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File this under, you've been in China too long. You've been in China too long when you forget when your favorite athletics team begins their season. Holy 3 weeks late, Batman, U of I started their season on October 26.

Is "Playing the Stock Market" gambling?

First, let's look at some of the definitions of the word gamble.

–verb (used without object)
1. to play at any game of chance for money or other stakes.
2. to stake or risk money, or anything of value, on the outcome of something involving chance: to gamble on a toss of the dice.

–verb (used with object)

3. to lose or squander by betting (usually fol. by away): He gambled all his hard-earned money away in one night.

I have Ubuntu 8.10 RC on a desktop virtual installation and the netbook version running on a SD card for my EeePC 901. I've got to say it's pretty cool.

The installation is quite simple, no complicated settings or choices and everything is explained quite well. For the VirtualBox installation, I did an upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 RC. This is very simple, but it will take a very long time; it took my virtual installation at work nearly 6 hours to complete (however, I could continue to use Ubuntu while it was doing this).

The second Virtual Linux I tried was Fedora. Again, the gnome GUI is very reminiscent of Ubuntu, but there are some differences. I'm not going to go into much detail on this one as it lost my support during the installation.

I recently decided to test some different Linux distros on my work computer. I was going to do it at home, but my work computer is much faster and I don't care if I mess it up (did I say that?).

So, next week I'm going to upgrade my Ubuntu installation from a Heron to an Ibex. I'm actually kind of excited about this. I've read a lot of good things about it ... even though one ZDNet writer said it was closer to a Service Pack than a new release. Anyway, I've updated a virtual installation I have of Ubuntu on my work computer to Ubuntu 8.10 and I like it, so far.

Since I got the Cartoon Network and they started showing Dragon Ball Z cartoons, I've been hooked. Ok, maybe I'm a geek, who cares!