04.28.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:59 UTC by Richard
Stupid people. Man I hate stupid people. Everywhere you go, there’s always more stupid people. You see them on the news, you see them in the coffee shop, you even work with some of them, and possibly even live with one or two of them. Example of a stupid person saying something stupid, “Can I get my phone cut on?” You can’t cut a phone on you moron, you turn it on or you hook it up! Another example, “Do I need to be on the internet to get my email?” Yes you f’n idiot, you need to be connected to something to get something from it! I can go forever on that topic, so I’ll let it rest. No I won’t. You know that ShopNBC channel I hate? Yeah, that one, I f’n hate it. I’m staring at the screen today and what do I see right above some overpriced fake diamond ring? a red banner saying that if you order in the next hour, you get free shipping on all jewelry. Let me preface the next statement by saying that I am forced to stare at that screen for more hours than I’d like to. ShopNBC has had free shipping on jewelry all f’n year! You know what, they wouldn’t put it up there if they didn’t think it would get some moron to pick up the phone and make a rushed decision to buy it. There, I’m done, go about your business.
-richard out
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04.27.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 03:33 UTC by Richard
The NFL draft, some pretty interesting things happened over the weekend at the draft. In case you were dead or just generally don’t care about football, Eli Manning stated bluntly to the San Diego that he would not play for them, holding out for an entire season if necessary. This information never got to the press from his mouth, instead it was told by the San Diego themselves. I’m not sure who’s the real goat there. As it turned out, the San Diego did in fact draft Manning, but after the New York Giants drafted Philip Rivers, they traded him and a fair amount of other draft picks to the Chargers for Manning. Everyone pretty much got what they wanted. Another glaringly odd thing that I saw was that Cleveland traded away their first and second round choices to Detroit for their first round choice. Detroit had the 6th overall selection and Cleveland the 7th. So Detroit gets a free second round draft pick and they still get the guy they wanted at the 7 spot. No wonder the Browns are such a hopeless team, they regularly make silly mistakes like this. Looking at my team, Seattle, they did okay by bolstering their defense.
-richard out
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04.26.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 02:25 UTC by Richard
I finished the Legacy of the Drow series yesterday and it ended less than how I would’ve liked. The fourth book (Passage to Dawn) was easily the weaker of the four, even though the third (Siege of Darkness) was the most intriguing. All in all, I thought the series to be a great read and as such, I ordered the next series Paths of Darkness on Friday. Hopefully I will get that soon so I can fill in my idle time.
-richard out
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04.22.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 09:11 UTC by Richard
I got a little bored yesterday, so I pulled some computer parts out of the closet and assembled another computer. I used an old baby AT case I had, minus its 3.5″ drive bays (not sure where they went), a really crappy baby AT Gainward 5VPA Socket 7 motherboard, a K6-3 400, 64MB of PC100, a 60GB Maxtor hard drive and finally an ATI All in Wonder 128. I had to use a Promise Ultra100TX2 to get all 60GB recognized, Gainward never released a BIOS to fix the 32GB problem. That’s not really a surprise since you can’t find any evidence on their website that such a thing ever existed. So far I have Slackware-current running on it and it seems okay, for only 64MB of RAM, Gnome2 and KDE3 run acceptably well, no doubt because the K6-3 was a really decent CPU.
-richard out
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04.21.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:20 UTC by Richard
I’ve been reading the series Legacy of the Drow over the past week, and it has been a great way to pass my “idle time.” I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed the Drizzt Do’Urden books, if you’re interested, go pick up the Dark Elf Trilogy from your local bookstore or amazon.com. The version of Legacy of the Drow that I got came in the form of all four books of the series in one book, 1100 pages of text, woohoo. I just finished the third of the four, Siege of Darkness, where our valiant heroes whoop up on a Drow Elf army. Maybe I’ll pick up the Lord of the Rings series since I’ve never actually read that.
–richard out
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04.17.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 03:01 UTC by Richard
I got everything transitioned over to the new host at linode.com and everything seems to be running great. The speeds are awesome, latency is wonderful and so far I like being able to have absolute control over everything. In that regard, I did run into a few snags, due to my inexperience in certain things. I was able to get apache working fine, even getting virtual hosts working for both this domain and my friend (who is going in half and half with me for the cost of this thing) for his domain truck-web.us. Setting up apache didn’t take me very long at all, maybe an hour or so, but it was moving on to the email where I ran into problems.
See, I’ve never set up a mail server before, I had tinkered only once before on my freebsd computer at home, but quickly decided it was not a great idea due to it being hosted on the cable line. I started by getting postfix running, postfix is a wonderful server as it provides mail delivery and is fairly simple to setup and is also a replacement for the aging sendmail. Within a couple hours I was able to get it working fine, testing delivery via a local email program I was using, Pine. The next couple of days consisted of me trying to get and IMAP and POP3 server installed so that I could use remote email applications, I started off by trying to get cyrus and various different authentication methods to work with it. Let me tell you, cyrus was a bear, and since I’d never have more than a handful of users, having a MySQL database for authentication seemed silly, so I dumped that idea. I decided to try courier, and followed this helpful outline, not really a FAQ in my opinion (as it is titled as being), http://arswiki.com/bin/view/Linux/MailServerFAQ. After a few hours of recompiling various packages and installing and reinstall stuff, I was finally able to get courier to authenticate via POP3 and IMAP. YAY! After that, I topped it off with a quick squirrelmail install.
-richard out
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04.11.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 07:34 UTC by Richard
I just wanted to share a quote I got from the Toronto Star today regarding Bush staying at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, ” Bush has spent 234 days at Crawford since becoming president, according to a CBS News tally.” Holy crap, that’s more vacation in three years than I’ve had in eight and half years since I had my final summer vacation before twelfth grade.
-richard out
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Posted in Uncategorized at 01:46 UTC by Richard
Later that day on Friday, I was able to get my car in to get work on. Four hours and $360 later, they were done, and thankfully, it would seem the boatlike feeling is gone. Next up, fixing the rear fender and bumper that got wrecked a couple months ago when I was parked on the street.
I’ve looked into some hosting options that would free me of the bonds that hosting on my cable provider lock me into. I’d love nothing more than to lose the requirement of having to add :8080 to the end of my domain name. Anyhow, I’ve been looking into linode for awhile now, mainly for this one reason: I have complete control over the webserver that runs your site. I can install extensions, I can run bunches of virtual domains, etc. The cost I’m looking at is $29.99/mo and I’m going in half and half with a friend of mine, so it should work out fine.
-richard out
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04.09.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 06:11 UTC by Richard
So I took my car in to get looked at yesterday morning. For a few months now, it has been making a weird tapping noise whenever I would drive over any road that was not smooth. Potholes, dips, bumps, the grade increase on your driveway, whatever, it would make lots of weird tapping noises. Two hours later, they call me up and describe what the dealio is, the stabilizer bar was bent and was causing those odd tapping noises when it would move just the right amount of distance. I don’t really know if it was causing any other problems, hopefully when I get it fixed early next week (for a mere $360+), I’ll notice an improvement in handling. I say this, because it feels more “boatlike” when I drive, and by boatlike, I mean like driving a big-momma chevy from ‘76. I’m exaggerating a bit, but you get the idea. Oh, I drive a Ford Focus, I bet this whole time you were wondering, “wtf, he’s talking about his car and won’t even mention what it is.” Blah, I’m done for today.
-richard out
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04.07.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 05:26 UTC by Richard
For the past few days, every time I refresh news.google.com, more U.S. soldiers are getting killed (and also killing those that are attacking them, terrorists, extremists, pick a definition of them). That sucks. Most of these guys are my age or very close (I’m 25), some with families back home. Argue all you want about the war ever needing to have happened, my personal stance is that the Bush administration lied to us and used Iraq’s non-compliance with U.N. regulations to finally get at the guy in Iraq, but we’re there now and it is our duty to get that country’s economy and government running again. We did this in Japan and now they’re one of our closer allies and are all around good guys. It really upsets me that our government and the U.N. haven’t kissed and made up yet so that we can get more international help in there. As it stands, all these hate-fueled militants in Iraq will continue to get more and more difficult to control unless we can either squelch their leaders or get that international support. Hey dubya, I know you’re busy trying to get reelected, but I guarantee, if you can get Iraq under control and make nice with the U.N. that you’d win (much to my chagrin). Enough bantering, back to doing nothing.
-richard out
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