20070520
Fedora 7 comes out Thursday - Click!
Gearing up in preparation for Fedora 7. Not Fedora Core 7, Fedora 7 according to the Fedora Project website. Although, I do lament not having enjoyed experiencing Fedora 6, or as it was nick named "Zod".I would have loved to install Zod on my computer. I even bought "Kneel Before Zod" stickers from i-mockery.com.
I really liked the name of that distribution, and it's a shame that there isn't a cool name for Fedora 7. Superman II was and still is the best of the Superman movies. Gene Hackman as the original Lex Luthor. Terence Stamp as General Zod. Jack O'Halloran as Zod's silent right-hand man Non. Sarah Douglas as Zod's sexy henchwoman Ursa.
To be quite honest, the supervillians in the Superman movie are way cooler than Superman who everyone known is weakened by Kryptonite, which always seems to be emphasized in the Superman movies.
Basically, the plot in every Superman movie is predictable. Flashy enterance. A segway to Superman does something amazing. A supervillan arrives. The villan learns about Superman's weakness. They use it against Superman. The villians run a muck. Lois Lane gets entangled in the plot. Superman miraculously finds the strength within himself to distance himself from his own capture, saves the day at the last minute, steals a kiss from Lois. Roll credits.
DC and Marvel have better superheros. Batman has no powers but he is way cooler than Superman. Spider-man has problems that people can relate to and he has Jimmy Olsen's job. The Incredible Hulk is one of my favorite superheros though the movie wasn't that impressive. And don't get me started on the X-Men and Teen Titans.
But this post is suppost to be about Linux.
Fedora 7 brings back the well-missed KDE and OpenOffice.org, a couple of great softwares that GNOME really didn't work well with.
I would really like to get some programming done before Fedora 7 arrives. I really would like people to see that.
Labels: comics, diy, linux, movies, software, zod
posted by Bushido Hacks 5/20/2007 08:34:00 AM (0) comments top
20070502
Digg gets HD-DVD pwn3d!
I used to look up to Kevin Rose back when he was on TechTV, but this news about Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson taking money from the HD-DVD promotions group and the MPAA is like finding out Barry Bonds took steroids.In response to this stab in the back, here's the number that the MPAA tried to censor from public knowlege to crack their crappy overpirced coasters.
09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0
Shame on you, Kevin. To hell with you , MPAA.
What numbers will the MPAA try to censor next? pi? e? The speed of light in a vaccum?
UPDATE
Kevin has quickly appologized for today's actions.
Labels: foia, fud, hack, movies, news, physics, rage, shovelware, websites
posted by Bushido Hacks 5/02/2007 12:04:00 AM (0) comments top
20070218
Hillary doesn't have a snowball's chance
If you still believe that Hillary is going to be our next president, you don't know Barack Obama.While Mrs. Clinton is rasing money from the Hollywood A-List this weekend, Obama is in the South.
I mean, why would anyone want to vote for a woman who has fought to promote legislation to ban videogames, used the news media in her state to start a moral panic against Obama's race and religion, write books about things she knows little about, and yet she wants to play "supermom" for this country.
I could care less about Obama's race, religion, or the length of time he has had in political office.
But the last thing this country needs is another W.A.S.P. in the oval office.
Obama '08!
Labels: games, imho, movies, music, obvious, politics
posted by Bushido Hacks 2/18/2007 04:15:00 PM (0) comments top
20070205
Where are the Movie Trailers?
The Superbowl is a great source to see what movies are coming up this summer. While site like YouTube may have these trailers already online, most people still turn to the Superbowl ads with their Teaser Trailers for movies that are coming soon to the box office. Or atleast we were hoping that would be the case.Unfortunately, advertising agencies (like most people in the field of offline commercial marketing) seem to think that if we want to find this information, we should go to the Internet. While the Internet is a good source to find previously aired advertisments, it is no subsitute for the 30 second movie trailer in high definition on the small screen.
The results for this years advertising were less than desirable, although the winner for the advertisements would have to be the Bud Light Squirrel. (Who doesn't love squirrels?).
Many ads that I wanted to see were AWOL. There was suppost to be ads for this summer's block busters. They weren't there. There were suppost to be ads for Microsoft Vista. They weren't there.
Most of the ads were the ads that people ususally see when there is no Superbowl. The Superbowl ads are suppost to be new advertisements, not the old ones. The high cost of adversting by the NFL certainly must have scared off the pennywise ad agencies and the miserly movie promoters. (Not to be an anti-semetic person, but Mel Gibson is right. You Hollywood producers need to splurge a little and stop being a bunch of anti-non-semetic misers. SPEND SOME MONEY ON ADVERTING YOUR MOVIES! OY!)
Pregame was Orwellian. No really it was. It might not be the drab environment like in the Apple 1984 commercial, but "One people, One Will, ...", but it was still Orwellian. The Circ de Sol (sp) appearance was more like a colorful kaliedescope to make it more appealing.
Prince was awesome, although, I don't think he liked being in the cold rain. I think a couple fireworks went off by accident, never the less, no F-bombs and no coordinated "malfunctions".
I really wanted to watch the game elsewhere, but since the temperature is a less-than-balmy 20 degrees, it was too icy and too cold to go down to the local pub.
Labels: movies, rage, thevirus, wtf
posted by Bushido Hacks 2/05/2007 12:47:00 AM (0) comments top
20070128
The Pope Condems Video Game, Cartoon Violence - Click!
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI gave lapsed Catholics one more reason to skip Church on Sunday by condemning video game and cartoon violence on Wednesday, January 24, taking a few lines from Miami lawyer and anti-videogame activist Jack Thompson.This is ironic considering there is a VeggieTales videogame on the market that is not very good which has pleanty of Cartoon Violence and a Left Behind videogame which is really bad. (Yeah, so what if non-Catholics make that blasphemous crap. They still sell it at the Catholic supply store and at Christian bookstores.) I miss the old Pope.
I guess if saving the Princess by slaying a few demons is wrong, then I don't want to be right.
Labels: animation, dogma, fud, games, movies, music, news, PS3, thevirus, Wii, wtf
posted by Bushido Hacks 1/28/2007 10:25:00 AM (1) comments top
20070106
Snakes on a DVD - Click!
I don't know why Hollywood takes a good idea for a campy cross-genre movie and try to destroy it even before it has the chance to be good.For anyone who did not read my blog entries back in August, Snakes on a Plane is an idea forged by a proud group of Internet nerds but smoothered by the mainstream.
The thing that continues to piss me off about these media folks is their "we came up with it" and "let's use the phrase 'snakes on a plane' as slang for 'C'est la vie'". It is this VH1-BS mentality that justifies such nimrods to have their lights knocked out. (NEVER EVER use "snakes on a plane" as slang for "C'est la vie" unless you're health insurance covers getting your ass kicked by geeks.)
Aside from that, I'm dissappointed that these movie makers decided to release Snakes well after the Christmas season. What revenue Snakes lacked in the box office it will surely make up on DVD like any good cult classic. Just look at Army of Darkness starring Bruce Campbell.
Probably the one problem with snakes for the dastardly group of people known as marketing folk is that Snakes was a cross-genre film. While Snakes qualifies as a campy horror flick, the demons in charge of marketing the film decided to label it as "Action-Adventure-Horror-Comedy-Thriller". In which on the DVD cover, it is called a "Action/Thriller". The truth is Snakes is a horror movie, plain and simple.
Like any horror movie, there are comedic scenes where the audience is fooled into thinking "Oh my God! It's something creapy at the door! Don't open it! etc." When in fact, the door opens and it's one of the protagonists. Added music and lighting also adds to this movie trick. The idea is to earn the audience's trust and to let their guard down. They know it's a horror movie. The came to see something spooky. And they assume that they know what will happen because they thinking they have seen it all before. Disengaging the audiences guard is important, because it reminds the audience with their know-it-all mentality that in fact they don't know jack.
This is what made people like Rod Sterling and Alfred Hitchcock successful writers. They take something ordinary that we think we know everything about and they show us that we know nothing about it, sort of like how the media thinks they know the audience but as we have learned they don't know their audience.
Because they don't know their audience, good TV shows get cancelled while crappy ones stay on the air. Because they don't know about their audience, news and information are dwarfed by celebrity gossip and crappy human interest stories. Because they don't know their audience, they think Midwestern folk (such as myself) are stupid and will buy anything that they tell us.
The media has no interest in keeping us informed or to help our country in times of conflict. Their only purpose is to distract us by entertaining us with stupid stories that they think will prevent people from creating their own ideas or thinking with cognitive reason while they exploit the downtrotten to make tons of money.
I don't know how many blog entries I have stated that in, but it bears repeating.
Anyway, pick up Snakes on a Plane on DVD and don't ever use "snakes on a plane" as a subsitute for "c'est la vie"!
Labels: horror, movies, rage, snakes, thevirus, writing
posted by Bushido Hacks 1/06/2007 09:39:00 AM (0) comments top
