Here is a tech question for any Macites out there. Can you run VNC server on OS X? If so is it run like on Linux where you get your own X session or is it run like Windows where you get the Console GUI session?

So last night I talked to my parents, it had been a couple of weeks. Why is it that when I talk to them it always seems like someone I know has died.

Last night we were talking and they told me a guy I used to work with in high school, at a hardware store, had passed away. He was not young by any stretch, he was 76, had either worked steel working or in mines, I forget which, for a lot of his life, and had breathing issues, smoking did not help that. The problem is the guy was really nice, he would give you the shirt off his back. I learned a ton from him at that hardware store. (A job which I would recommend to anyone looking for a job while in school, you learn a lot, especially at one of those mom and pop type hardware stores, rather than a Home Depot.) Paul (that was his name) was definitely a riley older guy. He had actually left our town when he was younger, when his brother whom he had worked for at the time (and actually was working for again, as he owned the store) asked him to do something and he got pissed and left, apparently he ended up moving to California and not coming back till years later. I have not seen him in years, and he probably never thought of me since I left that job, but he is definitely someone I will remember...

I also found out that Paul's brother, Roger, the owner of the hardware store is not doing well. Roger, is much older, he is actually the oldest of three brothers, the other two having died already. He is 92 now, and apparently suffering from prostrate cancer, and having to use a walker. Now at 92 you would think that a walker would not be an uncommon thing, but when I think back, I met the guy when he was already 76, and he had JUST STARTED SKIING. I kid you not, he was 76 years old and he started skiing. He loved to go and would go a few times each winter. A couple years after I left the job, I heard he broke a leg going downhill, and well you know at that age broken bones are not quite what they were to heal...I guess that cut down his skiing expeditions. Apparently now since he is not doing well he and his wife have moved down to Florida to be near his daughter. He and his wife are living in an assisted living facility and apparently enjoying it. Definitely not the way I would have expected him to go...

Then I find out that my great aunt, who is not youngster either 92 as well is not doing well. She has an enlarged hard and water around her heart apparently. Here is another person who was very active until just a few years ago. She still shoveled and had a garden. Now I guess its just a waiting game. On top of that she gets to be confused about things, like what day it is, what time of day etc...

Oh what we have to look forward to...

I want one.

Hehe, to see what can happen when you blog and you really are clueless about who could be reading it. Really funny...

In a geek post for the day I got a Fraken Box running Mandrake 8.2 RC1 up and running, took a bit I had to flash the bios on the motherboard before it would see the disks in the system, probably because I am using an 8 year old SCSI card... Now that I got it running I took off the monitor and stuck the computer on the side, essentially its headless. I can get to X on it running TightVNC and its actually not too bad performance wise. Regular VNC I have experience with on Windows boxes and well it can be quite painful, even on a LAN, but I can use this sucker from work and its not too bad, sometimes the screen refresh leaves a bit to be desired, but not too bad for 16bits per pixel. So what do I do now? There is nothing in particular I want to play with, I do enough with Apache and DNS and that crap at work. What now?

At what age do you learn not to repeat the same song over and over and over again? My kids hook onto a song and they just want to hear it over and over and over. They are doing it now with Fatboy Slim's Seseame Street remix, but any song they like they will just play over and over. My son has a keyboard (he can actually play he has taken lessons for over a year) and it has this preset set of songs, of course the first one it plays is Livin La Vida Loca. He will turn that on and just let it run through the same 30 second snippet for an hour. We have yet to kill anyone due to this, but who knows what the future may bring...

Okay women if you want to form the line here, to be with this guy, who wants to be with a record 20 women in one day. You know, you just gotta think, he is gonna be sore.... [UPDATE I have updated the link...

Okay I had to laugh my ass off at these license plate issues. It has both banned plates as well as letters concerning plates people saw around there area. I have to say the funniest is "CNLNGS", which I know what I thought it was, but the owner claims its regarding "Chemical/Nuclear Lungs"... Uh huh...

Wow, I just read this article about college women being unpaid whores. Talk about an ummm interesting viewpoint. The view that women should be the civilizing point for men, is well degrading in the least to men. Come on, are you giving us no credit what so ever? I won't even go into the many ways he insults women...

Thin mints, they are dangerous things. I can open a box and eat a whole side in less than an hour. Which begs the question do they put addictive drugs in food? I mean are food companies really that different than tabacco companies?