Labor Day is a holiday honoring working people. It is observed as a legal holiday on the first Monday in September throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada. Labor organizations sponsor various celebrations, but for most people it is a day of rest and recreation. The holiday also has become a symbol of the end of summer. In Australia, Labor Day is called Eight Hour Day, and it commemorates the successful struggle for a shorter working day. In Europe, Labor Day is observed on May 1.

–Santino, Jack. “Labor Day.” World Book Online Reference Center. 2006.

There are nearly 300 million Americans. Out of a work force of about half that number, 144.3 million are employed and 7.2 million are not, or about 4.8%, low in economic terms. And we Americans are perennially among the most productive workers in the world, meaning we continue to produce more per worker over time, rather than less, even as our population and the corresponding work force grow. Finally, studies here have shown that people with a sense of humor perform better at their jobs, and people who enjoy their work are more productive than those who don’t.

Steady ardour, slow and steady wins the race.
my sure-footed, methodical steps may not be your pace

It seems odd to you to stop and smell the flowers,

but what you call a break turns out an opportunity

plotting, planning, contemplating, the mind melds power

of research, speculation, data, and a stronger adversary it makes me.

Yesterday morning really rocked.  I think the thing that really got me going was when I was doing the girls’ hair before going to the bus, and K said “I love this hair-dude!  I want you to do my hair this was every day, forever!”

They tell me the ‘do that they want, and it’s usually a grandiose hairstyle that a pro couldn’t pull off without serious prep time and gear….  much less me.  I’m getting better, but I just don’t know how to fiddle with hairstyles *that* well just yet.

I’m glad that it’s a long weekend. There are some interesting things happening around town, but I haven’t made any solid plans.  The girls could really use a break as well.  Yesterday was M’s brthday, and there was quite a bit of drama going on for her…

While you are goofing off anyway, you should check out the video for Lilly Allen’s song “Smile”.  It’s fun.  The song is catchy.  There’s a cool storyline.  You’ll love it.

Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 33.07 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-01-18 18:41:55

Description: The power and simplicity of GParted on a biz-card sized LiveCD.

The CD aims to be fast, small in size, and use minimal resources to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD is based on Slackware Linux and uses Xfree86’s Xvesa, the lightweight Fluxbox window manager, and the lastest 2.6 Linux Kernel.

Being up to date is important! GParted LiveCD will be updated along side the GParted source releases and have minor releases when bugs are fixed or new filesystem tools become available.

GParted LiveCD runs on most x86 machines with a PII or better and a Vesa 2.0 compatible video card.

Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 33.50 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-02-10 15:52:28

Description: The power and simplicity of GParted on a biz-card sized LiveCD. The CD aims to be fast, small in size, and use minimal resources to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD is based on Slackware Linux and uses Xfree86’s Xvesa, the lightweight Fluxbox window manager, and the lastest 2.6 Linux Kernel. Being up to date is important! GParted LiveCD will be updated along side the GParted source releases and have minor releases when bugs are fixed or new filesystem tools become available. GParted LiveCD runs on most x86 machines with a PII or better and a Vesa 2.0 compatible video card.

Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 118.15 MB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-03-14 10:08:26

Description: Welcome to the Demo CD of the TU Dresden Research Operating System (TUD:OS). For more than a decade, our group researches and develops microkernel-based operating systems with the focus on real-time and security. This Demo CD is an effort to show off some of our most interesting experiments and results to you. Our aim is to share the results of our work, communicate our design principles, and to spark interest in our future research.

Some highlights of the Demo CD are:
- A new approach for securing graphical user interfaces,
- Multiple virtualized Linux kernels running deprivileged on the L4/Fiasco microkernel,
- A survey of device driver architectures on microkernel-based systems,
- The presentation of our virtual-file-system approach,
- A secure transaction application, Qt3 demo applications, and libSDL-based applications running directly on our custom operating system foundation.

The demonstrations are accompanied by a tutorial browser that guides you through the interactive demo scenarios and highlights the most interesting aspects.

http://demo.tudos.org/

Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 4.16 GB Status: no seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2006-03-30 19:19:53

Description: Multi Linux Live is a Linux LiveDVD containing:

>> Knoppix – 4.02
>> Ubuntu 6.06 – Dapper Flight CD 5
>> Livux 2.0
>> PCLinuxOS P92
>> Simple-Mepis 3.4.3
>> System Rescue CD – 0.2.17
>> Puppy-1.0.8.1r1
>> Elive-0.4.2
>> Damn Small – 2.2b

All in a bootable DVD, when you boot from this DVD you can choice your prefered distribution and boot it, and install it.

More info (in Spanish) => http://guslm.mthweb.org/