—–Original Message—–
From: Coworker III
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 8:03 AM
To: Me
Subject: Re: POP lock removal in Cyrus

what

the

fuck

On Oct 9, 2007, at 8:01 AM, I wrote:

> Macgyver had a mullet. He wore that mullet from 1985 all the way to
> 1992. His mullet gave him superpowers, being able to knock out any
> living being with 1 punch, albeit he always had to shake his fist out
> after his mighty blow.
>
> What what does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Absolutely
> nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It
> does not make sense! Look at me. I’m a ITX consultant defending a major
> mail protocol, and I’m talkin’ about Macgyver! Does that make sense?
> Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes
> sense! And so you have to remember, when you’re in that jury room
> deliberatin’ and conjugatin’ the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make
> sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make
> sense! If Macgyver has a mullet, you must acquit! The defense rests.
>
> I blame it on the lack of coffee in the morning. That and I was
> watching Macgyver Season 3 episodes 3-5 last night.
>
> ME
>
>
> —–Original Message—–
> From: Coworker II
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 3:45 PM
To: People
> Subject: Re: POP lock removal in Cyrus
>
> Coworker III wrote:
>> I don’t see a pressing need for POP lock removal. The users I talk to
>> generally can be led to understand the undesirability of, and need to
>> shut down, dueling POP client apps.
>>
>
> Man you ruined my thread for bashing POP, by being reasonable.
>
> RFC 918 defining POP came out in 1984.
>
> I can think of many things that are best left back in 1984.
> Mullets, pre-ripped jeans, that dusty Wham! tape.
> Items that should be in a box in the attic.
>
>

“This Wikipedia article is longer than the entry on William Shakespeare.”

So…this article? Lightsaber combat. Yep. You read that right.

And just to verify his claim… I copied the text of both articles….
$ wc -w *
10389 lightsaber
7040 shakespere
17429 total

Yep. Lightsaber Combat wins by 30%.

Sources: Lightsaber Combat vs. William Shakespeare

Last week was the week all the people get their acceptance letters emails to check their account so we basically get flooded. I ended up working a 12 hour shift, and got comped back a day, so I used the comp day to take Monday off.

Friday Dragon was a bust, basically nothing going on. Saturday I did some much needed work on my Pally, and Sunday I decided to actually do some work and get my secondary computer on Linux. You see, I decided to try to get “legal” and try to purchase or go free as much as possible. Hence the Linux.

This is where the adventures in frustration come in. I have a Ath64 3500+ with a 120gb boot drive and a 300x2GB raid 1 ntfs stripe on a RocketRaid 454 controller. I decided that the easiest way to do this was to resize my windows partition on my boot drive down a bit, install ubuntu on a partiton, and then find a way to mount the NTFS stripe and then migrate some of it off onto the boot drive, then wipe out the stripe and make it a Raid 1 mirror stripe. Of course I backup as much as I could on my 300GB external.

Frustration #1: Boot drive has 2 bad sectors.
Gparted says oh noes and quits. Try doing all sorts of remedial things, including installing Partition Magic. No help. Spend 6 hours troubleshooting. Throw up my hands and quit. Use gParted and wipe out the windows partition and just format everything ext3. Smartly decide that 20gb will be my root, and 80 gb will be my home.

Frustration #2: Kernel Panic!
I stupidly decided to try out Feisty Fawn, which is the alpha build of Ubuntu’s OS. Crash and burn. Install, and then kernel panic after I roll up to the most recent everything. After a couple of hours of troubleshooting, I find out that the “splash” boot time option in grub causes a kernel panic. No idea why. Edit menu.lst to boot without the “splash” option.

Frustration #3: 1024×768, Mesa rendering. No ATI
I’m running an ATI X800 on my system. I would like to not have it be a glorified vga adapter. Can’t get the ATI driver to work. After much mucking around with fglrx, I decide to roll back to edgy. Format root partition, install edgy. Doesn’t work there either. Yay. After rolling back up to Feisty, then coming back to Edgy again, I find the envy script, which basically does exactly the things I did, but it actually works.

Frustration #4: Can’t mount my Highpoint RocketRaid 454 controlled ntfs partition.
Do some research on using dmraid to mount a stripeset… basically all I find is a ton of people who want to do this for whatever reason, but fail miserably. I fail miserbly. Decide to just wipe the stripe set and set it to Raid 1, in the hopes that linux will do better mounting a EXT3 partition. Nope.

Find a guide on how to modprobe the whole raid stuff into the kernel rather than rely on dmraid to do the mapping. That ends up working, I suddenly have /dev/sda1 as a 300 gb drive, that I can mount, but fstab hates me and will not mount from fstab. Yay. That’s where I am now.

I’m sure once I get it up it will be fine, but man… when linux works, its awesome. The configuring part is the sucky part.

Source: Comic stolen without permission, but if I was more of a man I’d ask if I could use it, but here’s a shameless plug anyway, from: xKcd

Without giving out too much of my personal life, here are some highlights.

• It sucks to have a girl stand you up on V-Day. It sucks more to have a friend, whom you’ve arranged to hang out with on V-day to keep you from going insane, stand you up on V-day, girl or not.
  • Yes. I ain’t going to let you live that one down, not for a while… that is… until I forget it. Which will probably be a day or 3.
• People that aren’t your beloved tend to be crappy drivers on V-day… because they are paying more attention to their date than the road.
• Apparently no one likes Indian food on V-Day.
• The Marble Slab >>>Coldstone. It’s the original baby. Can’t shake the original. Plus they have 2 for 1 night on V-Day (and on every wed.)
• Having someone that can keep your mind off the fact that you’re single, and is as silly as you are really helps.
• Apparently I need to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
• J, you were right. Guitars do get girls.
• Apparently I get better sleep when I stay out till like midnight, then drive home, than if I go to sleep at 11. Go figure.
• I have mastered the college pickup line: “Hey, what’s your major!”
• If I counted the number of women I hang out with, and then assumed that I was sleeping with all of them, then I’d be a player. But the only thing I’m playing with right now is video games.
• Resist the urge to make a Wii joke.

Props:

• Thanks to the friends that decided to hang with me last night for making what could have been a crappy night into something fun.
  • I really do ‘preciate it. Though I appreciate anyone who can put up with me. God knows it’s a daily struggle.

Slops:

• Drivers suck on Valentine’s day.
• Restaurants that go crazy on this, “It’s V-day so lets tell our regular customers to bend over.”
• Almost getting stood up on V-Day.
  • See… told you I wasn’t going to let you live it down… not for a 3 day cool down at least… then I’ll be like… oh SHiNy!
• Rediscovering Counterstrike.
• Being all congested and stuff.
  • One reason I didn’t go to the singles awareness night.
    • Hi,I’m *sneeze* *blow nose*… Wanna dance?

Now back to your normal link spew.

Grr. Someone wanted to check what my steam account was and told me that you can download CS if you’ve played before. Now I have yet another game to play again.

And possibly mute 15 million little boys and their 1337 garbage.

And deal with all the other haxx0rz. “No I’m so good that I can shoot you through the walls and get headshots every time. All skill baby.”

After some brief hi people’s and such… fly to Stonetalon Mts to start questing in Desolace.
Halfway through quest 1 I realize I forgot a quest in org (which is where i started).
Hearth back to org.
Get quest.
Fly back to Stonetalon mts.
Walk to Desolace (the second time)
Realize the next quest I was supposed to do. Starts in Org.
Cuss.
10 minutes later arrive at shadowprey village. (Desolace is damn huge).
Get FP, accidentally click on XR instead of Org.
Cuss Violently.
Fly back from XR to Org (needlessly, but so I can waste more time).
Get the damn quest.
Fly back to Stonetalon Mts.
Run back to Desolace.
Look at the clock.
Realize that my goal is hopeless.
Wish I didn’t waste an hour of play time staring at me on a damn wyvern.

I spent most of my time bleary eyed and in bed, staring at a wall, trying to sleep. I tried to tough out a day of work, but decided that I was a dumbass and went home early. After a couple days of this living hell, I get worried and decided to go to Kaiser. On a Saturday. On New Years Eve, Eve. And what a mistake it was.

I get there, and check in, and decide to use the bathroom. Come out of the bathroom, get called for tirage. I think to myself… oh… I might get outa here in an hour or so. Fast forward 5 hours. Yes. You read that right. 5 hours. That’s when they finally call my name. 5 freeking hours.

They take me to the back, tell me to strip, put on the gown, and sit there and wait for the doctor. The room is frigid. I have a damn sore throat, not appendicitis. This ain’t Trama Center: Under the Knife, where my heart spawns these huge glass shards out of no where and they have to cut a pentagram in me to save my life.

Fast forward 30 shivering minutes. Doctor arrives. Takes a look at my throat and says… “Yep, that’s inflamed.” Yeah. I knew that already. “It could be mono or strep. I’ll send the nurse in to take a swab and a blood test. I’m prescribing some Vicodin, Penicillin, and Prednisone (anti-inflamatory steroid). Doc disappears… I put on my clothes.

Fast forward 30 minutes. Nurse finally shows up to take my blood. Runs off… then doesn’t come back for 20 minutes. Stare at wall some more. She comes back, “Sorry sir, I’ll be right back. Won’t be more than 10 minutes.” Fast forward 20 minutes. She comes back, but forgets the paperwork. Chase her down the hall to grab it from her, then wait another 30 minutes to get my prescription filled at the pharmacy that is about a mile away, on the other side of of the hospital.

All said and done, total time 7h 15m… total treatment time, about 15m.

Way to go Kaiser.

Day later, feel way better. Uneventful, watched a lot of Law and Order.

New Year’s Day, decide that I’m tired of being trapped indoors, go out. Get a nice big steak and enjoy it. Good way to end about a week of porridge and applesauce.