I watched the movie twice this weekend. I really enjoyed it. It had a well-written story to go along with the CGI which is becoming rare in today’s action movies. It was good to see the face of Arnold once again. My only regret was that it was so short lived. I guess they spent as much money as the CGI budget allowed to keep Arnold’s face in the movie as long as possible.

I have noticed that this is the second movie in recent memory in which Christian Bale has been upstaged by a supporting actor. The last movie was Dark Knight in which Heath Ledger stole the show. Here, Sam Worthington, though not as overwhelming as Ledger, delivered a solid performance whereas Bale was just a lot of brooding and a gruff voice.

The closing to the movie sets the stage for more to come. I’m looking forward to it and I hope to see some of the new faces in Salvation reappear in the following sequels.

I have been using either Red Hat or Fedora for years on a server I ran at home. I just made the switch to Ubuntu after giving up on RH as a WAP. The problems started with my Prism 2 wireless card requiring firmware be loaded at boot-up. The firmware didn’t always “take” with Fedora sometimes causing multiple reboots before the card would work. On a whim I tried Ubuntu and everything worked right out of the box. I followed the instructions given at Ubuntu’s wiki site and had my card up and running in no time without having to boot over and over.

Ubuntu has been running flawlessly on my old Dell Dimension 4400 doing duty as a file share, data backup, and WAP, and firewall.

Goodbye, Fedora. It was just barely OK while it lasted.