Again a long gap between updates, but this time I’ve got a valid excuse. My GeForce2MX died. Yes the dreadful truth. It died on Sunday, it’s now Friday. It took me this long to get a replacement. I ordered a replacement from Mr PCBudget on Sunday night, only to hear late on Wednesday that he can’t get one. Bugger. So I went out and got a new one elsewhere. (A new one not being exactly the same as I had before. Being the person I am who really loves taking risks (barf) I got a Sparkle Geforce2Pro 64mb with Tv out. Ever heard of Sparkle before, I hadn’t until I saw them on the DMA pricelist, but I digress.) Adding to the complication was my reinstall of both machines and some coding I needed to do for the state quake 3 tournament I happen to be running on the weekend. The plus side of the reinstall is I now have both IBM Deskstar’s in one machine, on a Promise Ultra 100 IDE controller. ATA100 Raid goodness. Though I’d prefer to run RAID5 than RAID0 I have no choice due to controller costs and the extra drive it would require. During all the reinstall I happen to ditch windows in favour of a finely tweaked install of RedHat 7.1 which consists of about 450 meg of the beta 7.1.94 and some later packages from other sources. Needless to say, everything is working fine. Divx, DVD’s, Real media (vomit), Quake 3, UT, Tribes 2.

In preparation for the Uwalan I ended up burning about 30 cd’s. So I’ve got about 120+ gig of leech space. However I will be copying quite a few divx rips and stuff onto it for others to leech off me. I’ve got ProFTPD working for me, so they should be able to leech as fast as possible, samba is kicking some ass and Limewire as a backup. 2 network cards might make it easier on my leeching whiles others are leeching off me. Bonnie++ reports my array’s block read speed at 74000 kb/s which isn’t bad… I’m not totally convinced though.

Panic has started to set in over the Uwalan’s quake 3 tournament. It’s big, bigger than I intended, and I need to put in lots of work to make it happen. But there just isn’t enough time between now and 1pm Monday.

In other news, I’ve got 2 more Dark Angel episodes divxing as I type. I did get Bubblegum Crisis, as I will tomorrow night.

fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high — core dumped.

Neon Genesis Evangelion Collection 0:8 is now mine, but I’m missing 0:7 still. Also American History X landed in my shopping basket so it’s now in my collection. The recently aquired category also contains Tribes 2 (Linux), Quake 3 Linux (Tin box), a Promise Ultra 100 Tx2 IDE controller and some more 10/100 network cards. My laptop now has 64mb that works, (the last 32mb card did not). There is also a fluffy Tux on top of my monitor =)

Life is good again, except for those involved with the remains of the WTC which we’ve all heard about. My input, well here’s the last known webcam shot of the camera on the 77 floor of one of the towers (not sure which) and the quote on slashdot says it all: The last image from WTC´s 77th floor webcam is available on a few sites around the net. The original WCTA.org cam-site is dead, but available in Google´s cache, where you can see the dark screen (camera already dead, most likely) at 09:52:52, 09/11/01 – just before the buildings crashed. See it here. Also for a short duration, the remains of the towers were for sale on eBay, saved for all glory here.

I also scored some pics of the Nintendo GameCube prior to it’s release. And here is iinet’s pr0n site, check out the meta tags in there. There’s one more episode of lock stock to go, 2nd last one was on friday night at 11:20 due to tuesday nights CNN coverage. (Also available on divx (235meg).) That makes 7 episodes total. Bubblegum Crisis episode 18 also capture fine.

It’s been quite a while since I looked at Netcraft, but as I thought before, I’m still on top for iiNet … uber.

Since when has portland been running (redhat) linux? (Check out the output of a phpinfo(); script.) Or this page. This would suggest that portland are using a load balanced pool of web servers where some are running Linux and others AIX. As far as I can tell, there are at least 2 redhat boxs in there, one called localhost.localdomain and one called cls2. Grrr portland ftp, grrr.

This damn this essay is done (w00t).

Q: Why was Stonehenge abandoned?
A: It wasn’t IBM compatible.

AusPCmarket no longer ships stuff COD damn. Not that I’d buy much stuff from them after the last ordeal. Though I just did, hmmm.

I’ve now got a lil Tux penguin sitting on top of my monitor, uber l33t. Linux Q3A (tin box) and Tribes 2 are also mine. May the games begin, after assignments, bah.

I’m going to blam Kristy for me listening to the Disney Ducktales theme music. It’s on my playlist and it’s not budging.

Terrorist attack on US. Capturing right now …

Now the obligatory chicken talk for spanners benefit:

M00!

Perhaps not, but still. No wonder I’ve been unhappy with my divx 4 rip of Pulp Fiction. The disk is known to be bloody annoying with interlacing problems. If only I knew this before wasting so much time on it. I could have been divxing other stuff (like my brothers dvd’s whiles he’s in Kalgoolie).

Other stuff, I ordered a IDE controller today. Divx 4.01 is out with more fixes still.

“No job too big; no fee too big!” — Dr. Peter Venkman, “Ghost-busters”