Current mood:	calm
Current music:	Mary Jo - Belle and Sebastian
Entry tags:	life, vmware

Baseball and new flat-panel displays
On Monday night I went with a few friends from Hammarskjold to see the Oakland A's play the Boston Red Sox. Although baseball games are generally a lot cheaper than hockey, they really stick it to you with the parking fee and horribly overpriced food. The sun was in my face for the 1st couple of innings, which sucked, but after that the game was pretty good. The Sox established an early lead and, although the A's made a valiant effort to catch up - at one point they were in tying position with the bases loaded - but they never quite managed to pull it off.

Yesterday VMware gave all the engineers 2nd flat-panel displays. It took me an unduly long time to get both my monitors working with my dual-headed NVidia Quadro graphics card, mostly because of a couple of subtle Ubuntu packaging issues. The worst of these was that the package for the binary-only kernel module hadn't been updated to match the kernel itself. I eventually worked around the problem by booting off the kernel from an older package.