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I love how I can run any program that is on my home machine on any computer with an X server and an SSH client. For Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOSX these things are either included with various releases or easily obtained for free. In Windows, X servers can be bought or obtained freely, depending on the level of sophistication needed. SSH clients like PuTTY are readily available for free. No matter how you slice it, it is possible for me to run KMail or Konqueror or XChat or anything else as long as I have a network connection.

The best performace has to be with a *nix machine running XFree86 on a good LAN connection. Right now I am in the Black Engineering computer lab on a Redhat 7.3 machine and I am running several of my KDE apps on this machine. I honestly can’t tell by look or feel that these programs are not local. This is just plain amazing.

I’m sure Andy will enjoy this when he’s running stuff off of his new AMD FreeBSD 5.0 machine on his Quicksilver.

steve :: Jan.31.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

Nine out of ten doctors agree; going to school is bad for your health. It
must have been the other doctor who came up with college.

Song for the fallen Meemee.

She’s Gone Away
I’ve got a lot I call my own
My house is full of things
But its just an empty home
And all day long I walk around
Seeing reminders and reliving all I’ve found
She’s gone away
She… she’s gone away
She’s gone away
She left today
Hey hey
She… she’s gone away
She’s gone away
She wouldn’t stay
Hey hey
I took your brother to the zoo
The sky was falling
And he seemed to know it too
He turned to me and said
What a waste
And I said…
Someday you’ll know it
If you ever get the taste
She’s gone away
Yeah!
She… she’s gone away
She’s gone away
She left today
Hey hey
She… she’s gone away
She’s gone away
She wouldn’t stay
Hey hey
I took your brother to the zoo…

steve :: Jan.31.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

At least, on the 3.1 page they have 3.1 binaries, there was a post on OSNews.com, and portage says 3.1 is available and unmasked. I started compiling it and some of its dependencies around 8:00, so I should have it done probably by Wednesday afternoon. Sometimes I wonder why I go with this source-based distro instead of RedHat or something. But then I think of how well I understand this system and how I managed to avoid all the crap that I was forced to deal with otherwise.

I still wish I could have it right now, even though it’s probably not that big of an update.

steve :: Jan.28.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

I found this on Penny Arcade. This sounds like a couple of my friends when they played Counterstrike.

steve :: Jan.25.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

I am getting a nasty cold now. I felt crappy all day, so I went to bed not long after I got home, and I woke up around 7. The problem is that now I’m not really sure what day it feels like. It’s hard to fathom that 12 hours ago I was in class, when it feels like days have passed.

I got ME 490 added, so I can now drop IE 361. I need to go do that soon, since I really don’t want to keep taking it, and I haven’t gone to it since last Wednesday anyway.

I am not a good dancer. I was under the influence of wine and whiskey at the time. Andy just happened to have several devices with which to record me making a fool of myself.

steve :: Jan.25.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

I’m at work, trying to use Photoshop to edit some photographs that appear to have been lost before they made it to the proper image directory. I need to open them, check the embedded file information, change anything that’s necessary, rotate or crop them as necessary and save them back to the network. Unfortunately, our server runs Windows, and my computer runs Windows, and I just need to get out. I need a *nix machine fast. A MacOS X machine would be best, but at this point I’ll take my computer and the Gimp. Photoshop is completely dead, explorer just crashed, I can barely move around the network, and the hard drive is thrashing like crazy.

steve :: Jan.21.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

It might not be funny if you’re a Windows user and you don’t have decent antivirus protection, or if you run an IIS server and haven’t patched it yet, but seeing the characteristic exploits used by nimda in your Apache server log on your FreeBSD server is kind of funny.

I can’t laugh too loudly though, since new security exploits are being found all the time. Also, I remember last summer when I set up a Windows 2000 based router that I mistakenly allowed IIS to install itself on. I had nimda in less than 12 hours. I think now and in the future my servers will stick to safer software than IIS.

steve :: Jan.21.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

That’s right folks. Jesus is up and running FreeBSD, serving NFS, and pretty much kicking some major ass. Andy and I are doing admin stuff, and we’re going to try to get Jesus’ 17 gig drive shared over NFS on himac. I’ve had to get Andy to stop raping Jesus a few times, but overall he’s taking our abuse very well. If any of you want an account on Jesus, like if you want to learn about unix or BSD or you just like having accounts, just email me or message me or something.

Yes, Jesus truly is a god.

We may start serving web pages off of Jesus soon, but that’s kind of up to Andy, since between us we would then have three web servers. We’ll see.

steve :: Jan.19.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

Andy’s internal network adapter died. Then he bought a NIC and it didn’t work. Then he took the NIC from his old PC, which I have right now. It didn’t work either. Then he bought a “Mac OS 10.2 compatible” PCI network card. That doesn’t work either. To top it all off, the drive he ordered from the CD-R/RW section of a web site turned out not to be a CD-R or CD-RW, but an ordinary CD-ROM. The poor guy has nothing but trouble with his ultra-powerful machine. It sucks ass.

steve :: Jan.18.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »

One of Sam’s Noodles died. That is very sad, and I wish it hadn’t happened. What a craptastic day.

steve :: Jan.17.2003 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »