My second day as a Vegetarian.

Today is my second day of being a Vegetarian and I have to say that I don’t miss eating animals at all.

After reading an email sent to me from my sister, contemplating things for 6 months, and seeing videos on YouTube of what goes on in a slaughterhouse, I am no longer interested in eating animal meat.

I’ve not decided but I may give up eggs and milk too. Not sure about that yet. So my reasoning is mainly due to animal cruelty and how they are killed in inhumane ways. I also have read many benefits of being vegetarian. I found a lot of good info at www.veggie123.com .

Today I had vegetarian chili for lunch along with dawali (grape leaves in a rolled pita with tomatoes, onions, green peppers, feta cheese, and some other things). It was really darn good.

I just really think that people killing animals for meat (the factory farms) have put profit in front of being humane. I have no problem with someone who wants to go out and shoot an animal and eat it. I have a problem with people who kill for sport or who torture animals. Slaughterhouses should be called “mame and torture houses”.

Windows Vista lost profile issue – (solution) part two

This morning I found this in our organizational wide group policy. It was enabled and I disabled it. It was set to delete if the profile was older than 30 days.

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Enjoy.

Windows Vista lost profile issue (solution)

Recently Windows Vista lost my profile again (yes I’m still running it). Windows Vista has started to grow on me and I do like the “eye candy”. When you have to look at a Windows GUI all day, as I do at work, it is nice to have something pretty to look at.

So after “Googling” for about 10 minutes I found the links below which seem to offer solutions to the problem of the Windows Vista profile being lost or deleted.

In short this is what happened: “Seems the domain controller software has a (Y/N) parameter to delete old profiles that have not been used for 30 days or more.
If set to Y, the software screws up when a terminal logging in is running either Vista or Server 2008 OS. In these instances, it sometimes concludes the current user profile has been inactive for 30 days & deletes it!

Solution is have your admin set parameter to N – apparently there was a note floating around back in the beta days last year – thanks for publicising it guys!”

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2431840&SiteID=17

http://cherrybyte.blogspot.com/2007/07/fixing-user-profiles-in-vista.html

Tomorrow I am going to turn that off in Active Directory and we will probably not have any more problems with our Vista clients losing their profile.

On a side note I set my 120 GB hard drive up in Vista with a 30GB C:\ drive (for Windows and applications), a 3.5GB X:\ drive for my pagefile only, and a D:\ drive (for important data) that is the rest of the space. I moved the location of all my important files to the D:\ drive. I ended up having to use GParted (a linux tool) to partition my hard drive because the tool included in Windows Vista were too limited to be of any use at all.

For the most part I still like Vista but I still really want to go to Linux full time on my laptop (Dell Latitude D830).

Well, until next time……enjoy.

Thanksgiving, Family, Christmas, Snow

The title pretty much says the 4 things that I’m thinking about as of late.  First off, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving and I am very thankful for all the things that God gives us.  It’s very special to be able to host a Thanksgiving dinner and have your family come over.  I am very thankful for being able to do that.  I’m also so thankful for the health and safety of our family.  We are very blessed indeed.

Christmas is coming up soon.  Time is going by quicker and quicker as I get older too.  I’m only in my thirties but time is flying.  I need to find a way to slow it down a little.

Snow.  I love snow.  I want 12 – 18 inches of snow.  Right now we have little areas of snow here and there on the ground.  It snowed a few days back and we got about 1/2″ of snow on the ground.  No big deal, but I want more.

Let it snow!!!

Vista vs. Linux (Winner = Vista)

I got frustrated tonight because Windows Vista Business lost my profile again when I booted it up.  I decided that I would just blow away my entire laptop and load one of the latest distro’s of Linux.  I tried out openSUSE 10.3 and also Ubuntu 7.10.  I used to run Slackware 8.1 back in the day and I loved it (however it wasn’t without problems).  I had been running Windows XP Pro on my older laptop and I figured when my new laptop came I would just order it with Vista, and that’s exactly what I did.  I’ve had this new laptop for about a month now and it’s been fine for the most part.  Just little things here and there that I don’t like or have yet to get used to.

It can be frustrating because certain applications will not load.  Both myself and my boss have also lost our profiles at least 2-3 times each in the last 6 months (I was running vista on a spare test laptop).  So I got tired of it and installed Linux tonight.

I forgot all the things I hate about Linux until tonight.  Half of the stuff has to be configured via command line.  About one quarter of things don’t work right after the install.  I ended up going with Ubuntu 7.10 and I got everything working except the sound.  I even got Compiz Fusion running properly along with my wireless card.  I still cannot get the sound working.

However when I rebooted my wireless card no longer worked.  I also had to enable “SSID Broadcast” on my router or Ubuntu wouldn’t even connect.  If I turned the SSID Broadcast off, like I do when I’m running Windows, it just wouldn’t connect.  If you can help it you should never have SSID Broadcast enabled since broadcasting your SSID isn’t the best idea for security purposes.

Thankfully last week I used Windows Vista Backup to make 3 DVD’s of my entire laptop, and on top of that I have a Ghost® image of my Windows Vista Business laptop on the company network.  I’ll just restore the entire thing on Monday back to Vista and it will be like it was last Thursday at 10:03am.

Sometimes I forget that even though I get annoyed by Microsoft that there isn’t a lot out there that is better.  I however do like Mac OS X and I can’t wait to get an iMac.

I guess I’m just used to Windows and even though it has some problems here and there, it still works for me 97% of the time.  It’s sorta like that old Chevy that you have that you have to fix every now and then but you wouldn’t give it up for the world because you love it.

For those that care or want to know, here are my laptop specs:

• Dell Latitude D830
• Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz
• 2GB RAM
• 120GB 7200 RPM SATA hard drive
• DVD+R/CD-R Drive
• Intel 3945 A/B/G Wireless Network Card
• Nvidia Quadro NV140 256MB RAM Graphics Card
• ieee 1394 Firewire
• Blah blah blah blah…..