Monthly Archives: June 2006
Waiting for the train
I hate rain. A lot. What’s worse is having to sit out in it while waiting for a train to come in that’s already 4 hours late. Actually, hate isn’t the best word to describe my feeling toward rain. I … Continue reading
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Update on the last post
Yeah, I’m what we call a moron… Automatix removed universe and multiverse from my repositories list. Turns out Synergy, Beagle, and Banshee are all in the repositories and work great. Other news: there’s no remote plugin packaged with Gaim 2.0.0B3, … Continue reading
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Rebuilding
I hosed my Ubuntu install on my junkbox yesterday. Turns out the kernel image packages do something with X settings, and I change a lot of X settings. Thus, X fails to start. I could have manually edited the document … Continue reading
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People for Indecency in America
I’m thinking of starting a sister site in the RedKrieg blog network… People for Indecency in America. I consider this now that I know that approximately 99.8% of the complaints filed with the FCC over indecency on television are from … Continue reading
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Things to think about
I’ve been trying to avoid thinking as much as possible lately… here are a few of the things I’ve tried not to think about: What other people are thinking when I talk to them Why Synaptic Package Manager has proxy … Continue reading
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Stupid Admin
I just made the oldest stupid admin mistake in the book, lol. I used stock code with a default password to ensure spammers had no access to my backend system. Naturally they tried the default passvariable and got through. I … Continue reading
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The dig
I dug a huge fishing net out of the sand at the beach night before last. Went with a few good friends, lots of fun. There was a girl working at the 7-11 on the way there and it was … Continue reading
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Quantico
I’ve been in Quantico for four days now. Yesterday I was actually on base until 11pm. Needless to say, training has me a bit tired this week, lol. In other news, I’m trying yet another method for blocking spam. After … Continue reading
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I just took the ban hammer to a whole country
The small nation of Belarus has just received the banhammer. They can’t even view my site now. I’ve added a contact to that error page so they can reach me if they’d like specific access, but that’s the end of … Continue reading
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How not to get killed on the way to Virginia Tech
Just minutes ago I was in some kind of freak rainstorm on the way to VT. I’m driving along, maybe 30 miles outside of charlottesville, va when it starts to sprinkle. Over the course of the next 10 seconds that … Continue reading
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