February 14, 2006

Owning Up

Had a discussion with my wife last week about how much we share on our websites. It sounds like there is some concern that we talk “personal” issues on our websites- like my temper tantrum when pablo died, and how jackie’s family act like children when you get them in a room together. So here is my statement on it. If I discuss it here, I have nothing to hide. I am not perfect, nor do I pretend to be.

February 9, 2006

Hey you…

Yeah you, the jackasses who decided that the middle of a crowded elevator lobby was a good place to stop and chat. While I understand it’s of dire importantance you tell each other about what your coworkers said to annoy your other coworkers, could you please NOT STAND IN FRONT OF THE ELEVATOR CALL BUTTONS while doing it? I know there’s not much space there, with it being lunch rush and 50 other people crammed into this small space, but we all have to make sacrifices.

February 7, 2006

Star Ocean: Till the end of yawn time

This is my first real video game review, so I’m not sure where to go with it. You play a kid named Fayt with a sword who is being chased. There are a couple of plot twists, but for the most part the story is disjointed. Gameplay is spread between a couple of different worlds, and as you progress to the next world, they squeeze some plot in. They could have done more with the klausians, and they could have done a LOT more with the guys chasing them in the beginning.

February 7, 2006

It’s changing me…

I did something today that made me feel very crappy. Nothing really big, I just sorta stepped in front of people to get to the escalator- just sorta pushed my way forward. Why does this bother me? Here’s why. When I first moved to DC, I noticed how rude people are- pushing shoving, cutting in line, not waiting their turn, generally being impatient, and treating those around them like crap in order to move on to their oh-so-important jobs of backstabbing, manuvering, and powerpoint presentations,.

February 2, 2006

Two new Linux users

Well, sorta- they’re not new to linux, but they installed Debian on their home machines as part of a 2 month experiment. Yojimbo is looking for a better job, and I’ve been trying to help him develop some skills that will make it easier. I’ve taught him a little perl in the past and he’s used linux at the college (EOS lab at GVSU), so it wasn’t too big of a jump.

February 2, 2006

bit-slapped by karma

So i’m getting slapped around a bit by karma right now. I recently moved our DNS services to two new servers. everything appeared to be fine… I got cocky. Now it turns out they’re not behaving like proper slaves for certain domains. fore xample, we run foo.com, bar.com and bar.net as the primary DNS. We ALSO act as slaves for baz.org… except we’re not anymore. For some reason, we’re not getting updates from the primary DNS for baz.

January 19, 2006

Stupid is as Stupid does.

I don’t even know where to begin. This morning has sucked and it’s no ones fault but my own. It started with the DMA crap- the one machine where it would really help is the fileserver. I needed to simply change the chipset driver, recompile the kernel, and reboot. This should be simple for even a semi-competent linux users. However, I am a moron. Each mistake I make, I’m gonna put a little * next to it.

January 18, 2006

I am the Dominator

so I created a list of things I needed to do, and started incrementally going through it, finishing little projects and problems that I’ve been meaning to get to. I’ve got a whole lot done in the past week: got squirrelmail working properly fixed the DMA on both workstations Fixed Jaxon’s cdrom Set up Kmail Fixed the DNS issues Swapped HDs around get spanish dictionary working for jackie in OOo Set up LDAP Some of these have been floating in my head for years (ldap) while others have been broken for just as long (DMA, squirrelmail).

January 14, 2006

The Transfer

So I’m running out of space. on everything. my workstation has a 40 gig split in half with 1/2 linux and half a long dead windows partition (I got this drive in 2001 or thereabouts.) the windows partition has been repurposed, but it’s still a pain in the ass. since the windows partition appears first on the drive, there was no way to wipe it and merge it with the other parition (easily).

January 9, 2006

End of an Era

I finally let go of draccus.net. it was a sad day. I’ve not used it in over a year, and it’s just sat unused. I’ve replaced it with morgajel.net for the most part. I figured it was time to move on. So what’s the history of draccus.net? well, it was the first domain I ever bought. it was my first real website. It was there when I was hosting on my CSIS account, it was there when I set up my first list server at Brookmeadow, and it was there when I proposed to jackie.