The first line of a spam email I received this afternoon:
“Bored with your wife, girlfriend or husband?”
And my immediate thought was, “Yes, all three, how did you know?”
Stupid spammers…
Category: Geekery
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It’s a new Washuu. Again.
So after seeing “DriveReady SeekComplete” errors in the logs for the server known to most as “The Lab” for a few weeks now, I decided not to wait for catastrophe but go for a full reinstall on a fresh set of drives.
Okay, one fresh drive, one slightly less than fresh drive. But you get the idea.
Oddly enough, it only took about five hours, and that’s including backing up and restoring some 7 gigabytes of data. I still have some quirks to figure out, but generally speaking it’s working as advertised. (Once again, I’m quite thrilled with the Debian Installer, by the by.)
Wow. I actually fixed something before it broke. Who knew?
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Good, bad, I’m the guy with the cape.
What has become (by far) my main character, a katana-wielding hero by the (somewhat odd) name of Woods Cutter, has reached Security Level 20. You know what that means, don’t you? It’s new costume and cape time!
Look at him, all mean and cool, standing there with his nifty cape and new getup. And here’s what he looks like from the back when he’s jumping all over town:
Pretty cool stuff, huh? For comparison, I offer this shot of his original costume… unfortunately it’s only from the back, and he’s got Stealth on, but you get the gist of it:
That last shot was taken while I was witnessing a serious bit of Hellion-herding, by the way. See if you can spot the other hero in that picture!Hey, at least I’m getting enjoyment out of my $15 per month…
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Why I haven’t been updating.
I figured it out once the fact that the “last updated” indicator for my site on Lil’s blogroll read “October 22nd” had percolated in my brain overnight. Ah! That was the day I changed the configuration on the server to switch from ‘/journal.php’ to ‘/journal’. (The old journal.php-based URLs still work, though, to preserve compatibility with those outside sites that link to specific entries here.) Apparently, ever since that switch, my pings to Blogrolling.com have been all for naught.
The same’s been true for Wendi’s site, which I also changed that same day. The same has not been true for Lil’s site, since it was coded “the new way” from Day One. Dawn and Mari have been running Movable Type all along, so they haven’t had to deal with this at all.
Go figure, eh? Now, of course, I need to figure out how to remedy the situation without breaking the new change…
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Don’t, uh, WHAT?
Found at The Register, this little gem:
It’s a sad state of affairs when we need warnings like #2, there, isn’t it? -
Xinerama? Xineriffic.
Add these ingredients:
1 Matrox G450 dual-head video card, removed from one of the Enco studio computers months ago…
1 spare 19” monitor taking up a sizeable portion of my desk space…
1 slightly hosed Linux install, requiring a fresh reinstallation…
2 hours of over-the-wire Debian Sarge install time…
1 hour of Googling and configuration tweaking…To get:
1 freshly rebuilt Linux box with a desktop display that spans two screens. Good for impressing co-workers, even if they don’t really understand what’s so cool about it other than being able to drag windows from one screen to the other…
