Game 17: The law of averages catches up to Rogers

A really nice start to 2005 for Rogers, but he's got zero wins to show for it. Last year, he had oodles of run support and racked up 18 wins. This year, nada.

On the bright side, Teixeira hit a HR.

8-9 after 17 games...

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A note for folks with PowerBook G4s running Hoary

I'm typing this from Ubuntu Hoary on my old PowerBook G4.

I tried running the Tiger seed on this laptop, but everything kept crashing and the xterms were displaying dark blue in a funky light blue. That made it really hard to read.

So, I downloaded Ubuntu for the PowerPC. A little bit of hassle getting the wireless key for my network inputted (the 'advice' it gives on what the key format is wrong). But, then the big problem was that the display was only 640x480. Yikes. That's bad.

Digging around the logs, it looks like detection of the 'refresh rates' for the LCDs in the ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility 9000 (M6 LY) is busted in XOrg. So, you need to manually override the scan rate like so in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Monitor"

Identifier      "Color LCD"
Option          "DPMS"
HorizSync       28-57
VertRefresh     43-60

EndSection

Going through dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and doing an 'Expert'/'Advanced' on the monitor will allow Ubuntu to 'guess' at the LCD sync/refresh rates. (This accomplishes the above xorg.conf change.)

Still haven't figured out how to use X properly without a two-button mouse. I can't bring up any of the context windows. And, the function keys are inverted from OS X: the F1..F10 buttons are the default. To do screen brightness, etc, you need to hit the Fn key. Odd. Sure there's a config file to change that somewhere.

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Game 16: The bottom of the order comes through.

Drese was shaky throughout, but the offense bailed him out in the end.

Barajas hit a grand slam. Nice. Mench followed up with a bases-clearing triple. Cool. Coco came on in the 9th for the save: shouldn't have been necessary! (Why does Buck send Brocail out in a game anymore?)

Oh, yes, the error by Charles Johnson was atrocious. How could he drop that pop up in the middle of the infield? I guess I realize why he was traded for a tax break for the Red Sox.

Nix looks better with the bat in this one game than Matthews had all season. Why the Rangers only recalled Nix now is a mystery or a sign that management just has no clue. Gonzalez being sent down for Nix is borderline indefensible: Matthews (on merit) or Allen (on the fact that Nix is essentially replacing him!) should have been sent down instead.

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