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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 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.

Project

So I think that my next real.. project of sorts will be to write an MPD client. MPD is a pretty neat music manager I found a few days ago. A fair amount of Linux programs and services run on the client/server idea, most notably X the graphical display server (what draws the [...]

Great

So either my monitor or my graphics card is going. I doubt it’s the monitor, as it’s not yet a year old. I can display X at 1440×900 no problem, but the BIOs and whatever res the TTYs run at won’t display, instead giving me a black screen (not even lit black, just [...]

If it ain’t broke… break it

I decided, oddly, to update my graphics driver under Linux. Why? Fuck if I know. The newest .run from nvidia’s site installs, but breaks a few things for me (notably X, which complains of a version mismatch between the loaded module and the desired module). Well, I uninstalled that and got [...]