Guitarist and electronic programmer, pete has worked with a number of different groups such as Delimiter, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Negative Charge. Lead programmer & sysadmin of cytoplastik.com, as well as a few others..   discography: Crystal Cloud (2001) Cytoplastik Pods Compilation (2002)
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I installed feisty fawn, herd 4 on my laptop today. Feisty Fawn is the latest edition of ubuntu. Ubuntu is a distribution of linux that is very popular for the desktop PC. Anyway, I had to plug in the network cable because, out of the box, my wireless network card (broadcom something or other) is not supported at all under Feisty because it loads the damn bcm43xx driver, which does not support my card and I always have to uninstall that driver with a fresh install of linux. Also, I could not install "ndiswrapper" from the apt-get in feisty. The sources do not compile. So you have to get the latest ndiswrapper sources from the sourceforge site. ndiswrapper allows you to install windows drivers for network cards under linux. I have to do this because broadcom are a bunch of butt eating retards that do not make linux drivers. So I finally get the source, compile it, install the driver and I unplug the network cable. Boom. My laptop turns off. I was a bit perplexed. And so a little later I have pretty much determined that the power supply for the laptop has short circuited or something. When the laptop is plugged in it does not have a power light indicator. On top of that the power supply itself now smells terrible. It's that burnt circuit board smell. It's slightly sweet intoxicating smell, but at the same time incredibly nausiating. I'm really pissed off about this. The battery was already almost completely shot anyway so I have no way to test if the laptop motherboard is dead. That would make me very, very unhappy. So, I have gone ahead and ordered another power supply off of ebay to test my machine, and it will hopefully be here sometime next week.
Fuck you ubuntu
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"...I donned my suit of IPv6 protection +5, but Steve made a saving throw"
nerdalicious on so many levels
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Six charged in dog-doo attack
Source: KRQE News 13
ALBUQUERQUE -- A bizarre attack on an Albuquerque man in his bed left him beaten and covered with dog excrement. Police say some people he knew beat Thomas Berry , smeared dog feces on him and forced him into women's clothing and makeup. Police records show Berry was attacked in his apartment near 12th and Aztec Wednesday night. Berry told police the assailants tried to force a sex toy into his mouth during the attack, stripped him of his clothing and wallet and put women’s clothing on him and makeup. “He believed that the reason this happened to him is that he had basically turned down a female because he thought she was too heavy, according to the criminal complaint,” Albuquerque Police Department Officer Trish Hoffman said. “The other suspects basically are blaming all of each other and really are not saying as to why they did this.” The six people arrested are Erika Gonzales, Santiago Aragon, Thomas Varholik, Joey White, Justin Naber and Rory Wainwright. They are being charged with robbery, aggravated battery, kidnapping and attempted rape. At least one of them was apparently Berry's roommate.
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Today I brought in some slipknot, edge of sanity, and fredrik thordendal to make my day a little brighter. You may say "metal makes your day brighter?" FUCK YEA. I have been feeling like beating in somebody's face lately, just to get out that non-stop throbbing in my head. I need to play more metal.
Also, I love woot:
Behind The Mice
You pampered kids today, I swear to God. You have no idea how easy you have it. In my day, we didn’t have all these fancy full-color monitors and MP3s and IMs and wireless networks. We measured our connection speed in baud, not ma-bips, whatever they are. If monochrome was good enough for IBM, by God, it was good enough for us. You better believe, if we ever burned a CD in those days, the house would fill with noxious fumes and our parents would ground us from logging onto our favorite BBSes.
I tell you, anyone in my computer club would have strangled a squirrel with our bare hands for something like the Optical Wireless USB Mouse. We were lucky if our mice had one button, and here these numbskulls are running around two buttons and a scroll wheel! No wonder they say the Internet's such a dangerous place.
But that ain't the half of it. It's wireless - meaning, you got it, no wires - and optical, so there's no mouse ball to get all gunked up with hair, dead skin cells, and Frito crumbs. Where's the fun in that? They call it "Quick RF wireless technology" and "DiamondEye optical technology," but I call it "computing for poseurs." Do these young turds today deserve that kind of smooth movement and precise control? Like hell they do!
And let’s not even get started on the music these days. Gnarls Barkley? You gotta be kidding me! Who is that, one of those puppets off Sesame Street? Now, the Fixx…Level 42…Talk Talk…that was some real music, sonny!
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http://digg.com/tech_news/Floppy_finally_flops
My personal favorite quote
Yea, fond memories like the one when the computer lab's A: drive ate (destroyed) my floppy disk containing a 10 page report due that day. Or that memory of the annoying clicking sound it made over and over before the drive finally died. Or the time before CDs when installing programs meant inserting 20+ disks in the correct order, only to realize you were missing the last disk. Or the memory of the annoyance when you left a disk in the drive when you restarted and having to remove it because DOS couldn't boot from the disk.
Ah yes, those were the days.
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