MOTD http://zork.net/motd Message Of The Day en 60 Fri, 29 Nov 2002 07:36 GMT motd@zork.net PyBlosxom http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/ 1.3.2 2/13/2006 Powerbook octal/powerbook http://zork.net/motd/octal/powerbook.html

So, I took advantage of the extended weekend to replace the old 6GB travelstar in my powerbook with a brand new 40GB 5400 rpm drive. Planning ahead, I had already purchased a firewire laptop drive enclosure, negating the need to backup data. Thinking it would be the cat's pajamas, I endeavoured to make a debian CD with jigdo. This was a pointless act, as although it results in an up-to-date CD, it is not bootable on PowerPC (And maybe not on x86, either). But, in the meantime I found http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/debian-cd which offeres a wide variety of bootable, business-card size debian install CDs. Using this and a debian mirror or two, sucessfully installed, save for its use of KDE as the default desktop.

Incidentally, installing linux on powerpc (at least NewWorld macs) has greatly improved since I first got this thing.

]]> /octal Fri, 29 Nov 2002 07:36 GMT Wake me when it's over. inkblot/2002-11-14T21:53:56-0800 http://zork.net/motd/inkblot/2002-11-14T21:53:56-0800.html

I puked in a bucket last night. My stomach was empty so it was basically all acid. It made my eyes all bloodshot and all the stuff in my sinuses got sqeezed out into my nose. About 18 hours later the headache went away.

]]> /inkblot Fri, 15 Nov 2002 05:56 GMT Put it behind you octal/politics/thepast http://zork.net/motd/octal/politics/thepast.html

Hey, whatever happened to the whole making crooked corporate officals pay thing? Did we ever do that? It's a bit fuzzy in my mind.

Also, what ever happened with all those people in Florida who couldn't vote because they were incorrectly listed as ex-felons? Did we ever clean that up?

Just curious.

]]> /octal/politics Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:08 GMT GAR octal/gnome2 http://zork.net/motd/octal/gnome2.html

I just got dist-upgraded to the point where I have gnome 2. I hate it. I want it to die. Nothing's working the way I like and they won't let me change things to the way I like. I want my cpu monitor, and there's no PMU monitoring applet. I can't have windows go above the panels, the taskmonitor is wasting space, there's no binary clock, all my custom menus are gone and I don't know if I can have custom menus in gnome 2. I hate gnome 2.

]]> /octal Fri, 08 Nov 2002 06:14 GMT pyblosxom 0+5i_rev2 nick/blosxom/new-version http://zork.net/motd/nick/blosxom/new-version.html

This is getting to be ridiculous, what with all the messages being about the system itself.

We're now running the <a href="http://roughingit.subtlehints.net/pyblosxom/weblogs/tools/pyblosxom/pyblosxom.0+5i_rev2.html">latest version</a> with some <a href="http://roughingit.subtlehints.net/pyblosxom/weblogs/tools/hep/minor_bugfix.html">fixes</a> and features I submitted. It's all in the <a href="http://roughingit.subtlehints.net/code/ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</a>.

And I still need to finish that article.

]]> /nick/blosxom Sun, 03 Nov 2002 21:10 GMT I can now begin spectrum hogging! octal/amateur/license http://zork.net/motd/octal/amateur/license.html

http://www.remote.arrl.org/fcc/fcclook.php3?call=KC0OIH

]]> /octal/amateur Sat, 02 Nov 2002 00:03 GMT I suppose this works, but I was thinking some sort of special template on the madness/ dir that would show ownership of files instead. madness/octal/Oh_well http://zork.net/motd/madness/octal/Oh_well.html

You know, I saw in a movie how people on stilts can run 45 miles per hour.

]]> /madness/octal Fri, 01 Nov 2002 18:02 GMT I claim this post in the name of inkblot madness/werp http://zork.net/motd/madness/werp.html

You know, I saw in a movie how people on stilts can run 45 miles per hour.

]]> /madness Fri, 01 Nov 2002 13:07 GMT Alternativly you could add a $uid token to pyblosxom although Nick's way is probably better madness/gary/alsonothard http://zork.net/motd/madness/gary/alsonothard.html

Hey, Sammy. You sure it weren't cartoons you was watchin'?

]]> /madness/gary Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:46 GMT It's not that hard to do it yourself madness/nick/nothard http://zork.net/motd/madness/nick/nothard.html

No! It's true! I saw it in a movie!

]]> /madness/nick Fri, 01 Nov 2002 09:01 GMT This needs a system of telling who wrote what madness/octroll http://zork.net/motd/madness/octroll.html

Well, maybe if they're mile-long stilts they can.

]]> /madness Fri, 01 Nov 2002 06:16 GMT Norm Coleman octal/politics/coleman http://zork.net/motd/octal/politics/coleman.html

Maybe I'm just lacking in political savvy, but it always seemed to me a stupid idea to hand-pick a guy who lost to Jesse Ventura to run against a multiple term incumbant senator. Especially when running a flip-floppy guy against a man secure in his convictions. I guess I'll just never understand politics.

]]> /octal/politics Fri, 01 Nov 2002 06:14 GMT