Archive for April, 2007

too much stuff…

My buddy Brent came by to show off his new Mac Book Pro. Nice machine, btw. Anyway he wanted to know if I had any Windows discs as he has a code number but not the disc. Lucky for him I was in the process of organizing my CD’s, when I found to my surprise an XP Pro disc and Code and the book and the little sticky thing for the computer.

You see the thing is, I have absolutely no idea where this disc came from. So I sold it to him for a Franklin. : )

Have you ever come across a Franklin without knowing it?

Filed under General : Comments (0) : Apr 7th, 2007

fedora on the laptop…

Last night I spent several hours installing Fedora Core 6 on my Acer Travelmate. I have to dual boot with Windows at this time. The only difficulty I had was installing the Intel 2200BG driver and the network applications to use it. I went with the Desktop package during the install, I should have installed KDE then, as I had to yum that in. The total updates were nearly 600 megs. geez.

To get the wireless working:

1. Install the correct kernel version (2.6.20-2933-i686)
2. Install the firmware (available from Intel)
3. Install knetworkmanager (to connect in KDE, gnome worked out of the box)

Done.

Now if I could get my company website to work with anything other than IE.

Buggers

Filed under Business : Comments (0) : Apr 5th, 2007

subprime failure…

It should come a no surprise at the failure of the subprime lenders. These lenders new that they were is a precarious position, as their clients were put into a positon that was not sustainable. Any increase in day-to-day expenses would delay mortgage payments, as this is the biggest expense most families have. One payment gets delayed, then another. It’s unfortunate, but that’s business. There is no difference between this and the junk bond debacle of some years ago.

Betting on people with bad credit will burn you everytime. EVERYTIME!!! Mortgage brokers and mortgage bankers are not bound by the same ethics as securities broker/dealers. Even though false statements made on a mortgage application are felonious, people could care less. As long as they get what they want.

If someone has to fudge the numbers to get a loan, I would not give them that loan.

Myself and my associates have six steps to financial freedom. If lockergnome ever gets me that login, I would like to share them with you. : )

Filed under Business : Comments (0) : Apr 4th, 2007