motion moving,
everything is streaming, flowing
it itching to find its natural pattern.
the rhythym that life intended it to take.
refuge to the mountains, they know.
they’ve been there,
its the same on the inside that its is on the outside,
just the noise in between the two,
will distract you enough to believe that that is all there is
noise
significantly helping to post entries here more often, or easier, i’ve stumbled upon an app called blokkal, and is super. while it is entirely simple, it does everything for posting, reviewing, retreiving, modifying and/or deleting entries, that you would need for a blogging client to do. the only snag that i had, was solved relatively quickly by the designer Martin Muller. that is, if you use wordpress, you may need to check a box about a date time work around.
i overlooked this, and all of the posts were thirty years in the past, while interesting, it was frustrating me.
also, because work has been re-arranging, it has required an increasing level of windows usage. so i have been working with VirtualBox, its virtualization software with an open source edition. this has proven to be quite good for virtualzing, even though its not as stabile or point and click as VMWare is.
it running a WindowsXP guest on top of an openSuSE 10.3 host.
the two most difficult tasks with it have been, to configure a bridged interface, which is not terrible, just remember that suse has its’ default firewall configurations that interfere greatly. secondly, the physical host has an dual Intel Xeon processor, and the kernel is the bigsmp. Appearantly the are a few known issues with VirtualBox surrounding the tickless kernel and potentially smp functionality. I’ve added nohz=off to the boot line parameters and its seemed to alleviate the virtual guest from freezing on a regular basis, but we’re still watching the machine to test it more, before we use this guest as a “Production” box.
also, in that same thread, we are doing more with their Active Directory, for email and various services. so i have been able to experiment with various linux services that use or work against an LDAP/AD system, with significant progress. Much of which i will try to post, once i’ve ironned it out and sanitized it 
anyhow
later
I’m pretty well taking forever to complete my college degree, but this go round has good rhythm. and at this pass, it should bea good means to an end. the material can be or is interesting, and to an extent I am enjoying it.
the Intermediate Accounting course, with Dr. Nell Adkins, is quite enjoyable. While
I initially quietly disputed that she doesn’t allow computers or really anything except for a pen and paper, but i’ve come to enjoy it, as a new refreshment. So far it has been just the hardcore numbers, and it makes sense, more sense than the AC201 course that i had taken with Edmonds.
the AC304 course, Accounting Information Systems, i guess this course is a ‘needed’ course. But really, this course could use some major revamping. or at least the instructor seems like he needs to be let out of his box, so he can broaden his awareness and refresh his concepts. Namely, because half of this course is to be instructed on the use of Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics accounting software, i have as much problems as i did with the early Information Systems course i was required to take, that was nothing more than the usage of Microsoft Office. This is corporate propoganda, these instructors teach as if there is nothing else out there.
Even tonight, Dr. Tsai, tried to use an equation, that I see is quite false.
(Price of software package) = ( total cost of labor) / ( potential volume of sales)
using Microsoft Windows Vista as the example, saying that every new computer will come with an OEM version of Vista, and therefore you will pay “almost nothing” for this highly developed piece of software. At which point i had to interject, “it isn’t almost nothing, it is over $100″. With the OEM arguement, Windows could be sold for $10 a license and Microsoft would still make a profit, but at $100-$200+ is why more millionaires have come from Microsoft’s employement base than any other company, and Bill Gates has been in the top 2 for wealth for ten years strong.
ergg i wish someone who professes this material spoke like they haven’t been fed, with benefits, by some large corporation.
anyhow,
more later
vb
life is full of external influences, some aren’t so helpful, but many of them you can be thankful for on a continous basis.
there are many things going on in our lives right now, so much that it doesn’t always feel like we get as much does as we do, until we looking back on it. sometimes just to sit and close your eyes and let the days and times unwind in your mind is essential. decisions seem to be more hastilly made when not fully contemplated, with respect to the rest of your life that is currrently revolving around as well.
landscapes run, tumble, and soar. painting the world around which we live, breath and exist. you are the salt that colors and flavors existence. reaching, and making preparations to have momentary relvations of clarity that give the needed assusrance that there is something that you are doing all of this for. the clarity that is neither sad, funny, happy or excited, but is all of them the same.