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I got the new Metallic CD yesterday. It's called Death Magnetic. Quick thoughts. I really like "The Day that Never Comes", and "Cyanide". The rest of the songs are great too, but those are my favorites. Over all, I like it. It is not the best ablum from Metallica, that still goes to the Black Album. It is, however, a large step forward from St. Anger. I am eager to hear more from the greatest band of all time.
Atlantis to make final shuttle visit to Hubble Telescope
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In 1990, the shuttle Discovery launched the most well known telescope into space. The Hubble Space Telescope. Now, in 2008, the shuttle Atlantis will visit Hubble for the last time.
STS-125 mission will install upgrades and provide servicing that will ensure that Hubble will keep its orbit for at least the next five years. By that time, the shuttle fleet will have been retired from service. This mission is scheduled to last for 11 days. The launch is scheduled for October 10, 2008 and can be viewed on SpaceVidCast.
Rock-Tech.tv will provide reports on the launch and the mission as well.
Here I am, a proud member of the United States Air Force. I thought that I would be spending the upcoming winter in the comfort of my warm apartment in North Dakota. I guess I was wrong. It looks like I have been drafted to enlist in the Army. The TWiT Army.
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After a couple weeks filled with a lot of aggravation, I have decided to go with the Blogger platform for the Rock-Tech.tv Blog and Homepage. The url: http://www.rock-tech.tv will point to the Blogger site and will contian all the base elements for the site. In addition to using Blogger, I will continue the rising sense of Google Theme-ology by placing subsidiary pages on a Google Sites account. Until Blogger decides to give its users the ability to add more pages to our blogs, this will have to full these needs.
Matt Hartley wrote: http://geeks.pirillo.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2300301:BlogPost:15481 One thing I will never miss from my days in the PC repair business was having to explain to a client that their PC was no longer. The matter goes from bad to worse when there are concerns regarding the expense for people on a fixed income. It can be heart breaking when these individuals use their machines for such things as keeping in touch with family and no longer have that ability. I have donated my own time here as there comes a point where you refuse to leave a person in that position hanging - anything less than providing a solution, even at your cost, is the only moral choice in my opinion. But sometimes it becomes clear that a platform switch is indeed, in order. Yet trying to get people to switch to a platform that would have prevented the issue in the first place remains extremely challenging at best. Today, I found myself recommending a new Vista box due to specific software needs that would not have been addressed with OS X or Linux. And to be totally honest, while VMWare is helpful for a geek, it tends to lose most people rather quickly as it not a true native running solution. To most people, an application is an application. Trying to set them up with virtualization on the home front is still a ways off. How I yearn for the day we can get to software being about the user and not the platform. Web based, closed/open source, whatever - let's make it about the end user and less about which stupid platform we are being herded into for once. For the first time in a very long time, I am becoming disgusted with installed, localized applications and find myself hoping Web based apps can pickup where traditional software vendors have failed miserably. But alas, it is not as simple as providing packages for all three popular platforms. Often times providing options for Linux and Mac do not make the same economic sense as it does to provide software Windows. I get this, I genuinely do. And knowing this, beginning today, I am going to be putting extra emphasis on Web apps and will be working to ensure that cross platform solutions gain the recognition that they deserve. It may not be the ultimate solution, but in all honesty, it is proving to be our best hope as security issues and viability challenges continue to be ironed out. To this I respond by saying:
Wow! So I downloaded Google Chrome earlier today. Chrome is the new Google web browser. So far, I love it! It has blazing fast load times. I really like how clean it looks. I love how smoothly it operates and it seems pretty feature packed to still be in beta. I am going to give it a few days to sink in before I give it my seal of approval or not, but so far, so good!