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Doom III is possibly the only game at the moment that can truly scare me, despite the fact that I have already played through this part of it... Which, of course, makes it a great game to play before going to bed (playing it in the dark is the only way to go).
I got Din to recognize one of the 120GB drives by setting the jumpers on both the 4GB and the 120GB to Cable Select. The system now hangs on the second boot up screen that displays a bunch of data. Why is it hanging? Well, there is one piece of data that is missing: the size of the 120GB drive.
Yippee.
Work six-forty-five until approximately two-thirty Friday night. I will try my damndest to go to bed "early" so that I can wake up almost fully rested and get to Andrew's for the LAN by noon. Ideally, I would sleep ALL day Friday and be rested and ready for a full twenty-four hour LAN, but that is not going to happen this time.
If this LAN does not rock, heads will roll. Either by gauntlet or lightsaber.
Fucking zombie scientists... my heart is still racing... How can the soldiers' pistols be that powerful! Mine is not even that strong! We are all using the same, standard issue UAC pistol, too!
And of course the game always finds a way to leave me with two health just before I encounter an Imp.
Jason wants to meet up for slurpies with Cat sometime tomorrow? I doubt I will be awake until six in the afternoon.
It is really hard to go to sleep with the birds chirping so cheerfully.
“New” box
When I went to pick up David from Dad's house today, I decided I would steal the 500mhz box (David's old computer) that was sitting there. I doubt he even noticed, it was sitting in the corner next to the K6-2 looking all sad and what not.
I forgot how slow the thing was. Somebody decided to put Windows XP on it at some point... oops. It is now runing the latest stable release of Debian and will become a file server next semester. I now have a use for my Playstation's old 120GB harddrive (the computer only had a 4GB drive in it!).
My plan is to eventually fashion the thing a makeshift case that is easier to hide away than its current case (granted, AndrAIa's case is just a tad bigger all around). Only problem I forsee is that the ethernet adapter is a PCI card rather than being on the motherboard itself. There goes the slim factor that I was hoping for.
Legos.
Installing Debian went well, used the netinstall disc. Doing things in Gnome was painful. I am sure there are graphics drivers somewhere out there for an onboard SiS 750 (?) graphics chip, but this thing is going to be headless most (all) of the time. All it needs is some sweet (X over-) SSH lovin'.
For some reason, whenever I edit /etc/motd and reboot, Debian replaces it with the default. I never had that problem under Ubuntu...
I got Samba up and running. Took a few hours to get it to accept Windows clients as guests, but now it is all done. There is a folder for people to dump things into and a folder for people to steal things out of. I figure that I deserve something in return for sharing a bunch of shit, so all I ask is that people drop things in the dump folder every now and then. It is fair.
I christened the box "Din," after the fire goddess from the Zelda series of video games, despite the fact that I think of the box more as a male... (It only seems fair, really. Andy is female, Din is her counterpart. Or they are lesbians. I like that idea too.)
I need to get another harddrive to stick in the thing, I am going to run out of space fast if I put everything on it that I would like to share. I wonder how cheap a half-terebyte harddrive is these days...
Din is also running an HTTP server and FTP server. You know, for when you are not on the same network but may still need something. This will be fun. I enjoy playing with this machine. Installing Hamachi on this thing would be a good idea too. Maybe a command-line torrent program, even! Azureus runs command-line. Hmm...
Sometimes I wonder if I get too excited about computers. Then I get distracted trying to figure something out (like finding out that http://din points to /var/www on the actual box).
Grr. Sleep is required. Playing with computers until three-fifty (easily twelve hours of my day) does not make work at eleven-fifteen easy.
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Today was pretty boring and useless. Woke up around four in the afternoon, picked up kiddies from Dad's house. Did... nothing. All day. Well, I did finally get Gtkradiant to compile. And I did install Freespire on David's machine (pretty and easy install interface... not liking the ridiculously out of date software packages in the Linspire repositories though). But that is it.
Now I just need to find a place to setup my computer for use with a REAL monitor (this TV is starting to hurt my eyes...) and I can commence mapping for Nexuiz or Quake 3 or something. I would also try to map for Unreal Tournament 2004, but a) UnrealEd does not install for the Linux version, and b) UnrealEd is ridiculously hard to figure out.
Mom has these crazy sugar free candies that are actually quite good...
You know you are a facebook whore when you freak out that facebook will not load for you.. D:
Hm. I feel like I should say more to keep with my previous post... but I really have nothing to say. So... nyah!
Wewt
Rhymes with newt.
Tried to do a system update with openSuSE 10.2. Um. Big mistake. Hosed the entire system.
Thinkin' I'm gonna go with Ubuntu 7.04 this round.
Oh man did I forget how much I hate liveCDs.. am running one of Jeremy's Ubuntu 6.06 discs (didn't see my wireless, wtf!) and the lag is almost like using VNC from Sterling Heights to Chicago. Sucks balls.
KRAKOOOM
Been talking with Kevin for the past few hours. A range of topics. Initially I said something to him over AIM that piqued his interest and so he tried to get me to talk about it. The conversation quickly turned to him and his female situation, which is no problem at all. I'd like to go back to being the one that people go to instead of being the one that goes to others. He's mostly confused at the situation at hand... doesn't wanna miss any opportunities, but at the same time doesn't feel that anything CAN be done with only three weeks of school left.
There was some NICE lightning and thunder during said conversation. <3 thunderstorms
Finally got ndiswrapper + wireless card working. Now I just need to get the kernel module loaded at boot and all will be fine. Speeds are drastically greater than the wired network here. I tend to get anywhere from 8% to 34% signal strength, but have yet to get dropped (unlike in Windows, where I would lose connection every five minutes).
Got Corey running Ubuntu 6.06 (using one of Jeremy's many CDs that he ordered from Canonical). He downloaded and burned 7.04 and installed it himself. They grow up so fast! ::sniff:: Automatix is a really nice little program that installs practically everything (ex. mp3 and dvd support and even the flash player) that should come with Ubuntu (some of the... less-caring distros out there will bundle that kind of stuff, it's kinda sad that all of them can't though). Will remember it when I try to convert others. I was surprised that Ubuntu recognized Corey's wireless card on the first go. Has Linux wifi support really progressed that much? 7.04 even allows him to set up wireless profiles. Crazy.
Automatix had an option to install Exaile, an Amarok like media player designed for Gnome. It certainly looks a lot better than Amarok (ie. matches the theme). It's still in beta, however, and doesn't work with my mp3 player quite like I'd want it to. It's also a little problematic that my mp3 player mounts as two drives, but dragging and dropping onto the thing via the file manager has been my preferred method anyway.
Talking with Kevin has kinda quelled a few things I had running through my mind... but has brought up a few other things (normal things, these ones)...
Three short weeks. Can't wait to go home. Don't want to leave Chicago.
Ergh!
And she's all for it!