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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 [...]

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 [...]

Why do I do the things I do?

Yesterday I was googling for some conky (system monitoring tool for Linux) stuff and came across a forum post on the Arch Linux site. I dunno why, but I downloaded Arch Linux and wiped Ubuntu from the desktop and installed Arch. I honestly can’t tell you why I did that. What’s worse [...]

In the middle of the night

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
From the mountains of faith
To the river so deep
I must be lookin’ for something
Something sacred I lost
But the river is wide
And it’s too hard to cross
even though I know the river is wide
I walk down every evening and stand on the shore
I try to cross [...]