canutethegreat

So I'm still playing Star Trek Online if anyone here also plays. My main character is named "Rush" and is a Federation Engineer. I am one of two fleet admirals of the Alpha Task Force fleet. If anyone wants an invite to the fleet just PM or email me in-game as we are recruiting and open to players of any level.

If there were enough...
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Just played with the latest Windows 8 Beta (64-bit) Preview.

What in the fuck is microsoft smoking?

It's as if someone took Windows 7 and Chrome OS and created Frankenstein's monster with it!

This is, by far, the worst UI I have ever used.

If I wanted a tablet-oriented UI I will use a fucking tablet!

Hell I wouldn't even use this pile of shit...
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I've been giving some thought towards building a still. It will mostly be used to produce rum, but maybe other things on occasion.

I used to be strictly a (dark) beer guy, but lately it's the rum that makes me happy.

It can be straight rum, mixed in a drink, expensive stuff or cheap crap. I'm not that picky. I picked up a bottle of...
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This pretty much sums up my week so far:
Kitten: my that wire you are working on looks mighty tasty!
Me: don't even think abo...
Kitten: *nom* *nom* *nom* what?
...

Yeah, that's how things have been going lately. I'm low on electrical tape, down to my last phone charger cable, and completely out of split wire loom... *sigh*

I think I have reached the point where I am completely burned out on school. I am going to take the rest of the quarter off (I'll take the incomplete/F/Z/whatever I get for not finishing) and try working on a few personal projects.

I have several Android app ideas and I might try picking one and see if I can get it done and published...
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Been working on the netbook (Dell Inspiron Duo 1090) and getting the dock to work in Linux (Gentoo).

Out of the box the dock works IF the netbook is booted while docked. It mostly works (minus ethernet, haven't tested the card reader) if you boot solo and hot dock.

I did find a way to get the ethernet to work after hot docking by forcing...
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So the wife and I adopted a parrot. He's a yellow double-headed amazon. The previous owners (who were moving and couldn't take him with) believe he is 10 years old.

He's a mean one, Mr. Grinch! He bit 3 of us while we were visiting him at the previous owner's house (which was nearly empty). I'm sure he was upset by all of it, but...
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So this morning, while enjoying my morning cup of coffee and checking email, the kitten decided to chew up the router AND cable modem power cords! The worst part was that she did it right in front of me and I didn't even notice until the Internet went out.. *sigh*

I took the two cords and noticed that she's obviously been working on them for...
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I finally got Linux (Gentoo) to work on the netbook without crashing when docking/undocking or plugging/unplugging the AC adapter by hacking the DSDT data in the BIOS. Turns out the source of the problem is a buggy BIOS from Dell (surprise...) wherein they are registering the power adapter twice with the same name.

It's been a few days and after removing the extra entry from...
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If I were trying to survive the zombie apocalypse I would be making use of law enforcement tactical gear!

Specifically I would be wearing "SWAT" or more likely riot/crowd control gear (or maybe some combination of the two). Why? Simple: riot gear is padded, has a helmet with a full face shield, and the shield that you see police kneeling behind when being shot at/large...
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