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Saturday, June 01, 2002
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Worked out today. Again it was hard, but it wasn't as tough as last time. I went 30min on the Machine O' Pain whereas Thurs. I only managed 20. So its a step up certainly. One of Ericka's baby magazines say that the #1 untold secret to men whose wives are pregnant is the "sympathy weight" they gain that they can both lose together with exercise and a balanced diet once the baby gets here. Shit, I'm big enough as it is. Time to start losing that now, know what I'm sayin?
Hey Jimmy, your email doesn't work. I emailed you late last night at crucifax@demented.org and it came back unknown user. Just givin you the heads up.
Cooked a nice meal this evening, a little Manwich plus a rotel + 1lb of velvetta cheese melted dip. Good stuff. I'm gonna make brownies later. I tell ya, I always wondered why Jeremy liked to cook so much, and now I know. The culinary enjoyment all by itself is enough for me. I'm beginning to veer from the safety of regular dishes into more difficult recipes and combinations. It's a fun little process.
Put together the dresser today sans instructions. The most ironic part was, after pretty much guessing my way through based on the instructions for the other vanity/dresser combo thing I put together last weekend (you remember, 5 hours of my life, etc etc), I found the instructions hidden inside the folded up cardboard piece that is used as the backing for this new dresser. I swear, I looked EVERYWHERE and couldn't find it. I feel a little goofy, but at the same time glad because even without instructions that thing came together just as instructed. :)
Time to install linux, so my personal web server may be down. However, I'm also installing Office XP, and I swear there was a blank CDR sitting around, I put it in the drive, and lo and behold it was the Office XP setup. How fucking sweet is that. So, with that in mind, I might stick around in XP for awhile and try to code some neat HTML/XML/ASP/Forms stuff. We'll see.
Time for refreshment...of the...homegrown variety. My first in many days and I plan to keep it that way. I really do get too much of a good thing concerning that, so its important to limit. Peace.
Evan Erwin from URL @ 10:09 PM
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Oh, and, by the way? I need nmake.exe from the VC++ package to get slash working in win32. I don't know if I need the whole damn VC++ shebang or just that program, but if any of my wonderful handful of readers has this program, please please PLEASE email it to me. Thanks.
Evan Erwin from URL @ 1:27 PM
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Hmm...after the install on our old mainframe, I found out that the video card is crap. Some lame ass Cirrus Logic 1MB piece of shit. Will barely display X and when Gnome tries to load the multiple desktops (I'm not sure of the exact package/module its called), it segment faults. Of course, I didnt' have it set to Cirrus, but still, with a 1MB lame ass card that barely runs in NT4, what can you expect? Sure I can go command line only, but it would be a pain in the ass to do so. Worse comes to worse I will, because Ultra Wide SCSI (yup, that's what it is I found out) is pretty sweet all 'round. SCSI drives 4GB each and a SCSI CD-ROM. Neat, but we'll see how useful it turns out to be.
Gotta go work out as soon as our server finishes dumping from Ghost. Man, I tell ya, Ghost is the bombs ya drop on ya moms. I love it like my own child. There's just something wonderful about having a safeguard like that around to help when shit gets rough.
Hmm...Me and Ericka should be heading to K-town today, but I'm not sure yet. I need to stop by Zales and pay on my credit there and I'm pretty sure we're going to drop off some stuff at her parent's house. You see, thanks to the wonderful contributions of all those people at both my and Ericka's workplace, we've got three bathtubs, about eight gallons of shampoo, lotion, and powder. It's certainly great to have all this stuff, don't get me wrong, and now we get to distribute it to the appropriate grandma's for consumption at a later date.
Hrm...Tony seems to have gotten his Spankin new website up. Though its a bit..um...dry at the moment, its a start and a link has been added over on the right.
Welp, time to jet and sweat. Adios amigos.
Evan Erwin from URL @ 1:25 PM
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Insomnia sucks. I don't mean the movie, I mean the condition. My eyelids feel heavy and the sweet snoring of my wife in the background tries to lull me, but it's not happening. Grrrr....
I start installing slash for win32 and get halfway into the install, after configuring and running perl 5.6.1, apache 1.3.x, and mysql, setup the databases, the configuration files, everything, and then find out that I need nmake.exe, the make-er for VC++. The guy says that VC++6 gives weird errors, but I think those can be worked around. Sheesh. This slash battle just isn't looking good. The more I try, the more it knocks me down. Literally the past two weeks of my life, well, mostly, has been trying to get this damn thing working. I think I'm about over it. I think my time would be better spent working on ASP, XML, Javascript and the like. Perl is nice, but perl is mostly *nix and getting it working in Win32 is no picnic. I'm also sure that it works wonderfully in linux but I haven't seen it work on win32 up close and personal yet. So.
Hmm... lucid dreaming. Interesting topic. I've had many a lucid dream, though I wish they occurred more often. I've also done the notepad-by-the-bed thing, and that has produced strange results. The interesting thing to me about dreams is their liquidity. Not literally, but in that sense that the more you try to hold onto them, what their content was and what was in them, the quicker they seep out of your grasp. The ones that stick however, are lucid dreams, the ones that I wrote down, and nightmares.
Ericka remembers very well my last nightmare, and I get a little spooked just thinking about it. What I remember was first being at this rundown house, elevated, as if we were on the second floor, and there was blood on the wooden flood in front of a tattered couch. Then it came to me that if someone stepped in the blood, the ghost/demon/whatever would come and get me/us. There was someone else with me, who knows, and of course they did so. Next thing I know I'm alone in a psychiatric ward looking place, getting chased by a former schoolmate who is now scary as hell for some reason or other. I ran away from him only to see him at the end of the corridor. I turn around to run the other way and he's closer in this direction. Then I turn again and there he is, right in front of me.
Ericka woke me up after I started screaming in my sleep, something that she said sounded like a very screechy moan. In the dream, as in most, making noise can sometimes be difficult. Anything from talking to mumbling can be a challenge, and this was one of those times where the harder I tried to scream, the worse job I did at it. I don't know how all this sounds, but trust me, it freaked me the hell out.
My lucid experiences however have been quite pleasant. Anything from the ole sexual conquest to flying (it was awesome!) is a wonderful, wonderful thing when you know its a dream and that there are no rules but that you have to wake up at the end. Normally, if I really want to lucid dream, I try to concentrate and tell myself over and over "it's only a dream" as I go to sleep. Then, once I'm dreaming, I tell myself that this isn't real and I believe it. Then the rules are thrown out the window and you can have some fun. The other directions found at everything2.com are interesting as well, and I might try those.
Sigh. WinXP and Apache but no slash. Damn you slash, the bane of my existence, one day I'll overcome this crap. Yup, one day. Until then, I think that sleep is beginning to sound nice, and that curling up to my beautiful wife sounds like just the trick to get me into la-la lucid dreaming land.
G'night.
Evan Erwin from URL @ 2:38 AM
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Friday, May 31, 2002
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Woo, Apache installed and my XP httpd is online. I'm currently downloading the win32 perl binaries for potential slash win32 implementation. It's a longshot, sure, but since someone has already done it, I figure I can do it as well. Of course the webpages currently the Apache defaults, but as soon as I can that will change.
That is all.
Evan Erwin from URL @ 10:38 PM
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Well, well. XP is officially installed. Hrm. I missed Windows at home a bit, simply for the few applications that really need such a bloated, bitchy operating system. Anyway, just finished downloading apache and will soon see how that thing works. Hrm...
Evan Erwin from URL @ 10:23 PM
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Well, here we are again, back at the slash. Now, lemme tell ya, compiling ANYTHING on a P100 (hell, it might even be a P133..woo.) takes FOREVER. Literally an HOUR to compile slash. And then, because I had to SIGINIT (ie, Ctrl + C to break the compile) in the middle of it, I never got it to work correctly thereafter. So, in light of these events, I've given that up for a new bitch box: the bank's old mainframe. This one is a dual pentium pro 200 w/ 128MB. Nothing spectacular, but the Ultra Wide SCSI (or perhaps SCSI3...not sure) sure does make the install run sweetly. I can imagine compiles will be the same way. I left it installing Mandrake packages quite quickly. Since I have to go to work tomorrow because of ATM Duty (I send out a 300k file that has the current balance of all ATM customers so their Friday deposits show up on our ATM network's system and get paid mileage) I'll get to install the rest.
Working out yesterday was tough, but I'm certainly glad I got through it. It feels a lot better to be in my skin today than it did on Wednesday. If all goes as planned I'll be going back tomorrow. I'd like to get a Tues/Thurs/Sat thing going, but considering how close Ericka is, I doubt that I'll get much further than Tuesday.
Did I mention I get to take a week off w/ Ericka and call it sick time, not vacation time? This is a Very Good Thing boys and girls. That means I have four days left of vacation. I've already slated July 5th as my day to take off so me and Ericka can take the baby to Mississippi to see her grandma. Right now we're not sure we're going to go anymore, considering how small Annie will be, how long the car ride will be (can you imagine? Drive for an hour and a half, stop for a feeding. Drive, stop, feed. Drive, stop feed.) plus the heat. As hot as it is here, it's easily another ten degrees down there. And today it was fuckin SuperHot, around 85. That's too warm for me personally, hell, I'd rather live in Maine :) Anyway, I'm not sure we're going to go, but the point is that I'll have that long weekend plus four extra days for the rest of the year. Hell yeah :)
Hmm...picked up some meat this afternoon. This guy came around selling gourmet food, said he supplies the meat to Applebees and whatnot. I told him thanks but I was broke, but my boss bought $130 worth and then I, in turn, bought $30 of it from him. Basically 8 beautiful pieces of steak, some in spices and whatnot, others just succulent strips (and lets face it, how often do you get to type the word succulent? just ponder that for a moment.). Cooked a nice piece this evening and that, along with a nice fat baked potato, was a welcome treat. Mmmm...steak.
Well, I'm "make"-ing mod_perl again, so we'll see how good that goes. I'm gonna start from scratch (AGAIN) in hopes that the 23rd time is the charm for slash. Ugh. Stupid, stupid errors.
If this install doesn't work, I'm gonna tuck my tail and reformat. I found a link for slash in windows, plus I'm dying to see what Apache win32 looks like. If I can get it working in windows it will sedate me long enough to get it working in Linux.
I gotta admit, learning that all my buds are compiling kernels and that I'm the only one who hasn't successfully done so (well, okay, I did compile a few kernels back in the day w/ mom's p166 w/ Redhat 5.2, but still) in the last three-to-four years leaves me feeling a bit...ungeekish. What's happening to me?! :)
@#%!@#$!@$!@#%!@$!@#~%$
mod_perl crapped out. The whole "can't run as root" thing. Time for the reinstall. Sigh.
Peace out Mandrake, I'll be installing you again soon. First, I have to burn those Ximian Evolution (damn, that's a fine Linux email program) binaries.
*poof*
Evan Erwin from URL @ 8:34 PM
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Here's an anomole for ya: Why is it that when you get married you have LESS money than you began with? Seriously, I've never been so broke. Sure the bills stack up with the apartment and all, but you would think that two incomes could manage such expense. Nope, they don't. Hrm. Random thought.
Evan Erwin from URL @ 4:44 PM
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Had to park in the Amoco located directly behind the Apts. last night. This morning I come out to see a note saying "We're gonna tow your car, don't park here." Well, I ran into the manager last night and they're resealing the parking lot and he told us to park at the store. Of course, maybe parking behind the car wash section (nearest the apartments) might've been the problem, but I'll be parking in front of my house tonight so no worries. Though Ericka wasn't too happy when I woke her up this morning telling her she'd have to move her car or get it towed :)
Hmm.. Sum of all Fears opens today. Might go see it. Otherwise, not a lot going on.
Here's a bit of information you might not wanna know. I'm serious.
Still readin? Okay, Ericka is getting VERY CLOSE NOW, and she has begun passing her mucus plug. If you don't know what it is, it's probably for the better. The point is, after this little event happens (she hasn't passed it yet), the baby will be here within days. Remember that she hits 40 weeks on Wednesday.
Also found out some good news concerning Jeremy. Turns out he doesn't hate my guts! Sweet. And, he's quite the linux geek. I've updated the link on the right to his new address. His mother, I just found out, has been in a serious car accident and here's to hoping she gets better very soon.
So Jeremy is running his own bitch box, compiled with his own kernels (hell yeah!) and running MySQL and php3. Awesome stuff. What can I say, I'm jealous. I've almost got slash working, I've fixed the permission problems but now I'm getting an error concerning a tag in the apache conf file. What the fuck. I've been working on it awhile, so we'll see how that goes.
Yesterday, and today, I've been getting routing problems concerning the bank's email server, running Redhat 5.2. Why, you ask? Well, seems that when I setup routes for the internet, it cut off the other branches. Well, after much (MUCH) research concerning how to get it working, turns out that the routing table isn't saved on reboot. So I had to go in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add this at the end of the file to get the damn network to function (ie, email to work):
/sbin/route add -net 10.1.0.0 gw 10.1.220.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 (I'm adding this as much for my sake in case I lose the correct command as well as showing you that route is a whiny bitch)
I also found out there is no GUI in RH5.2 to fix routing. That sucks bigtime. I'm pretty sure I've stumbled on some in Mandrake, but that's not a definite. Either way, after adding that line to rc.local, upon reboot the route is there and all is well again. I've also got the machine up on the internet as well, so I can test out slash on that box as well as the one at home. It'll work on one of them dammit, I just know it.
Hmm...did I mention the new weezer is the shit? Maladroit is a hell of an album. After multiple listens, "slob" is easily the best song on the record, and is set to be their next single from it, and "love explosion" is a fine little ditty. But don't let that detract. The whole record is a great listen, 35 minutes of bliss. Highly recommended.
Welp, time to run. Gotta go get slash working...
Evan Erwin from URL @ 11:52 AM
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Thursday, May 30, 2002
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Yes, Evan - that would make me one of those hardcore *nix coder types that do this kind of shit for fun.... Sue Me. -per Jim's website
Ah, but you aren't living in your parents' basement and you're not coding your own OS yet, so I think you're safe ;)
You still da man, don't forget it.
Gotta go work out now. Sheesh. I've gained so much weight! :( None of my clothes fit very well anymore. All the pants that I once had so much room to move around in will barely button. Ugh. I'm pretty sure that in the last nine months I've gained more weight, in one time period, than I ever have in my life. I think moving in with my beautiful wife tipped the scales (God that's an awful euphamism). Oh well, now I get to work it all off.
Dear God it stinks in this computer room. Travis "Cleaned" the room and when I finally got upstairs this afternoon he stood there, at the doorway, spraying this VERY VERY potent air freshener shit continuously. I'm not talking about a spritz here and putting it away, no, he let out half the damn bottle before I told him to quit. Ladies and Gents I'm in Potpourri hell over here. I walked in, my asthma kicked in (wheezing) and my sinuses shut like a steel trap. Pressure came soon afterwards and if I hadn't bailed for the lobby, I would have had a severe headache. It still lingers of nasty flower shit in here. I told him to never do it again. He got a little pissy and later told me he had sprayed it in here before. I told him it fucks with my asthma and that Dennis would have a fit. It's the best I could come up with, I think a viable alternative to "that fucking shit stinks I don't wanna see it within thirty feet of this room ever again."
Evan Erwin from URL @ 6:12 PM
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Here's a little take on my Linux/Grandma idea. Taken from this slashdot story about United Linux.
Evan Erwin from URL @ 2:04 PM
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Aha! May I make a correction to my little Geek rant from below. Tony has surpassed me greatly in Geekdom it seems. The man even has, yes its true boys and a girls, a Linux Laptop. That is just too fuckin sweet. Or maybe its the Linux boxen he has (oh yeah, boxen) plus multiple WinXP boxen that makes me ashamed of my little 300a. Or perhaps the fact I'm laptop-less. Sigh.
Hmm...slash compiled correctly last night (and the night before), but I'm getting permission errors when starting it up. I tried to use the group nobody, but in Mandrake (and Redhat), there is no group "nobody". Ugh. I tried using group root, user root, but still I get permission errors (hey, I was just trying to get the thing working). Hmm... Plus I'll have to use a Virtual Server in apache to get the thing working correctly, ie, so that when you click on the link to my PC it will display a slash-like environment, but nevertheless...
Hmm.. A reinstall is in order anyway. A little WinXP/Mandrake combo. Because, seriously, I don't need 12GB for Linux. Though I'll probably spend most of my time. I have to admit I miss the multiple desktops, the compiling, and the plain ole control allowed by Linux. What I don't miss are the library upgrades, the package installs, the searching-for-settings shit, oh...
That reminds me. Route? Sucks. You see, I tried to put our email server at the bank on a route that would allow it to use the internet as well (so it could download packages automatically, for example). Well, I added a route that put the gateway's machine in there and it fucked pretty much my whole network. From other branches, 10.2.x.x, 10.3.x.x, etc, couldn't ping anything but the mainframe. I couldn't ping any other 10.1.x.x addresses. UGH. That took me about twenty minutes of roaming around google until I got the syntax right. Who the fuck new that routes are built into the kernel? Not built exactly, but that it is the kernel's responsibility? #^#$@%@!#$
Anyway, I also don't miss the lame ass web browsers. Here's my breakdown:
Opera: sucks
Netscape: Big N' Clunky
Mozilla: Needs work
Galeon (Gnome web browser): My favorite simply for the sweet as toolbars up top. Check out my Desktop for a look.
All others: not worth using. Lynx? Gimme a break. Nice for downloading ("lynx -source http://go-gnome.com" - try it), but otherwise, eh.
IE truly is the king of web browsers, and I expect it to be, simply because of the money + time Microsoft can afford to spend on it. But that's not excuse certainly for the fugly-ass way pages look when you look at them in linux. Even this blog has issues. If I ever think about it (don't hold your breath), I'll post screen pics.
Time for more work. Cya.
Evan Erwin from URL @ 1:55 PM
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Oh, the new Eminem (The Eminem Show). Great stuff! :) Just when you thought he couldn't get better, he did. A really solid record that is much better than the Marshall Mathers LP.
Moby, you can get stomped by Obi, you 36 year old bald headed fag blow me, you're too old let go its over, nobody listens to techno.
Hahahha...brilliant stuff. Not convinced? Here's another gem:
Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley to do Black Music so selfishly and use it to get myself wealthy
He insults with the best of em (maybe only second to Dennis Miller) and honest in such a wonderful way that you have to admire it. Wowza.
G'night.
Evan Erwin from URL @ 12:03 AM
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Wednesday, May 29, 2002
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Firstly, the new Weezer, Maladroit? It's the fucking shit. Get it, right now. Download it off nap/mesh/whatever, just find and enjoy the 35 minutes of Rivers Cuomo brilliance.
Ugh. Tired. Been a long day. Went to the doctor, then went over my mom's house where it turns out my neice and nephew were staying for the next few days. I colored my mom's hair (old habits die hard...not a habit necessarily, but a service provided for my mom) and ate greasy pizza. Hrm.
Just not a lot going on today. Wish I had more to say. Unfortunately not. I'm a little too tired to ramble today. Gotta go to sleep now. Cya.
Evan Erwin from URL @ 11:55 PM
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Tuesday, May 28, 2002
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Damn, that flash on Tony's site? Freaks me the hell out. Just letting you know. I don't know about you, but that dead-stare, empowering words thing just creeps me out. Nice animation for sure (hell, I can't do it), but...ya know...
Oh, and hey Jimmy, I'm glad to see ya updating daily (or even more so). Great stuff, keep it up :) A geek in agony, I love it!
Added links to his site on the right and on the left over there I've added some "Neat Links" as they will be named. Some will be removed/added as I see fit. StumbleUpon is a nice little feature, and may I recommend to those yearning for da flesh their pr0n stumbles are password-free, spam-free, pop-up free. Hell yeah.
I've also added my IP as a link over there on the right. You'll only see the basic Apache page for the moment (or nothing if httpd isn't running), but as soon as I get slash working, that's where my Test Site will be. It'll be devised as a little place for All Things Me. I'm sure that the more you guys click on it the more emails I'll get from Charter Comm. telling me to Cut It The Fuck Out Less I Wanna Lose My Service, but until then (and especially since I don't even use that Charter email acct so if they do warn many times I won't even know it) feel free to click as needed. I tend to get the same IP most of the time, but when it changes (and I notice, heh), I'll change the link accordingly.
Okay, I've babbled myself out this evening. Peace.
Evan Erwin from URL @ 7:55 PM
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Hmm... new post thanks to reading my bud Jimmy's blog. So:
Damn, you BSD Geek. I know absolutely nothing about FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSD in a can, BSD on toast. Nada. Not very interested personally, because I believe that geeks, as a whole, are on a nice, wide spectrum.
You see, (this is where I stand behind the podium, grab some chalk, and attack) some geeks aren't really geeks at all. They're merely hopeless wannabe's so unbeliveably rejected by life, peers, and especially girls, that they would rather be lumped in with the "geeks" than just be called what they are, "losers." Now, note, that geeks can be losers and losers can be geeks. But don't let me get all wish-washy on ya.
Anyway, you have levels of geekdom. You have waves of geekdom. You have degrees of geekiness. You hope and pray that somehow you fall in one of these ever-elusive catagories, from your basic videogame geek who doesn't really know how to change his screensaver on his win9x machine but has memorized every level code for Halo or Some Other Stupid Console Distraction. Then you have the hardcore, balls-to-the-wall, coder *nix supergeek. He has a Beowolf cluster just because he can. He has multiple boxes running every hot flavor of *nix, he codes and relies on untested and bitchy source, he helps here and there with a newbie question (because he doesn't want to forget his roots...get it, roots? Oh, I kill me), and he gets a strange, innate joy in watching his own work compile, crash, compile, core dump, error out, and finds enlightenment in going through error logs. He hopes to one day code his own operating system so he too can name it after himself. He lives and breathes machines and through his job he finances, out of the basement apartment in his parents house, the latest and greatest equipment. This is the guy who spent $400 on the one extra .X gigahertz. This is the furthest you can go without losing Your Complete Fucking Mind.
Now that we've established the acid and the base, let's take some friends of mine (Because they're out there and, well, defenseless in this type of forum, but also because next to no one reads this other than themselves) and see what kind of geekdom level I, let's emphasize the "I", this is just one man's opinion after all, think they're at:
The current king is Jimmy. What can I say, though he does spend an awful lot of time in WinXP (ya naughty shit), he does know his BSD and loves it like his own. Why? Still reading up on that one.
Myself I would rank well below the compiling-my-own-window-manager type geek. I like nice installers, I like RPM, I like to mess with source package as long as I have the RPMs in case shit goes haywire. I love my install CDs like a dog loves his nut-licking time, and theres just something magical when you work X hours for something very innane and, in the scheme of things, probably not very fruitful (lets take slash for example), yet yearn for that wonderful rush of accomplishment that comes along when The Plan Works. Ah...
Jeremy. Still a mystery. Certainly not a Linux/Unix/BSD kinda guy, but certainly knows his shit well enough to make his way through it Should He Choose To. But the man can code, and you have to respect that.
Hmm...I have to write this because its been on my mind forawhile and that voice won't shuttup until I get it out. I'm sure I've ruined my relationship with the J-man and I'm afraid that thanks to some Dumb Ass Shit the damage is irrevocable. Here's to hoping its not. Sigh. Okay, lets move on.
Tony. Hmm. the T-dog. Not sure about this one either. He's a low-level geek, aware of linux but won't use it primarily (hell, Jim's not using BSD primarily...is he?), but knows his way around the 'doze well enough. I'm not sure where to rank him because of basic Lack O' Knowledge about his OS habits, but I'm sure that as soon as his new blog gets posted, which should be Any Day Now, a that his new personal website has what is perhaps the strangest Flash of the year. One wonders just what the hell Tony is thinking putting his real address and phone number out on his website for the world to see. Tony, dude, post only your email addy. If they're that interested, they'll let you know that way and you can then transfer adresses/phone numbers through that (semi) secure form. Let us not foget about the strange gf who left food outside your door. That is honestly the creepiest thing...EVER.
Hmm.. I've ran out of friends. My other bud, Tommy, doesn't even use his old win95 computer, so not much can be said there.
Okay, time to jet.
Evan Erwin from URL @ 7:40 PM
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Today was a ho-hum day. Pretty much got 5 copies of PCAnywhere approved for the bank so I can manage the win2k servers remotely. God knows why it took me so long to get this, but at least its in motion. The 4 copies (9 bucks a pop, thanks pricewatch!) should do, and our big-ass 50 PC rollout, the first phase slated for next year, should come with PC Anywhere (thanks to my suggestion).
New guy bugs me. Not like he's bad or evil, just yap yap yap. I swear to God, of all the people to hire, they had to find the most feminine guy in the whole city. Not that there's anything wrong with that, because, damn, just imagine if they had hired the most masculine ("You like Sarah McLachlan? You faggot!"). But still, it would be nice to have some peace and quiet in the evenings at work. I know I'm giving up that P+Q time at home thanks to little Annie, and that I can deal with. But fuck, just question after stupid ass question. The most random shit you ever heard. He runs a movie theater and has absolutely NO taste in film. He likes the latest pop junk, madonna and julia roberts are God(desse)s, etc etc. I ask him if he's seen Sex, Lies, and Videotape. "Is that coming out this summer?" he replies. Then he's sure its the name of the new Guy Ritchie/Madonna flick. No, that's Sex, Lies, Drugs, and Rock & Roll or something I tell him. Then he's sure that Lilo, from the Disney flick Lilo & Stich, is pronounced Lye-Low. "Nope, its Lee-low," I tell him. He doesn't believe me. He tells me that the trailers playing in his own damn theater say "Lye-Low". So I have to go hunt the trailer and show him how he's wrong. He just can't trust me, nor can he just be quiet. If we somehow manage to finish one conversation, another begins. This is somewhat soothing depending on my mood, sure, I mean, sometimes you yearn for talk. But the new guy, well, he's taught me to appreciate the silence.
So I come home and start cleaning up. I've already hauled some shit to the dumpsters (they didn't come by today and empty them--must be tomorrow thanks to the holiday) and then took the dresser down the stairs like I was supposed to yesterday. So I get this little dresser down the stairs, get everything laid out so I can put the thing together, go get my tools, sit down, take a breath...
...there are no instructions in this kit. None. Zilch. Nada. I've searched, looked, wondered, sought, continued looking into that empty cardboard box. I'm about to check online and hope that something turns up. I'm not making excuses, there just really isn't any fuckin instructions in the kit. I'm sure they fell out, but where, God knows. Yup, that's it, God knows. Next time you see him, drop him a line for me, eh?
Talked with the neighbors today, at least the female half. Seems that she has oodles of little girl clothes she's ready to sell cheap. Well, we'll look at em, they're supposed to come by tomorrow with em, but I seriously doubt we'll be able to buy any. I'm sure we might be able to strike a deal, but who knows. We've got plenty of clothes, at least for the 0-3, 3-6mo catagory (well, we could possibly use a couple dozen 3-6 mo outfits, hint hint ya'll), but otherwise we're cool. I'm not holding my breath on any amazing deals or anything.
I'm determined to get slash working. I'm fucking determined. I don't know what kind of fucked up shit I'm gonna have to do, but it WILL work before I stop taking in breath. I'm thinking about reformatting and reinstalling. The beautiful thing about having such a "new" operating system is the ability to scratch the whole fucking thing and start anew at the drop of a hat. Sure it's an hour of two from my life, but this way you have a clean slate and multiple installs and reinstalls won't fuck anything up. I was thinking about installing without apache and/or perl, and then installing from the source packages later. Or maybe I just think its fucking supercool to compile and run shit. Who knows .Those old Windows habits die hard, and my yearning for a good ole game o' Quake 3 grows ever stronger. Last night, in my almost-asleep daze, I stumbled upon pricewatch and gandered at motherboards/processors. Couple hundred bucks for a nice Abit + Athlon 1.2. Nada bad shit there. Hell, if I ever had two hudnred bucks to blow on it I would. But I don't, so until then the good ole 300a will have to suffice. Rest assured however that vengence will be mine dammit, I will have a phat, phunky ass computer again. And when I do...when I do...I'll...I'll...
...I'll compile the shit outta some slash! Yeah!
Evan Erwin from URL @ 7:03 PM
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Monday, May 27, 2002
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Slash just doesn't want to install for me. Sigh. I'd kill to get the damn thing working, I really would. Is it that hard? I mean, truly. I've installed perl 5.6.1, I've installed mod_perl using a Makefile to install apache from the source so it is correctly configured with mod_perl, yet when I compile apache it doesn't create the mod_perl.so module that I need to use. Grr. And, to beat it all, I now have different executables, ie daemons, that are running because of this upgrade. I have at least three different configuration files, and most don't work because of dumb errors. !@^%@#$@!#$
My project for today is finished. I have put together a goliath of a dresser/vanity thing, I'm not sure of the exact name for it, it has three shelves and two large doors on each side that reveal two shelves inside that compartment. Either way, it took me around 4.5 hours of assembly to complete the bastard, and while there's still a dresser that needs to be assembled upstairs, made by the same company coincidentally, I'll be damned if I'm putting it together today. Well, I might later on if I get the notion, but I think I've done my duty as far as putting shit together.
Found a few jobs on monster.com that might be right up my alley. One sounds absolutely perfect for me. A Network Admin who takes care of 5 or 6 branches of a small bank. Bad news is, the bank is in California. Of course, that's only bad news to Ericka. Me, shit, I'm all about it. Move to CA and make movies in my spare time :)
Gotta run, need to drop off payment for the electricity as well as get Ericka's vitamin's refilled.
*poof*
Evan Erwin from URL @ 6:46 PM
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Sunday, May 26, 2002
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So we saw Vanilla Sky. Ericka liked it, sorta. Not a fan to say the least, but at least she paid attention.
Is it so hard to get wives to appreciate good cinema? I mean, seriously.
Tonight will continue my obsession to get slash working correctly. God help us all.
Evan Erwin from URL @ 10:48 PM
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Ugh. My body aches. My IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) seems to have come around for its usual 6-8 week visit. Every 6-8 weeks it drops in to say "Hey, how ya doin, it's time for a little pain" and then debilitating shots of agony shoot through me. It's a real wonderful disease/disorder. There is no cure. There is no medicine (other than basic pain medication). On the plus side, I seem to have a very mild form of it. It doesn't seem to be triggered by anything, but some have to be very careful about what they eat and what they drink. Ugh. Anyway.
Yesterday we got all kinds of things done. Firstly we went and dropped off my donated microwave to Ericka's work so they could sell it in a yardsale to benefit the mentally disabled kids there. The kids have to raise enough money to go on vacation. I hope it serves them well.
Then we went and picked up the crib, a white metal frame that yes, looks very much like a small prison. I can assure my child will spend little time in such a contraption, but it had to be acquired regardless.
Went to Babies R' Us and bought some outfits, a toy, bottles, etc. Biggest purchase was the Eddie Bauer diaper bag, it's black and yellow, looking very bee-ish, and is pretty neat. Basically we had to find something that both of us could utilize and not feel embarrassed doing so. Our diaper bag count now, thanks to gifts and the like, stands at four. Yes, four.
Before we left K-town we also picked up some furniture donated by Ericka's friend Nikki. She gave us a dresser and an armoir type thing. Well, this big ass armoir thing I brought in the the house myself (this is problem #1) by walking the thing into the house slowly but surely. The mishap occurred when I put the thing on the stairs and the hundred fifty pound bastard went flying down them.
WHOOSH...
BANG!
Right into the wall where at the bottom of the stairs where the stairs turn a corner. Yes, I now have a foot-wide hole in the sheetrock. Some of the sheetrock has been pulled back out by my lovely wife, but it still looks awful. I'm hoping my landlord won't dock me too much for my Stupid Ass Mishap.
So, now I have two pieces of furniture to assemble, not sure if I'll do that today or tomorrow. We'll see.
Picked up two DVDs yesterday, The Others and Vanilla Sky. Ericka liked the Others, didn't figure out the twist (I was quite impressed that this film didn't give itself away to her--she normally sees EVERY twist ending long before it happens. She figured out The Sixth Sense in about thirty minutes). We're still up for Vanilla Sky tonight, and that's a wonderfully trippy flick.
Well, I'm still in pain so I'll take off now. Ugh. Maybe some "earthy" treatments might help. You know, of the 'herbal' variety :)
Peace.
Evan Erwin from URL @ 6:41 PM
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