Ian W - 2010-02-19
     Nothing new so there isnt much point even posting anything, but I will anyway becasue I can. I changed the site around slightly and I think the colors look much better with the background graphic that replaced the banner that I had been using for a long time. I will post some more pics later on and I might be getting close to getting another job now so I'll keep all you 2 or 3 people posted on that.

Ian W - 2009-12-29
     Merry Christmas and a happy new year and all of that. Nothing new...still jobless and nobody likes me. That's ok though, I can deal with that. I added some Gracia+ PTS screenshots and also some Christmas pictures that none of you will ever see unless you are a hacker, family, or a family hacker. Enjoy your horrible life, it's all you have after all.

Ian W - 2009-11-16
     Well, I have been laid off...again. We have known about it for a while and the severance package is decent, still sucks losing your job and having to look for another one, especially when I just finished buying a house a few months before they let us know. If I had known I wouldn't have bought it and at least would have a few more options about what to do or where to go. Oh well, what can you do :(

Ian W - 2009-10-30
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Ian W - 2009-10-22
     I read a few interesting sites today having to do with proper netiquette and how to ask a question on forums/mailing lists that will be most likely to solicit a response. These came from John Summerfield in a RHEL 5 mailing list. Good sites to read over if you do a lot of posting. www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html is one and support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 is the other. I found it amusing that the Microsoft kb article has Windows Vista excluded from the list of operating systems the page applies to (and yes I did notice that the last review date is 2005, it's still funny though). On my vista system here at work an info box is at the top of the screen that reads:

This article applies to a different version of Windows than the one you are using. Content in this article may not be relevant to you.

Microsoft excluding vista users from proper netiquette is ironic (maybe they understand the frustration of vista users). Windows 7 is nice though and is out today, go pick it up, and may a thousand stinky camels spit in your direction. Thank you.

Ian W - 2009-09-17
     I needed to replenish my T-shirt stock so I decided to get a few. Here's what they are:

 

The second is the hammer and banana from FilmCow's Charlie the Unicorn. I'm too lazy to link it but you can google it. The other one I had made. Weyland-Yutani isn't that big of a deal anymore with AVP and AVPR out (AVP had Weyland and AVPR had Yutani). Back in the day though with the original Alien movie it was just "The Company" and the actual name was never mentioned although if you look hard enough you can see a few patches with the logo. Kind of cool....oh by the way I'm getting laid off from Dell that is closing their call center up here in Twin Falls. Nice huh?

Ian W - 2009-08-07
     Here's the highlight of my week:



Yeah...open source at its best. Hannah Montana Linux, who would have thought. I'm thinking of making this the distro of choice at our call center. Yeah, anybody who asks about Linux will get this and then decide if Linux is for them or not....What more could you ask for; Ubuntu, KDE, and Hannah!! It's like....The Best of Both Worlds!!!

Ian W - 2009-05-28
     I changed the site back to the darker color. Since the site is mainly pictures and screenshots it's much easier to view the images on a darker background (at least for me it is). I'll probably tweak it a little more over the next week or so, but I'll try to leave it close to this for a little while. The white one that I just replaced this with (replaced the css file pretty much) will get its own subdomain in a bit. I also redid the lineage 2 page at lineage2.ig-wilson.com and made it look a bit nicer. Other than this little bit of website reworking not much new going on here. I might be moving from Heyburn to a house closer to work in Twin Falls so I dont have a 76 mi roundtrip drive to/from work 4 times a week...save in gas money and I can go home for lunch!

Ian W - 2009-05-21
     All you atheists and Mormon haters read no further..although I know that since I said that it's guaranteed you will. I designed a set of pages to track the Duty to God award and set it up so that anybody can use it if you have a leader who is in charge of tracking completed requirements. dutytogod.ig-wilson.com is where to go for this. Hit the “Sign Up” link to created an account and request access. Once I grant access you can add the names of the youth in your ward/branch and view/update requirements. If you see anything in there that is incorrect or something that is missing please let me know.

Ian W - 2009-05-06
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Ian W - 2009-03-31
     So I went crazy on the certifications but have decided to stop for now (time I still have but money is running low). I was able to finish the MCSA and have taken the 2 tests for the A+, so I can't call myself Professor or Doctor, but I can call myself - MCP, MCDST, MCTS, MCITP, MCSA, A+, Linux+, and DCSE. Not that it matters all that much anyway since Dell isn't going to pay me any more for having these. I was just doing them just to do them anyway. I was originally just going to stop at the MCDST but I noticed that there was just one more test for the MCTS and the MCITP so I took it. Once that was done I noticed there were only two more for the MCSA so I figured, what the heck, installed server 2k3 on a box, played with it a little and went for it. Passed all tests the first time and didn’t really have any moments where I thought I might fail any. I'm not sure what to do now but will stop with the certs and focus on something different for a while.

Ian W - 2009-03-17
     Yay!! Unless something changes in the next few days (like maybe Vogons destroy the planet for their hyperspace bypass), then I should be officially an MCSA (Microsoft Certified System Administrator). What does this mean for me? Not much since I still work at Dell, make the same amount of money, and do linux support. What does this means for you? Probably even less than it does for me, unless you are looking for an MCSA certified linux tech to take huge sums of money from your payroll, then I'm your guy! Apart from this highly eventful occasion not much else is going on.

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