A Conservative Techie

Catching up on old posts and information that I’ve read lately…. Here is a map of Google’s data centers around the world that I found pretty intersting.

The last time I was in Omaha, NE all the talk was in regards to the new datacenter that Google was putting in across the river in Council Bluffs.  Lots of tech turnover at the time because people were trying to get in w/ Google and leaving their current jobs and then people were leaving their jobs for the recently vacated postions, etc.

Also there are couple of more interesting posts there as well.  Lots of good google goodness

I haven’t written a lot lately here in regards to my political thoughts as I am completely sick of all of the canidatates this year.  This election cycle has been going on way way too long for my taste and I am quickly getting to the point where none of the above is the option I would like to take in the general election.

My questioin is how have the 3 senators been doing vote wise with the current day job during the 2 years they have all been campaigning?

I do a lot of training in my day job and one of the things i have been unable to do with my 8.04 with KDE4 install is to configure the projector to work the way I have it in Windows.  When i attach a projector to my Windows boot, my computer is set to extend the desktop to the projector and automatically adjusts the 2nd monitor (projector) to the correct resolution, which is 1024×768.

However in KDE 4, I have been unable to extend my desktop to the projector.  The desktop becomes mirrored to the projector and the main display of my laptop’s resolution is changed to match the 1024×768.  I have looked into system settings and the Screen Size and Rotate applet but have been unsucessful in finding a setting to extend.  In fact I am unable to adjust the resolution on my main display to the higher resolution.

If somoene could help me figure out what I’m doing wrong, that would be great.

Do I need to be using the restricted nvidia drivers?

Thanks

Jonathan