it’s me… henry

So, I was reading one of my favorite blogs, Monster Munchie, and ran across a user, named Christine, that commented on a post.  She had a blog, and so I started to read it…

Christine has an aunt named Cindy and she passed away earlier this year.  She was a teacher and always wanted to help others.  Even when she found out she had colon cancer, she still went out of her way to help others out.

By reading Christine’s blog, I found out that she also gave one of her eggs to her gay brother (?) and his partner to have a baby.

She helped a homeless student.

“Cindy requested that instead of flowers, all monetary donations should be given to her school Lampson Elementary to purchase books for the students.”

I don’t know Cindy, but she has touched my soul by her act of kindness and unselfishness.  It’s a shame that she had passed away at a young age, but the amount of good deeds she has done, it seemed like she lived a full life.

Dell has an unofficial site for Linux distributions.  http://linux.dell.com/

For firmware updates… there is http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware and  http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/

Just upgraded to Kubuntu 8.10.  KDE 4 is very different from KDE 3.5.  So, I’ve been getting used to it and the “plasma”.  Two things that must be installed is powerdevil (for power management) and quicklauncher.

For powerdevil (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/PowerDevil?content=85078): sudo apt-get install powerdevil

Reboot so the service is started, and you can modify your settings in System Settings > Advanced > Power Management

For quicklauncher, you need to compile it yourself (which needs kdebase-workspace-dev).  You can get the source from http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/QuickLauncher+Applet?content=78061.