05.29.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 00:12 UTC by Richard
At the request of a friend of mine, I picked up Final Fantasy XI Thursday morning and so far I’m enjoying it quite a bit. I know a few people that are playing so it should provide plenty of enjoyment. I made a Hume Warrior cause I like to be a hack n’ slash type of fellow, though one of those Cat Warrior females seemed strangely enticing…
One thing though, on occasion there are these “super enemies” that are way more powerful than the usual, so every once in awhile you’ll run into this super powerful bumblebee or something and if you’re really low on levels, you’ll get schooled… by a friggin bee! I dug up an old Penny Arcade comic that I was reminded of, http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-11-12&res=l.
-richard out
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05.26.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 23:46 UTC by Richard
So who saw the Tampa vs. Calgary game yesterday? Great game, Calgary continues to surprise me, especially since I never thought they’d be more than a chump team in the playoffs. I got to see the game on my 52″ HDTV and I tell you what, the statement that was made during the game, HDTV was made for hockey, doesn’t seem so wrong. Hockey is so pretty in that format.
Side note regarding this site, tweaking has proven successful so far, I will continue to do so!
-richard out
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05.24.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 02:58 UTC by Richard
I’m trying out a different template now, I’ve always liked designs that incorporated a dedicated sidebar like this one. I do have one complaint though, it seems too constrained and could stretch more to the sides. I’ll have to play with it some a bit later. Let me know if you think it sucks though.
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05.23.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 06:11 UTC by Richard
So one of my friends on IRC wants to get a slackware-current cd, no sweat I say. You can find plenty of unofficial isos out there if you look hard enough, but there is no fun in that. Besides, who knows how old those isos will be? If you follow slackware at all, you’ll know that 9.1 was released a long time ago, nearly 8 months. In terms of software, that is really old, as there have been quite a few changes since, such as Gnome getting updated to 2.6 from 2.4. So I set out to do a quick howto. I’ll put this into a separate html file once I finish this post.
Step numero uno: Download slackware-current. To save time, don’t bother downloading bootdisks/, extra/, pasture/, source/, testing/, zipslack/ and then within slackware, leave out gnome/, kde/ and kdei/. This will keep our image below 700MB.
Step numero dos: Run the following command
mkisofs -o /somedir/slackware-current.iso -R -V “Slackware Install” -v -d -D -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -b isolinux.bin -c isolinux.boot -A “Slackware Install CD”
Let’s say that you did in fact download /gnome, here’s what you do to not include gnome/ in your iso. Somewhere in that long command, add the following (make sure to use the directory of whatever it is you want left out of the iso)
-x gnome/
Step numero tres: Assuming I haven’t given bad advice, you now have a slackware-current iso that you can burn to cd now. You should be able to boot and then install off of it. I may check into how to create that second cd that would contain the gnome and kde packages, but for now I wouldn’t worry about those too much. For your gnome needs on slackware, I highly recommend using Dropline. For KDE, use something like Swaret.
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05.19.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 00:35 UTC by Richard
Yesterday I hung out with my friend who had just come into town, we went about half an hour south just outside of Plattesmouth, NE to a private land share that his family is renting. The two of us were out on a 3 wheeler and a 4 wheeler for nearly three hours and we had a blast. It had rained a bit the previous few days so there were a fair amount of mud puddles and when we were wrapping things up to go home, the rain came on again and we got drenched. For at least ten hours, my hands were tingling, similar to the feeling you get after mowing your yard and as I type this, my legs and arms are still very sore. I can’t wait to do that again in a few months.
-richard out
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05.16.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 03:07 UTC by Richard
Crap, eight days since my last post on here. My last week has been again a little boring, mostly just working and sleeping. I got completely through Paths of Darkness about a week ago and quickly finished The Thousand Orcs, the first in the newest Drizzt trilogy, The Hunters Blades. This new trilogy is already shaping up to be very very good, possibly the best, but I’ll save that judgement once I’ve read all three. While I awaited the second book to arrive from Amazon, I picked up Canticle, the first book in Salvatore’s Cleric Quinet series and I just finished it. Another very good read, I eagerly await finishing the rest of that series as well.
Also of note, one of my oldest and best friends came into town for the weekend. His youngest sister just graduated from Bellevue West on Saturday, so we hung out for a few hours and saw Van Helsing (a decent and watchable movie). I haven’t seen him in nearly two years, and before that had been three or more years. I’ll certainly try a bit harder to keep in touch this time.
-richard out
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05.08.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 00:53 UTC by Richard
OH EM EFF GEE
ShopNBC is no longer on the wall!! I ARE HAPPY NOW!!!!!!!11one
The downside is that HSN was put up in its place, from what I can tell after just a couple of hours is that their stuff is less sucky than what I saw on ShopNBC. I just wanted to get that out. *sigh*
-richard out
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05.04.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 01:44 UTC by Richard
So I was whooping some ass last night on Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, check yourself right here: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bonjoyer/stats/tux_vs_u.html. I’m play0r down on the tUx (our tag, the team name is Dead Penguin) team. Okay, yes, it may look like we got pwned, but we still only lost 2-1, so we saved some face. Uprise is a real quality team, not to mention we got bumped to the upper tier on Team Warfare this season. Last night was the first time in nearly two months since I’ve played, mostly because of my new work schedule, and I had a good time. I might just try to wake up earlier so I can play more with my buds.
-richard out
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05.03.04
Posted in Uncategorized at 06:26 UTC by Richard
So I finished up the second book in Paths of Darkness, and I must say that I really enjoyed it. Salvatore took what I thought to be the least interesting major character from his books and turned it into a wonderful story about a man battling his inner demons. Drizzt is a wonderful character, but if I had one qualm about him, it’d be that he’s too perfect. Wulfgar in Spine of the World is anything but perfect, through most of the book, he plays the part of a drunk spending his days looking for another fight. I don’t wanna go into great detail since I consider myself a poor critic, but the character development is what really made this book work. Now, I shall continue towards finishing the series.
On a side note, I haven’t noticed ShopNBC display that odd banner that shouted free shipping on orders that hour, instead only a large gray blob on the left hand side of the screen that says “FREE SHIPPING 2004.” Hmm…
-richard out
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