Tales of an Aspergian Bus Driver

Updates & such

Well... my blog has decided to not show anything on the front page. This probably means I should add content.

Content... right.

Classes started. Yay. Nothing exciting, just 4 classes that should get me to graduation in December. My schedule is nice and clear though, as long as I wake up before noon on MWF. TR involves a very long day though, 8 AM to 1 AM (if I wake up for my morning class instead of just watching it online later in the day).

And, I still know nothing about the whole "losing my license" thing. I had a lawyer show up & say "Not Guilty" for me, so there will be a proper court date scheduled when I get to beg for probation & driving school. Unfortunately, I understand driving school isn't exactly a high performance driving school that would be interesting. I think I've completely stopped caring about keeping my license, which is not a good state. It would be nice to keep, but I don't particularly care if I end up losing my job or such. Maybe it's time to move on... or something. Hard to do on bike.

I'm the Multimedia person for The Rock now. So, Keynote/Powerpoint/video/etc is all my domain! *tents fingers* Any suggestions? Talk to me, email me, IM me, whatever. I'm really open to changing things around if needed/would look spiffy.

On the topic of spiffy, back in 5th grade or so my cluster of desks was known collectively as the "Math Spiffies." We were quite the odd bunch. I wonder where Brad is now.

BitTorrent is a really cool file distribution system. It works based on swarms - the more people downloading, the faster downloading goes. Anti-slashdot, basically. As people get bits of the file, they share them out to people who need them - and it all works out fairly well.

Moonlight Express tonight would best be classified by "obscene." There are many comments that I've overheard that won't be repeated here. It's also interesting listening to people discuss the ratings of various females that we drive past. "Well, I'd say she's an 8. What do you think?" *grunt/nod* "Well, dunno, maybe a high 7." *grunt/nod* (repeat for 5 minutes).

I've also realized that I really should secure wombat. There are far too many insecure connection types (unencrypted) going into it. Mail, FTP, IRC. Bad practice. I really should be encrypting all my traffic through proxies & such, but I'm not. Maybe I'll start getting that stuff in place this weekend.

One nice thing about my newer Powerbook - the speakers are MUCH louder than the ones on my Titanium. They're actually decent!

Speaking of Titanium Powerbooks, most of the parts have been eBayed - there's not a lot left, and I've made a decent amount on selling the parts. More than I expected, honestly, and I still have another LCD module to sell.

Finally, I spent 2 hours trying to find a Debian installer that had e1000 support in it. There HAS to be an easier way to do that. And, then, my next question: How/when do I tell it to use sarge/woody/sid/etc? The network install wouldn't let me point it at anything except the base /debian/ mirror directory, and never asked.

*sigh* This is what I get for only running Gentoo... total incompetence at anything else. I really should at this point be familiar with Redhat, Gentoo, Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, and a few scattered others. Instead, I'm just familiar with Gentoo and Redhat to some extent. Useless as a sysadmin. :-/

-=Russ=-

Posted by rgraves at August 28, 2004 12:11 AM