http://rodgerdean.org/blog This blog is about Yours Truly Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:11:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well after receiving the notice, we decided to go on the hunt. Found a lovely place in Greystanes. The rent is only $320 and we get better value for money. We can entertain better in the yard and generally have a much better life out of it. Close to schools, ... http://rodgerdean.org/blog/2008/11/03/new-place-to-rent-yeah/ I just finished installing Ubuntu 8.04_1 LTS on a friends computer. They have had enough with Windows inparticularly Vista. The installation went smoothly. No hiccups from the wubi installer.  In no time my friend had ubuntu up and running, and boy she loved it. She adapted easily to gnome the ... http://rodgerdean.org/blog/2008/10/27/a-new-ubuntu-loving-user-freed-from-vista/ Last week receive a letter from my real estate agent (who couldn't give a rats ass about tenants). Well they decided to up our rent from $335 to $350. Funny thing is rents are starting to go down in our area. I can now get a couple of different brick ... http://rodgerdean.org/blog/2008/10/22/rent-rise-from-lj-hooker-guildford-and-my-landlord-sam/ For those who know me in the community; I'm not one to change once I found something I like and am also comfortable with. For me this was KDE 3.5 from .5 to .9 release updates. With the decision from my distribution of choice to switch over to the latest ... http://rodgerdean.org/blog/2008/10/15/from-kde-412-to-gnome-224/ For those who are now on Mandriva 2009.0. My latest personal build for Icepodder for Mandriva 2009.0. It is a simple aggregator and feeds are easily added. The Icepodder team have removed a lot of the old dependencies; pyxmms, python, libxml2.python. Updated from wxgtk2.6 to wxPythonGTK 2.8. RPM: Mandriva 2009.0 Icepodder 5.4 personal ... http://rodgerdean.org/blog/2008/10/13/icepodder-54-revision-68-mandriva-20090/ I decided to ride to work on my basic 21 speed mountain bike from Merrylands to North Ryde (Macquarie Park). The morning ride was fun. I left at 5:30am and arrived at work 7:10am. The early morning rise was nice and travelling around the Parramatta river through Olympic Park was ... http://rodgerdean.org/blog/2008/09/22/my-contribution-to-bike-week-an-enjoyable-ride-to-work/ Yesterday my son decided to take on one of the local hill (like Evil Knievel) at our local park on his little scooter. After I told him we are leaving. Starting to pack up he come flying down the path. [caption id="attachment_54" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="my sons Razor Scooter"][/caption] This is an aerial ... http://rodgerdean.org/blog/2008/09/14/my-son-the-stunt-kid/ It's been 9 months and I finally decided to go off my learners and get my fully unrestricted riders license. I can now really give this beast a run for its money. With the cost of petrol it has now become a more affordable form of transport. Just have to watch ... http://rodgerdean.org/blog/2008/09/08/full-unrestricted-nsw-motorcycle/ As a Christian living in the Western world can cloud your mind as consumerism and social imagery is pressed upon your mind each day. Sometimes it is hard to tell what is reality and fiction. Television presents us with created imagery that looks so real. Standards are constantly challenged on ... http://rodgerdean.org/blog/2008/07/03/tougher-times-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/ My latest personal build for Icepodder for Mandriva 2008.1 Spring. It is a simple aggregator and feeds are easily added. The Icepodder team have removed a lot of the old dependencies; pyxmms, python, libxml2.python. Updated from wxgtk2.6 to wxPythonGTK 2.8. I have included Mandriva 2008.1 Spring build including source. Please give any ... http://rodgerdean.org/blog/2008/06/20/icepodder-54-revision-65-mandriva-20081/