bruce blacklaws blog

I passed the Microsoft 70-271 exam

Bruce — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:57:09 +0000

…as you heard on Twitter.

My bedroom

Bruce — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:14:51 +0000

Don’t you just love my collection of half naked females? It’s awesome!

What’s on your Start Menu?

Bruce — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:37:06 +0000

I’m currently running the 32-bit version of Windows Vista Home Premium. Most of the time I run Gentoo 2008.0 (vanilla 2.6.25) within VMware Workstation 6.0.5. These two are probably the most expensive pieces of software I’ve ever bought.

What’s on your Start Menu?

My Samsung F700

Bruce — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:53:45 +0000

So, I’ve been preparing for my holiday that I’m going to be doing in January. I’m really excited. I’ve never been on a cruise ship before. The ship is huge. It has a whole bunch of awesome stuff on board (swimming pool, casino, bars etc). I’m going to be taking a whole bunch of pictures. I think I’m going to be using my Samsung F700 instead of my BlackBerry Pearl 8110. The reason for this is that the BlackBerry can only do GPRS/EDGE so uploading pictures taken from a 10MP camera will take ages. My Samsung F700 can do 3.6mbps/3G, so uploading won’t take too long.

I’ve already got my Asus EEE PC setup. The only thing left to do is buy a cheap Bluetooth USB adapter. I’ll pick one up next I’m at our local shopping mall.

As you can tell, I’m a major fan of the internet star Andipink. I have pictures of her pretty much everywhere. Seeing I’m a geek, I had to register the domain iloveandipink.com. I have yet to decide what I should do with it. Currently it’s just for email.

I’ve got a thing for netbooks

Bruce — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:09:04 +0000

I’m so taking my little Asus EEE PC with me when I go on a boat cruise to the Portuguese Islands in two months time. I installed Windows XP Professional SP2 (..I can install a GNU/Linux Distribution on one of my MMC cards that I have if I want). Most of the time I use PuTTY to do some SSH’ing. Don’t you just love Carmen Electra on the desktop wallpaper?

Beyonce is hot

Bruce — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:49:57 +0000

How can Beyonce, dressed like this, affend some people? This CNN article is so amusing. I like the part were that dude says “[Beyonce] appears naked in her clips”. Why can’t they just leave her alone. Beyonce is not harming anyone.

Stuff to achieve in my lifetime

Bruce — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:50:38 +0000

Have my own paid off home/flat
Travel the world (America, Canada, Europe)
Kiss Kate Beckinsale on the lips
Become a Red Hat Certified Engineer
Have a long and successful career
Build homes for poor, underprivileged people
Do something no one else has done before

There are so many things that I want to do in my lifetime. I really hope God helps me complete my goals.

Virtualize Linux on Mac OS X 10.3

Bruce — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:27:08 +0000

I did this just for fun. It’s in no way an informational tutorial. You can do it really easily with the Mac OS port of Qemu.

Ideas for running a home server?

Bruce — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:29:22 +0000

I might get my hands on a cheap Shuttle XPC SG31G2.

I’m going to have to wait until the end of the month before I can order it. I’ll install either Slackware or Gentoo and virtualize Windows Server 2003 with Xen or VirtualBox. I’m quite excited.

Decorating the Ibook

Bruce — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:34:49 +0000

I decided to decorate my Ibook in the hope that it gives it a new lease on life. They aren’t stickers, I cut out pictures from a magazine and stuck clear sellotape over the pictures. There is a video if you want to watch it.