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One of the Odd Things I Miss About Andy

From feldspar, the alias to ssh into andy was candy, as in connect to andraia. The alias for ophiuchus is cophi. I mean, it keeps with the edibles theme, but.. I don’t drink coffee :/

Posting from ophiuchus

Pulled all the data off AndrAIa’s 250GB and onto ophiuchus’ 320GB. Not much of a space upgrade, but whatever, I need to be conscious of the amount of data I’m hoarding anyway.
Took pretty much the whole day to get ophi set up. Well, Linux anyway. Building him and installing / setting up [...]

Posting from feldspar

OK, so, I got X working on feldspar. Compiz, for some reason, refuses to run and instead locks the whole computer. OK, well, Compiz + XFCE is a bit heavy for this computer anyway.. so I decided to finally give OpenBox a shot. It’s really fast, everything is up in no time [...]

Posting from Wii

AndrAIa dead. Feldspar no X (few sites work well with links), flaky stolen wifi.
Ordered Ophiuchus. I hope. Money I need for rent.. newegg/Charter One constantly declining my card. Newegg claims C1’s fault; C1 newegg.
CMC still hasn’t approved resume. Cannot upload files (to monster.com) from Wii.
Dumb.
I miss Sarah.

This is why I love Linux/Opensource

Jeremy was playing around on ShinyCat trying to get Compiz installed for some nifty orange glows around his windows. Well, ShinyCat has crappy integrated ATI drivers and we couldn’t get any of the drivers properly installed so Compiz kept giving stupid errors. He was kind of bothered that we couldn’t get this to [...]