As the last Gentoo LiveDVD was created in 2012 I am attempting to create my own. An hour later I have come to the realization that I should have created a fresh chroot to build from as my system has too many packages from ~arch...
Time to make a chroot...
RMA'd two bad hard drives at the same time. The replacements were shipped out in two separate boxes at the same time with the same tracking number. One arrived week ago Friday. The other was MIA until Saturday when "a sorting exception occurred, ups has taken corrective action." Which sounds more to me like "we lost your package but recently found it." It'll be interesting...
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Sometimes I think having a breathalyzer attached to sudo would be a good idea for some sysadmins...
What a terrible movie! I feel dirty for watching it...
I've wanted an HTPC for several years and finally decided to take some time and get started.
My original idea was to build a gaming machine and have it hooked up to my TV, but then I gave it a lot of thought over several months and decided that I want to keep the gaming on my laptop (that's what I bought it for) and...
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In one of my computers I had a 3 terabyte drive that I was using for storage of important files and it failed. Most of the files were backed up, but not all. The drive started giving random I/O errors so I stopped using it on a regular basis. Then I started getting smart errors and decided it was time to get the rest of...
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So I have been talking to a really great woman through Match.com and we had our first date (dinner) last night. It went really well! I was very nervous at the start and she noticed, but the more I talked with her the more relaxed I became. Needless to say that I have been in a good mood since! She is smart, funny, outgoing, and...
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What was I thinking? It's now obvious that nobody wants me. I might as well become a monk or perhaps drink until my body gives out. I guess it doesn't really matter...
I can't really say I'm loving this new SG interface... It's a bit klunky.. sort of reminds me of something Apple would poop out on an iCrap product.