For reasons I haven't yet delved, Cyberpunk 2077 within Crossover (on Steam) looks for its mods in a different location than on my Windows box despite the directory structure being identical. When the game patches, the mods are updated, and as Crossover does not support Vortex, I copy the entire directory structure over the network. This then requires a shuffling of locations in order for the mods to be picked up and work. To facilitate this, I wrote a script to copy the mods from their installed location to one where the game would pick them up on macOS. I wrote it to run from 'drive_c' so it wouldn't get lost in the more densely packed directories:
ehowton@m3max drive_c % cat fix_crossover_mods.sh #!/bin/zsh find Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Steam/steamapps/common/Cyberpunk\ 2077/mods -name "*.xl" >> lom find Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Steam/steamapps/common/Cyberpunk\ 2077/mods -name "*.archive" >> lom sed 's/\(.*\)/"\1"/g' lom > lom2 sed 's/(/\\(/g ; s/)/\\)/g' < lom > lom2 sed 's/\ /\\ /g' lom2 > lom3 while read line; do cp "$line" "Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Cyberpunk 2077/archive/pc/mod/"; done < lom3 rm lom*

So...I'm not much of a macOS guy. I mostly use its unix shell, though I'm beginning to understand that it may behave more like Windows where dynamically linked binaries are concerned, despite appearing statically contained within its own executable environment (Applications).
So check it, Baldur's Gate 3 (BG3) is released as a Mac binary. Only it's not. It actually uses macOS's built-in Rosetta as its emulator. Fair enough. But I play Cyberpunk 2077 (CP77) which was not released as a Mac binary. No worries, the company Codeweavers wrote a neat little front-end GUI to wine called Crossover which utilizes brew (or so I assume based on their naming conventions) to run x86 apps on macOS. Now, whether Crossover replaces Rosetta (less likely) or simply leverages Rosetta (more likely given it already exists) is, at this point immaterial. I installed Steam into a discrete Crossover instance, then installed CP77 via Steam into the same instance. It plays flawlessly on an M3 Max MacBook Pro.
Much later I decide to install and play BG3. Because the x86 version of BG3 is not compatible with Crossover, I cannot install it into a Steam instance via Crossover. I thought (foolishly), "No problem! I'll use the native Mac client!" So I download Steam for Mac, and install BG3 for Mac. Again, it plays flawlessly.
Here's the tricky part: Awkwardly, now Crossover Steam calls macOS steam. Crossover Steam shows only CP77 installed, and macOS Steam shows only BG3 installed, but I cannot launch CP77 unless I uninstall macOS Steam. THANKFULLY the BG3 binaries are on an external (the same external as my Crossover app and games) so hopefully all I will have to do if I ever want to play BG3 again is to install macOS Steam, knowing I will be unable to play CP77 until it is uninstalled.

To get mods working for Cyberpunk 2077 with Crossover for Ma (from Reddit):

open regedit in crossover, go to dlloverrides, create 2 new reg_sz, one called winmm, the other called version. set both to "native, builtin"
This got red4ext to work for me, with the caveat that error 1812 always pops up when i start cyberpunk 2077. Doesn't seem to impact functionality though.

Unlike every other linux distro, Solus cannot yet full utilize VMSVGA display driver under VirtualBox (assume all VBox hosts though this one was specifically running under OSX) and will not display any 16:9 ratios under settings. However, if you deprecate the virtual driver to VBoxSVGA, the "Unknown Monitor" reverts to VBX and your full display settings will appear.
Unlike every other linux distro, Solus cannot yet full utilize VMSVGA display driver under VirtualBox (assume all VBox hosts though this one was specifically running under OSX) and will not display any 16:9 ratios under settings. However, if you deprecate the virtual driver to VBoxSVGA, the "Unknown Monitor" reverts to VBX and your full display settings will appear.
It was time to archive the photos on my iPhone to my 6TB repository. Only...you can't really do that anymore by simply attaching your phone to you computer. It will pull everything from Camera Roll, but not, I shit you not, "My Photo Stream" which contains, and I quote, "The last 30-days or last 1000 pictures from your Camera Roll." Why? Its a goddamn mystery. The ONLY official way is to install iCloud - which one might think would be a cloud-based app lol. No. I mean, it is, but apparently its also required to get photos from "My Photo Stream" to your desktop. But only if you change your Windows 10 settings to install Media Player. JFC.
WOW! And iCloud bookmark for Chrome is REQUIRED for me to get my photos from the phone to harddrive using a sync cable???
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D. YOU FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE APPLE FONT IS NOT INTENDED OR SUITABLE FOR USE IN SITUATIONS OR ENVIRONMENTS WHERE THE FAILURE OR TIME DELAYS OF, OR ERRORS OR INACCURACIES IN THE CONTENT, DATA OR INFORMATION PROVIDED BY, THE APPLE FONT COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, LIFE SUPPORT OR WEAPONS SYSTEMS.
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Running no less than 7 different versions at home:
And then something WONDERFUL HAPPENED! I discovered - for the first time ever - A FREAKING ONLINE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT REPOSITORY FOR HP/UX! I was beside myself with joy and wonder! Check out this shiznit:
Magic.
Its called depothelper. Nice of them to roll this out now that Intel is no longer making Itanium chips and everyone is migrating to x86 linux. Oh well.
EDIT:
You can find it here:Â Â http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/depothelper-2.20/ (it says it downloads in .gz but just untar it). Even you already have depothelper (v2.0) it no longer works, you need v2.2 and sadly you can't just # depothelper depothelper (I tried lol):
[/var/tmp/packages] root@belanna# depothelper bash
======================================================================================================================================================
Package-version Comment Download Install
======================================================================================================================================================
ia64_64-11.31 Package list Using cache OK
gettext-0.19.5 Uninstall old ver. N/A OK
gettext-0.20.1 Dependency (01/04) OK OK
libiconv-1.14 Uninstall old ver. N/A OK
libiconv-1.16 Dependency (02/04) OK OK
libunistring-0.9.10 Dependency (03/04) OK OK
readline-8.0.004 Dependency (04/04) Downloading...
eric-howtons-power-mac-g5:~ root# bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.17(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0)
ehowton@sles4sap:~/Desktop> bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.51(1) -release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu)
[root@ehowton ~]# bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.1.2(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
ehowton@xenchunk:~$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
ehowton@susevm:~> bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.2.42(1)-release (i586-suse-linux-gnu)
ehowton@suse4ext:~$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.2.45(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu)
[/home/ehowton] ehowton@belanna: bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.3.22(1)-release (ia64-hp-hpux11.31)
And then something WONDERFUL HAPPENED! I discovered - for the first time ever - A FREAKING ONLINE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT REPOSITORY FOR HP/UX! I was beside myself with joy and wonder! Check out this shiznit:
[/var/tmp/packages] root@belanna# env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"
vulnerable
this is a test
[/var/tmp/packages] root@belanna# depothelper bash
===============================================================================
Package-version Comment Download Install
===============================================================================
ia64-11.31 Package list OK OK
bash-4.3.022 Uninstall old ver. N/A OK
bash-4.3.025 Requested OK OK
===============================================================================
[/var/tmp/packages] root@belanna# env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"
bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt
bash: error importing function definition for `x'
this is a test
[/var/tmp/packages] root@belanna#
Magic.
Its called depothelper. Nice of them to roll this out now that Intel is no longer making Itanium chips and everyone is migrating to x86 linux. Oh well.
EDIT:
You can find it here:Â Â http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/depothelper-2.20/ (it says it downloads in .gz but just untar it). Even you already have depothelper (v2.0) it no longer works, you need v2.2 and sadly you can't just # depothelper depothelper (I tried lol):
[/var/tmp/packages] root@belanna# depothelper bash
======================================================================================================================================================
Package-version Comment Download Install
======================================================================================================================================================
ia64_64-11.31 Package list Using cache OK
gettext-0.19.5 Uninstall old ver. N/A OK
gettext-0.20.1 Dependency (01/04) OK OK
libiconv-1.14 Uninstall old ver. N/A OK
libiconv-1.16 Dependency (02/04) OK OK
libunistring-0.9.10 Dependency (03/04) OK OK
readline-8.0.004 Dependency (04/04) Downloading...

A local copy of my entire iTunes database running in the garage on the Powermac G5; 2x2GHz PPC procs and 3GB RAM running OSX 10.5.8. And of the many circa 2005 Netgear dongles I have laying around the house, I discovered there is an OSX driver for their RealTek chipsets!
Not that I'm going to host any Anna-level events in this garage.
Not shown in the rack are two Dell PowerEdge 2950's (one is running a Win7 remote browserfarm, the other a stupidly overpowered externally-facing openSUSE Minecraft server), an HP DL360 (my kids' internal Win7 Minecraft server), and one of my Itanium boxes - I decided to reinstall HP/UX 11iv3 here at the house as a test box since we don't have any at work.
I also enjoy using the SSH client on my iPhone to send "say" command to the G5 to freak out the kids when they're outside :)
Decided the Best Course of ActionTM was to replace my garage iPod with a garage OSX + iTunes, but this time using ye olde re-purposed PowerMac G5.
But getting a PowerMac G5 to boot from an external, non-Apple optical drive via USB? Yeah no fun ever when I have to re-learn all this, so here, for my reference:

drax0r's old G5
But getting a PowerMac G5 to boot from an external, non-Apple optical drive via USB? Yeah no fun ever when I have to re-learn all this, so here, for my reference:
- Press-and-hold Option-Alt-O-F to boot into OpenFirmware.
- devalias works just like on the old SPARC boxes.
- Correct syntax for boot is:
- ud:,\\:tbxi

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I think what frustrates me the most isn't that my iPhone rarely reconnects to my home network after I've been away a spell, but that I have to read the words, Known networks will be joined automatically as I'm choosing my known network from the list each and every time it fails to connect. Like its mocking me.

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Cloning a disk or backing up your drive with ditto, rsync, hdiutil and asr:
Ditto is a command-line utility that ships with Mac OS X. Ditto preserves permissions when run as root and preserves resource forks by default. Ditto can be used to clone your system with the following step:
rsync can be used to make a bootable clone as well. In addition to basic file copying, rsync also offers the ability to synchronize the source and target volumes -- it can copy only the items that have changed, thus subsequent clones, or backups, are much faster. The syntax is pretty easy:
That will backup your entire drive, deleting anything from the target that is not on the source drive (synchronizing, that is). Rsync also preserves resource forks (that's what the "E" argument is for) and will give you a bootable backup just as well as ditto. Learn more about using rsync to regularly backup your drive to a remote machine.
While it doesn't give you a bootable clone, backing up to a disk image does offer flexibility in the location of your backup as well as backup portability -- your entire volume is located in a single file. Restoring from disk images is pretty easy as well, just mount the disk image and treat it like any other volume. Backing up a volume to a disk image (UDZO means a compressed disk image in this case) is simply done with this one command:
Finally, the ideal tool to use for creating bootable clones of your volumes is Apple Software Restore. Apple Software Restore, or asr, is also a command-line tool built-in to Mac OS X. While asr essentially functions like ditto in its file-copy mode, it also has the ability to clone a volume at the block level, preserving every last bit of data on the volume.
asr syntax for volume cloning is also pretty easy:
The "-erase" argument is optional, though recommended when cloning an operating system. Merged OSes are not usually very happy. To use asr in block-copy mode, you must be able to unmount both the source and target. That is, you can't block-copy your boot volume. Learn more about this in the CCC documentation about asr.
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My XP box randomly drops USB ports. At first I thought this an issue with the operating system because I've had issued with XP and USB in the past, but here lately I've noticed that the new Intel board occasionally forgets it has PATA drives connected. Sometimes when I reboot (its boot drive is PATA) and sometimes while I'm using the computer.
Why not use SATA? I'm glad you asked! Mostly because even with a slipstreamed SP3, XP still doesn't have drivers for it. F6 drivers aside, it took me a week to find the right O/S driver on Intel's support page. The SATA optical drive? Sometimes it reads and burns, sometimes it doesn't. But I can't rely on the external DVD-burner because of the intermittent USB problem.
And because the Intel board only has one PATA port, I can't go all PATA either. Unless I use the Intel board for linux, which installs effortlessly and flawlessly - but because the Intel board limits me to 2.9 GB of RAM, I can't use an operating system which will allow me more.
This random dropping of ports also greatly limits my use of my new USB KVM, which gets confused. Frankly, I don't blame it. I'd get confused to! This completely disables my ability to bounce between two computers - the reason the KVM exists.
My KVM is not all that smart to begin with. Or rather, the engineers behind it. I suppose I'm some sort of anomaly, as the instructions layout how magnificent their KVM is, because it can do the following:
PC keyboard to control a PC
Mac keyboard to control a Mac
Sun keyboard to control a Sun
PC keyboard to control a Mac
PC keyboard to control a Sun
You guessed it, I'm using a MAC KEYBOARD TO CONTROL A PC. Am I the only person on the planet attempting to do this? Unlikely. No one else I know has the problems I do with IDE drives, SATA drivers, USB or KVM. I'd like to set someone on fire.
The solution is clear. Unfortunately, $8000 clear. That's the price of the box with the all-new 2.93GHz dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" processors. Maybe at some point in my life all this extra-curricular activity I spend sleepless nights doing will someday pay off. I can't even imagine the things I could do with a shiny new MacPro - I'd be unstoppable! No more XP drivers, no more KVM, USB that *actually* worked. And screw those old 7200rpm drives. I'm ready for an external 15k rpm SAS array!
As it stands, I'm manually plugging my KVM into one box or another, depending on what I need to accomplish, as well as moving physical drives from one box to another, dependent upon my motherboard's mood. I needed access to my 500GB drive which was no longer seen, so I pulled my mac's boot drive out of its external enclosure, removed the drive from my XP box and plugged it in to the external firewire port.
Huh.
I was under the impression all this time that the 1394 IEEE port actually worked in XP. Color me unsurprised.
I'll likely tear down both computers again and create what I hope is my last & final configuration: Ubuntu 9.04 with VMWare Workstation.
Of course I'll need another 19" flat panel monitor...

Steve Jobs gave his very last Key Note today in California, and the everpresent mindless throng of Apple enthusiasts were not disappointed, for today, the face of computing will forever be changed with the introduction of the MacBook Wheel, Apple's boldest move since the Macintosh:

Monopolizing on the wheel technology found in almost every line of their popular iPod series, Apple expects to hit one out of the ballpark with their reinvention of the laptop. First the Air, then the unibody construction, and now the Wheel. All I can think about is how pissed off I am because I sat through a year of typing class banging away on those old IBM Selectric typewriters in a classroom full of girls.
Though it was his last Key Note, Steve Jobs discussed in some detail how he fully expects the MacBook Wheel to be the precursor for change in their faltering OSX Server market as well, stating, "I never really realized how nuch I hated keybroads untill I saw this thing." With this latest tool, Apple is hoping to open the door to Enterprise-sized data centers and start carving out market share away from HP, Sun, and IBM on midrange back-end servers.

In preparation for the party which is now less than a fortnight away, and running out of free weekends before the first, my wife and I redoubled our efforts and really packed a punch these past two days (including staining both sides of the fence today - I'm so thankful I only work three days this week, cause that was not easy). Saturday we completely emptied the garage and moved everything we could into two sections of the attic: Long term, and short term storage. This was an all-day event that started after our meeting up with the Tribal Council to paint a widows room that morning, and ending with
You see, as my wife and I were filling the attic, (and because she didn't want to maneuver my heavy trunk and footlocker up the steps as was later disclosed to me) she suggested I set up some music across from the buffet table in the garage. Plans started formulating right then and there. I set up my two Infinity RS625 speakers in each corner, but by the time
So I attached my iTunes volume to that PowerMac G4, hooked up an old Sun monitor, dug out a yellowing two-button Microsoft scroll mouse, ran a 100-foot Cat-5 cable out to the garage, and hooked the computer up to the amp. The results are quite impressive I don't mind admitting. It sounds fantastic! I wish after the party I could set that amp and those speakers in my office! It took
The keg of Shiner Bock did arrive, I was told by different people throughout the day who happened by Anna Fine Wines & Spirits this weekend - they're keeping it iced for me until just hours before the party begins. But not everyone wants to hear endless scores at a kegger. So I need your help.
What do you want to listen to?
I have a lot of CD's in a wide variety of genre's, and there will undoubtedly be a lot of impromptu song-changing, but I thought it would be nice to have a pre-defined playlist to encompass something for everyone during the time the console is unmanned. So if you're coming, what would you like to listen to? And please, be specific.

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Per HOA regulations, I'm going to stain my fence. I've never been a part of an HOA, nor had an unstained fence. I had no idea that stain was that expensive. The good stuff goes for $120. Yikes. I settled for a five-gallon bucket at $85. I was also overwhelmed at the variety of colors. We ended up with "Cederwood." Now that I have a compressor I can get cool things like a gravity fed spray gun, which should minimize my actual "work" time on this project. I'll let you know how that goes.
I've been on and off line since Thursday. I've never had cable modem before, and after this six-day run, I may never again. I'm just waiting for fiber. Biding my time. And making multiple calls into the helpdesk. Of course by this time I've flat out refused to "restart my computer" to see if it comes back up. Christ, I'm running four different operating systems at home. Why do they always want me to reboot my XP box?
Speaking of Microsoft, remember the CAN-YOU-RUN-VISTA program you could download? The one which told you which "number" your system was?
- Your system cannot run Vista.
- Your system can run some core components of Vista.
- Your system can run Vista, but many features will be disabled.
- Your system can run Vista with most, but not all features enabled.
- There is no hardware available today to run a full version of Vista with everything turned on.
I like Apple's approach better:
Leopard will run faster than Tiger, even on your old equipment.
Its the opposite of 'bloatware' and we, as cattle, don't know how to handle this information. We don't understand because its completely antithetical to our way of thinking. Microsoft has brainwashed us into thinking that security flaws and poor code are simply a way of life.
Which reminds me,
This past weekend
Afterwards was a Tribal Council meeting. A meeting among private citizens of Anna to drink and discuss the merits of drinking. Everyone was there. I was the grill co-pilot to Retired Boom Operator and the entire operation was a rousing success.
Until his wife fell face first into the pavement.
With the wine glass between her face and the pavement.
Ouch. She was a real trooper though. The only thing she wanted was a new glass for her wine.
Took some time out to sit and watch National Lampoon's Vacation this weekend. Yes, the original. Hadn't seen it in years. So funny. Cousin Eddie at his darkest (instead of the goofy Cousin Eddie of later shows), the jaw-dropping incestuous & masturbatory remarks (unusual in a comedy), and a young Beverly D'Angelo's breasts. Twice. Good stuff. I want to see European Vacation now. Its getting close to that time that we start our annual viewing of Christmas Vacation.
I was at Wal-Mart, wandering aimlessly down the isles as I am wont to do while my wife is perusing the DVD selection. I spy an old Gen-1 512MB iPod Shuffle. PERFECT. My wife's been wanting a portable mp3 player, and though I refuse to buy one which forces me to use that most horrific of interfaces, Windows Media Player that greatly limits my choices. BAM! This was it - the answer! I inquire to the price. It was $10 less than the shiny new 1GB 2nd Generation Shuffle. I ask the saleslady if she understands why this is not a good deal.
I've got strict instructions to be home by 1700 and I don't know why. I think it may have something to do with Halloween.
Neighbor across the street had asked me a couple of days ago if I'd seen the commercials on television with the Mac & PC guy. I told him that yes, I was familiar with them. He then asked me if they were true.
I told him they were.
And its not really my word that carries the weight, its how I came to that conclusion. You see,
I finally agreed to 'test' it. I played with it for weeks on end, learning its foreign GUI, playing with its FreeBSD-based back-end. This was a unix administrators dream! At the end of a month or so, I hugged him fiercely, thanked him for freeing me, and powered off the XP box. I took my new mini, attached a 7200 rpm 8MB/cache firewire drive as a boot device and built the O/S from scratch. He'd already maxed out the RAM, so all that was left to do was overclock the CPU. Sure its a little dated now, but I have no reason to use anything else. And when the time comes to finally let it go, I'll purchase another one with the Intel duo-core and bequeath this one to my son.
I don't run virus scans these days, or ad-ware scans. Journaled filesystems means never having to defrag. The object database filesystem that they didn't quite get working in Vista is alive and well on my mac, and I'll never go back. I never considered myself one of those odd 'mac people' but knowing what I now know, I pity Windows users.
And now, a w0rd to
As long as there is injustice, whenever a Targathian baby cries out, wherever a distress signal sounds among the stars, we'll be there. This fine ship, this fine crew.
I was given a simple task: Order business-DSL for my two sites, for a wireless implementation project off domain. No problem. Unfortunately, most telecom's refuse to publish their phone number online. *sigh* Once that hurdle was overcome, the order process was just as easy as when I used them for my home setup, and, as it turns out, just as fux0rd. My boss was pressuring me to get this accomplished quickly, as we were behind on project deadline. Great. Why something they don't involve me with until it's dropped in my lap is my responsibility, is, I suppose, why I'm here. I was downright gleeful when I was told the installations could proceed as early as the next day! My boss would be pleased. We use our own cabling company, so the would follow up the next day to extend the line from the DMARK to the server room, both sites. That all fell apart this morning. Come to find out, they'd only scheduled one site for the line to be run, even though I'd scheduled our vendor for both places today. And when I called about this, I get the run around, along with the news that my office was responsible for the self-install modem which would be shipped separately? I didn't order a self-install modem. Why was I told I could get a quote when someone else told me you don't give quotes? I didn't give you shipping information or an 'attention to' contact for a modem delivery. HOW DO YOU DO BUSINESS WITH BUSINESSES? I just wish, sometimes, people on the other end of the phone would take more responsibility. I run across it every now and then, and it's always refreshing. If I passed the buck like these people do, I wouldn't have a job.
It's like throwing gasoline on a flame.
Spoke to Bill for 30+ minutes yesterday. It was the most fun I've had in weeks.
Are you enjoying your Kep-mok blood ticks, Dr. Lazarus?
The reason I enjoy watching Office Space is because it has a tendency to shift my paradigm and see work in it's proper perspective, for a time at least. It usually wears off, but damn what a new outlook on life and work when you show up (late) the next day after watching that movie.
You know, with all that makeup and stuff, I actually thought you were SMART for a second.
So I've been shopping for a mac mini for
galinda822. Funny thing about Apple - they set all the prices in all the stores. You cannot buy an Apple without Apple telling you how much you will pay for it. An interesting news article on
chrisbarrett77's personal site blog in which Apple announces that Best Buy will start selling Macintosh computers. Unfortunately for us consumers, that means nothing at all, since the price of Apple computers at Best Buy will be the same price as everywhere else you could ever think to buy an Apple. Because there's no competition in price, there's no 'best' place to purchase. And another Apple oddity: Whenever they release a new or faster product, the old product it replaces - STAYS THE SAME HIGH PRICE AS THE NEWER MODEL! Fantastic. So, let's take stock of what we know: Brand-spanking new Intel 'solo' core mini's with half a gig of RAM and aircards are $599. New older-model, busted-assed G4 mini's with 256MB of RAM and modems are $599. Used mini's are $599. Hmmm, whatever shall we get her? Grrrrrr.
Sorry, I was - door was a little sticky. Did you see that? I'll get one of my boys up here with a can of WD-40.
A couple of weeks ago I posted concerning the number of comments I have rec'd on this site ordered by lj user. While most sane persons view this as an interesting but totally useless tidbit of triva, other, less sane people begin posting multiple, single-word comments to drive up their ranking. Riddle me this, Batman - How can you drive up your ranking if I begin deleting multiple, single-word comments?
Well, the Protector got super-accelerated coming out of the black hole, and it, like, nailed the atmosphere at Mach 15, which, you guys know, is pretty unstable, obviously, so we're gonna help Laredo guide it on the vox ultra-frequency carrier and use Roman candles for visual confirmation.

I was given a simple task: Order business-DSL for my two sites, for a wireless implementation project off domain. No problem. Unfortunately, most telecom's refuse to publish their phone number online. *sigh* Once that hurdle was overcome, the order process was just as easy as when I used them for my home setup, and, as it turns out, just as fux0rd. My boss was pressuring me to get this accomplished quickly, as we were behind on project deadline. Great. Why something they don't involve me with until it's dropped in my lap is my responsibility, is, I suppose, why I'm here. I was downright gleeful when I was told the installations could proceed as early as the next day! My boss would be pleased. We use our own cabling company, so the would follow up the next day to extend the line from the DMARK to the server room, both sites. That all fell apart this morning. Come to find out, they'd only scheduled one site for the line to be run, even though I'd scheduled our vendor for both places today. And when I called about this, I get the run around, along with the news that my office was responsible for the self-install modem which would be shipped separately? I didn't order a self-install modem. Why was I told I could get a quote when someone else told me you don't give quotes? I didn't give you shipping information or an 'attention to' contact for a modem delivery. HOW DO YOU DO BUSINESS WITH BUSINESSES? I just wish, sometimes, people on the other end of the phone would take more responsibility. I run across it every now and then, and it's always refreshing. If I passed the buck like these people do, I wouldn't have a job.
It's like throwing gasoline on a flame.
Spoke to Bill for 30+ minutes yesterday. It was the most fun I've had in weeks.
Are you enjoying your Kep-mok blood ticks, Dr. Lazarus?
The reason I enjoy watching Office Space is because it has a tendency to shift my paradigm and see work in it's proper perspective, for a time at least. It usually wears off, but damn what a new outlook on life and work when you show up (late) the next day after watching that movie.
You know, with all that makeup and stuff, I actually thought you were SMART for a second.
So I've been shopping for a mac mini for
Sorry, I was - door was a little sticky. Did you see that? I'll get one of my boys up here with a can of WD-40.
A couple of weeks ago I posted concerning the number of comments I have rec'd on this site ordered by lj user. While most sane persons view this as an interesting but totally useless tidbit of triva, other, less sane people begin posting multiple, single-word comments to drive up their ranking. Riddle me this, Batman - How can you drive up your ranking if I begin deleting multiple, single-word comments?
Well, the Protector got super-accelerated coming out of the black hole, and it, like, nailed the atmosphere at Mach 15, which, you guys know, is pretty unstable, obviously, so we're gonna help Laredo guide it on the vox ultra-frequency carrier and use Roman candles for visual confirmation.

Long day at work. Came home to more work. My wife and her father had picked up the pantry for the kitchen, and he was waiting for me to get home to help him move everything in and start installing it. Then my daughter locked her bedroom door. It was the master bedroom and had a key lock. I had to punch out the doorknob just to get in her room. I'll have to replace that with a non-locking doorknow tomorrow. So during the electrical part of the kitchen, my father-in-law killed the power to all the computers during the move of the kitchen outlet, which corrrupted my recently moved iTunes database. No problem, I update the shortcuts and...nothing. Busted assed. I estimate I've only lost 10GB of songs. Oh, I still have them on spinning disk, just not in the database. I'm not too happy. I am considering (because I now have the drive space) re-importing EVERYTHING. This could take hours and I'm sure I'll lose my hard-earned and tediously perfect album art. Add to that when the computer rebooted, it brought up my old sc-trans executable which is pointing to the now non-existant iTunes path creating a 40GB log file which filled my primary drive. *sigh* Again, I'm not very happy about all of this, and dreading any course of action I need to take. Even though I have every piece of album art online, it's in quark's gallery - which is offline until I get my firewall in place, which is even more time. I'm exhausted.
Tried a variety of things; moving errant folders into the iTunes folders, 'resetting' my path (which appeared to re-read the database) and 'consolidating' my music, but I think the entire time it was simply working off the corrupted database which does me no good. Furthermore, my new 160GB drive is formatted with FAT-32. How gay is that?
Grrrrr.
One last thing. I've noticed in the past with iTunes, if I select an entire folder to 'Add to Library' as opposed to shift-select'ing them...I sometimes get multiples of the songs. I'll get 26-tracks of a 13-track album. I'm really scared to 'Add to Library' my entire 42GB worth of music because of this. I could be creating more a headache once this operation is complete. And I'm unsure if it will complete the 8-hours I am asleep...
Fsck!
Sometimes bad things happen to good people.
Ok - it's kicked off. 9637 songs x 1 second per song / 60 = ~3 hours. Not too bad I guess. Lost my 'last played' and 'Play Count' too. *sigh* That's how I keep track of what I've listened to and when. I also lose my 'Date Added' which is how I like to keep my playlist arranged. I bet I'm too angry to sleep tonight.
This sucks so bad.
An entire dynasty - lost!
I am so sick and tired of computers. I think I'll...do something else for a living. Digging ditches sounds like fun.
...time passes...
Ok, let's be reasonable. Perhaps, just perhaps - I can recreate the lost 10GB (mostly that Final Fantasy collection) with this new database...extract what was lost from it; reinstate the old database and add to it what I lost. I'm sure that's the next course of action. Now if I just had the time to accomplish all that.
So tired...



To do: Research a good distro of OpenSolaris...
Tried a variety of things; moving errant folders into the iTunes folders, 'resetting' my path (which appeared to re-read the database) and 'consolidating' my music, but I think the entire time it was simply working off the corrupted database which does me no good. Furthermore, my new 160GB drive is formatted with FAT-32. How gay is that?
Grrrrr.
One last thing. I've noticed in the past with iTunes, if I select an entire folder to 'Add to Library' as opposed to shift-select'ing them...I sometimes get multiples of the songs. I'll get 26-tracks of a 13-track album. I'm really scared to 'Add to Library' my entire 42GB worth of music because of this. I could be creating more a headache once this operation is complete. And I'm unsure if it will complete the 8-hours I am asleep...
Fsck!
Sometimes bad things happen to good people.
Ok - it's kicked off. 9637 songs x 1 second per song / 60 = ~3 hours. Not too bad I guess. Lost my 'last played' and 'Play Count' too. *sigh* That's how I keep track of what I've listened to and when. I also lose my 'Date Added' which is how I like to keep my playlist arranged. I bet I'm too angry to sleep tonight.
This sucks so bad.
An entire dynasty - lost!
I am so sick and tired of computers. I think I'll...do something else for a living. Digging ditches sounds like fun.
...time passes...
Ok, let's be reasonable. Perhaps, just perhaps - I can recreate the lost 10GB (mostly that Final Fantasy collection) with this new database...extract what was lost from it; reinstate the old database and add to it what I lost. I'm sure that's the next course of action. Now if I just had the time to accomplish all that.
So tired...



To do: Research a good distro of OpenSolaris...
I'm drunk on margarita's.
My Final Fantasy Collection
Dreamed about the second half of Battlestar Galactica Season Two. I won't tell you about it because I dreamed spoilers.
Successfully migrated all my iTunes data to my new 160GB drive. It rocks harder. $60!
Just ate leftover fire-burgers from yesterday - they're fantastic!
Carla here. That r0x.
Tony is my hetero-life mate and I miss him. It's like...twins being separated. It hurts.
Every neighborhood kid with in a mile came to swim in the pool today. We were all drunk on margarita's so we didn't care.
I'm Texan. I like George Strait.
I snatched open the humirdor and lit a cigar for
galinda822 and myself. They were fantastic
I have my 'Stephen Segal' in.
Daisy is the most beautiful cat on earth.
I'm going to bed now.
My Final Fantasy Collection
Dreamed about the second half of Battlestar Galactica Season Two. I won't tell you about it because I dreamed spoilers.
Successfully migrated all my iTunes data to my new 160GB drive. It rocks harder. $60!
Just ate leftover fire-burgers from yesterday - they're fantastic!
Carla here. That r0x.
Tony is my hetero-life mate and I miss him. It's like...twins being separated. It hurts.
Every neighborhood kid with in a mile came to swim in the pool today. We were all drunk on margarita's so we didn't care.
I'm Texan. I like George Strait.
I snatched open the humirdor and lit a cigar for
I have my 'Stephen Segal' in.
Daisy is the most beautiful cat on earth.
I'm going to bed now.
I feel pretty
Setting up the iogear USB Print Server (1-port) is not only a real pain in the ass, it's also apparently, not possible. I only say this because I have followed step-by-step instructions from the website, and cannot get either my XP box, nor my macintosh to print to it. Oh, it can see it, but all print communication is lost. The 'print server' part of it is either retarded, or I am. (Can you say 'dabbling in AppleTalk?')
*sigh*
I'm sure I'll play with it for countless hours before finally giving up.
Oh so pretty
Then, something incredible happened. I was in awe - stunned even. Took me several moments to react again. I went to CompUSA looking for an external drive enclosure. About $60. While I was there I longingly priced 160GB drives, as I was only going to put my old 30GB drive in it. $100. *sigh* $160 for the whole enchilada. I found another section of what I thought were drive enclosures caught my eye. They weren't. They were full external drives. And I found a 7200-rpm 2MB-cache 160GB USB 2.0 external drive for $60. Perfect. Now to migrate my iTunes folder...
I feel pretty and witty and gay
The restrooms at the Casino Queen are state-of-the-art. Well, almost. The automatic soap dispenser didn't (until my hand was clear afer many seconds of a mix of both slow and frantic waving...it spit itself into the basin), the automatic faucet didn't. Then did. Then didn't. And the automatic towel dispenser didn't. Nice. I'm in a multi-million dollar casino with unwashed wet hands. Those things need manual overrides.
And I pity
Set up the pool for the wife and kids (filling with water now) and set Walk the Line PPV for my father-in-law. I'll burn him a DVD. I wanted to see the movie anyway. The kids are staying with them tonight in their RV at the Casino. Am I looking forward to it? Does the Pope run to the rocketship in the woods?
Any girl who isn't me today
Stargate: Been one of my favorite themes since I saw the movie, but up until yesterday, only had a smattering of them across several Telarc discs.
Grilled the most fantastic burgers today. Since the in-laws were going to be here, but we didn't know their schedule, we picked up an 18-pack of 100% angus beef 1/3 pound patties. Today, I pre-heated the grill and threw ALL OF THEM on once it reached 600-degrees. Yeah, there was fire. I turned off the gas and cooked them from the fire of their own fat. They were fantastic.
See the pretty girl in that mirror there?
Setting up the iogear USB Print Server (1-port) is not only a real pain in the ass, it's also apparently, not possible. I only say this because I have followed step-by-step instructions from the website, and cannot get either my XP box, nor my macintosh to print to it. Oh, it can see it, but all print communication is lost. The 'print server' part of it is either retarded, or I am. (Can you say 'dabbling in AppleTalk?')
*sigh*
I'm sure I'll play with it for countless hours before finally giving up.
Oh so pretty
Then, something incredible happened. I was in awe - stunned even. Took me several moments to react again. I went to CompUSA looking for an external drive enclosure. About $60. While I was there I longingly priced 160GB drives, as I was only going to put my old 30GB drive in it. $100. *sigh* $160 for the whole enchilada. I found another section of what I thought were drive enclosures caught my eye. They weren't. They were full external drives. And I found a 7200-rpm 2MB-cache 160GB USB 2.0 external drive for $60. Perfect. Now to migrate my iTunes folder...
I feel pretty and witty and gay
The restrooms at the Casino Queen are state-of-the-art. Well, almost. The automatic soap dispenser didn't (until my hand was clear afer many seconds of a mix of both slow and frantic waving...it spit itself into the basin), the automatic faucet didn't. Then did. Then didn't. And the automatic towel dispenser didn't. Nice. I'm in a multi-million dollar casino with unwashed wet hands. Those things need manual overrides.
And I pity
Set up the pool for the wife and kids (filling with water now) and set Walk the Line PPV for my father-in-law. I'll burn him a DVD. I wanted to see the movie anyway. The kids are staying with them tonight in their RV at the Casino. Am I looking forward to it? Does the Pope run to the rocketship in the woods?
Any girl who isn't me today
Stargate: Been one of my favorite themes since I saw the movie, but up until yesterday, only had a smattering of them across several Telarc discs.
Grilled the most fantastic burgers today. Since the in-laws were going to be here, but we didn't know their schedule, we picked up an 18-pack of 100% angus beef 1/3 pound patties. Today, I pre-heated the grill and threw ALL OF THEM on once it reached 600-degrees. Yeah, there was fire. I turned off the gas and cooked them from the fire of their own fat. They were fantastic.
See the pretty girl in that mirror there?
Ended up watching Aeon Flux. It was pretty good. I hope Ultraviolet is better. Thought I heard Eric Serra in the score, turns out it was Graeme Revell. Not to shabby. To date, the only Graeme Revell I don't despise is The Saint. I LOVE that one.
Steaks were perfect, spuds were perfect (started them about half an hour before I threw the steaks on) and stir-grilled some snap peas that came out crunchy, but flavorful. Tecate, Carta Blanca, Dos Equis, and Dos Equis Amber throughout. What a wonderful end to the week!
So it looks like a .5 terabyte RAID vault is not quite in the cards. I have something like 3.5GB left on my internal mac drive (st0rage). I do have another anemic 30GB laptop drive which,if coupled with a USB 2.0 enclosure would increase st0rage at least until the vault thing comes to fruition. Yes, the entire internal drive of the mini is iTunes, currently sitting at 34GB.
...sleep...
Picked up the following soundtracks:

Back up your computer, upgrade storage capacity or easily transfer files with this stylish, compact and user-friendly drive. Expand your digital life by storing more photos, videos, music, and files with the LaCie mini drive - the ideal companion hard drive for Mac mini. Its unique 4-corner crown fits seamlessly into the underside of the Mac mini to create a stable, symbiotic harmony. The LaCie mini drive was brilliantly engineered to allow for a natural cooling airflow to move between these two drives for greater heat dissipation. It offers convenient plug & play and ultra-quiet operation. Stack several LaCie mini drives under the Mac mini for additional capacity or use it with any other computer with a FireWire connection.
I gotta admit, I could give a rat's ass about buffer size, arial density, or platter rotation speed. As long my new drive contains symbiotic harmony, I'm good. I'm good.
Watched Batman Begins this afternoon, and I must admit, I really enjoyed it. I found it interesting and engaging. It was well cast, and they did a good job. I also enjoyed the score immensely as an accompaniment to the movie, much more so than standalone. Then later, when my inlaws called as they had arrived in town early - I loaded up the kids and slid behind the wheel of my wife's black Saturn wagon, which felt then and there, like the batmobile! I drove as such. What fun! The sound of the engine in movie was great. And I really enjoyed the pod-racing sound of the engine braking in the turns. Every stunt in that car was real, no CGI for this Batmobile!

Well, I'm yawning, Tony's listening to Stevie Ray Vaughn, David's drinking beer, Carla's already asleep, and Tom is back on crack.
Steaks were perfect, spuds were perfect (started them about half an hour before I threw the steaks on) and stir-grilled some snap peas that came out crunchy, but flavorful. Tecate, Carta Blanca, Dos Equis, and Dos Equis Amber throughout. What a wonderful end to the week!
So it looks like a .5 terabyte RAID vault is not quite in the cards. I have something like 3.5GB left on my internal mac drive (st0rage). I do have another anemic 30GB laptop drive which,if coupled with a USB 2.0 enclosure would increase st0rage at least until the vault thing comes to fruition. Yes, the entire internal drive of the mini is iTunes, currently sitting at 34GB.
...sleep...
Picked up the following soundtracks:
Stargate
Over the Hedge
Deep Impact
The Island

Back up your computer, upgrade storage capacity or easily transfer files with this stylish, compact and user-friendly drive. Expand your digital life by storing more photos, videos, music, and files with the LaCie mini drive - the ideal companion hard drive for Mac mini. Its unique 4-corner crown fits seamlessly into the underside of the Mac mini to create a stable, symbiotic harmony. The LaCie mini drive was brilliantly engineered to allow for a natural cooling airflow to move between these two drives for greater heat dissipation. It offers convenient plug & play and ultra-quiet operation. Stack several LaCie mini drives under the Mac mini for additional capacity or use it with any other computer with a FireWire connection.
I gotta admit, I could give a rat's ass about buffer size, arial density, or platter rotation speed. As long my new drive contains symbiotic harmony, I'm good. I'm good.
Watched Batman Begins this afternoon, and I must admit, I really enjoyed it. I found it interesting and engaging. It was well cast, and they did a good job. I also enjoyed the score immensely as an accompaniment to the movie, much more so than standalone. Then later, when my inlaws called as they had arrived in town early - I loaded up the kids and slid behind the wheel of my wife's black Saturn wagon, which felt then and there, like the batmobile! I drove as such. What fun! The sound of the engine in movie was great. And I really enjoyed the pod-racing sound of the engine braking in the turns. Every stunt in that car was real, no CGI for this Batmobile!

Well, I'm yawning, Tony's listening to Stevie Ray Vaughn, David's drinking beer, Carla's already asleep, and Tom is back on crack.
My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery.
Chose Batman Begins to be my HQ-mode testing on the Magnavox. Granted, it runs 2:30 (read three DVD's) but I have yet to see it, and when I do...*shivers*
My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet.
I've read quite a bit on the X-Men: The Last Stand score composed by John Powell, and then picked it up, listened to it, ripped it - tar'd it, scp'd it to work, listened to it there - anyway, I have to give this one to
schpydurx, but I do prefer Powell's score to Mr. & Mrs. Smith. There, I've said it. It's just so fantastic. Sorry for giving you grief Tom, you're right - worth having.
My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark.
I'm taking tomorrow off, so I probably won't be as active as usual. Then again, I may be MORE active. Who knows. As soon as the wife found out about my decision, she started in on where we would go and what we would do...
Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy.
Didn't get a chance to grill tonight, but dinner was fantastic nonetheless. Wife had shredded some chicken I grilled a few nights ago and made the most fabulous quesdilla's yet. Ain't nuthin wrong with dat!
The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.
Did not enjoy Lost as much as I wanted to. I'm new to Michael Giacchino (being introduced to him in The Incredibles) and nothing has come even close to that sound - save MI:3 where I can pick him out every now and again. In a surprising move, Lord of War was excellent, but I've only heard it once now, and require another listen or two before I suggest it.
My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets.
Daisy jumped on my desk while I was sitting here and managed to, in about 4 seconds, power on my Solaris box, rename an avi, bring up the Dashboard, and knock all the Batmobiles off my desk! There's a lot of untapped computing power under that fur. If only I could get her to code.
When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really.

At the age of twelve I received my first scribe.
Picked up today:
At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles.
Still want on DVD & CD: The Godfather Trilogy. Even I have to admit, my uber-geekdom laserdisc player is getting dated.
There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking - I highly suggest you try it.
Chose Batman Begins to be my HQ-mode testing on the Magnavox. Granted, it runs 2:30 (read three DVD's) but I have yet to see it, and when I do...*shivers*
My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet.
I've read quite a bit on the X-Men: The Last Stand score composed by John Powell, and then picked it up, listened to it, ripped it - tar'd it, scp'd it to work, listened to it there - anyway, I have to give this one to
My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark.
I'm taking tomorrow off, so I probably won't be as active as usual. Then again, I may be MORE active. Who knows. As soon as the wife found out about my decision, she started in on where we would go and what we would do...
Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy.
Didn't get a chance to grill tonight, but dinner was fantastic nonetheless. Wife had shredded some chicken I grilled a few nights ago and made the most fabulous quesdilla's yet. Ain't nuthin wrong with dat!
The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.
Did not enjoy Lost as much as I wanted to. I'm new to Michael Giacchino (being introduced to him in The Incredibles) and nothing has come even close to that sound - save MI:3 where I can pick him out every now and again. In a surprising move, Lord of War was excellent, but I've only heard it once now, and require another listen or two before I suggest it.
My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets.
Daisy jumped on my desk while I was sitting here and managed to, in about 4 seconds, power on my Solaris box, rename an avi, bring up the Dashboard, and knock all the Batmobiles off my desk! There's a lot of untapped computing power under that fur. If only I could get her to code.
When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really.

At the age of twelve I received my first scribe.
Picked up today:
Chronicles of Narnia Soundtrack
Final Fantasy Advent Children Soundtrack
At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles.
Still want on DVD & CD: The Godfather Trilogy. Even I have to admit, my uber-geekdom laserdisc player is getting dated.
There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking - I highly suggest you try it.
I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark, When he made Pearl Harbor.
I think my cat Daisy has figured out and understands the HVAC system at the house. This may help should I need repairs in the future. I'm wondering if I could bribe her into replacing my hot-water heater with some canned tuna.
I miss you more then that movie missed the point, And that’s an awful lot girl.
I was up late listening to my new soundtrack - it was blessedly quiet in the house (after the kids went down) and the environment was perfect for doing so. Then my wife walks in from the other room where you couldn't hear it and exclaims that the music is a little loud. "Funny, it wasn't until you came in here." I replied.
And now, now you've gone away, And all I'm trying to say,
My neck is aching today. I either slept on it wrong, or my head has swollen to a massive size due to all the thinking I've been engaged in lately. I just took two Excedrin. Where is the user group file on OSX anyway?
Is Perl Harbor sucked and I miss you.
darwin is unix which isn't really unix, based on BSD which is more like SYS5 now which darwin isn't...My head hurts.
drax0r had a book entitled, "OSX for Unix Geeks" or something to that effect. Perhaps that will show me where the shadow file is, since I know one exists...Oh, and groups is an executable. *sigh*
I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school, He was terrible in that film.
I installed a processor, voltage regulator, and a floppy drive on our new *shudder* Exchange server this morning, then loaded it up with 146GB drives. Wouldn't mind having one of those myself. I seriously need to look into some sort of backup/increased capacity for teh max0r.
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part, He's way better than Ben Affleck.
We had a one compresser go out on our Liebert A/C unit. I get a call from Facilities. "Are there any servers you could power off just until we get this compresser replaced?"
Yeah, we have at least a dozen servers running for no reason whatsoever.
And now all I can think about is your smile, And that shitty movie too,
Apparently, they have OSXUserUtils, which adds commandline useradd/userdel/groupadd/groupdel fuctionality; but it appears to be just an emulator to the GUI (which I do not require), includes a 'group' which really isn't used (Uh...) and non-functional with 10.4! Fantastic! What a raging pile of shiite muslim that would be.
Perl Harbor sucked and I miss you.
I think my cat Daisy has figured out and understands the HVAC system at the house. This may help should I need repairs in the future. I'm wondering if I could bribe her into replacing my hot-water heater with some canned tuna.
I miss you more then that movie missed the point, And that’s an awful lot girl.
I was up late listening to my new soundtrack - it was blessedly quiet in the house (after the kids went down) and the environment was perfect for doing so. Then my wife walks in from the other room where you couldn't hear it and exclaims that the music is a little loud. "Funny, it wasn't until you came in here." I replied.
And now, now you've gone away, And all I'm trying to say,
My neck is aching today. I either slept on it wrong, or my head has swollen to a massive size due to all the thinking I've been engaged in lately. I just took two Excedrin. Where is the user group file on OSX anyway?
Is Perl Harbor sucked and I miss you.
darwin is unix which isn't really unix, based on BSD which is more like SYS5 now which darwin isn't...My head hurts.
I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school, He was terrible in that film.
I installed a processor, voltage regulator, and a floppy drive on our new *shudder* Exchange server this morning, then loaded it up with 146GB drives. Wouldn't mind having one of those myself. I seriously need to look into some sort of backup/increased capacity for teh max0r.
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part, He's way better than Ben Affleck.
We had a one compresser go out on our Liebert A/C unit. I get a call from Facilities. "Are there any servers you could power off just until we get this compresser replaced?"
Yeah, we have at least a dozen servers running for no reason whatsoever.
And now all I can think about is your smile, And that shitty movie too,
Apparently, they have OSXUserUtils, which adds commandline useradd/userdel/groupadd/groupdel fuctionality; but it appears to be just an emulator to the GUI (which I do not require), includes a 'group' which really isn't used (Uh...) and non-functional with 10.4! Fantastic! What a raging pile of shiite muslim that would be.
Perl Harbor sucked and I miss you.
There was an issue at work where documents we were sending out were taking 30 minutes to open at other sites. They told us it was a Microsoft template issue and that we were creating templates with errors - templates which had to authenticate against our servers' .dot file prior to open. Carla told them that was horseshit. So we had this big conference call where I effortlessly opened, but to everyone's chagrin, the document in 4-seconds flat from my mac Notes client under Word for Mac, via VNC. They weren't convinced it was an Office XP vs. Office 2003 compatibility error and wanted us to open a Microsoft trouble ticket. As Carla pointed out, "This is the same way we've been doing it for seven years, so it doesn't sound like our issue." I agreed that the problem fell entirely on the remote site, and was aching to prove it. I told everyone I would perform a promiscuous snoop of my interface and capture the output to determine whether or not the document was trying to authenticate to our servers prior to opening. I'm a genius...or not. Apparently, there is no snoop for OSX. What a retard. A scour of the forums shows that tcpdump ships with OSX. I've used tcpdump infrequently, but never for the same reasons I've used snoop, that I can recall. Ethereal wouldn't launch due to a Gtk error, even after setting DISPLAY=0.0 and on OSX even a super-user cannot snoop in promiscous mode without first setting the interface with the pfconfig command which was nonexistent! Pressing on, I came up with this:
Which determined that (once ports 22 & 5900 were removed from the equasion) whatever issues remote sites were having from opening Word Documents that originated from this facility, nothing within the document was trying to authenticate back to this office.
I love troubleshooting, this is true - but I also love using my tools to swat away annoying amature suggestions.
With great power comes great responsibility.
That responsibility is now my burden alone to bear.
So I have 5 IP addresses, and I want to assign three of them to three different boxes. I want to be able to run HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, VNC, on all them if I wanted to, and have them connect via DNS entries for each. I want to open gaming ports to my XP box, which will NOT have an externally accessible IP. I don't know how to go about any of this, but with a little persistence, and a lot of time, I'm sure I will arise the victor.
Fun times ahead.
My gallery is on my Solaris box - as well as a backup of most of my scores. The gallery runs over the web & uses MySQL. The box is pretty secure, not running any errant services or open ports. I can't see myself using this box for much of anything else, outside of Solaris-specific tasks. It has mirrored drives, an UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz RISC chip and 1GB of RAM. I'll want to run http/https & ssh on this one.
My primary workstation is my OSX box, a mac mini OC'd to the gills. Don't know that I will be running HTTP from this box, but want to be able to if I so choose. VNC & ssh at a minimum.
My firewall will be my slackware box. It's a 1.6GHz P4 w/768MB of RAM and two identical drives I don't know how to mirror yet in linux. The kernel wouldn't see the hardward IDE-RAID card they were previously attached to. I want to be able to run ssh and http on this box. As this is my firewall, I don't yet know how that works, one of those things I have to figure out as I go along I suppose.
In other news,
somebritinmass has joined us on lj! He was very busy today, so it's unlikely we'll hear from him anytime soon. And I'm sure once he and
celtmanx go head-to-head we'll all see the fireworks. Let the games begin!
BorgQueen:~/Desktop ehowton$ sudo tcpdump -i en0 -U >> /Volumes/max0r/tcpdump
Which determined that (once ports 22 & 5900 were removed from the equasion) whatever issues remote sites were having from opening Word Documents that originated from this facility, nothing within the document was trying to authenticate back to this office.
I love troubleshooting, this is true - but I also love using my tools to swat away annoying amature suggestions.
With great power comes great responsibility.
That responsibility is now my burden alone to bear.
So I have 5 IP addresses, and I want to assign three of them to three different boxes. I want to be able to run HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, VNC, on all them if I wanted to, and have them connect via DNS entries for each. I want to open gaming ports to my XP box, which will NOT have an externally accessible IP. I don't know how to go about any of this, but with a little persistence, and a lot of time, I'm sure I will arise the victor.
Fun times ahead.
My gallery is on my Solaris box - as well as a backup of most of my scores. The gallery runs over the web & uses MySQL. The box is pretty secure, not running any errant services or open ports. I can't see myself using this box for much of anything else, outside of Solaris-specific tasks. It has mirrored drives, an UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz RISC chip and 1GB of RAM. I'll want to run http/https & ssh on this one.
My primary workstation is my OSX box, a mac mini OC'd to the gills. Don't know that I will be running HTTP from this box, but want to be able to if I so choose. VNC & ssh at a minimum.
My firewall will be my slackware box. It's a 1.6GHz P4 w/768MB of RAM and two identical drives I don't know how to mirror yet in linux. The kernel wouldn't see the hardward IDE-RAID card they were previously attached to. I want to be able to run ssh and http on this box. As this is my firewall, I don't yet know how that works, one of those things I have to figure out as I go along I suppose.
In other news,
Cancelled my order with Amazon on BSG:Season Two score. Placed an order with La-La-Land Records (the label) who ship 10 days earlier and, autographed by the composer! For all you non-soundtrack types, that would be Bear McCreary, who took over from and worked with Richard Gibbs of the mini-series. What might you expect to hear on this second season album? Here are my notes on the few preview tracks provided:
I for one, can't wait!

Here's the link for your own copy and to give the preview tracks a listen!

Updated Firefox on teh max0r which fixed the gif viewing issue.
Watched Ultimate Avengers with my son, which was pretty damn good. I wasn't planning on actually paying attention when I put it on for him, but it was great.
Wrote a little script and made a cron entry on xirr to rotate my banner picture on LiveJournal.
Grilled chicken.
galinda822 came for a nice visit.
Mowed the lawn.
Played countless hours of Hot Wheels with my boy.
Brought all primary systems down at J:42 yesterday and swapped the master bedroom and the office. Miraculously, my clock started working again and everything was back up by 1900.
Installed a new MFP for my wife on the XP uber-box, and shared it out only to discover that OSX can only connect to OSX-shared printers. I assume the same can be said for connecting it to teh max0r and trying to connect to it via XP.
For the first time in a month, considering going to be at 2200 so I can be well rested for my day tomorrow. I haven't played DS2 in a week, nor even cracked my new Strategy Guide...
Remember the documentary of the Galactica by Lucy Lawless? Remember the theme music of the clip they showed? It was the 70's original theme. It's included here on the first track as Colonial Anthem
There's an Allegro on track five which is in the same orchestral style of, and contains some of the same bars as our past favorites The Face of the Shape to Come and Passacaglia.
Track eight, Pegasus at first sounds kinda gay, like 'Endless Love' until I remembered the scene where they first discovered Pegasus and everyone was disembarking onto Galactica; very exciting suddenly as I filled with the emotion of the moment.
Lords of Kobol is the first vocal track (track 9) on the disc and as is all their vocal tracks, in some foreign tongue - but nothing like the mini-series fav To Kiss or Not to Kiss, harder, and with more force. Oh, and electric guitars too. Pretty cool, it was from the episode 'Pegasus' but I couldn't place it.
So Roslin and Adama (track 13) starts off simply with solo synth piano and a solo violin. It adds a couple of acoustic guitars and maybe a cello which crescendo's into something reminiscent of Firefly. Pretty cool.
Prelude to War (track 17) is a very fast-paced piece with violins, snare drums (on nearly all battle themes) and bigger drums. Here Bear goes back to his ethnic drum line but the addition of the snare rolls behind the frantic violins makes it very exciting.
Track 18 (Reuniting the Fleet) is the same Irish-themed track (6) on Season One (A Good Lighter) with the addition of drums, snare, and a bass.
Black Market is a middle-eastern-esque piece which starts with classical guitar and ends with electric guitar and drums. This is the last track, track 23.
I for one, can't wait!

Here's the link for your own copy and to give the preview tracks a listen!

Updated Firefox on teh max0r which fixed the gif viewing issue.
Watched Ultimate Avengers with my son, which was pretty damn good. I wasn't planning on actually paying attention when I put it on for him, but it was great.
Wrote a little script and made a cron entry on xirr to rotate my banner picture on LiveJournal.
Grilled chicken.
Mowed the lawn.
Played countless hours of Hot Wheels with my boy.
Brought all primary systems down at J:42 yesterday and swapped the master bedroom and the office. Miraculously, my clock started working again and everything was back up by 1900.
Installed a new MFP for my wife on the XP uber-box, and shared it out only to discover that OSX can only connect to OSX-shared printers. I assume the same can be said for connecting it to teh max0r and trying to connect to it via XP.
For the first time in a month, considering going to be at 2200 so I can be well rested for my day tomorrow. I haven't played DS2 in a week, nor even cracked my new Strategy Guide...
My job is to build
galinda822 a computer for her home office. She's going to order DSL, we already have a monitor, and we're working on making her desk. In previous posts, I've identified the parts we need for her computer, and they run about $125. Then we can get started. However, in a stroke of brilliance this morning, I've decided on something far more fantastic for her future home-office: The Mac Mini.
That's right. With bidding starting ~$150 on eBay these days, she can surf the web in style and free herself from the bonds of XP. I don't have to build anything, either ;) Anyway, I'm pretty excited for her, and I hope you are too! And, no Tom, I will NOT be installing Opera for her. She'll be using Safari, and is prepared to ignore your every comment on the matter. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.
My weekend just got a lot busier. I'm receiving a FedEx shipment of an HP wintel server to rack-mount this weekend to expand the quickly diminishing space of our existing email server. Fun, fun! Oh yeah, the wife doesn't know about that yet. And seeing how tonight we're drinking margaritas and grilling for movie night, I sure as hell hope I'm able to answer the front door by 1000 tomorrow.
At home I run Photoshop CS on my 1200x1600 display. That's a lot of real estate. Imagine my frustration trying to finish up projects at work using Photoshop Elements on a 1024x768? Grrrrrrr.
So, I've pretty much decided I'm going to do everything I need to do on my linux box. I'll use my laptop for Outlook and the few times I need to launch IE. That's really about all it's good for. The linux box is an unbuntu install on a Dell Optiplex SFF with a 3GB P4, half a gig of RAM and a 7200rpm SATA drive. I couldn't ask for a better box on my desktop here at work.
Yahoo! Mail gives me 2GB for my email space. Each site I've been at gives me nearly unlimited email space. The company I work for however, a technologies company, gives me 110MB, and bitch if I don't archive. Nice. You know, I would archive - if I hadn't had 10 computers across 4 accounts the last six years. There are some things I will never understand.
Got to de-rack a Solaris box and tear into it this week. The highlight of my week, as usual; back to my roots. The power-supply had blown and I will likely be here this weekend replacing it.
*sigh*


That's right. With bidding starting ~$150 on eBay these days, she can surf the web in style and free herself from the bonds of XP. I don't have to build anything, either ;) Anyway, I'm pretty excited for her, and I hope you are too! And, no Tom, I will NOT be installing Opera for her. She'll be using Safari, and is prepared to ignore your every comment on the matter. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.
My weekend just got a lot busier. I'm receiving a FedEx shipment of an HP wintel server to rack-mount this weekend to expand the quickly diminishing space of our existing email server. Fun, fun! Oh yeah, the wife doesn't know about that yet. And seeing how tonight we're drinking margaritas and grilling for movie night, I sure as hell hope I'm able to answer the front door by 1000 tomorrow.
At home I run Photoshop CS on my 1200x1600 display. That's a lot of real estate. Imagine my frustration trying to finish up projects at work using Photoshop Elements on a 1024x768? Grrrrrrr.
So, I've pretty much decided I'm going to do everything I need to do on my linux box. I'll use my laptop for Outlook and the few times I need to launch IE. That's really about all it's good for. The linux box is an unbuntu install on a Dell Optiplex SFF with a 3GB P4, half a gig of RAM and a 7200rpm SATA drive. I couldn't ask for a better box on my desktop here at work.
Yahoo! Mail gives me 2GB for my email space. Each site I've been at gives me nearly unlimited email space. The company I work for however, a technologies company, gives me 110MB, and bitch if I don't archive. Nice. You know, I would archive - if I hadn't had 10 computers across 4 accounts the last six years. There are some things I will never understand.
Got to de-rack a Solaris box and tear into it this week. The highlight of my week, as usual; back to my roots. The power-supply had blown and I will likely be here this weekend replacing it.
*sigh*


There's gay (http://spaces.msn.com/ehowton), and there's most gay (only being able to post to http://spaces.msn.com with Internet Explorer). Any shade or even hint of gayness pisses me off. You can imagine my mood after running into this. Grrrrr.
I'm ran into a rut with my new Delta Flyer gif. Once I resize the preview images I presented to the correct size, the one my public picked, #5 becomes lost in the color. Hmmmm. Back to the drawing board. I took one of the plain-jane ships, separated it from it's deep-space background, rendered clouds with a trekkish blue/green tint to it, pasted the ship into that and ran a 25% smudge across the stern of the ship and it's port winglet, touching up the entire outline of the ship with a 50% blur before adding a spotlight effect from the rear. And again, I'd like to apologize for the entire polling disaster.

Poor little CPU fan on my laptop is running 90% of the time now. 20+ browser tabs, ST with 8 sessions, gAIM with 10 sessions, Lotus Notes with 15 tabs & calendar, Outlook with six messages open, two IE windows, Windows explorer, two ms-dos consoles, three putty sessions, calculator, notepad (my all-time favorite MS app), Access, four Excel spreadsheets, iTunes, Thunderbird, Photoshop Elements 4.0, and our ticketing system...Stupid laptop.
Ah, that wasn't fair. My little mac mini at home can't keep up with me any more either. I've begun working more and more on my uber-XP box. NOW I see why Tony wanted his dual-proc G5 tower. Speaking of OSX, my USB-attached CF card reader has stopped working on every box I own, except my linux box. Discuss.
Since I changed themes on my lj to one with a black background, the transparent gif I use for my page edits is no longer an effective visual (as it it black) so I went about updating it. First of all, I moved from a Star Trek font, to the Diablo II font (Exocet). Easy - just make it white instead of black, and go. Unless...I'm on someone's friend's page with a white background. Right. I tried a variety of primary colors, but they all looked like ass. Fine. I put a nice drop shadow on it, so it could be black, and still visible on both backgrounds. Not quite. Between the cross in the 'O' as one example, retained white, not being large enough to be considered selectable for transparency. I then bounced back and forth with some success between outer glow (which outlined the black letters perfectly) and emboss & inner glow. However, without a proper matte selection for primary background color (we're talking black & white here - literally) the rough edges surrounding the soft glow made it look my 3-year-old's work. After much thought, I decided on an image, which could be turned into a transparent gif easily, and retain the soft glow of the outlined text atop that - which would translate easily to any color background. What image, though? Because I was using the Exocet font, a sword sounded like a good idea, and one which would translate easily to my mind's eye - a slim, lengthy image! I browsed a sword site under the 'fantasy' collection, as I wanted as ornate a hilt as possible, and found a beautiful specimen. CMD-CTRL-SHIT 4 overrode the php image holder disallowing 'Save As' and crop/rotate/resize in Photoshop gave me the perfect orientation. But the blade was wrong. Found a broadsword blade: nip/tuck/ta-da! I must've saved this image 15 times using different gif options, as it looked absolutely beautiful on every browser/OS combination except *ahem* my primary system: Firefox/OSX. Oh well. Posted anyway:

I updated Firefox for OSX from 1.0.5 to 1.5.0.3 and it fixed the .gif issue.
I'm ran into a rut with my new Delta Flyer gif. Once I resize the preview images I presented to the correct size, the one my public picked, #5 becomes lost in the color. Hmmmm. Back to the drawing board. I took one of the plain-jane ships, separated it from it's deep-space background, rendered clouds with a trekkish blue/green tint to it, pasted the ship into that and ran a 25% smudge across the stern of the ship and it's port winglet, touching up the entire outline of the ship with a 50% blur before adding a spotlight effect from the rear. And again, I'd like to apologize for the entire polling disaster.

Poor little CPU fan on my laptop is running 90% of the time now. 20+ browser tabs, ST with 8 sessions, gAIM with 10 sessions, Lotus Notes with 15 tabs & calendar, Outlook with six messages open, two IE windows, Windows explorer, two ms-dos consoles, three putty sessions, calculator, notepad (my all-time favorite MS app), Access, four Excel spreadsheets, iTunes, Thunderbird, Photoshop Elements 4.0, and our ticketing system...Stupid laptop.
Ah, that wasn't fair. My little mac mini at home can't keep up with me any more either. I've begun working more and more on my uber-XP box. NOW I see why Tony wanted his dual-proc G5 tower. Speaking of OSX, my USB-attached CF card reader has stopped working on every box I own, except my linux box. Discuss.
Since I changed themes on my lj to one with a black background, the transparent gif I use for my page edits is no longer an effective visual (as it it black) so I went about updating it. First of all, I moved from a Star Trek font, to the Diablo II font (Exocet). Easy - just make it white instead of black, and go. Unless...I'm on someone's friend's page with a white background. Right. I tried a variety of primary colors, but they all looked like ass. Fine. I put a nice drop shadow on it, so it could be black, and still visible on both backgrounds. Not quite. Between the cross in the 'O' as one example, retained white, not being large enough to be considered selectable for transparency. I then bounced back and forth with some success between outer glow (which outlined the black letters perfectly) and emboss & inner glow. However, without a proper matte selection for primary background color (we're talking black & white here - literally) the rough edges surrounding the soft glow made it look my 3-year-old's work. After much thought, I decided on an image, which could be turned into a transparent gif easily, and retain the soft glow of the outlined text atop that - which would translate easily to any color background. What image, though? Because I was using the Exocet font, a sword sounded like a good idea, and one which would translate easily to my mind's eye - a slim, lengthy image! I browsed a sword site under the 'fantasy' collection, as I wanted as ornate a hilt as possible, and found a beautiful specimen. CMD-CTRL-SHIT 4 overrode the php image holder disallowing 'Save As' and crop/rotate/resize in Photoshop gave me the perfect orientation. But the blade was wrong. Found a broadsword blade: nip/tuck/ta-da! I must've saved this image 15 times using different gif options, as it looked absolutely beautiful on every browser/OS combination except *ahem* my primary system: Firefox/OSX. Oh well. Posted anyway:

I updated Firefox for OSX from 1.0.5 to 1.5.0.3 and it fixed the .gif issue.
Gamed until 2300. Daisy slept on my head.
It's worse than you know.
Created a new schedule with the wife Saturday, to make things easier, and to save money.
It usually is.
Was supposed to take reciept of the bengal kitties tomorrow - but am instead making a whirlwind trip to Wichita Tuesday after work. I hope to be back in town sometime this weekend, giving me at least one day off before I have to return to work. So much to do, so much on my mind...Being personally responsible for everything which surrounds me wears me out. I have so little time for reflection or regret.
We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight...turbulence and then explode.
Burned all my movies off teh max0r this weekend, freeing up something in the neighborhood of 52GB. I wondered why my 72GB drive was near capacity. Of course I know why the little internal drive in the mac is full - I'm sitting at 30GB of iTunes music. I'm contemplating burning off my entire collection for backup purposes. Something like six DVD's worth. I think it's time for me to invest in a little mirrored 1TB vault. It doesn't have to be fast, just stable...
And that being said, I'm continually impressed with my XP box. I burned off a whole host of junk from that 10k drive, deleted the swapfile, and it defragged in 8 seconds. Nice. Was hoping running only on RAM my game would load/run faster, but it doesn't. Still contemplating a new video card. Oh where will I find the time, or the money?
I aim to misbehave.
It's worse than you know.
Created a new schedule with the wife Saturday, to make things easier, and to save money.
Tuesday's I do the household shopping, sans groceries.
Kids go down every evening without fail at 2000.
I grill dinner every weekday evening.
We walk everyday after work.
I refrain from any internet activity and/or gaming until after 2030.
Wife and I do the bills together every Thursday after 2030.
Friday night is movie night, the only evening we turn on the television.
We order out Friday night.
I only buy beer on Friday.
It usually is.
Was supposed to take reciept of the bengal kitties tomorrow - but am instead making a whirlwind trip to Wichita Tuesday after work. I hope to be back in town sometime this weekend, giving me at least one day off before I have to return to work. So much to do, so much on my mind...Being personally responsible for everything which surrounds me wears me out. I have so little time for reflection or regret.
We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight...turbulence and then explode.
Burned all my movies off teh max0r this weekend, freeing up something in the neighborhood of 52GB. I wondered why my 72GB drive was near capacity. Of course I know why the little internal drive in the mac is full - I'm sitting at 30GB of iTunes music. I'm contemplating burning off my entire collection for backup purposes. Something like six DVD's worth. I think it's time for me to invest in a little mirrored 1TB vault. It doesn't have to be fast, just stable...
And that being said, I'm continually impressed with my XP box. I burned off a whole host of junk from that 10k drive, deleted the swapfile, and it defragged in 8 seconds. Nice. Was hoping running only on RAM my game would load/run faster, but it doesn't. Still contemplating a new video card. Oh where will I find the time, or the money?
I aim to misbehave.
I have to be at my secondary work location at 0600. I have NO IDEA what I am still doing up.
I have too many programs open on my mac mini. It is sluggish.
I need to build
galinda822 a computer for her home office. I am still short a CPU, mobo & case.
I need to rebuild my father's computer, and replace my mother-in-law's.
I'm anticipating an ass-chewing from my boss sometime tomorrow.
I haven't written a haiku in a long, long time.
I have not provided a Higgleosaurous update in many months.
I've been listening to some great music.
I am on the second disc of the second season of The Sopranos.
I need to do a little soft-shoe in the office tomorrow.
I may walk to my office tomorrow morning doing Christopher Walken's choreography from his Weapon of Choice video.
Then again, I may not.
I am so very thankful that I have exciting days filled with lots of various activities, and that my wonderful wife and fantastic children are there when I arrive home. My son had me read him, "The Grinch That Stole Christmas" as his bedtime book this evening. I tried to do my best Boris Karloff impression. I don't know if he noticed or cared. Then little girl fell asleep in my arms as I layed with her after mommy read her book to her. My wife is reading in bed, and I will join her shortly. Life is good.
Goodnight.
I have too many programs open on my mac mini. It is sluggish.
I need to build
I need to rebuild my father's computer, and replace my mother-in-law's.
I'm anticipating an ass-chewing from my boss sometime tomorrow.
I haven't written a haiku in a long, long time.
I have not provided a Higgleosaurous update in many months.
I've been listening to some great music.
I am on the second disc of the second season of The Sopranos.
I need to do a little soft-shoe in the office tomorrow.
I may walk to my office tomorrow morning doing Christopher Walken's choreography from his Weapon of Choice video.
Then again, I may not.
I am so very thankful that I have exciting days filled with lots of various activities, and that my wonderful wife and fantastic children are there when I arrive home. My son had me read him, "The Grinch That Stole Christmas" as his bedtime book this evening. I tried to do my best Boris Karloff impression. I don't know if he noticed or cared. Then little girl fell asleep in my arms as I layed with her after mommy read her book to her. My wife is reading in bed, and I will join her shortly. Life is good.
Goodnight.
Compiled most of the day on the mac.
Wished I was on my Solaris box.
It's not accessible yet.
It will be once I get my router in place.
Maybe a slackware box would be more fun?
MAYBE I'LL PUT MY SLACKWARE BOX BEHIND M0N0WALL.
Asses.
This would be easier if I were smarter.
I had a spring in my step and a song on my lips yesterday.
Today it was backwards. I stepped on my song and sprung my lips.
I don't know why.
Perhaps...just perhaps, I should drink some Pilzner Urquell tonight.
Yup, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
I only made it through 5 full James Bond albums today.
At five daily, it will take me another three days to listen to them all.
The office is off Friday for Good Friday. I call that a GREAT Friday.
slackware has 136 seeds on torrent. That rocks.
Wished I was on my Solaris box.
It's not accessible yet.
It will be once I get my router in place.
Maybe a slackware box would be more fun?
MAYBE I'LL PUT MY SLACKWARE BOX BEHIND M0N0WALL.
Asses.
This would be easier if I were smarter.
I had a spring in my step and a song on my lips yesterday.
Today it was backwards. I stepped on my song and sprung my lips.
I don't know why.
Perhaps...just perhaps, I should drink some Pilzner Urquell tonight.
Yup, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
I only made it through 5 full James Bond albums today.
At five daily, it will take me another three days to listen to them all.
The office is off Friday for Good Friday. I call that a GREAT Friday.
slackware has 136 seeds on torrent. That rocks.
My boy discovered one of his friends at school lives next door. They played outside yesterday. Each of the boys brought out some trucks. My daughter brought out some dolls. They didn't want to play with her and her dolls. She came back in and asked, "Will you find me some girl friends daddy?" So we walked around the block last night looking for girl friends for my daughter. We were unsuccessful :(
The American release of the Japanese MagiRanger premiered last week. I Tivo'd it for my son and finally got a chance to watch most of it last night. Mystic Force Power Rangers. It's amazing how they can change the entire story, and still use the Japanese fight scenes. Its also amazing how bad this is comparatively.
Looking into a console DVD recorder now that I have a Tivo. Found an off-brand on target.com for $119 that also has a USB port on it. Sweet!
Set up my CentOS/RaQ 550 box. The update URL is a non-working address, but a co-worker of mine managed to fine a mirror of sorts which works with the software update just fine. There is of course a lot more to this than meets the eye, so I'll be playing with my test box in scripting updates automatically and locking down the system before I deploy it at home (on my new anemic 384kbps connection).
In other news, they've just released a new mac mini with an optional dual-core Intel chip and other fantastic updates that makes mine suddenly feel like an old first-gen Macintosh :=)

Left work at 1700 Friday. Picked up the kids at Carla's house and took my wife to the finest Tex-Mex I've had since I left Texas. We met her cousins there for dinner. Back to Carla's - kids had been horrific. Put them to bed and started drinking G&T's. Watched Pitch Black and The Incredibles. I started calming down about midnight. 1000 Final Walk-through on the house. They gave me the key two days prior to closing. Started moving in. Met some neighbors. Started pricing new furniture. Beds are expensive! Back to Carla's. Ordered Chinese, watched The Island. Went to my Home Depot appointment to redecorate the kitchen:
Old & Busted:

The New Hotness:

Wife wanted teh max0r in the new house so she and the kids could listen to music and watch DVD's. I untethered the mac from it's existing infrastructure and transported it across town. There is exactly one grounded outlet in this 41-year old house, so I arranged things accordingly, plugged everything in, applied power, and heard my new external 7200-rpm 8MB cache harddrive click-click; whirr, click-click; whirr... My heart sunk. I powered the unit off, then back on. The mac booted! All was good again.
The house:

So here I sit, back at the hotel, using my XP router for web access. Currently reading Digital Fortress by Dan Brown, which was recommended to me by my mother. We close on the house tomorrow at 1030. I was going to go into work tomorrow morning before closing, but the wife had a fit over that idea, so I agreed to take half a day off.
Until then...
Old & Busted:

The New Hotness:

Wife wanted teh max0r in the new house so she and the kids could listen to music and watch DVD's. I untethered the mac from it's existing infrastructure and transported it across town. There is exactly one grounded outlet in this 41-year old house, so I arranged things accordingly, plugged everything in, applied power, and heard my new external 7200-rpm 8MB cache harddrive click-click; whirr, click-click; whirr... My heart sunk. I powered the unit off, then back on. The mac booted! All was good again.
The house:

So here I sit, back at the hotel, using my XP router for web access. Currently reading Digital Fortress by Dan Brown, which was recommended to me by my mother. We close on the house tomorrow at 1030. I was going to go into work tomorrow morning before closing, but the wife had a fit over that idea, so I agreed to take half a day off.
Until then...
I love gin.
I love my wife and miss her something terrible.
I watched the movie "Soldier's Girl" this evening.
My children are annoying and distress me when I'm near them. Nonetheless I miss them when they are gone.
I am listening to the Telarc release, "Choral Masterpieces" with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Probably under the direction of Robert Shaw.
I can't sleep. I am very sleepy. I am wide awake. I will pay for this in the morning. If I could get away with NOT sleeping tonight, I would.
I need to be in early in the morning.
I have already picked the tie I am going to wear tomorrow.
I cannot believe Richard Penn wanted me for this job.
I'm enjoying my job, but I'm not entirely comfortable in it yet. I'm sure that will come in time.
I have compensated for not being a unix admin by re-doubling my efforts on quark.
I need more disk space on my server.
I want another server up.
I wish Jay would put quark with his servers. It's only 2U!
I wish Tony would bring up osCommerce so I could at least provide Dan Smith with what he wants.
I miss Tony.
I miss my cats. Mleko is integrating into David's household. Speedbump thinks he owns their house.
I will eat steel cut oats for breakfast.
I have not been on my high blood pressure medication for nearly a month.
Houses here are fucking expensive!
These Logitech X-230's are not a poor replacement for my fried Bose.
Bose are overrated anyway.
I always preferred Infinity.
I don't know that Infinity makes multi-media speakers.
I don't know why they wouldn't.
I annoy most people who know me.
The only reason my co-workers tolerate me is because I'm the new manager.
I listen to "The Shape of Things to Come" at least 4 times a day.
I wish my Cavalier had more horsepower.
I'm thankful for my family. Everything I do is for them, even when they don't realize it.
I've thought about becoming Amish. I could really do that.
It was fun living with David and Wendy.
We had a house picked out in Burleson.
I drink a lot of water (when I'm not drinking gin).
I need to urinate.
I have a Sun 711 multi-pack.
I don't know where it is.
I miss Daisy.
I like OSX.
I am no longer functional with XP because I try to use OSX commands.
It makes me look retarded.
I love my wife and miss her something terrible.
I watched the movie "Soldier's Girl" this evening.
My children are annoying and distress me when I'm near them. Nonetheless I miss them when they are gone.
I am listening to the Telarc release, "Choral Masterpieces" with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Probably under the direction of Robert Shaw.
I can't sleep. I am very sleepy. I am wide awake. I will pay for this in the morning. If I could get away with NOT sleeping tonight, I would.
I need to be in early in the morning.
I have already picked the tie I am going to wear tomorrow.
I cannot believe Richard Penn wanted me for this job.
I'm enjoying my job, but I'm not entirely comfortable in it yet. I'm sure that will come in time.
I have compensated for not being a unix admin by re-doubling my efforts on quark.
I need more disk space on my server.
I want another server up.
I wish Jay would put quark with his servers. It's only 2U!
I wish Tony would bring up osCommerce so I could at least provide Dan Smith with what he wants.
I miss Tony.
I miss my cats. Mleko is integrating into David's household. Speedbump thinks he owns their house.
I will eat steel cut oats for breakfast.
I have not been on my high blood pressure medication for nearly a month.
Houses here are fucking expensive!
These Logitech X-230's are not a poor replacement for my fried Bose.
Bose are overrated anyway.
I always preferred Infinity.
I don't know that Infinity makes multi-media speakers.
I don't know why they wouldn't.
I annoy most people who know me.
The only reason my co-workers tolerate me is because I'm the new manager.
I listen to "The Shape of Things to Come" at least 4 times a day.
I wish my Cavalier had more horsepower.
I'm thankful for my family. Everything I do is for them, even when they don't realize it.
I've thought about becoming Amish. I could really do that.
It was fun living with David and Wendy.
We had a house picked out in Burleson.
I drink a lot of water (when I'm not drinking gin).
I need to urinate.
I have a Sun 711 multi-pack.
I don't know where it is.
I miss Daisy.
I like OSX.
I am no longer functional with XP because I try to use OSX commands.
It makes me look retarded.
Let's talk about quark.
Since I built this box starting with a base OS install, he didn't have much going for him. I added individual packages and dependencies via blastwave, so never really ran into a problem until today. I was trying to compile several things, and they just wouldn't. I was lacking the C/C++ header files. Fortunately for me, I keep a repository of SUNOS packages online for just this occasion. Apparently I also never installed the 64-bit make assembler and link-editor. Shame on me!
As it turns out, I used GNU ld - which I also failed to install on this system, so now I should be in good shape for compiles.
What a pain in the ass. I had to symlink gld to ld in the same directory to get it to work. As Tony would say, "x86 & linux...it just works." Yeah, yeah.
Well, the blastwave package binutils contained everything I needed, however, it put it in a different directory entirely. Rather than just append my PATH I consolidated them all. Complile complete!
Most of what I do really is a frivolous waste of time. For example, the mac mini doesn't reboot very often, and the onboard voice isn't even close to Majel Barrett (yes, I've looked for plugins). But when she does reboot, I've created an Apple Workflow, which is kinda like unix init scripts, with a flair for the flamboyant. She tells me, "System has rebooted, Borg Queen now online." She then runs a unix script which starts SHOUTcast. When that step is complete, she notifies me, "Shoutcast transcoder now transmitting to server." She starts Big Brother and announces, "Big Brother network monitor has been started." No, I'm not on the bridge of Voyager, but it's a nice touch.
I'm still ill, and coughing until I'm lightheaded. I hope to be at least well enough to go into work tomorrow.
Since I built this box starting with a base OS install, he didn't have much going for him. I added individual packages and dependencies via blastwave, so never really ran into a problem until today. I was trying to compile several things, and they just wouldn't. I was lacking the C/C++ header files. Fortunately for me, I keep a repository of SUNOS packages online for just this occasion. Apparently I also never installed the 64-bit make assembler and link-editor. Shame on me!
As it turns out, I used GNU ld - which I also failed to install on this system, so now I should be in good shape for compiles.
What a pain in the ass. I had to symlink gld to ld in the same directory to get it to work. As Tony would say, "x86 & linux...it just works." Yeah, yeah.
Well, the blastwave package binutils contained everything I needed, however, it put it in a different directory entirely. Rather than just append my PATH I consolidated them all. Complile complete!
Most of what I do really is a frivolous waste of time. For example, the mac mini doesn't reboot very often, and the onboard voice isn't even close to Majel Barrett (yes, I've looked for plugins). But when she does reboot, I've created an Apple Workflow, which is kinda like unix init scripts, with a flair for the flamboyant. She tells me, "System has rebooted, Borg Queen now online." She then runs a unix script which starts SHOUTcast. When that step is complete, she notifies me, "Shoutcast transcoder now transmitting to server." She starts Big Brother and announces, "Big Brother network monitor has been started." No, I'm not on the bridge of Voyager, but it's a nice touch.
I'm still ill, and coughing until I'm lightheaded. I hope to be at least well enough to go into work tomorrow.
Silence.
The very thing my dear wife so desperately craves...is what keeps me prisoner.
I purchased my Bose MediaMate Multimedia computer speakers from the Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1996 for $250. They have a manufacture date of March 1995 on them, and they went out today. Plunging me into silence. I feel as though I am in solitary confinement. Ah, another thing my wife so desperately craves - solitude. Another prison for me.

It's true that the prices have plummeted on these speakers, now called the Companion 2 and only $99. They might as well be $1000. I no more have a hundred dollars to spend...and if I did, I'd be on my way to Wichita. Not sitting here in the dark, alone, in the silence.
I do have another set of speakers in Wichita, in storage. They suck. Still, what I wouldn't give for having the foresight to have brought them with me. It's been a month since I set foot in Kansas, and I'm ready to go back. Ready to leave St. Louis and hit the open road once again. To travel more than 11 miles at 45 miles per hour. Ready to...fly!
I suppose, as a last resort, I could burn mp3's from iTunes, then play them on my Dream Machine. I had just started Equinox, Part II, the first episode of Voyager Season Six when my audio died. I am at hotel nursing a cold which started around 0100 Friday morning. Was this brought on by the sharp change in weather we've had this week, or lack of proper sleep since my family left? I don't know.

Audio Device: RAW sample output
Playing: calling_sky_captain.ogg
Ogg Vorbis stream: 2 channel, 44100 Hz
Title: Calling Sky Captain
Artist: Shearmur, Edward
Genre: Soundtrack
Date: 2004
Album: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Track number: 04
Assuming raw pcm input filef 03:26.24 (170.9 kbps) Output Buffer 3.1%
LAME version 3.93 (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 18671 Hz - 19205 Hz
Encoding to calling_sky_captain.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz 192 kbps stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (7.3x) qval=2
There are quite a few things that Darwin can do better than Solaris, or shall I say PPC can do better than SPARC? I never could get LAME to do well, anything worthwhile on my Sun boxes. Those of you who run x86 exclusively won't have a clue as to what I am referring to. Suffice it to say, not EVERYTHING just 'works' outta the box on non-x86 architecture where OpenSource software is concerned.
I don't know if I can go a week plunged into silence. I tried unplugging everything and listening via the built-in mac speaker. That was the worst idea I've had in a long time.
My mac mini is slowly degrading. Because of the network set up I have constructed in this hotel, the Operating System cannot gain access to some online functions. The ports required to be opened are blocked and my research thus far has been unsuccessful in determining which ones are required. Software Update is disabled, as are various application optimizers which try to run, but lack the ability to access their online updated definitions. I'm hoping the box lasts another 5 months or so, and that I can restore her to full functionality once I'm free of this kludge.
Then it hits me. I purchased a holder for my cell phone which was ineffective and I was going to take it back to Best Buy. I could use that return to exchange it for some speakers. I'm really in no condition to travel, but what is the alternative?
No one at home when I try to call my wife. They have their own life now. Just have to hold on 6 more days...
Picked up some Logitech X-230 2.1's. They actually sound better than I thought they would. Maybe this weekend won't be so bad after all. Things are starting to look up.

The very thing my dear wife so desperately craves...is what keeps me prisoner.
I purchased my Bose MediaMate Multimedia computer speakers from the Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1996 for $250. They have a manufacture date of March 1995 on them, and they went out today. Plunging me into silence. I feel as though I am in solitary confinement. Ah, another thing my wife so desperately craves - solitude. Another prison for me.

It's true that the prices have plummeted on these speakers, now called the Companion 2 and only $99. They might as well be $1000. I no more have a hundred dollars to spend...and if I did, I'd be on my way to Wichita. Not sitting here in the dark, alone, in the silence.
I do have another set of speakers in Wichita, in storage. They suck. Still, what I wouldn't give for having the foresight to have brought them with me. It's been a month since I set foot in Kansas, and I'm ready to go back. Ready to leave St. Louis and hit the open road once again. To travel more than 11 miles at 45 miles per hour. Ready to...fly!
I suppose, as a last resort, I could burn mp3's from iTunes, then play them on my Dream Machine. I had just started Equinox, Part II, the first episode of Voyager Season Six when my audio died. I am at hotel nursing a cold which started around 0100 Friday morning. Was this brought on by the sharp change in weather we've had this week, or lack of proper sleep since my family left? I don't know.

Audio Device: RAW sample output
Playing: calling_sky_captain.ogg
Ogg Vorbis stream: 2 channel, 44100 Hz
Title: Calling Sky Captain
Artist: Shearmur, Edward
Genre: Soundtrack
Date: 2004
Album: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Track number: 04
Assuming raw pcm input filef 03:26.24 (170.9 kbps) Output Buffer 3.1%
LAME version 3.93 (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 18671 Hz - 19205 Hz
Encoding
Encoding as 44.1 kHz 192 kbps stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (7.3x) qval=2
There are quite a few things that Darwin can do better than Solaris, or shall I say PPC can do better than SPARC? I never could get LAME to do well, anything worthwhile on my Sun boxes. Those of you who run x86 exclusively won't have a clue as to what I am referring to. Suffice it to say, not EVERYTHING just 'works' outta the box on non-x86 architecture where OpenSource software is concerned.
I don't know if I can go a week plunged into silence. I tried unplugging everything and listening via the built-in mac speaker. That was the worst idea I've had in a long time.
My mac mini is slowly degrading. Because of the network set up I have constructed in this hotel, the Operating System cannot gain access to some online functions. The ports required to be opened are blocked and my research thus far has been unsuccessful in determining which ones are required. Software Update is disabled, as are various application optimizers which try to run, but lack the ability to access their online updated definitions. I'm hoping the box lasts another 5 months or so, and that I can restore her to full functionality once I'm free of this kludge.
Then it hits me. I purchased a holder for my cell phone which was ineffective and I was going to take it back to Best Buy. I could use that return to exchange it for some speakers. I'm really in no condition to travel, but what is the alternative?
No one at home when I try to call my wife. They have their own life now. Just have to hold on 6 more days...
Picked up some Logitech X-230 2.1's. They actually sound better than I thought they would. Maybe this weekend won't be so bad after all. Things are starting to look up.


I'm 36 today. For my birthday, I built myself a FreeBSD box from my old gaming box. Installed Big Sister, but that turned out to be a huge pain in the ass, so I compiled Big Brother instead. The devil you know.... I stared at the Big Sister config page for an hour. I got Big Brother up and running in 4 minutes flat, including compile time. http://paris.darkvoyager.com/bb it's even got xirr on it, but Tony didn't want the client running. Stayed indoors all day listening to music and drinking Gin & Tonic. It's nearly 1700 and I'm thinking about sleeping. The wireless internet here has been stable all weekend. The manager ordered some newer WAP's for the closet which serves this hallway. I'm guessing that will also upgrade their 'g' from 54 to 108Mbps. It matters not to me, all my boxes are running off one of Tony's old 100/base hubs. And yes, there are collisions. I packed my switch away somewhere else I'd be using that.
I've heard of SecureBSD. This is my idea of SecureDARWIN:

So I got Big Sister to come up anyway. Sorta. Anyone who clicks the link above, depending on where I am in the project, will either get one page or the other. This ain't an exact science here people. I'm getting very sleepy...
Rod was at work all weekend working on his servers. Poor bastard.
Well, it was worth the wait. And the frustration which followed. Extended Stay America issued me a publicly accessible static IP for six months. I was able to ssh into teh max0r from quark while I had the tech on the phone. I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but I'm using Windows XP as my firewall/NAT/port-forwarding router. I really can explain why, but that doesn't make it any less embarrassing.
Tony, I added teh_max0r to your DNS and restarted bind.
I'm looking at getting sendmail to work either on my Solaris server, or my mac, I haven't decided which yet. And as they have a new release of FreeBSD, I may rebuild that box or, perhaps gentoo and use that instead. At any rate, I'm running out of time now. It's nearly 0100, half my St. Louis raspberry weizen microbrews are gone, and I have an early appointment tomorrow...
Tony, I added teh_max0r to your DNS and restarted bind.
I'm looking at getting sendmail to work either on my Solaris server, or my mac, I haven't decided which yet. And as they have a new release of FreeBSD, I may rebuild that box or, perhaps gentoo and use that instead. At any rate, I'm running out of time now. It's nearly 0100, half my St. Louis raspberry weizen microbrews are gone, and I have an early appointment tomorrow...

My little power ranger likes to 'Power Up' before riding his electric 4-wheeler all over the property. I feel safer knowing he's out there battling evil.
Concerning the subject of this post, I feel like I've moved in and am fleecing this town. Wife has a library card with a limit of 8 music CD's you can check out daily. I've already ripped my first 8 and am going back today. My only begrudgement is that they are closed during the holiday.
Yes, teh max0r is set up and running in Wichita, but not without a few surprises. First of all, I used the 17" monitor because I was under the impression that teh max0r had a maximum resolution of 1280x1024. Deciding to watch Sin City last night night on the 22" monitor and Bose MediaMate speakers over the exisiting setup at the house, I attached the larger monitor. Apparently, Tony's 17" LCD only has the capacity to display 1280x1024, because teh max0r now allows me to set the resolution as high as 2048x1536! I think I'll use the 22" when I get to St. Louis.
Another surprise is the built-in 56k modem I laughed at when I first got the mini. It's what I'm using now to post to you. A bonus of using my wife's dial-up connection on the wee mac is that she's limited to 28.8 at Remote Location Alpha. Well with the wee mac, I'm getting a whopping 31.2! Booyakasha. After my 3 months with 26.4 AOL dial-up, if I don't get some broadband soon, I'm going to seriously hurt someone. And speaking of broadband...
It looks like our T1 has been terminated. All of our boxes are offline. Details are still sketchy at this point and I'm trying to confirm. At this point I'm using http://retrospective.us to host my images. Thanks Dave!
I must not fear.
I have found that the Don Davis remix/collaboration of Juno Reactor's Mona Lisa Overdrive is perfect for traversing traffic at top speed in the metroplex. It heightens all your sensations, gets your heart beating, and gives you focus. In fact, most of The Matrix: Reloaded Disc 2 is helpful for this.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Made enchilada's last night for dinner. They were great. Well, there wasn't any canned enchilada sauce, so I made my own, tempering the bitterness of the chili powder with cumin and ground oregano, but made it too thick and didn't cover the pan when I baked it, so I dried out a little. And there were no poblano peppers at Tom Thumb, but there were serrano's so I used those instead, dicing and saute'ing them with onions prior to browning the ground beef, but there really wasn't enough meat to stuff them so its as if they were existent. Fantastic enchilada's regardless of my self-critique.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
Had a fantastic weekend. Wife and kids came down Thursday night, I took Friday off, and we spent all weekend together. Mom & Dad kept the kids overnight Friday night. That too was awesome. My last day with this client is Friday, and my first day with my new client is the Tuesday after the holiday, but since Richard is going to be in Wichita that week...he suggested I start my indoctrination there. An entire week with the family. Hell of a guy that Richard.
I will face my fear.
Speaking of, the Cav is at or near capacity, and I have still to pack my desk and my belongings at David & Wendy's. I will probably unload the entire car in his driveway, stack everything around it, and begin the packing process. It's like a jigsaw puzzle...of a picture of the sky...with no picture on the box to help guide you. Japanese Hibachi Grill tonight with David & Wendy. I need to pack the car before nightfall.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
Lori and the kids left Sunday morning back to Wichita, and from there I drove to the ADC to pack more stuff. The Cav is riding low and handles much differently now. From there to David's to play poker. Everyone played really well and it was an exciting game. My trip 9's were beat out by trip 10's and that basically blew me out of the game. Holomatch followed until 0300. All in all a fantastic weekend.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
teh max0r is down and packed, in fact the only running server I now have is quark which is in my rack in the Data Center with a powered-off Sun E250 (sevenofnine) which will remain on the T1 until such a time WDT is officially dissolved. We have partnered with a Canadian poker accessories wholesaler, and I have to add their products to our homepage - which I'm sure I'll get around to once I've settled from moving (provided I can get a Hotel in St. Louis with broadband). I'll be living in a Hotel for the next six months. Exciting? I think not.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Apparently, I'm going to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.
My favorite Team Leader explains, "This one guy was caught buying and selling on eBay at work and he went to prison." I replied, "I assure you, that is not true." "YES IT IS!" he said. Then I discover that he was illegally selling government equipment. Maybe that's why he went to prison? Oh, also, "We had this other guy who was logging into his server at home from work and he went to prison for 10 years, so you shouldn't do that either." Yes, I log into my server at home from work. No, it's not to trade kiddie porn! which is why that guy was busted. I wonder, does my Team Leader really not make the distinction between what is a Federal Offense and what is not? It's really too much to take.
Only I will remain.
I have found that the Don Davis remix/collaboration of Juno Reactor's Mona Lisa Overdrive is perfect for traversing traffic at top speed in the metroplex. It heightens all your sensations, gets your heart beating, and gives you focus. In fact, most of The Matrix: Reloaded Disc 2 is helpful for this.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Made enchilada's last night for dinner. They were great. Well, there wasn't any canned enchilada sauce, so I made my own, tempering the bitterness of the chili powder with cumin and ground oregano, but made it too thick and didn't cover the pan when I baked it, so I dried out a little. And there were no poblano peppers at Tom Thumb, but there were serrano's so I used those instead, dicing and saute'ing them with onions prior to browning the ground beef, but there really wasn't enough meat to stuff them so its as if they were existent. Fantastic enchilada's regardless of my self-critique.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
Had a fantastic weekend. Wife and kids came down Thursday night, I took Friday off, and we spent all weekend together. Mom & Dad kept the kids overnight Friday night. That too was awesome. My last day with this client is Friday, and my first day with my new client is the Tuesday after the holiday, but since Richard is going to be in Wichita that week...he suggested I start my indoctrination there. An entire week with the family. Hell of a guy that Richard.
I will face my fear.
Speaking of, the Cav is at or near capacity, and I have still to pack my desk and my belongings at David & Wendy's. I will probably unload the entire car in his driveway, stack everything around it, and begin the packing process. It's like a jigsaw puzzle...of a picture of the sky...with no picture on the box to help guide you. Japanese Hibachi Grill tonight with David & Wendy. I need to pack the car before nightfall.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
Lori and the kids left Sunday morning back to Wichita, and from there I drove to the ADC to pack more stuff. The Cav is riding low and handles much differently now. From there to David's to play poker. Everyone played really well and it was an exciting game. My trip 9's were beat out by trip 10's and that basically blew me out of the game. Holomatch followed until 0300. All in all a fantastic weekend.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
teh max0r is down and packed, in fact the only running server I now have is quark which is in my rack in the Data Center with a powered-off Sun E250 (sevenofnine) which will remain on the T1 until such a time WDT is officially dissolved. We have partnered with a Canadian poker accessories wholesaler, and I have to add their products to our homepage - which I'm sure I'll get around to once I've settled from moving (provided I can get a Hotel in St. Louis with broadband). I'll be living in a Hotel for the next six months. Exciting? I think not.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Apparently, I'm going to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.
My favorite Team Leader explains, "This one guy was caught buying and selling on eBay at work and he went to prison." I replied, "I assure you, that is not true." "YES IT IS!" he said. Then I discover that he was illegally selling government equipment. Maybe that's why he went to prison? Oh, also, "We had this other guy who was logging into his server at home from work and he went to prison for 10 years, so you shouldn't do that either." Yes, I log into my server at home from work. No, it's not to trade kiddie porn! which is why that guy was busted. I wonder, does my Team Leader really not make the distinction between what is a Federal Offense and what is not? It's really too much to take.
Only I will remain.
SunOS quark 5.9 Generic_118558-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u SPARCengine(tm)Ultra(tm) AXi (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz)
System clock frequency: 110 MHz
Memory size: 1024 Megabytes
========================= CPUs =========================
Run Ecache CPU CPU
Brd CPU Module MHz MB Impl. Mask
--- --- ------- ----- ------ ------ ----
0 0 0 440 2.0 12 9.1
========================= IO Cards =========================
Bus# Freq
Brd Type MHz Slot Name Model
--- ---- ---- ---- -------------------------------- ----------------------
0 PCI-1 33 1 ebus
0 PCI-1 33 1 network-SUNW,hme
0 PCI-128 33 1 scsi-glm Symbios,53C875
0 PCI-128 33 1 scsi-glm Symbios,53C875
0 PCI-128 33 2 pci108e,1000-pci108e,1000
0 PCI-128 33 2 IntraServer,hme-SUNW,hme IntraServer,ITI-5132E-+
0 PCI-128 33 3 TSI,gfxp GFXP
No failures found in System
===========================
========================= HW Revisions =========================
ASIC Revisions:
---------------
Cheerio: ebus Rev 1
System PROM revisions:
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OBP 3.10.13 2001/07/25 08:35 POST 1.11.0 1999/03/17 08:42
Compiled my very first program on Mac OSX.
It was uneventful.
Compiled nmap.
Also found I didn't have it installed on quark.
So put it on both machines so they could portscan each other.
...NmapFE will not be made --
your system lacks the capabilities (perhaps GTK)
for this graphical frontend.
You can still run command-line nmap!
nmap graphical frontend? Who knew? My ass bleeds cause I can't run GUI mode. *eyeroll*
quark:
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
443/tcp open https
borgqueen (teh max0r):
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
5900/tcp open vnc





