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New Home for Shub-Internet Tue Dec 31 19:26:58 CST 2002
Mood: Hopeful Music of the Day: Jeff Beck - Gets Us All In The End
Hey all, quick New Years news post. Today I went down to Altex today and picked up a new case for Shub-Internet. I got a Antec Soho case. comes with a 400 watt PS. 10 bays for drives, built in casefans. ANd it's a lovely shade of black. So tomorrow, I'm shooting to rebuild Shub with this case, her old motherboard/processor and ram, the mp3 drives from Discordia, and whatever else I can think of :) THis assumes nothing melts down. Then, I'll be working on a new server/2nd workstation setup. Again, if nothing melts down first ;) Wish me luck, I need it.

New Year's Music Mon Dec 30 22:38:22 CST 2002
Mood: Happy Music of the Day: Rhiannon - Her Red Behind
Per request...we present the 2nd song by Vulpine Studios

Rhiannon: Her Red Behind.

Enjoy :)

Vulpine & Rhiannon

Plushcthulhu.com Mon Dec 30 19:57:38 CST 2002
Mood: Twisted Music of the Day: Danzig - She Rides
It. Is. Alive !!!! Well, it is at least routing ;) No content yet on PlushCthulhu.com aka Skippy's Lair ;), but there will be soon. :)

Another Email, another day Mon Dec 30 19:41:50 CST 2002
Mood: Sleepy. Music of the Day: Virgin Steele - Track 16 - Veni, Vidi, Vici
Well, I found yet another email address, courtesy of my old employer. Seems Verio is still forwarding the old onramp domains, including onramp.com. And vulpine@onramp.com still works...so it got added. :)

Skippy has a friend :) Thu Dec 26 23:07:28 CST 2002
Mood: Insane Music of the Day: The Music of the Spheres
My very late bday gift to myself finally arrived.

Here's a pic


Yep, it's Nyarly, Skippy's partner in crime (aka, Nyarlethotep, Lord of Chaos, Messenger of the Elder Gods.) Ain't he cool :)

*happy dance*

Now I needed a stuffed Azathoth...

Wish Lists Wed Dec 25 19:52:32 CST 2002
Mood: Sleepy Music of the Day: Dokken - Shattered
Well, it's a little late...but for the next years Shopping Season, check out my Wishlist Page. It's a nicely organized list of things I want, broken down by catagory. So feel free to aquire anything on the list, remember there are only 364 shopping day to $HOLIDAY ;)

Want to Buy a Town ? Wed Dec 25 17:37:03 CST 2002
Mood: Shocked Music of the Day: Boiled in Lead - Track 6 - Over Under Sideways
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=1791801094

Cthulhu Filk Wed Dec 25 17:16:49 CST 2002
Mood: Squidish Music of the Day: The Slinky song, stuck in my head forever.
Another Cthulhu filk, with a story. My dear Rhiannon tells me one evening she had a great idea for a Cthulhu filk, but she couldn't remember the tune. The next night she remembers it, and wakes my butt up to tell me. She didn't have anything but part of the chorus...so I got to work and came up with this.

the Cthulhu Theme song (sung to the Slinky song)
By Vulpine and Rhiannon
(apologies to the maker of Slinky)

Who sleeps if dead dreams in red
Comes out when the Stars are Right
Gibbers and screams Haunts your dreams
Everyone Knows it's Cthulhu

The biggest squid met He'll get you yet
The cultists will skin you alive
The Lord of the Frogs whom you want to snog.
Everyone Knows it's Cthulhu

Chorus:
Cthulhu, Cthulhu
dear god He's squamous and goo
Cthulhu, Cthulhu
The Dread Lord of R'yleh and Mu

Scared yet ?

Merry $HOLIDAY Wed Dec 25 17:07:23 CST 2002
Mood: Happy. Music of the Day: $HOLIDAY aftermath.
Well, merry $HOLIDAY to you all. Just got back from hanging out with Rhiannon's family. Had a very nice couple of days. Got alot of stuff, including...
  • Dream Theater's first album
  • Scorpion King DVD
  • The Gift DVD
  • Deathstalker IV DVD (gotta have them bad movies)
  • Cowboy Bebop: Best of
  • a ferret calendar
  • Two stuffed cthulhus (Santa and Summer)
  • Army of Darkness action figures (Ash and Evil Ash)
  • M&M's
  • Cash :)
  • Giftcard for Suncoast Video
  • Keychain racing game
  • And a stocking decorated with Cthulhu (Rhiannon so rocks)

    I have to reiterate....Rhiannon rocks. :) How many girlfriends will get you Ash action figures and stuffed Cthulhi :) :) :) She got a bit of loot too...*grin* I like spoiling my Vixen.

    So to everyone, have a Merry Cthulumas, and a squamious New Year. :)

    • Vulpine Studios Mon Dec 23 22:05:20 CST 2002
    Mood: Musical Music of the Day: Rhiannon - Master's Wonderland
    Well, we just got done recording the first song from Vulpine Studios. It's a recording of Rhiannon singing her rendition of "Winter Wonderland" with a slightly more bent...bent. ;) Please check it out. WARNING!!!! Not work safe, you have been warned ;)

    Mp3 format: Approx: 234 KB

    .wav format : Approx: 1.3 MB

    New Emails Sun Dec 22 17:45:03 CST 2002
    Mood: *thud* Music of the Day: Dream Theater - Learning to Live
    Well, I'm taking a well deserved break from $HOLIDAY shopping to update my news and emaili page. As of today, I have 105 emails. *happy dance* Including my 3 new domains. Now to get some webcontent for them done... *laugh* Along with the Guestbook for Rhiannon and keeping up Cabal23.net. I'm a nut. Or a web-lackey ;)

    Well, back to hacking, I've got a date with a cute redhead for LotR: Two Towers in an hour. So I better get hacking. :)

    Screenshot, counterfoo and stuff. Sat Dec 21 17:04:26 CST 2002
    Mood: Fairly fair Music of the Day: Fairport Convention - Come All Ye
    Merry 2 1/2 shopping days til $HOLIDAY. I got bored, so I took a screenshot of me working on some stuff on Cyberfox.org.



    You can see me chatting, working on procmail and counter foo. I figured out from the logs of the various sites I host approx what hits I've gotten in the last few months after migrating sites, and added them to the original amount. Made Rhiannon pretty happy. Need to hack together a guestbook for her, she's asked nicely :) I like my cool new background, thanks to Digital Blasphemy's user gallery. Check out the original here. Not much else going on, need to finish $HOLIDAY shopping. Also need to get some serious housegeeking in, setup some of the new machines I've been planning/plotting. Maybe next week. We'll see.

    News of the Weird: Work Thu Dec 19 16:28:08 CST 2002
    Mood: Bored Music of the Day: Dell's Bells ;)
    Hi ho, Vulpine the Fox here. Bored out of my bloody gourd at work. Looking for new and fun things to do in the world of geekdom. Well, last night I got off my butt and got a DVD to AVI program running on shub-internet. It's called acidrip and it looks pretty good. Spent last night turning Ghost in the Shell into a 2 gig avi...ok so I need to read the docs a bit better ;) But, it looks like using mplayer for dvd might work alot better than ogle or xine. I'll play more tonight/this weekend.

    Decided today to start doing Seti@home again. I guess I just want to find ET. Joined a Discordian group as wellSeti 23 , I'm already #13 on their team with my stockpile...makes me wonder where I'd be if I hadn't disabled seti. Need to hack around with seti to make it work well on my dialup. Plus make it not hammer my systems as much as it was last time. Shouldn't be too hard, just have to sit down and make it happen.

    Been working out yet another system rebuild/renaming scheme. Shub-Internet isn't the only Geek Old One that will be lairing at Cabal23. I'm thinking that a few more will be joining dear Shub. Haven't worked out all the ideas yet, but it looks like I'll have a file server called scsi-thoth, and a win-game box called yog-software. Maybe a dedicated DNS box called hashtur: He who shall run named ? ;)

    Not much else going on. Boring day as I said.

    Rhiannon: Telco Babe Wed Dec 18 22:20:55 CST 2002
    Mood: Amused. Music of the Day: velvet hammer - blessed be
    I learned something nifty about Rhiannon a few nights ago. She's a telco engineer in training. Or at least she's good with cables. Let me explain, we have a little ball of orange fluff called Pixel. He's a klutz, just like his dad. He leaped up to get on the cabinets, where his mom was sitting. Mom had no intresting in bonding with her offspring, swatted him as he tryed to get up there, he fell back, and took out our phone and answering machine...and logging me off the 'net. Bad cat. I notice he's knocked out the phone cord from the wall, plug it in. It falls out. Oops, he's also knocked the phone jack out of the wall, or more to the point, back in the wall. So I grouse and grumble, feel around and figure out I can't reach it with my fingers. Check where the line is drawn though, nope, no idea how this was put in. The hole is smaller than the jack. Rhiannon's ex from a while ago installed this, and it seems he did things in the special way. Ya know, riding the short bus kinda way. Ok. I'm not in the right frame of mine to run wires...especially since my first thought was punch though the wall with my fist and pull it out. So I step back and let Rhiannon work on it, knowing that A. She's calmer, less likely to break things and B. she is the Queen of Juryrig, as well as Oversharing. So I go take a shower. In the time it took me to wash my hair, she somehow lassoed the jack with a set of shoelaces and reattached it. Damn she's good :) So I had email again, she gained geekpoints and everyone is happy.

    I think she's at home right now, training my ferrets to run cable down conduit. We'll be available for hire after the first of the year ;)

    A few links Wed Dec 18 19:32:17 CST 2002
    Mood: Eating... Music of the Day: Judas Priest - Out in the Cold
    Just a few links, for your surfing amusement.

  • Santa Goes Open Source
  • Ride 'em Cowbot
  • Lovecraftian Fun with Netscammers
  • Sims: GeekHaus
  • Pi alamode
  • "I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle" the movie

    • Website updates Tue Dec 17 21:28:52 CST 2002
    Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: The Sounds of the Babble Box
    Been working on Cabal23.net stuff tonight. Slowly merging Cyberfox.org and Cabal23.net. From now on, they'll share the same front/news page. Eventually I'll get everything nice and seperated. Personal stuff on Cyberfox, geeky stuff on Cabal23. And redhead pics on Snow-fox.org. ;) Other than that, not much going on. Working OT at Dell again this week. I hate early mornings. Feh. Oh well, the money will help come $HOLIDAY bills.

    Upgrade Finale Thu Dec 12 22:58:12 CST 2002
    Mood: Annoyed Music of the Day: Chaos - Do You Hear the Pipes, Cthulhu
    Ok...I finally got ahold of Office Depot, and arranged for a return. Today I took it to the local store, was going to just exchange it for another drive. Nope, no 40 gig ata133 drives around. So I just got my money back. Annoyed fox. Well, at least I have a little extra cash for $HOLIDAY. Afford more toys for Rhiannon. And after working all the darn overtime, I also should be able to afford some geek toys for myself. Hmm...hard drive ? Dual monitor card ? 3rd 19" monitor ? Nifty case ? We'll see. So many toys, so little time.

    More Geek Old Ones Thu Dec 12 22:43:47 CST 2002
    Mood: Demented Music of the Day: NYARLATHOTEP - Brown Jenkin
    Well, in my fevered brain I came up with a few more Geek Old Ones...be afraid, be very afraid. :)

  • Hashtur: Unspeakable god of coding.
  • Sshoggoth: amorphous blob that encrypts files (or digests them)
  • Ubbo-Spammla: the Primal Spammoth Mass
  • Ith-Aqua: Demon Wind of MacOsX
  • Quackil Veritas: Demon Duck of Backups
  • Fsckagghua: Destroyer of Filesystems, deleter of data
  • C'thud-ya: Lord of the LART, patron of opressed sysadmins
  • Vihort: God of Labyrinthine text editors
  • Alta-nacha: Queen of textspiders
  • Bugg-Slashdot: Patron of Anomymous Cowards.
  • Zoth-Emacs: Lord of Bloat
  • Shudde-Email: Deliveror of Doom (and emails)
  • Gridhra: The Witch of Telco :) :) :) :) :)

    • Who the heck is this for ? Tue Dec 10 20:05:39 CST 2002
    Mood: Scared...very scared Music of the Day: Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Playing With Fire
    Ok, I've seen inflatable women, men, sheep....but who the hell is this for ?

    (definitely not work safe, probably not SO safe either)

    If your daring... click here

    And before you ask how I found this, I was shopping for xmas gifts...don't ask. ;)

    Movies de Brazil Sun Dec 8 16:34:45 CST 2002
    Mood: :) Music of the Day: Ramones - Garden of Serenity
    Well, for the American Nightmare fans out there...guess what? We've made it to Brazil. Here's the link.

    $Holiday Shopping Sun Dec 8 16:21:03 CST 2002
    Mood: Tired Music of the Day: Hurricane - Over The Edge
    I just got back from doing a little $holiday shopping. First stop, IHOP for lunch...I needed the food to make it though the rest of the day. After my repast, I headed to the local Fry's. Got gifts for a few friends, including Rhiannon's brother. Saw alot of things I want too...I always do at Fry's. I was good, I only got myself a copy of Heretic II for linux for $5. Give me something to do when geeking doesn't inspire me, and while I wait to build a gamebox. Didn't find one of the things I wanted to get Rhiannon, so I paid for my booty and made my way to Half Price Books, and for once in my life I walked out there not getting anything, or even finding anything I wanted to get. Kinda depressing. Then I hit a few other places looking for this item for the cute redhead...no luck. :( Oh well, we'll see if I can find it on the 'net, and get it here by $holiday.

    Upgrade Attempt #2 Sun Dec 8 16:10:27 CST 2002
    Mood: Bleah... Music of the Day: Symphony X - A Lesson Before Dying
    Well, yesterday I tried again to upgrade the box. Still no dice, went back to Altex and exchanged the no-name ata133 controller for a Promise card. Get it home, install it, same thing. Argh. Ok, check with my 30 gig root drive, the card sees it find. Bad maxtor drive. :( Ok, time to call Office Depot and get a replacement. *thud* *thud* *thud* Oh well, I can be patient. *twiddle*

    Upgrade Attempt #1 Thu Dec 5 17:39:30 CST 2002
    Mood: Resigned Music of the Day: Oysterband - Long Dark Street
    Well, I should have known better. I took today off from work because I woke up feeling like hell. Slept in, woke up feeling somewhat human, decided it was a good day to upgrade shub-internet. So I tear into the box, figure out first I can't find a screwdriver...well poo. So I decided to just upgrade the hard drive and ram. Ram is easy, take out one 128 meg dimm and add a 512 meg dimm. This takes me up to 896 megs. Then I add the 40 gig drive. Doesn't work. Try it in all combinations of drive, finally it dawns on me that it is an ATA-133. Motherboard doesn't support it. *thud* Get up, go to Altex find a ata133 pci controller and grab a screwdriver. Run the ol credit card. Declined. *thud* Ok...wait til payday tomorrow to get it. Come home, find screwdriver, decided to do the MB upgrade anyway. No heatsink or fan for CPU. Test it, and it doesn't boot, and the processor is egg frying hot. Ok...so rebuild old system (with added RAM). So everything is back to the way it was, save I have alot more RAM, and a 40 gig drive in the box, just not hooked up. Tomorrow I'll pick up the controller, and install it over the weekend. As for the AMD motherboard, I'm thinking of just picking up a fairly cheap ATX case, and using it for a game box. It doesn't have enough PCI slots for me, and I was planning on replacing it fairly quickly with a AthlonXP motherboard, or an ABIT VP6 dual P3 motherboard. So I may just wait on getting that along with a nifty new case, and rebuild the old fashioned way...from scratch.

    The Elder Geek Gods Thu Dec 5 08:49:37 CST 2002
    Mood: Silly Music of the Day: Slayer - 213
    From a D/FW Ufies List post I made...

    #Begin quoting... Well, we all know about Shub-Internet, the Black Goat of 1k child processes (some of us know her better than others, right Person who's name will be kept private ?). What few people know is there are others floating around the aether.

  • Yog-Software, Eater of Emails
  • C'droolho, Patron of the HNG
  • Nyarlapotop, Demon God of the portable geek
  • AOL-athoth, A tale too terrible to tell!
  • Y'GNUonac, Richard Stallman's Lord and Master.
  • Technonomicon: The Dread Disk of Horrors

    Hmm, sounds like a good naming scheme for a Discordian Geek with a fondness for HP Lovecraft. Especially with a workstation named shub-internet ;) We'll see :)

    • Alot of News in One Shot :) Tue Dec 3 20:09:47 CST 2002
    Mood: Tired. Music of the Day: Dream Theater - A Fortune in Lies
    I wrote a bit of news today while at work, and due to general exhaustion and bleahness...I'm going to cram it all together into one post. Enjoy :)

    Scripts

    Ok, as you've probably noticed, I have my quotes script running again, along with an uptime and a counter script. No big deal, when I was fixing apache, I also fixed some httpd.conf stuff so I could do this crud easily. :) :) :)

    Screenshots

    On to a new plan...screenshots. Since I'm turning Cabal23.net into my geek page, i've decided to migrate all my screenshots to that domain. And turn all the multiwindow shots into single images. So I see alot of html editing in my future, along with alot of gimping around. ;) Then writing a page on cabal23 for screenshots with descriptions. Boy won't that be fun boys and girls...*wonders how to make it merge automagickally*

    Weekend Foo & Busy Fox

    Busy busy busy fox. I've been working OT at Dell due to call volume. Hasn't helped my sales, but I can use the OT. Went up to DFW for thanksgiving weekend, after spending Turkey Day with Rhiannon's family. Was a good time. Saturday night was a D/FW Ufies List gathering to celebrate Techie's and Needo's bday. We did the usual Ufie-Foo, movies puns and pool. Watched parts of Monty Python and the Holy Grail on dvd (new release). Saw the Camelot scene done with legos, and the Knights who say Ni and French Castle scenes in Japanese with English subtitles. Boy did something get lost in translation *laugh* I need to get that DVD. I also spent a good chunk of the night using Nymaz' bandwidth to grab anime, hentai and assorted other stuff. I miss broadband. We can get some variety of cable access here in Austin, but no ideas on how good it is. But it's got to be better than just dialup.

    Treasure Planet

    I went and saw Treasure Planet this weekend. Very nice, one of the better 'pure' Disney movies to come out in recent years. Not so much singing to fill in gaps in the plot, or fill out the time. Now Treasure Island was a fave of mine growing up, both the movies and the book. This stuck to the story enough to not offend the purist in me, but branched out nicely, taking the story to someplace new. I loved the look of the solar powered spaceships, being treated like old fashioned sail rigged craft. :) David Hyde-Pierce shows that he is one of the best vocal actors out there. He doesn't need to appear on screen, he can express emotions very well with just his voice. It's good for kids, if a touch violent, but it won't bore adults...especially any adult who ever wanted to be a pirate.

    Linux Flernage

    Still working on DVD playback under linux. From what I've seen, I need to check the kernel for MTRR playback, and if that doesn't work...upgrade the video card. Well, since I'm upgrading everything else in shub-internet, I guess I'll mod up the video card as well. ATI is sounding good, especially if I can get the hardware dvd decoder working. Already I have a FIC AZ-31 motherboard, 512 meg dimm, Duron 950 processor and a 40 gig IDE drive for a /home partition. Will make for a nifty system when I'm done. I also want to get a new case from Newegg.com to put all this in. We'll see :)