. 2.) Run a VM. The problem is this would kill battery life. So I compromised.

I think it has something to do with that Alabama Gubernatorial Candidate, Tim Jones.

Exactly my preferences as well. DEAN, GET OUT OF MY HEAD

Work ordered a 13" MacBook Pro for me. I'm ashamed.

And the already-doomed conference starts shaking

Texas came out a winner, their fans didn't imo. It would have been awesome to get into a stronger conference.

I get the feeling Texas might get it's network up and running ASAP, then bolt.

Wow. From http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5289050 /sigh

The Big 12 is not planning any name changes at this time.

It's because they were the other player in this that had options. The only 3 teams that really had invites from other places were UT, OU, and A&M. The rest were just hoping to keep the big 12 together so they didn't get left out in the cold.

Current plan is for everyone to play 13 games/year. 9 conf games & 4 OOC. In conferences with conf champs, it's usually 13 games if you play the champ game, so that's why they're doing this. Chip Brown from OrangeBloods was on the radio today, and said that in order to get the TV deal done, all the B12 schools had to agree to beef up their OOC schedule. We'll see what happens there.

Because I don't want to be playing the ****ty big 12 north opponents every single year (and judging from hornfans, most agree)

No special exception. The Big 12 thinks it'll get more money over all by only dividing the prize between 10 schools instead of 12, even with the money the champ game brings in. Also, when the Big 12 first instituted the conf champ, every single big 12 coach voted against it. I know both Mack & Stoops hate it. So, I doubt it's coming back anytime soon.

No. NCAA requires 12 teams for a cc.

Texas' fans did.