Azagthoth

tomorrow is System Administrator Appreciation Day

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:06:00 GMT

Tomorrow is System Administrator Appreciation Day

I'll be expecting beer deliveries at my house all day. Bass, Boddingtons, or Killians please.

Announcement

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:46:20 GMT

Listen up folks. I have 2 announcements to make.

1) It's official. Laura and I are now engaged.

2) Laura and I will be at the Dirty Dwarf tonight to celebrate my birthday and our engagement. All friends are welcome. We'll be there starting at about 9:00PM. George, who use to perform thursday night's at O'shea's, will be performing tonight at the Dwarf.

what window manager do you prefer

Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:37:30 GMT

For all you linux users out there, what window manager do you prefer? Personally I'm an enlightenment fan.

Mail.app just doesn't cut it

Mon, 16 May 2005 22:28:48 GMT

I've tried to like Mail.app, really I have. When I got my mini I was open to trying to use a gui mail client. In fact, I'm still open to using a gui mail client but mail.app is not it.

Perhaps I just haven't found the right settings but mail.app doesn't support sig monster, proper message threading, it's text editor sucks compared to vi, and is very slow in dealing with deletion of lots of mail. I find myself missing the features and configurability of mutt.

Does anyone know of a gui mail client for the mac that has the features of mutt?

Danger Mouse on dvd

Sun, 24 Apr 2005 13:16:33 GMT

This is so mine.

aI need programming classes

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:48:59 GMT

I hate it when I'm writing some code and I hit a wall where I don't know how to correctly do something (correctly defined in a programming theory kind of way). Sure I can do an ugly hack to get around it, but I hate doing ugly hacks if I can avoid it(I blame my dislike of ugly hacks on spc). I really need to take some programming classes to learn the prober theory of this shit.

In case you're curious this is in regards to a new function I'm writing for my gothix installer shell script. It's a function to handle doing disk partitioning and I want it to be able to do any kind of partitioning for a single disk per call.

Gothix

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:36:38 GMT

Gothix is the linux distribution that I designed for the company I work for.
Jim Stanley came up with the name gothix when I was originally joking about making my own linux distro with a gothc flair. I never got around to doing that project, but when the company needed a linux build I volunteered and decided to call it gothix as I liked the name.

Just some random thought that popped into my brain today. I had forgotten that jim originally came up with the name.

Musings on working with Jim

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:19:06 GMT

when I started working here in August of 1999, Jim had been here a few months and was a character. I quickly grew to like him and his sense of humor and comments. He was on 2nd shift and I was on 3rd so our paths crossed for a few hours every day we worked. He was one of the founding members of the group that made up the kill9.org colo group. We both became teir 3's and worked togather doing advanced tech support. I moved to unix sa and he stayed in support for a while, finally moving to windows sa. We both worked 3rd shift together as SA's. Jim took a leave of absense to be with his ailing father. Jim came back but had to leave the company at the February of this year to move up to Alabama to help take care of his father.

Jim left me with many memories and laughs over our 6 years as friends. May he Rest in Piece.

RIP

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:12:08 GMT

Jim Stanley was killed on March 6, 2005 in a car accident.
Here's to you, Jim {raises pint}.

I think I'm going to get very drunk tonight.

learning french

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:58:36 GMT

Anyone have any recommendations on good books, cd's, or software (unix or mac only) to learn french?

Mac Mini day

Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:31:53 GMT

My Mac Mini is out for delivery today:

Mar 10, 2005 8:12 am On FedEx vehicle for delivery LAKE WORTH FL

WOOT.

Is this a joke?

Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:07:45 GMT

This has got to be a joke.

scifi friday recorded?

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:31:12 GMT

My mythtv box blew a drive friday night so it did not record any of scifi friday. Anyone record SG-1 Atlantis, and Battlestar Galatic that wants to give me copies?

rpmbuild help

Sun, 06 Feb 2005 15:42:33 GMT

Ok, I've been through tons of docs, man pages, etc, etc and now I need help.

As far as I can tell, I should be able to make rpm's out of non source programs and such, but I'll be damned if I can figure out how. Anyone care explain it or point to a place with useful docs?

Mac mini : Mac user opions needed

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:54:38 GMT

I can't believe I'm going to say this but here goes.

I'm thinking about replacing linux with a Mac Mini running os X as my primary desktop. I've already read the reviews out there on the mini and am impressed. I've said for a while that I'd love to try out os X but the price of a mac has always been too high. At $575 dollars (a mac mini with 512 meg of RAM) the price is definitely right.

My question is if a mac mini running os X will actually be as usable or more to me than my beloved Linux. Can any mac user comment on this? Especially those of you who have used a *NIX as a desktop for awhile and switched to os X,

USS Wisconsin

Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:41:29 GMT

While I was on vacation I went up to Virgina to see my parents and my favorite aunt and uncle. We went to Nauticus and toured the USS Wisconsin. Pics of the tour are here. What a truly awesome ship.

There must be something deeply wrong with me

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:31:17 GMT

Recently I had a wild hair up my ass to re-read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, so I went out and bought it and am currently reading it. There must be something wrong with me on a very deep level to want to re-read this book. Don't get me wrong, it's a good book with some great concepts, but Dark Gods, is it long and overly verbose. I swear Ayn Rand must have set VERBOSE=1,0000 when she wrote it.

Justice League Unlimited

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:07:13 GMT

I haven't seen Justice League since it's first season. I liked it then but wasn't about to be a slave[0] to the tv to watch it. Fast forward to now, I have a PVR. After seeing shadesong's post about Justice League Unlimited I decided to set up the PVR to record it every saturday night, well it and Teen Titans.

I watched the new episode last night and I must say WTF. The episode was good and I'm happy that I'll be able to watch the show from now on but, there were 20+ super heroes on the show. WTF. what did I miss it used to be only about 4 -5. Some on want to clue me in on what happened?

[0] Having to be around when a show is on.

mythtv, car wrecking, moving, life in general

Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:13:30 GMT

What have I been up to?

Getting mythtv working. Mythtv rocks. For the price of a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 TV encoder card I know have my own PVR[0]. I'm starting to enjoy watching TV again. IT's so nice to browse show listings, choose what I want to watch and watch it whenever I feel like with no commercials. For anyone with Linux clue that want's a pvr I strongly recommend mythtv.

I managed to wreck my car. I hit a curb at about 30 MPH and the passenger side front tire buckled in bending about $2,000's worth of shit. Thank the dark gods for insurance. Geico made the whole experience painless, from getting my rental car to having an adjuster out in under 24 hours to getting my car back. My car is now back from the shop fully repaired. Everyone in the car was fine.

Stacy[1] and Bruce finally got engaged so Stacey is selling the house and moving in with Bruce. This means I have to find a new place to live. I'll be moving in with Dave, but Dave and his dad have to clean out the room I'll be moving in to. The Realtor thinks the house will sell very quickly so Stacy and I are preparing to move out this month.

[0] Personal Video Recorder. Tivo is the most well known example of a PVR.
[1] My roomate and landlord[2].
[2] She owns the house we live in.

stream real video content

Sun, 07 Nov 2004 19:03:16 GMT

OMG. I'm getting worked trying to get helix server to stream live real video content from a helix producer source. ARRRGHHHH.

For those of you who voted for Bush

Thu, 04 Nov 2004 17:43:59 GMT

For those that voted for Bush I have to ask, how the FUCK could you want him in power. The man is an idiot. He stands against gays and anything unchristian. If you don't think that Bush is a good old christian who will follow the religious right and his faith rather than follow the principles of separation of church and state state wisely set forth by the founders of this country just take a look at this statement by Bush taken from here:

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THIS NEXT QUESTION WAS ASKED AND CHOSEN BY 13-17 YEAR-OLD "FUTURE VOTERS" AS THEIR GREATEST CONCERN THAT HADN'T BEEN FULLY ANSWERED BY THE CANDIDATES:

12. TOLERANCE FOR THOSE WHO ARE DIFFERENT:

The Bush administration has made a big deal of President Bush's Christian faith. Democratic candidate John Kerry is also a Christian. My question for the candidates is how does your faith affect your decision-making for the future of our country? Also, America is based on the separation of church and state. For the candidates, is it conflicting to take a position on issues based on Christianity (such as abortion and gay marriage) when not everyone in America believes in God or Christianity?
- Marcy, 17, of CO

President George Bush Responds:

I have a great respect for people of all beliefs, and I am proud to live in a Nation that welcomes and respects people of diverse philosophies and backgrounds. My faith has made a big difference in both my personal life and my public life. As President, I make decisions based on what I think is best for the country. However, my faith is an integral part of my life, and I cannot separate my faith from who I am as a person.

I support the separation of church and state, but I do not believe our Founders intended for the State to discriminate against the church and banish faith from the public square. Our Nation was based on founding principles; the decisions I make as a leader are sbased on these principles and not my personal faith. Marriage, for example, has been the foundation of our society and of societies and cultures throughout history -- and it has always been defined as the union between a man and a woman. I believe that the future of marriage in America should be decided through the democratic process, rather than by the court orders of a few.

I also believe government should not fear faith, but welcome faith and utilize America's "armies of compassion" as they continue to transform lives. My Faith-Based and Community Initiative levels the playing field in the Federal grants process for religious organizations. I signed a law reaffirming "one Nation under God" in our Pledge and "In God we trust" as our Motto. And I support the Equal Access Act which allow religious organizations to hold voluntary meetings on public property - such as schools, because denying them that right would be unconstitutional.
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Does this shit not scare you?

Here's a little song that you should read and think about rather than just blindly following along.

Merican
By: The Descendents

we flipped our finger to the king of england
stole our country from the indians
with god at our side and guns in our hands
we took it for our own
a nation dedicated to liberty
justice and equality
doesn't look that way to you
it doesn't look that way to me
the sickest joke i know

listen up man, i'll tell you who i am
just another stupid american
you don't wanna listen
you don't wanna understand
so finish up your drink and go home

i come from the land of ben franklin
otis redding, ellington
the country that i love
but it's a land of the slaves and the ku klux klan
haymarket riot and the great depression
don't get caught in vietnam
the sickest joke i know

listen up man, i'll tell you who i am
just another stupid american
you don't wanna listen
you don't wanna understand
so finish up your drink and go home

i'm proud and ashamed
every fourth of july
you got to know the truth
before you say that you got pride

listen up man, i'll tell you who i am
just another stupid american
you don't wanna listen
you don't wanna understand
so finish up your drink and go home

not the cops got taste 'cause the kids got guns
shrinks pushin' pills on everyone
cancer from the ocean
cancer from the sun
straight to hell we go

listen up man, i'll tell you who i am
just another stupid american
you don't wanna listen
you don't wanna understand
so finish up your drink and go home

Badnarik for president

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 21:24:12 GMT

I really should write up something about this election. Something about W., Kerry, and Badnarik and why I voted for Badnarik. Why I'm thinking that the Libertarians are a great idea. Why W. getting elected probably means the end of our freedoms and privacy. But I just don't have it in me. Instead I think I'll go get very, very drunk tonight.

The Decline

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 21:19:31 GMT

I think it's time I start looking into some nice property in Colorado, build a bunker, and stock up on more guns.

SIGH

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:57:45 GMT

Great. 4 more years of the Idiot Son of an Asshole[0]

[0] The title of a NOFX song. Guess who it's about.

copy/paste buffer meme

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:00:21 GMT

This was kind of cool so I'm going to steal it from resilient.

Click 'comment' and paste whatever happens to be in your copy/paste buffer at the moment into the comment.