"Better Vulpines through Technology."

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DragonCon	August 30th 2001
Ok, quick note. I'm gone for the next few days at DragonCon. Fun fun fun. If your in the Atlanta area, drop on in...I'll be running around with a stuffed Cthulhu on my shoulder :) (Don't ask, it's safer that way.) Ciao :)

Good News, Road Trips, and assorted stuff

August 22nd 2001

Well, I've got some good news for you all. Actually I got alot of news... lets start with most immediate.

Today I got a job with Internet America. It's doing Level One phone support, which is a step or 3 backwards...but as a Guru once told me, "Itsa yob." So I'm not complaining. It's enough money to live on, and hopefully it will help me pull my mood back up to a normal level. Something about being unemployed killing my self esteem. So that's news bit #1.

News bit #2. I'm getting a short vacation before the new job, I'm going to Atlanta, Georgia for DragonCon. So before I go insane with phones, I get to have fun, being geeky, pester writers, and in general enjoy life. I also get to meet a pack of people from the Tamson House email list (a group of Charles DeLint fans). So I'm damn psyched about that. And this is a big con, so I have to figure out what to bring to get signed. Oooh, after looking at the Guests list, I saw something fun...Jeffrey Combs, the guy who played Herbert West in Reanimator as well as a ton of other good roles, is going to be there. Woohoo. :) I'm going to be a happy fox.

Other than that, not much else. Going to be busy all the rest of the week with non geek stuff. Oh well, keep me out of trouble. :) Next week I get to learn the local transit system, since parking at IA sucks. :) That's all for now.

Reynard Reborn	August 17th 2001
Well, I got Reynard working last night. All I needed was the agp driver for the motherboard. D'oh ! Which is kinda weird, since I do recall using a agp card before that. Oh well, it's working now...and that's what matters. So I get to continue my diablo II addiction. Plus watch the occasion non .mpg movie. :)

Slight Site Revamp	August 16th 2001
Well, I have no life...and I got tired of seeing the front page of cyberfox.org, so I made the news page into the default index page. No big deal, Unless you have the old news page bookmarked. Hmm, I guess I'll have to add a redirect on it. Funfunfun. Oh well, not like this is a big deal.

Firewall and Fennec

August 14th 2001

Well I rebuilt my firewall last night, swapped out the 13 gig drive in it with a 1 gig drive. Mostly painless swap, it took a while to install things, but not too bad. Well, I took the 13 gig drive and stuck it in fennec. So I now have nearly 100 gigs in my mp3 server. :) And I still have some space for drives. I really need to pull the 8.4 gigs and replace them with 80 gigs. Maybe later this year. I need a job. Oh well...someday soon I hope.

American Pie 2

August 12th 2001

Went and saw American Pie 2 on Friday night. Like the first one, I laughed til I was nearly sick. It's not a great movie, or even a really good one, but ye gods is it funny. Not as much character development, mostly the story was about the geek Jim with a predliction for getting into bizarre sexual situations involving his dad walking in. (Boy is gonna need therapy for years.) No spoilers from me, just a notice. Alyson Hannigan (our favorite flautist, and Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) steals the show. It's not as suprising as 'Say my name bitch !!!' from the first movie, but she has a knack for comedic timing. I'd like to see her in more movies...plus the fact she's a cute redhead doesn't hurt ;) Go see it, unless stupid, adolesent humor annoys you...in which case, loosen up. ;)

Windows is the Antichrist

August 10th 2001

Ok, like that's a shock...windoze being evil. But I've spent 2 days trying to get a Best Data TNT2 Nvidia vid card working under windows. It took a total of about 45 seconds to work under X and Linux. Windows ? Good fscking luck. This would be easy IF I could find the drivers disk for the card. No disk, no cd, and no working drivers on Best Data's site. Nor do the drivers on Nvidia's site work either. ARGH !!! Why does this have to be difficult ? It's a stinkin' video card, not rocket science...*thud* Oh well, what this means is no Diablo 2 for the fox for a while. *pout* This just ticks me off, I was getting good playing a necromancer. With my posse of skeletons. *laugh* OH well, looking at trading the nvidia card to a friend for an older Voodoo card, with drivers. I'd be happy with that. Or one of the GeForce uber cards...but since I'm poor, the trade is good.

Multihead Kitsune

August 7th 2001

Well, life has been intresting here at Chez Cyberfox. I figured out that my 19" monitors hadn't burned out...the vid cards had. So I did some swapping, and part moving, and now I'm back with a trihead setup for Kitsune. I stuck some old matrox cards in her, and installed all 3 19" KDS monitors. Very cool, very very cool. I'll be installing the remaining Nvidia card in Reynard (my windoze box) later tonight, as soon as I find the windows driver disk. Then we be cool. *grin* If your curious, check out my Screenshot . Lots of term windows, mtvp playing futurama, bitchX and Pine. Plus Izabella Miko for eyecandy. Plus an old friend, the background image of Eris, Goddess of Chaos. This was one of my original backgrounds from when I first started with linux. During one of my many upgrades it vanished. I was sad. Well on Sunday night I did a 'What the hell' and did a search on google for it. And suprise suprise, it was there. *grin* Happy Discordian fox. :) You can download it here. Come on, you know you wanna. :)

Code Red redux	August 7th 2001
Well, that damn virus is starting to piss me off...and here's why. cyberfox: {1} % cd www/logs cyberfox: {2} % grep .ida access_log \| wc -l 1509 Scary ain't it. Ok you moronic IIS users, will you please PATCH YOUR DAMN servers !!!!!!

Screenshot Page	August 7th 2001
Ok, I finally updated the screenshots page. Every damn screenshot I've ever taken is on there. ANd there is a lot of them. So check out the page. Eventually I'm going to have it so each image or set of images has a little desc of what the screenshot is. But that's for another day.

Rush Hour 2	August 5th 2001
Went and saw Rush Hour 2 on Friday, another fun Jackie Chan movie. Little plot, lots of jokes, lots of really nice fight scenes. Plus the very pretty Zhang Ziyi (from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon). It's not a masterwork, but it's alot of fun. Go see it :)`

Vulpine in Print

August 5th 2001

Well, in photo, in magazine. Yes, your dear friend Vulpine has made it into a nationally published magazine. Well, at least a photo of me did. The magazine Femme Fatales did a big article on American Nightmare, and one of the movie shots they used had me in the background. :) Life is good. You can pick this up at most bookstores, I'm on page 24. Special thanks to Mr Producer, Jerry, for letting me know about this. :) One of these days I'll get the pic scanned in, so you all can see it.

Bad Ping Day

August 4th 2001

http://www.cyberfox.org/hellping.jpg

And you think you've had a bad internet day. Argh. Lucky this isn't my server. But I'm the one who had to call the server admin. Hmm, his ISP is blaiming Code Red, funny how no one else seems to be really affected. Oh well. Tis the fun of running servers. And of course, Big Brother is reporting it as down...lucky for me my pager notification script is off line. :) Oh well.

Additional: Looks like a border router at Qwest went karfluki. It got fixed about a minute after posting about it. Gotta love the 'net.

Eterm Fun	August 2nd 2001
Well, I started playing with ETerm today. I used to use this all the time, but switched to aterm to reduce memory load. Well, it dawned on me I have half a gig of memory in this box. So it didn't matter what I used as a term. Plus I can make Eterm nice and pretty. So, we'll see how long this lasts. :)

Code Red	August 2nd 2001
Well, the internet survived yet another attack from stupid virii. If you run IIS, gods I hope you fixed things after the first attempt. I know better, since I got some 30 odd hits via infected machines. I run Apache. No fuss, no muss, all fun. :) And few viruses. So, dear MCSE's and NT admins, patch your damn servers, or better yet, switch to something better ;)