Well, I, like Darren not that long ago, took one step closer to becoming an adult. I bought a house. In theory anyway. We have a verbally accepted offer from the seller for our offer which means that in theory the other five realtors (including… Mindy McPherson.. shudder) can’t get in on the deal. And […]
Buying a New House Read Post »
On Saturday we were supposed to go boating on Cultas with Raskal on his funky boat. Since the last few weeks have been scorchingly hot, this was a eagerly anticipated event. I did keep my eye on the weather though, as I’m paranoid about this sort of thing. The prediction for saturday was a high
Saturday at the Northwest Washington Fair Read Post »
Thanks to some howtos and just doing it I am now running X.org‘s XFree86 replacement X Window system. It was pretty simple, even though I did post a howto link on Ufies.org. Basically just removed my old XFree install (“emerge -C xfree“) and installed the new X.org in it’s place (“emerge xorg-x11“), restarted and there
X.org Up and Running Read Post »
Well, I’ve closed all comments for all posts that are older than 31 days after having to deal with 700+ entries of comment spam this morning. Will do the same on UFies at lunch. Oh, and I I track down those responsible, I will be having their balls as decoration on my wall. Props to
md1 : active raid5 hdg1[3] hdh1[2] hdf1[0] 156301184 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 0 [3/2] [U_U] [>………………..] recovery = 0.6% (513408/78150592) finish=254.4min speed=5084K/sec Many thanks to Cat5 who picked up and dropped off a new hard drive for me. Decided to go with the larger 120G drive so I have a bit of extra
Happy Hard Drive Joy Read Post »
Ok, so my earlier relief about the computer that houses arcterex.net being ok has been unfounded. A couple of lockups tonight were isolated to a hard drive that was dying, and after it was pulled out and attached to a different system, died. An 80G drive that probably cost me $200 a year decided that
Why I Hate the Computer Industry Read Post »
Normally I’m pretty good at troubleshooting hardware, but sometimes I just miss stuff. On sunday I did some summer cleaning of computers, blowing out dust, making sure connections were tight, etc. I did naked, the arcterex.net server last sometime sunday afternoon or evening. After blowing out all the dust I put things back together. My
Hardware Troubleshooting Read Post »
Kethryvis noticed a familiar face ass in the crowd of the latest Fark photoshop contest, If corporations could run for political office…. About halfway down there’s a post by Chibisuke with this image attached. Great stuff!
Well I’m Farked Now! Read Post »
Help me get this damn song out of my head! For some reason for the last two or three days I’ve had the “Sulu Dance” song, a mix of some 80’s song whose name I can’t remember right now and some voice clips from George Takei. Hilarious. And auditorially (is that a word) addicting. Grab
Digital Outback has some stuff on controlling depth of field with Photohop CS and it’s lens blur plugin.
Controlling Depth of Field Read Post »