Using the browser will feel a bit like using vim, with both buffer commands and a full command mode.  To fill out forms on a webpage one must enter insert mode.  It is extremely keyboard centric.  Because of this and how light weight the browser is, it has become the default browser on my netbook.  Opera has been my default browser since version 8.5 released ad-free in 2005.  I am even using it right now on my desktop along side Opera.

It does have a few problems: Downloading files is a little wonky because it simply executes wget.  It may be that I've messed with some of the configs, but I don't get any download notifications.  The files do download to the directory defined in my globals.lua, but the browser does not indicate this.  The javascript engine is also really slow.  Sites like netflix will crawl to a halt in luakit.  Other webkit browsers like Arora and Chromium/Chrome behave just fine on this and other sites with lots of javascript.  Of course I am spoiled when it comes to Javascript experience, using Opera as my main browser and all.  This issue has been brought up and is hopefully being looked into.

Redshift
Redshift is a great little tool that will change the color temperature of your monitor based on time of day.  The reason for this is that daylight tends to be blue and monitors generally display at a very blue color.  But at night, when you're using lights, the color temperature of these lights tend to be more in the red range.  Another tool called f.lux exists, and I would recommend this one for OSX and Windows users (Redshift's Windows version is "highly experimental").  The Linux version of f.lux, however, lacks a GUI and seems to eat a ton of CPU (at least for me) when it's actually transitioning from day to night.  Redshift does not chew through cycles during the transition (it is, in fact, very smooth and pretty) and does have a fairly competent graphical interface (it just wraps around the CLI version, in usual Unix/Linux style).  I used to use f.lux and it worked wonders for my eyes at night.  Redshift provides the same benefits for reducing eyestrain, I just feel it is a nicer program to work with for Linux users.

NX
Here's a nice program for everyone who needs a remote desktop connection.  NX is a relatively new method of remote access.  What sets it apart from VNC or X over SSH is that it is far, far faster.  In various spots around campus, the wireless network is incredibly slow due to the volume of users.  In these locations, xpra, VNC, and X over SSH performed quite poorly.  NX, on the other hand, was quite usable.  When I am at work on an ethernet connection, the responsiveness of the NX server nears local speeds.  It is quite an impressive tool.  It allows for desktop virtualization, akin to VNC as well as blending the applications in with your current display ala X over SSH or xpra.  Either style of session can be disconnected and reconnected anywhere.  The Free server exists for Linux and Solaris with clients for Windows, Linux, OSX, and Solaris.  One can even install the "Web Companion" that provides a java applet that behaves as a client.

xchainkeys
Xchainkeys replicates behavior found in various window managers.  It basically provides keyboard shortcuts to launch programs and run commands.  It also allows for one to set up a chain of commands.  For example, if I press Windows+Q, I enter a chain I set up for browsers.  If I press Q again, Opera launches.  A launches luakit, W chromium, and S firefox.  All of this can be done in, for example, Openbox.  It has native support for these key chains.  On my desktop, however, I run Compiz as a window manager, and it provides only 11 commands, one of which had to be used for the desktop menu (compiz-deskmenu).  It also has no support for key chains.  This means I am very limited in the number of commands I can bind to keyboard shortcuts.  I now have 15 different commands being executed via keyboard shortcuts, with twelve of them being under various chains.  An incredibly useful program for those that desire a little more flexibility out of their keyboard shortcuts and are limited by their current window manager.  My config.

Took pretty much the whole day to get ophi set up.  Well, Linux anyway.  Building him and installing / setting up Win7 was mostly painless (just a few CDs lost in the drive...) and that was the day prior, surrounding Casey's meat party (not gay).  The onboard audio is nice in only one way: It has a headphone jack on the front of the computer that plugs directly into the onboard audio card.  This is actually only half of one way: The headphone cuts out the back speaker port in Windows (as it should).  They both run in Linux.  OK, that's not so much of a problem, just a minor annoyance.  I don't even feel like moving my speakers over to the computer yet anway, might just keep them hooked up to the Gamecube.  The onboard audio sucks in that alsa won't give me built in bass/treble sliders for the card.  It did for the Sound Blaster PCI512 and the Audigy ZX.  I just popped the Audigy into ophi and, while it detects that the card is plugged in (lspci), alsa doesn't detect it.  Oh well.  I'll probably just let it sit there, or rip it out later and ebay it or something.  Even though the Audigy would put out such better sound, I dont really feel like fighting with anything more right now. 

Jeremy might give me something for the GeForce 7600GT from Andy as well. 

I found a software equalizer solution, and the settings given on the Arch wiki are a lot better than it normally sounds, but I need to learn how to play with equalizers and what each band means / effects (I'm just given numbers that correspond to each band... no sliders for me).  Also, the software equalizer eats some CPU.  With only Opera, mpd, and the equalizer running, both cores are idling around 4%.  Without the equalizer, with Opera, they'd both be at 1% or below.  But hey, at least the cores are being used, yeah??  I see it fluctuate between three and six percent on the first and four and five on the second.  I love seeing two arch logos on boot representing the two cores and having two percentage/usage bars in conky :D

(03:47:16 AM) Jeremy: you put about as much time into switching arch around as i do my windows, its just a matter of what your primary os is

Sort of.  I spent most of the day just trying to get shit downloaded and installed on this shitty stolen wifi (cocmast dude comes on Tuesday).  Afterwards I spent a lot of time fighting with sound and a couple other things (why does gnome-settings-daemon set my background on the laptop but not on the desktop?  Both machines start it when openbox runs, so they should behave the same).

I think it's just about done.  This means I can go about looking for jobs again.  Or playing Team Fortress 2 with Casey, Matt, Sarah, David, or whoever else come Tuesday.  I think I might have a "Happy Real Internet Day!" party on Tuesday.  I think I'll have been stealing wifi for nearly two weeks by that point!

Anyway, fucker is orange.  See the bottom part of the white section?  The dvd tray pops up VERTICALLY FROM THERE.  LIKE A GODDAMN TOASTER.  HOLY SHIT IT'S AWESOME.  Except when I lose the teeth that are supposed to hold the disc in and drop a disc or two IN the drive.  It's a pain in the ass to get those fuckers out of there.

• Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.8GHz
• 2GB DDR2 PC6400 RAM
• Geforce 8800GTS 512MB (with free copy of Call of Duty: World at War, normally a $50 game)
• 1 160GB SATA II HDD
• 1 320GB SATA II HDD

I think that's all the important stuff?  Clearly decidely a mid-range machine.  That's all I need.  It'll play TF2 beautifully.  It was only $500.  Andy was $800 when I bought her years ago.  The motherboard is your standard microATX motherboard.  I was originally planning on going for a smaller case (similar to Mom's new one), but most of them don't hold graphics cards, let alone beasts like the 8800 and above.  My case is not as deep as most, though, so it is still easier to carry around and it just feels lighter that both andy AND Mom's new one (thing is DENSE!)!

I'm using andy's old 19" display in the middle of my desk.  Got Sarah's 19" off to the left and am displaying the laptop on that.  The laptop itself sits on the elevated laptop stand to the right, but I couldn't read the display from there.  It serves as a place to set things for now.

Got synergy and hamachi all set up, had to change a few aliases on feldspar's end and change the synergy config, but otherwise it was pretty easy to migrate from andy to ophi. 

Somehow in playing around with oss (not much better than alsa for what I want) and reinstalling alsa, I got sound working in Doom3.  The standard Quake3 engine maxes at 1000 frames per second, but refuses to give sound (not able to map /dev/dsp for whatever reason).  Even though I set the cap at 9000, the game hardcaps at 1000.  I think with the 6600GT (never tryed the 7600GT) I was able to get around 300-400 frames.  If I uncap the frames from 60, my character constantly looks at the floor.  If I cap it again, I can only look up or down.  If I restart the game and keep the frames capped at 60, I can look around like normal until I uncap it again.  The ioquake engine refuses to run, giving some OpenAL (like OpenGL, but for audio, derp) error that I don't feel like dealing with yet.

I, sadly, deleted UT2k4 quite some time ago.  I would love to play that game right now.  I need more native Linux games.

I opted to put Openbox on ophi instead of going the XFCE+Compiz route.  I would like to have the flash of Compiz, but since both Openbox and Compiz are window managers... that can't happen.  The main reason I switched was because XFCE 4.6 no longer has customizable right-click menus (on the desktop).  Since that is my main method of launching programs, I'd rather have a menu that has only what I need instead of the generic crap that the new XFCE menu gave.  Customizability > eye-candy.  Plus Openbox is light.  XFCE was already light for a desktop environment, but Openbox ain't even that.  Just a straight up window manager, nothing more.  Shit is snappy on the laptop, it SCREAMS on the desktop. 

The case is really pretty.  I love it.  The blue power light on the front has a red LED in it for HDD access.  I just LOVE the way it looks.

I think the most CPU intensive game I have under either operating system is actually Dwarf Fortress.  For some reason the Windows version through wine runs better than the native Linux one..  I haven't actually ever run the game under Windows.  While it doesn't take advantage of multi cores, the second core should at least prevent the game from grinding my system to a halt.  I could barely browse the web on andy while playing dorfs.

Shit yeah it runs well now.  I wonder how many people get new rigs just to run dorffort well.

I should also figure out sleep/hibernate under linux. 

It's ten in the morning.  Sarah woke me up by calling me at four in the afternoon...  My sleep schedule is so nasty right now.

I was all type type type for the longest time with this post.  Now I've run out of steam.  I think it's time to call it a day.

Also, six days from now marks seven years of journal-y-ness.

That joke turned into the project for the next ten minutes which included hunting down the XFCE Window Manager source code and finding where in said code the color for the shadow was defined.  Jeremy now has orange "glows" around his windows and pop up menus without the bloat and resource eating that Compiz would bring to ShinyCat.

It was fun.

On the todo list for the window manager is "selectable shadow colors."  I'm pretty sure I could patch it so that it accepts arguments from the command line for colors, but I wouldn't quite know how to bring it into the GUI (though maybe I should attempt that over break?  If it's still on the todo list (which is only a couple of months old?), that possibly means that someone hasn't submitted a patch to implement such a thing yet?).

The changelog for the latest 4.6 beta (current stable release is 4.4.3) says that they've implemented changing the opacity value but not color yet. =P

Before (on white):

After (on black):

I need to work on the font issue, but more importantly I need to study for psych exam tomorrow :/

This is why the North won.

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 to the opposite side
So I can finally find what I've been looking for
In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the valley of fear
To a river so deep
I've been searching for something
Taken out of my soul
Something I'd never lose
Something somebody stole
I don't know why I go walking at night
But now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore
I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life
Until I find what it is I've been looking for

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the jungle of doubt
To the river so deep
I know I'm searching for something
Something so undefined
That it can only be seen
By the eyes of the blind
In the middle of the night

I’m not sure about a life after this
God knows I've never been a spiritual man
Baptized by the fire, I wade into the river
That is runnin' to the promised land

In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the desert of truth
To the river so deep
We all end in the ocean
We all start in the streams
We're all carried along
By the river of dreams
In the middle of the night

I don't do lyrics.  Why am I doing lyrics?

The Taiwanese kids are surprisingly good at basketball.  My arm is scratched to hell from trying to fish the volleyball out from the canopy of a fucking thorn tree.  Sat atop some taller girl's shoulders (musta been taller than Casey).  I counted at least sixteen scratches on my left arm and hand and a puncture in the palm (thankfully nothing broke off in me, unlike that poor kid... like half an inch of thorn.. goddamn).  Like... two on my right.  Despite my right-handedness, I do a surprising number of tasks with my left.  That was twenty dollars right there.

Tonight is fireworks at Navy Pier.  Should be pretty awesome. 

There's so much crap on my bed that I just shove it all to the side so that it's half on the window sill, half eating up bed space.  I've got... a towel, a few shirts, socks, my bag, perhaps my khaki pants? (I need to find those..), my pajama pants..  Usually my bed has to be empty save for a blanket or two and a pillow.  I dunno why I don't care at the moment. 

There's stuff on my glasses...  Usually I'm OCD about having clean glasses too but...  Whatever.  I've gotten so lazy and laidback lately it's terrible.  It will come to bite me in the ass BIGTIME, I can see it coming.

This theme looks better in Opera than it does in Firefox, maybe it's a default fonts thing.  Or maybe I changed Opera's display fonts?  I don't recall.

The kids are surprisingly good at English, I think the main problem is that they're shy or unconfident in their abilities.  Usually they'll say little blurbs of keywords to me, but perhaps that's because this is only the second time they've seen me. 

Late night talks are good, fun, a little detrimental to waking up on time; but hey, that's alright. 

Somehow by using the auto update for the BBCode plugin, I managed to break the TTF Titles plugin that gave me pretty rendered titles in any font I wanted.  It still displayed and stuff, but I couldn't get into the settings manager to change width limitations.  Screw it, the ttf titles looked a bit out of place in this theme anyway.  I keep thinking I see daylight out the window, but we've got about an hour until that happens...

I get to take my SOC302 exam early today due to hangin' with the kids tonight.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover.
-Mark Twain

Found this quote while looking for another one... in my backgrounds folder. 

life sucks. music doesnt.

There we go.  It's kinda true.  I love music.  It's amazing.  I can't play it... (bad experiences, probably scarred for life, pianos haunt my dreams) But I sure can enjoy it.  I like to think that I enjoy a wide variety of music, just as long as it isn't beggars banging in rhythm on the floor of the trains trying to get money.  That or Rap.  And newer Country.  But like Jazz, Classical, Rock, Alternative, Pop, whatever Enya falls under (though I've only heard one of her songs).  Oh, and not Christian Rock.  God no.  (hahaha) The train rides to/from work would be immesely boring and long were it not for my Zune.  Work itself would be immensly boring and long were it not for my Zune.  Though lately I've been listening to podcasts more than music.  Last week and the week before I caught up on a ton of Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech radio shows and this week I've started listening to the Paranormal Cafe.  They had some decent stuff on the Betty and Barney Hill abduction, and the Philadelphia Experiment and Montauk Project.  Though the guy talking about the latter two was obviously a loon (he was a bird?), as he claimed to have seen a Thunderbird (and therefore became a Shaman in his native american circle) as well as to having multiple conversations with someone who is supposedly him from the future.  He had some neat information about the actual topic of the interview, but the rest of it kind of made me think about him... less. 

The interview about John Titor (wiki) was especially interesting.  I had read about him once before somewhere several years ago.  Basically the story goes something like this: Baby John Titor is born in 1998.  In 2036 the military sends him back in time to 1975 to recover an IBM 5100 computer because I guess it could interface with the mainframes they had or something?  He made a pitstop in 2000/1 ish and spent some time with his parents (who were suprisingly understanding).  It was during this time that a serious of posts made by "John Titor" appeared on various time travel forums.  He made a lot of predictions, many cryptic, many not so.  One of his was that the methods to time travel will be discovered at CERN.  Shortly after he predicted that, CERN announced the developmment of the Large Hadron Collider (which some believe will end the world, but that's a different story).  The gigantic hard-ons (if someone could get me the motivational of the "Large Hardon Collider," I would appreciate it :mrgreen: ) will be colliding in roughly sixteen days.  Perhaps they'll find a way to harness the power of the mini-blackholes that supposedly allow Titor's time machine to do it's thing?  He also stated that there would be no more Olympic games after the 2004 summer games.  There WERE 2006 winter games, but appprently it looks like the 2008 summer games in Beijing are on shaky ground?  The reason Titor needed the IBM 5100 was because of a special function it had that very few people knew about.  Later a member of the team who developed the machine came forward and confirmed that the machine did have that functionality and that only ten or so members knew about it.  There's also a bunch of other little things.

I'm uploading the two podcasts (it's one interview, just chopped up) to http://sugardeath.net/podcasts/paracafe/.  They should be up by the time that most of you read this (hell, probably by the time that I'm done writing this).

Yeah, a lot of his predictions came true, but a good number of his predictions have also not come true.  Or at least, not yet as some believe.  Titor says that a second American civil war would start in 2004 or 5 (I don't remember), but that the actual shooting would not start until 2008.  I haven't read anything anywhere that would indicate unrest, but my initial thought was that there might be some issues if Obama gets elected (the whitehouse would become a blackhouse, etc.).  The dude in the interview actually suggests that it might be related to immigration or illegal aliens near Mexico.  In response to a question a forumer asked of him, Titor responded with something along the lines of "Well, let's just say that Spanish is popular in that region [Texas]."

I haven't looked through the johntitor.com website yet, but I hope to eventually.  The podcast should provide enough information to pique fascination.  I mean, sure, the whole thing is probably some retarded prank; but you have to admit that it is damn fascinating.

I think...  I think I should get some sleep now.  Jacki was all "I should get to bed, it's almost 4AM" (wuss).  Well, it's almost 4:30 now here, so I should probably get too (wuss).

I hope they have some more interesting stuff like this on the Paranormal Cafe.  UFOs and stuff are interesting here or there, but I want to learn more about things like the Philladelphia Experiment, the Montauk Project (which if you haven't read about yet, is supposedly very related to the Philadelphia Experiment...), people like John Titor, etc.  I'd be especially stoked if they did any of the cryptids I've been reading about lately.  I never use the word stoked. 

Seriously though, if you have nothing to do for about an hour and a half or so, or can easily divide your attention, listen to the two podcasts I uploaded (in order, please, they're labeled).  The host is kind of annoying in the beginning, but once they get into it, it's some good shit.

With that, I'm probably out of here.  Gotta be rested for examination in the afternoon.

I was finally able to get my hotkeys for MPD set up like I used to have Winamp/Foobar in Windows.  Because I don't use KDE, I could never get the Amarok hotkeys to work when the window wasn't focused, and so I had to open the window all the time and it was annoying when playing a game if I wanted to change the song...  Poop like that.  Well, there's a client for MPD called MPC (how imaginative).  It's a simple command line program that just sends chosen commands to MPD when executed.  Set up ALT+CTRL+KP_INS in your favorite window mananger to execute mpc toggle and you have an easy access play/pause button.  Hot shit.  I am really digging this server/client interface for a freaking music manager. 

I don't believe I have a category that all this paranormal stuff fits under...  and I don't feel like creating a specific 'paranormal' category, so... welcome the 'interesting' category!  Maybe it'll be used more than 'humor.'  Maybe I should start using tags, too.  Maybe I should tag/categorize my old blogger.com posts (of which there are roughly three-hundred or so?  Only about a fifth of my current post count :eek: (the post count in the theme lies... it's the post ID, I've deleted/not published many posts...  I'll maybe fix it)

I am extremely amused by my new [two week old] mouse theme.

Oh, look.  X is back.  Still don't have GLX, though, despite the apt-get install nvidia-glx-new I just did.  Argh.  Not that OpenGL is much use with a broken graphics card, but I don't like the fact that it just doesn't work for seemingly no reason at all.

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 2592x1944 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. 

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.

So now that I have made my decision (it was really decision1, which, in turn, made decision0 (call me dumb, call me hopeless) a whole lot easier to make), I am mostly going to try to just float through the summer, trying to earn as much money as possible and just generally have as much fun as possible (we shall see how well both of those go, though). 

Din is up and running using Brian's old hardware.  The new stuff should be here tomorrow or so.  It was in Baldwin Park, California on Friday, when the order was placed, and is now in Louisville, Kentucky (where it has been sitting since I last checked Saturday).  Why is it that I always seem to order things from Newegg just before the weekend?  Had a little bit of trouble getting X to start again, just had to download and install the nvidia drivers, which was kind of tricky thanks to a few of the Debian repositories not being enabled.  I got that working, so now the graphical display runs a LOT smoother than it used to, thanks to Brian's old GeForce FX 5200 (like it will ever be needed, anyway, headless and what-not).  Everything that I need works, but it sure would be nice to get the thing out of dependency hell.  Apparently I have the front harddrive light connector flipped around.  Din is also now equipped with a second ethernet card AND a shitty sound blaster that...  I do not ever remember Brian using.  I just need to find my old TV card and I could install MythTV on this thing. 

I open the theatre in two and a half hours.  I think the LAN Party kind of fixed my sleeping schedule: I got up on my own at six-twenty. 

My head is fuzzy.

Breakfast time.