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New Screenshot Mon Mar 31 21:00:40 CST 2003
Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: The Matrix on DVD

Today Screenshot viewers, we have Vulpine watching the Matrix on Ogle. Also have a pic of the lovely Rose McGowan, and my usual Gkrellm, BitchX, and gaim windows. Not a whole lot of new stuff going on in desktop land. Maybe when I get that 3rd monitor I'll have something cool to show off. :)

Ankle Biters Mon Mar 31 18:07:56 CST 2003
Mood: Sleepy Music of the Day: Pantera - Drag the Waters
No, not talking about kids...I'm talking about the movie I rented saturday. Ankle Biters. It's a movie about dwarf vampires. Yep, dwarf vampires. This was a damn funny and low budget bmovie. The plot is simple, the dwarf vampires get a sword containing the blood of the last tall vampire. They use it to create new tall vampires to take over the world. Now these vampires can only be killed with vampire blood, not stakes, crosses or even sunlight (which also saves on those expensive night shoots). Opposing them is a half vampire and his non-vampire dwarf sidekick. The actor playing the halfvamp looks like Corey Feldman gone to seed. Generally the movie shows it's done in someone garage and neighborhood, but it's fun and silly. Especially the 'super leap' effects. If you like bad movies and poking fun, this is a film for you. Vulpine says go see it. Btw, it also has another thing for it...it's own rap song ;)

Car news Sat Mar 29 16:51:26 CST 2003
Mood: Happy Music of the Day: Blue Öyster Cult - Astronomy
Well, we took the car in after Rhiannon's grandfather figured out he had no idea where the starter was. But we got the battery terminals nice and clean. So after more exercise in pushstarting my car, we get the car to the mechanic. He says he give us a call after they test the electrical system. So we bum around a bit, finally get home and there's a message. Call the mechanic back, and my car is fixed. *BOGGLE* It seems a grommit in the clutch had fallen off, this grommit was connected the ignition switch to the clutch, so the car wouldn't start. Cost $19 to fix. Thank the gods. *thud* Nice to know that my luck with cars isn't all bad.

Keyboard foo Fri Mar 28 20:11:07 CST 2003
Mood: Annoyed Music of the Day: Weird Al Yankovic - Good Old Days
Well, Trinity the Cat decided to show her annoyance at Microsoft today by leaping down from one of my monitors onto the keyboard and then to the floor. In the process breaking the little plastic foldout tab thingie that raises up the keyboard. So now I have a book (Clive Barker) wedged under one end of the keyboard to make it stable. And of course, no other keyboard thingie fits this thing. ARGH !!!!! Now the little bitc...err cat is sleeping on my SGI keyboard. *ponders catthwapping.* Got to love cats...

Links of the Decade Fri Mar 28 19:37:23 CST 2003
Mood: Sleepy Music of the Day: Danny Elfman - Loving Heads
Here's a few links that have been grabbing my attention for the last few days.

  • Acts of Gord: WARNING !!!!!: Do not read while drinking, eating, working, trying to have a meaningful conversation or doing anything that requires focus...it is just too damn funny.
  • Cutemeter: Another one of those "Am I hot?" sites...but this one has some lovelies on it.
  • Tom Smith: Ok, I've linked to him alot. But dude, you gotta read/listen to his filks. He's who I want to be when I grow up.
  • BOFH Cam: Jennicam as done by the original BOFH. And if you don't know who that is...RTFM !!!!

    • Another State of the Fox Address Fri Mar 28 10:50:59 CST 2003
    Mood: Resigned Music of the Day: Joe Rogan - Voodoo Punanny
    Well, another day, another dollar. Actually, it offically works out like that now...since the Texas Workforce Commission has finally approved my request for unemployment. Rah...I get money for all my hard work over the last 14 years (since I started working for a company of some kind or another, slave labor for dad doesn't count.) Trying very hard not to be down about having to do this. My friends keep pointing out that this isn't welfare, this is insurance...and it's time I claim. But part of me still feels like a bum. Oh well, hopefully that will pass. On the plus side, I'll be able to make my bills, and even have a smidge left over.

    Well, my days will be kinda dull til the car is fixed. Walking to the movies just isn't on my list anytime soon. Walking 5.6 miles to the movies is hard on the old legs. So, time to figure out something to do with my time, and hope to gods I don't get a call for an interview right away today. That would be my luck. Oh well. Not much else going on.

    New Email Thu Mar 27 22:44:49 CST 2003
    Mood: Tired Music of the Day: Altan - Caide Sin Don te Sin
    On a short note...got #107. I am such a spamfest now. I still need more, so shell them out :)

    Time Traveler Busted for Insider Trading Thu Mar 27 15:58:51 CST 2003
    Mood: Worried Music of the Day: The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
    Well, found this on Mandrake's website.
      http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html

      NEW YORK -- Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider- trading charges -- and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256! Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January 28.


    Well, that would be what I expect for a time traveller. I'd do something similar I think. Except I'd be much more subtle about it. $800 to $350 million in 2 weeks is a bit much. I'd be betting on sports events more than stocks. Less profit, but less chance of the Feds coming after me. Then again, having the Mob after me wouldn't be much better...Hmm, can't win for loosing. Hell, I'd go back and start with the VA Linux IPO, and work with that for the next 5 years. Would it be slower, yep. But sure beats being in jail 200 years before I was born. :)

    Additional:

    If it didn't say Weekly World News I would have half belived it...then again I'm a fan of Robert Anton Wilson and P.K. Dick, so my worldview is slightly...flexable. Now I give it a 10% chance of being true.

    Still, ya gotta wonder. And if it is true, it's nice to know that people in the future are just a dumb and money grubbing as they are now. I feel much better about myself.

    More walkies. Thu Mar 27 14:51:32 CST 2003
    Mood: Pissed Music of the Day: Inxs - Listen Like Thieves
    Well, Eris is showing her subtle wit yet again. Got all dressed up to go snag applications at various bookstores, so I could do something with my life. Drive to the gas station, figure out I pulled a blonde and parked on the wrong side, get back in to move the car...nope, doesn't start. Ok... Fill emergency carry take, fill a gallon of gas in the car. No start, just a click. Ugg. Get a nice soul to jump my car, same thing. *thud* Walk home. Again. Call Rhiannon, she points out that you can push start a standard...doh. She comes home, we head to the gas station, jump start the car, and come home. Dead starters suck rocks. Maybe I should just go back to bed, maybe I can get that dream back...

    GeekFest in Austin Thu Mar 27 12:45:55 CST 2003
    Mood: Recovering from Geekfest Music of the Day: Tom Smith - Werewolf At Guantanamo Bay
    Well, the last few days have been intresting on the geek side. I set up Discordia as a NTP (network time protocol) server for my whole network (well, save for Rhiannon's computer. Darn that windows. ;) I've also installed Webmin on both servers. I prefer command line, but for some things Webmin is pretty cool. And finally, I've got all the install cd's for SuSE 7.0 and 8.0 loaded on the fileserver, allowing me to install files over the network, instead of digging out the cds. Boy I am hellacool. :)

    All i want to do, is Dream.... Thu Mar 27 11:33:19 CST 2003
    Mood: Sleepy Music of the Day: KVLP: All Vulpine, all the time
    Well, I got a full night sleep last night, even slept in this morning... quite possibily due to one of the weirder/funnier dreams I've had in many a moon. It started with me running into two old friend from college here in Austin, while I was on my way to college...though I don't think I was a student. Then we all went to a movie showing of Metallica's Kill 'em All album (I have no clue how this was going to work...it was a dream). There I met some guy from the local rock radio station, talking about how they needed a new overnight DJ who would be more amusing than the current guy. For some reason I spoke up about how I could be 5 times as amusing... and then he tells me I have the job....

    Then the dream skips ahead, and I'm on a date with this lovely asian lady who is wearing a Discordia pendant with the Sacred Chao on it. So my kind of gal. :) (This is the great thing about being poly, I can post about dreams about cute chicks, and Rhiannon doesn't get jealous. Life is good) So after dinner, we're off to the Austin premere of "Weird ass Vampire movie" There was a title in the dream, but Eris only knows what is was. And in pops my old roommate from about 7 years ago... who joined the Navy. And I'm filling him in on my Discordian Rant Radio Show...and then my boss walks up and informs me I'm going to Japan to a bad movie convention...

    Then the phone rings and it's for me...so no more dream. *sniffle* *pout* But boy was that a good way to spend the morning. :) And the funny thing is...Austin has a public access radio station as I recall...hmm, I wonder if I should start a radio show...once I have a job...KVLP, all vulpine all the time ;)

    Vulpine Goes Walkabout Mon Mar 24 18:10:36 CST 2003
    Mood: Tired Music of the Day: Silence
    Well, I had a completely bozzo day. After getting some job hunting done, and some good geeking (more about that later), I decided to take my car to get the tires filled up. Walked out of the house, remembered I forgot my cell, then noticed I didn't have my keys. DOH!!!!! Ok, check the back door...darn it, we started locking it again. Ok...reach for my handy pocketknife to jimmie the lock...nope, forgot that too...and the other knife is in the car. That I can't get at without my keys. Bloody hell. Check the windows. I can now attest that all our windows are locked tight and cannot be opened without a prybar or a rock. Since I didn't feel like cleaning up glass or fixing a lock, I opted out of that idea.

    So I decided to walk to the movies (which are "nearby"). The walk was longer than I thought, but I made good time. Of course, the buzzard following me gave me some good incentive to hoof it ;) Went and saw Dreamcatcher at the theater, once I dragged my out of shape bod there. Of course, 80% of the reason I went to see it was the Animatrix trailer at the begining. Final Flight of the Osirus was quite fun. Very very high quality animation, a nifty swordfight/strip tease (you have to see it to understand it) with the main character being the yummiest set of pixels I've seen in many a year. For that reason alone I'd recomend seeing Dreamcatcher...but the rest of the movie isn't bad. It's obviously a Stephen King movie...it's set in Maine, it involves a pack of boyhood chums, it leaves out alot of the things that probably would allow people to understand the plot...but it was good enough IMHO. A little overly graphic in spots, but any movie with evil monsters called sh*t weasels... you expect a little graphicness. From what I hear, it strays quite far from the book...but having not read it, I don't know. I'm thinking of picking it up to give it a shot...but then again...I haven't read a Stephen King novel since Tommyknockers, and haven't enjoyed one since It...so I don't know if I want to go down that road again... we'll see. But go see it for the Animatrix trailer.

    Trust me on that :)

    Movie Must See... Mon Mar 24 11:04:42 CST 2003
    Mood: Fnord Music of the Day: George Carlin - Capital Punishment
    Run, don't walk to maybelogic.com and preorder the movie Maybe Logic, the Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson. :) Now, if only I could afford to preorder it...maybe someday soon. *crosses toes*

    3D Visualization of the Linux Kernel Sun Mar 23 08:27:16 CST 2003
    Mood: Sleepy Music of the Day: None
    Quick link for those people who don't read Slashdot. It's a 3d tour of how the linux kernel source has changed from 1.2.0 to 2.4.1. Kinda cool. Check it out.

    Rsync goodness Fri Mar 21 17:45:08 CST 2003
    Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: Deep Purple - The Battle Rages On
    Well, I finally figured out some of the ins and outs of rsync. Basically, for thoses not familiar with rsync, it copies files from one computer to another like scp or rcp. But unlike those, it checks to see if the files to be transfered already exist on the remote server, and then checks to see if there is a difference between the local and remote copies, then only moves over new or changed files. So it saves on bandwidth. Cool. Once I puzzled out the format of rsh, and then figured out to tell it to use ssh instead of rsh to make the connection, I was able to backup my /home directory to the fileserver. The command is

      rsync -avz -e ssh /home/vulpine/ --exclude "Multimedia/" --exclude "temp/" --exclude ".bashrc" --exclude ".ssh/" --exclude "xsession-errors" vulpine@fileserver:~/
    This transfers all my /home, minus the multimedia and temp directories, as well as some dot files and dirs that don't need to change. (I had a few snafus before I figured that one out). After this, I have a cron setup to resync every evening, when it will copy any changes over. So I have a fairly current backup, in case of drive failure or user error. *grin* I'm such a happy geek.

    Job Hunting...feh Thu Mar 20 11:57:35 CST 2003
    Mood: Resigned Music of the Day: Zero Woman
    I so hate job hunting. It reminds me how bad the market is, and how hard it is to find a damn job. We'll see if something comes out of all the resumes I've been sending. The plus side is, I do have DVD's to watch while I job hunt. *laugh* Makes it slightly less painful. Nothing like watching bad Japanese movies while looking for a job. Though now I expect every job to involve gunfire and scantily clad models. ;) Oh, if life were like movies...well, the right kind of movies. ;)

    DVD Foo Tue Mar 18 21:36:45 CST 2003
    Mood: Happy Music of the Day: The Ring on DVD
    Well, I've been playing with Ogle and Mplayer, trying to get avi's and DVD's playing. DVD playback was very skippy until I enabled a hdparm trick I got from the Ogle website. Btw, if your running a VIA chipset with a DVD player, and it's choppy...try this. 'hdparm -d 1 -X34 _device name_'. It worked for me. I've downloaded the latest stuff from ogle, but haven't installed it yet. Too busy watching The Ring. ;)

    As for Mplayer, I got the latest version as well...but it's acting funny with how it handles windows. Also having issues with how mencoder is recording from DVD to avi, the sound tends to be really quiet. I think I found a fix using liblame, but I have to test it more later.

    On a completely different subject...Pixel is mostly recovered from his surgury. So much recovered he's still trying to mount Hissy. (or as Rhiannon puts it, "still trying to prove his manhood to his mom.") *sigh* She's still in heat, so everyone is still tense here...catwise. Oh boy. But at least they are practicing safe sex ;) Oy.

    Farewell, Pixel's Cojones (redux) Mon Mar 17 17:37:37 CST 2003
    Mood: ? Music of the Day: Evolution: the Movie
    Well, Pixel made it though the operation with no problems, save a higher pitched meow. ;) He's home safe, in quarantine until 9pm, when he's allowed to eat. For someone who just lost something vaguely personal...he's happy and purring. Well, they did give him the good kitty drugs :) Stoned kitties are amusing.

    Farewell, Pixel's Cojones Mon Mar 17 08:34:32 CST 2003
    Mood: *snipped* Music of the Day: Iron Maiden - Blood Brothers
    Well, we decided to take Pixel, aka The Cat who Walks Though Servers, aka MegaPixel, defender against evil, aka Kitten, aka "You little $@*$ !!!!" in to the vet to have his manhood unmanned. He's not a kitten anymore, and boy has he been trying to show what a manly cat he is. *sigh* So, we'll see what he's like when he gets home. And if he ever forgives me. Oh well, it's for his own good...and our sanity, he keeps trying to mount his mom. *thud* I have the European Royal Family for my cat menagerie ;)

    Dagon anyone ? Sun Mar 16 20:18:06 CST 2003
    Mood: Worried Music of the Day: The Voice of Dagon
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2854189.stm
    or
    http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915125,00.html
      'Talking fish' stuns New York A fish heading for slaughter in a New York market shouted warnings about the end of the world before it was killed, two fish cutters have claimed.

      Zalmen Rosen, from the Skver sect of Hasidic Jews, says co-worker Luis Nivelo, a Christian, was about to kill a carp to be made into gefilte fish in the city's New Square Fish Market in January when it began shouting in Hebrew.

      "It said 'Tzaruch shemirah' and 'Hasof bah'," Mr Rosen later told the New York Times newspaper.

      "[It] essentially means [in Hebrew] that everyone needs to account for themselves because the end is nigh."
    So, maybe it's Jehovah...but more likely it's Dagon IMHO ;)

    I also like how Mr Rosen takes to being interviewed. '"Ah, enough already about the fish," Mr Rosen said.'

    Scripting Foo Sun Mar 16 18:25:53 CST 2003
    Mood: Geekish Music of the Day: Futurama: Where No Fan Has Gone Before
    Well, the other day I started working on a shell script to randomly display pics on my desktop. After alot of tinkering and playing, I got it to work sort of. But it wouldn't do the automatic updates like I wanted without creating generating new images left and right...instead of updating the one image. So I was looking at other programs to do image display (I was using Gnome's Electric Eye) and I came across a random display option in Feh by Tom Gilbert. D'oh ! Not only does it work better and less kludgy, it doesn't require a file list like my script did (It used fortune to randomly pick a filename to display). Oh well...live and learn.

    So if you want to have a randomly displaying picture on your desktop, use the following

    'feh -z -D 600 ~/.pics/ &' with ~/.pics/ being a directory full of pics. It will keep you busy ;) Especially if you have lots of pics of cute babes ;)

    Fun in the Park Fri Mar 14 20:23:32 CST 2003
    Mood: Pretty Good Music of the Day: Rush - A Passage To Bangkok
    Well today, I went with Rhiannon to the park. Specifically Zilker Park near downtown. We wandered Barton Creek, watched ducks, geese and other birds. Along with tons of turtles sunning themselves, and one big mutha under the water. One big ass turtle...at least 2-3 feet from snout to tail. We tried feeding the geese...but they were a pack of cowards, didn't want to come get the bird food. We tried throwing it to them, but bird seed sinks. Things I never knew.

    I also figured out I'm not as old and out of shape as I thought...since I can still do a handstand, and turn a fairly good cartwheel. And no, no pictures were taken of this event. But if someone really wants to see it, we'll see about doing it again at the next D/FW Ufies List gather I go to. The geeks there will probably bring out the camera to see a fox risk life and limb ;)

    New Screenshot page Thu Mar 13 20:46:11 CST 2003
    Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: King Diamond - Abigail
    Ok, I updated the screenshot page...as well as added a list of shots from 2002 and 2003. I need to work on pages for the rest of my screenshots, and maybe even take a new shot for the new page. Vulpine says...check it out. :)

    Email...it hates us. Thu Mar 13 03:45:47 CST 2003
    Mood: Tired Music of the Day: Lizzy Borden - Waiting In the Wings
    Well, my hosting provider decided to do an unplanned hardware upgrade. All was well and good, just a simple hard drive add. Then I got online about 2am to check email. Server has been up an hour, 2 emails. That's odd...usually after a downtime, I have a bit more than that. Send a few tests...get "mailbox doesn't exist" errors. Btw, for those keeping score...this is a qmail box, not running my personal albatross, sendmail. Aka, my level of clueon is fairly low. Lucky for me, a fellow admin on said box, who has a larger clueon about qmail was on. (Hi Techie) We start crunching ideas, he figures out the error and writes a nice bit of code foo to fix it. All's good, I get email...well, spam. But none of the messages I sentto test, showup. Check sendmail's queue on Shub-Internet, lots o messages, with refused connections. Ok...Restart sendmail, try to flush the queue. Nope, something is stuck hard. kill -9 sendmail, restart...and watch the test emails fly. Errrrrrrrrr....ok. Now mail works fine...after a large amount of kicking. 2 hours to get about 4 list mail, 3 spam, and 30 odd test messages... remind me why I deal with this ? Oh yeah, it's fun. Must remember this. It's fun, it's fun....

    I'm going to sleep now. Bye.

    The Tuxedo Wed Mar 12 19:53:16 CST 2003
    Mood: Good Music of the Day: Futurama - A Tale of Two Santas
    Today me and Rhiannon watched the Tuxedo today. Definitely not Jackie Chan's best work. I wasn't expecting alot, and well it didn't provide alot...so I wasn't disappointed. It was very funny, I will give it that. But it's no Rumble in the Bronx or Drunken Master II. But, I do recommend seeing the DVD version for the outtake with Jackie singing "Sex Machine" along with James Brown. Now that's a hoot. :)

    Screenshots Wed Mar 12 12:46:29 CST 2003
    Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: Still silence....boy it's quiet
    Well, yesterday was spent learning some of the ins and outs of ImageMagick, and figuring out how to join my multiscreen screenshots of yore. If you haven't been reading this site from the begining, I used to use a different xserver than XFree86, that did multi screen. Unlike XFree86 though, each desktop was seperate...so I had to do a shot of each screen seperately. And joining them via a graphics program, such as Gimp was a PITA. So, after finding the 'montage' command and a little creative editing I was able to join all my screenshots, and create thumbnails for all of them. Cool. Then I reuploaded all the screenshots... (at 60 meg worth via dialup, that took a few hours.) and now I get to start writing webpages for them. Oooh fun. So we have a Screenshots link on the left...and sooner or later I'll have all my damn screenshots documented and listed. Oy.

    The Phantom Menace Wed Mar 12 12:27:54 CST 2003
    Mood: Ominious Music of the Day: Silence
    From the New Scientist website.

      "Stand by for a nightmare end to the Universe - a runaway expansion so violent that galaxies, planets and even atomic nuclei are literally ripped apart. The scenario could play out as soon as 22 billion years from now."

    My $DEITY, what will we do...22,000,000,000 years isn't enough time to do everything I want to do. Of course, 21 billion and some of those years involve doing naughty things with cute redheads...but still... ;)

    Hello Cthulhu, the Comic :) Tue Mar 11 16:04:33 CST 2003
    Mood: Squamous Music of the Day: The Darkest of The Hillside Thickets - Power Up
    http://www.underwhelmed.org/

    It's so insane, it has to be passed on ;)

    New Filk Mon Mar 10 02:58:14 CST 2003
    Mood: Silly Music of the Day: Jethro Tull - Dark Ages
    Ok, I wrote another of those horrible songs I so love ;) So check out the Filk Page and see what horrors I came up with. Btw, the new song is probably not work safe, so don't get fired ;)

    Not much going on Mon Mar 10 01:54:25 CST 2003
    Mood: Insomniac Music of the Day: Testament - Souls of Black
    Been a few days since I wrote anything...well, since nothing major has been going on...no reason to write. Spent this weekend being a cute couple with Rhiannon, window shopping at the mall. Got The Ring on DVD (thanks dear ;) Haven't watched it yet, looking forward to it. This movie actually creeped me out some. :) The DVD is suppost to have a extra short that explains more about the back story. We'll see.

    Got a few web projects on my plate, working on a website for a friend of mine (for money even) and doing some pro bono work for a not-for-profit. Now that doesn't pay, but since I'm not working I have a bit of free time. Also I'm going to sit down and finish up Cabal23.net and do some gallery work, for both my sites as well as Rhiannon's. Finally going to get that darn thumbnailing script working ;)

    Been watching Futurama out the wazoo, that and playing Diablo II and reading. Not much else to do besides jobhunt and jobhunt...and jobhunting has gotten damn depressing. Not much else going on. Hopefully I'll get some better leads this week...and even find a job. That would be nice. Lucky for me Rhiannon is understanding (and employed ;) But I need a job soon, or I'm going to flake out. *cross es fingers/toes/eyes* I have such plans for Shub-Internet, but they all require capital ;)

    Foxwerks redux Thu Mar 6 22:13:36 CST 2003
    Mood: Awake Music of the Day: Jethro Tull Tribute - Nothing is Easy
    I started working on writing various pages describing my foxwerks scripts. Do you know how exactly dull it is to write blurbs to desc what a program does. *sigh* At least when I commented the code, I had to think of how the average user might break things...but no...this is advertising. Oh gods...I'm becoming a marketing whore !!!!! NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    *crash*

    Ok...I'm back now. Feel better too :) Wheeeeeee....

    Ok, I need help :)

    Dude, you shot a Dell Thu Mar 6 18:53:34 CST 2003
    Mood: Bemused Music of the Day: Humming of happy servers
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/29617.html
      A bar and restaurant owner from Lafayette, Colorado was jailed earlier this week after pumping four rounds into his Dell laptop, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports.

      George Doughty, 48, announced to patrons of his Sportsman's Inn Bar and Restaurant that he intended to execute the portable. He then disappeared into his office, returning after thirty minutes with said machine and revolver. Warning punters in the bar to cover their ears, he let the Dell have it with four rounds at close range. Doughty allegedly celebrated this orgy of violence by hanging the grisly remains over the bar like a hunting trophy.

      What provoked the gangland-style execution remains unclear, although it does give new meaning to the phrase "percussive maintenance".

      Doughty faces charges of felony menacing, reckless endangerment and the prohibited use of weapons. Whether his actions constitute a breach of MS Windows XP licencing terms remains to be seen. ®

    Hmm, I thought I was upset with Dell...this boy takes the cake...

    ftp.cabal23.net Wed Mar 5 21:25:12 CST 2003
    Mood: Geeking Music of the Day: Helloween - Heavy Metal Hamsters
    Well, after a few bad experiences with configuring ProFTPd I've gone to a slightly less geeky config than virtual hosting. So, the Cabal23.net page now reflects the links to the files via FTP, instead of http. Now to actually put things up there. :)

    Depressed Fox Wed Mar 5 03:34:28 CST 2003
    Mood: Well...guess ? Music of the Day: Ozzy Osbourne - Bloodbath in Paradise
    Well, it's 3:30 in the AM, and I can't sleep. Bad mood today for the fox. Can't sleep, don't dream, and frankly I'm moping like hell. My job prospects suck, I'm living on Rhiannon's largess and I feel like the other shoe is about to drop. *sigh* I know I need to get off my ass and do _SOMETHING_ even if it sucks. But, I don't know if my ego can take another knock. I've gone as low as sales... what next, completely ungeeky work ? Then again, I haven't been much of a geek the last few...maybe getting out might be for the best. I don't know *sigh* I just know things hav to change and soon, or else the fox will be crashing and burning. And I don't know if I have the oomph to put myself together again. Or maybe I just need a milkshake and a porn movie. *small giggle* ok...I'm better than I though, I just made myself laugh. It's not all bad. Just need to figure out how to shake this foo...

    Server foo redux Mon Mar 3 23:13:43 CST 2003
    Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: Futurama - Lesser of Two Evils
    I seem to be geeky alot these days. Well, due to the slowness of ATAthoth in serving files, and a general desire to have way too many drives, I swapped motherboards between ATAthoth and Yog-Software. So now, Yog is running the 266, and ATAthoth is the dual processor multi drive monster. Currently, with the BP6 motherboard and the ata133 card in, I can fit 12 drives (with a little case modification) into my server. 4 of those will be ATA133 120 gig drives if I have my way (and a job). The other 8 will be various sized ata33/66 drives as I find them. Won't be a 1.8 TB File Server, but it will be good enough for me. :)

    Bye bye to Mutt Mon Mar 3 16:37:55 CST 2003
    Mood: Pining ;) Music of the Day: The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - 23 - Six-Gun Gorgon Dynamo
    Well, after a few days with Mutt I decided to go back to Pine. Why ? I know it better, the layout is more intuitive to me, Pine has a built in newsreader that I actually use, and I prefer how pine lays out the messages. I guess I'm too old to change my ways. Please do not take this as a slam against Mutt, Mutt is very cool...and has a # of features I wish Pine had, but they didn't balance against familiarity (and the utter annoyance of forgetting what program I was using and trying to use Pine keystroke combos...uggg)

    Mutt Foo Mon Mar 3 00:26:07 CST 2003
    Mood: Hopeful Music of the Day: Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
    So far so good with Mutt. I need to tweak the colors and adjust some settings, but I am mostly able to use it to send/read emails without major issues. Once I figured out how to munge the email address to just cabal23.net instead of shub-internet.cabal23.net things worked even better ;) Not much else going on, I do like some of the macros I have set, liking being able to start fetchmail from within Mutt, and add email addresses to my spam filter and my allowed filter with one keystroke. Tis very nifty. Now to figure out how to make it handle roles like pine. I know it can, just have to figure out how.

    Switching to Mutt Sun Mar 2 11:37:34 CST 2003
    Mood: Confuzzled Music of the Day: Dream Theater - A Vision
    Well, I'm trying to Mutt thing again. This time I've fairly well burned my bridges so that going back to pine will be enough of a PITA to force me to at least try to fix things in Mutt first. I think I got most of the major stuff working, now I just have to get used to the minor things, like which keys do what, how to get it to look how I want. Goofy little things, but important things. I'll let you all know how it goes over the next few days.

    Stupidity can be cured Sun Mar 2 07:33:09 CST 2003
    Mood: Bemused Music of the Day: Ramones - Garden of Serenity
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993451

    According to one of the discoverers of DNA, James Watson, stupidity is a genetic disease, and should be screened and cured. He also things the genes influencing beauty could be tweaked...hmm, I don't know about looks...beauty being in the eye of the beholder. But if a geneticist could make people stop asking moronic questions, I know tech support geeks would worship him like a god.

    Happy Birthday Rhiannon Sun Mar 2 07:28:27 CST 2003
    Mood: Sappy Music of the Day: Danzig - Until You Call On The Dark
    I just wanted to take a moment to wish my sweetie a happy birthday. Thank you Rhiannon for being part of my life, my friend, my lover, my partner in crime. I hope this year treats you the way you should be treated (and if I have any say in the matter, it will *grin*).

    Love you lots
    Vulpine

    Ok, the sap is over...move along ;)

    Welcome the Server Sat Mar 1 22:06:03 CST 2003
    Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: The Satisfied Hum of Servers
    Also, in my busy day today...I finished the preliminary work on my new fileserver, ATAthoth, Daemon Sultan of Chaos and Stuff. I now live with 5 linux boxen, and Rhiannon's WinTendo. ;) So far I only have the root drive and a 13 gig drive for file storage on the server. Once I'm pretty sure nothing will nuke on the server, I'll be moving the Mp3 and Multimedia drives over from Yog-Software and moving files over from Shub-Internet. Feeling pretty good and pretty geeky. :)

    My Big Fat Greek Wedding Sat Mar 1 21:43:07 CST 2003
    Mood: Still Laughing Music of the Day: Bouzouki on the brain
    Ok, just finished My Big Fat Greek Wedding and I have to say I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. The way the Greek family is shown reminds me alot of some of the Italian families I grew up with in New York. Of course, this family goes to 11 (sorry, had to make a Spinal Tap reference.) It's a romantic comedy, without any of the pain and suffering most romantic movies put the couple though in the story. It's light, it's fun, and you will learn the dangers of ouzo. Check it out :)

    Chicks dig Elder Gods Sat Mar 1 18:40:11 CST 2003
    Mood: *giggle* Music of the Day: Blue Öyster Cult - Astronomy
    Check this out. Hmm, gives me ideas for the summer. Special thanks to the SugarFae for the link.

    The Adventures of Pluto Nash Sat Mar 1 18:07:31 CST 2003
    Mood: Amused Music of the Day: N/A
    Well, last night Rhiannon and myself rented THe Adventures of Pluto Nash and My Big Fat Greek Wedding (you can guess who picked which. ;). We watched Pluto Nash last night, and I have to admin...that was hysterical. Of course, the best part was Randy Quaid playing the robot guard. Lots of jokes and silly stuff. I recommend watching it if you want a good easy going laugh fest. We'll see how Big Fat Greek Wedding goes tonight ;)

    Gods I was verbose in February Sat Mar 1 02:30:12 CST 2003
    Mood: Sleepy Music of the Day: Nightwish - Away
    Well, 28 days, 61 posts. I need a JOB...I have too much damn free time on my hands. But other than that I'm doing good, mood is up, computer is up, I'm planning on spoiling Rhiannon all weekend. (Her bday is sunday) Feel free to send her an email wishing her a happy bday. :) Not much else, rearranged the server rack Thursday, made room to fit a full tower in it...will try to get off my ass and build the file server this weekend. When I'm done, unless I change the plans again, I will have.

  • Shub-Internet: Primary workstation running SuSE8.0
  • Yog-Software: Test bed workstation/server hosting various internal projects, including a stab at running Slash.
  • Tru-Namedra: Internet gateway, DNS server, firewall.
  • Nyarlaptop: Portable Linux goodness.
  • ATAthoth: File server, lots of file space and room for tons more.

    Basically ATAthoth will be a P2 with a bit of Ram, and as many drives as I can cram in. I want to add bigger power supply, and some conversion kits to allow me to slot 3 1/2 drive in the 5 1/4 bays. I'll be including a ATA133 pci adapter, and from there I'll be adding a bunch of ATA133 drives. Well, as I get paycehcks that is...