sugardeath

I finally got mysql-server and mythtv to play together (and with me, and not sexually)! I wiped the old Debian install on Din and tried to install Knoppmyth, but it wouldn’t install LILO properly. I never did like LILO, Grub has always handled booting better in my opinion. Easier to use, too. I was then gonna try MythDora, but a Fedora / Red Hat system has never appealed to me… I like Debian-based distros too much, which explains why I just reinstalled Debian and gave it another shot. Worked fine this time. I got the thing running mythfrontend on bootup and everything. Now I just need a TV card to test things with.

I have a slight problem where Debian dumps me to an “oh shit” shell (what’s the real name for that thing?) because it can’t find /dev/hda. Everything is on /dev/hde, and it knows this, yet one step during bootup is looking for /dev/hda. I can make symbolic links for it and it works fine and everything, but they never stay.. so I have to do this on every bootup. There must be some permanent solution.

The differences between Debian and Ubuntu are amazing. I find that even if I chose to install all the extra Debian things I still had to do some work to get the system useable. Ubuntu, despite being based on Debian, just works. Then again, so did SUSE for the most part.

I uploaded photos of the Delta II rocket launch to Facebook. They’ll find their way here eventually, and when they do they’ll be in their full 2592×1944 resolution, not the crap by crap res that Facebook scales them too. Not that it matters much, though.. The shots didn’t really come out too well.

In other news, I added about eight hours of play time to my KOTOR save. I have become so dark sided that on my character sheet I don’t have just have a red glow behind me, I have a red glow that sort of explodes into a fiery.. thing. Black smoke all over the bottom and these hot ember like particles floating up. It’s neat. I wonder what it looks like when you become just as light sided.

My car died on me when I was on my way to pick up Dad from the Chevy dealership. Wouldn’t start until after Brian came to get me and we had picked up Dad. Thankfully a nice couple helped me push it into the Speedway at Riverland and Van Dyke. It died in the left turn lane JUST before the Riverland driveway. Started up just fine for Dad on his first try and gave us no more problems. He’s borrowing my car for the day tomorrow because apparently the van has this big electrical problem and will be at the dealership all day. I hope my car doesn’t give us anymore shit.

I just had to make a change to the pipe link plugin.. The regular expression was using \w to catch alphanumeric characters. “/” is not alphanumeric. A quick search on Google revealed that \W will catch nonalphanumerics. Just copy and paste what I had.. change one set of \w’s to \W’s and all is good.

What the hell did I catch?! And from whom?! I stole (as in, used) some ibuprofin from work today, Dad is going to have to buy a new bottle for the house after I go grab the last two tablets in a couple of (few, several, many, lots, too many) minutes…

Elyse got me to sign up to anonidate D: There are a few females in the Sterling Heights area, but I suspect most of them of being traps. I found two in the entire Chicago area. Not that I would really want to get to know a female /b/tard anyway… That would be extremely weird…

I am slowly learning the language of Quake III shaders…

At least I made it through my entire shift at work today. Had energy this time. The new managers (three of them) officially started at the Forum as of Friday. I thought there were a lot of changes before… There are going to be a shitton now. Sam stopped making usher gameplans for some reason. She asked if I made tonight’s, I said yes, she enthusiastically approved. Whenever I see Kevin on the schedule, my default action is to have him be the lead in a section if there are not enough leads. However, Holly, Kristy, and Adam also applied for promotion. I have yet to see Holly actually own a section, so I gave A section to her. I left shortly after she got there, but I have faith in her.

I was so out of it at work today. I had the energy… but not the focus. It was weird. I disliked it.

I am off until Thursday. When I first saw that, I was upset because I need the hours. However, with this sickness that is having fun with me, I need the downtime. I think I may stay at Dad’s for the next week as well, just to recooperate…

I have had the chills for the past five hours, now this blanket is suddenly too warm for me.

I wish I brought my Wii over, I need to play some good old Resident Evil 4.

I have installed MythTV on Din! I just need to acquire my TV card from Jason and figure out why the hell the MySQL server is giving me such problems. I really like the idea of having a DVR at school next semester. Imagine never missing an episode of Stargate: Atlantis or The Office because I am at dinner or hanging out with friends or, god forbid, studying. Corey declared love to me because this will allow him to get NCIS as soon as it airs, rather than torrenting it and waiting hours, sometimes days. Is it bad form to declare on your public web journal that you or someone you know torrents TV shows (that have not yet been released otherwise)? If I get a letter from any major TV networks or the MPAA, I will be sure to inform everyone.

The earphones I got with my Sansa c240 are surprisingly decent when plugged into my computer. Sure, they are not my big-ass amazing headphones, but they are portable and easy.

I talked with Alyssa about things.. with Linda about things.. with Nicole about things.. I was antisocial for the majority of Brian’s grad party today (hence how I talked with those three), due to being sick. Dad ordered two ice cream cakes because the one that he got for my graduation party disappeared in no time. The second one is sitting, cut up (it is huge) in his fridge because no one touched it. There were FAR less people at Brian’s grad party than mine. Oddly, I have always assumed Brian to have more friends than I. Friends outside of our shared friend group, that is.

I find myself having a hard time listening to Rammstein these days.. If I need something heavy, I opt for the Dragonforce and just ignore the lyrics (which are surprisingly lifting and upbeat). Corey recommends Nickelback or Metallica, but I have a severe lack of both bands’ music. Lost Prophets is usually pretty good, too. If I am feeling especially emo.

Went to bed early last night (about two-thirty in the morning) because I was feeling just a tad (read: quite a bit) under the weather. It came on all of a sudden.. I dunno what it was. Or is. I left both computers on because they were copying things and because they heat the room quite nicely, curled up, fully dressed, beneath my blanket (really wish I had a second one), and tried to sleep. The next thing I remember was David coming into my room around.. eleven? noon? asking if he could use my computer. I finally woke up around three-thirty.. Fever-less, but something in my throat still feels swollen. And I work tonight from six to two-thirty! -_- Usually whenever I start feeling as I did last night I will go straight to bed. Wearing jeans, socks, t-shirt, a hoody if I have one nearby. I will curl up beneath two blankets, and come morning I am fine. Seems to have worked for the most part this time.. I am still a little short on energy, it seems. Hopefully food will help. I was thinking of calling in to work last night, but I need the money… I will be fine. Thursday nights are slow and there are three total ushers scheduled for tonight. That makes it pretty easy.

Speaking of Din.. She is finally up and running. Almost perfectly. There is only one minor problem: I am having a hard time trying to get Samba to allow network users to write to the dump folder. It worked great last time. I am using the same configuration as last time… I am not sure what is going on, just have to fiddle with it a bit more. Everything else is great. Web server is up and running. Quake III server exists. I am enjoying this.

At least I don’t feel like I have to puke…

Brian’s stuff came in today. His installation of WinXP bluescreens. Din’s 4GB drive with Debian on it booted fine in his machine. Go figure. The 120GB also causes his machine to hang at “Verifying DMI Pool Data.” It will eventually give me a “DISK BOOT FAILURE.” Took the jumpers off the failure setting (joke, Jason’s) and it was a little quicker at detecting the drive, but never gave the DISK BOOT FAILURE. I never thought a DISK BOOT FAILURE message would be a good thing. On a whim, I tried out the 120GB’s twin, the one that I deemed bad after it failed in my PS2. It worked. In Brian’s machine. In Din. I formatted it as ext3 in Din. It fails again. !!! Both 120GBs are ext3. They both fail in Din, and at least one of them fails in Brian’s. Now I need to see if they still both work in AndrAIa… I will kill someone if they don’t.

I ordered an IDE controller card from Newegg before trying the second drive. Let’s hope it helps… I think it’s just gonna be a waste of money…

In other news, I got my sky and liquid shaders working in GtkRadiant. Natural lighting all around.

I got a few odd looks at work today. I wonder why.

So I was wrong about everything working on Din now. The 120GB still has problems! At least the BIOS correctly displays the size, it just now hangs at “Verifying DMI pool data..” As Jason said, “pool’s closed.” Not exactly what I expected… The harddrive limit for older motherboards is 137GB. I have a 17GB difference in my favor, here! I am trying to update the BIOS anyway, but the flashing program keeps freezing (thankfully rebooting it doesn’t kill the BIOS). This is bothersome.

Raul has some neat music on this CD. Follow Me by Uncle Cracker. Have not heard this song in forever. And, of course, The Safety Dance.

“In my experience, one of the secrets to being happy (and, I suspect, successful) in life is to never ever take yourself seriously.” -Jeph (Questionable Content) — Mr. Landers said something similar. I think he actually said it when I had him for tenth grade history as well as The Law in senior year. It really is true. I have started to care less and less about the silly little things I do and have just accepted that that is who I am. I notice that I am less nervous when meeting new people and that I am more free around people I do know. So I make a fool of myself, whatever. I laugh at myself all the time. It is a good feeling.

This quote has been sitting as the title of a draft post forever. I have a few other quotes up there as well. My personal favorite would have to be:
“It is hard to get a lady to evaluate to true.” -Pintsize (anthropomorphic PC in Questionable Content)

I had big plans for Din, damnit. Why am I running into so many problems? At least Debian gave me very little trouble after installing Brian’s stuff.

Why does Gtkradiant refuse to use Quake III’s sky shaders (Nexuiz’s work fine, by comparison)!

There is a singular draft post that I guard with my life, for some reason. I update it arbitrarily with important things. I have no intentions of ever posting this, so I always hit “save” instead of “publish.” Because of the contents, I always reload my main page about.. five times just to make that it was indeed not posted. Sometimes I do not understand myself.