I woke this morning to wonderful news. Mandrake, my favorite Linux distribution in the whole wide world a million, has released their 10.1 beta with all sorts of groovy new features. Check out their press release for more information (and yeah, BitTorrent is pulling it down at around 70K/s as I type). If I have time, I will install it on one of my test systems when the download finishes. It looks like it is 1.9gigs however, so that could take a little while.
Meanwhile, Old Man Geeze has had some success in his war with the various varmints which are overrunning the little one acre farm. I went out to visit yesterday, and he had a skunk caught in a trap he set in the chicken run, and a dead marmot or rock chuck or something which he picked off at 20 yards with his trusty bolt action rifle. A trapped skunk is a tricky situation to have on one's hands, and this skunk was certainly a prime example. The last one he caught trying to eat chickens stunk up the woodshed for three years! It seemed that the only humane solution was to put him (the varmint, not Geeze) out of his misery however, so Geeze did his best to send the beast on to the next world with a minimum of stink. Having dispatched two varmints in one day, Geeze was whistling a happy tune like the brave little tailor until Mom noticed dirt and sticks flying out of another hole under the woodshed. The battle rages on.
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Yeah damn varmits... We have racoon troubles down here. They try and get into the house and eat the food when no one is home.
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