Its funny how Google will post some cutesy little graphic for almost any occasion, as a matter of fact, they are known for it. But I guess since this is a Christian holiday, it must not fit the Godless pinko commies at Google’s agenda. I have finally had enough of Google. From Google bombs, Googlewashing, censorship and politically motivated Adsense ad withdrawals, I’m done with Google. The final straw came this past weekend when I noticed that the Google doodle had not changed to reflect the Easter holiday. Now, I wasn’t expecting some depiction of the crucification, it is Google after all. But no bunnies, eggs, or baskets. So I did some research, while they will commemorate the Soviet Sputnik, they take a pass on Memorial Day, D-Day, and many other American patriotic holidays.

There’s nothing new here, even you libs will admit that Google is liberal. In 2005 alone $463,500 was given to Democrats by Google management and employees, while $5,000 was given to Republicans, (or 100 to 1 for those of you from Lake Jackson). They spend their money on “socially progressive corporations” and “influencing public policy,” code words for liberal agenda.

So, I have dropped Adsense, the Google sitemap plugin, the gvisit tracker plugin, and now even Feedburner, a recent Google acquisition. I have changed all the search engines in the house, and the office PC’s to Windows Live, and I host my on RSS feeds. We are now Google free. I even took the bookmarks and search engine off my Blackberry.

The prevelance of Google in the market place is staggering, from Google Earth, StreetView, Maps, GMail etc., and the fact that 60% of all searches are through the Google search engine, the amount of data they have access to is frightening. Nefarious? well you be the judge…

Not to be looking a gift horse in the mouth… but a few months ago during a routine series of patches and upgrades, an Ubuntu maintainer slipped a peice of buggy code into the the repository turnig my box at home into an overpowered dumb terminal.  At first, I thought the video card had finally went tits up, but after going through the message boards using my trusty console based browser, lynx, I was able to find out the new video kernel modules were jacked up, and I needed to roll them back to the previous version. After messing with it on and off for a day, I was finally able to get the GUI back, but on just one screen, rendering the second monitor relatively useless. Well today, I had a few extra cycles, so I decided to give it another go. After downloading the latest restricted drivers, I  still had the same problem. I decided to give the factory nVidia drivers another shot,  which wiped out X windows again. After a series of installing and uninstalling, lo and behold I got Xorg working again. And to top that off, my dual screens  are working again. unfortunately, I couldn’t begin to tell you how I did it. Suffice it to say, I uninstalled the factory nVidia drivers, reinstalled the restricted-modules, nvidia-xconfig, nvidia-xsettings, installed the factory nVidia drivers again, and then copied my known working nVidia dualhead xorg.conf backup to xorg.conf.

Moral of the story… keep good backups of our xorg.conf files.

Open source may have it’s issues at times, but I have had shrinkwrapped software go belly up after applying patches, and sevice packs also, and that software, I had to buy.