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 Sunday, September 05 2010 @ 02:20 PDT

Think of it this way

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Wednesday, October 22 2008 @ 01:26 PDT
Contributed by: Alvin
Views: 189
ThoughtsGot this idea from GoreBlade. But, why do we need to vote to get politicians to protect our environment? There are things like Alaska having quadrupled the rate of birth defects, or increased cancer and asthma rates, not to mention property damage from increased storm power and food crop damage on the horizon.

Do we need to vote to put out a forest fire? Do we need to vote to stop a armed bank robbery?

Why do we have to vote to protect our health and environment? It should be a national task force.
 
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Three months til freedom

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Monday, October 20 2008 @ 10:25 PDT
Contributed by: Alvin
Views: 233
ThoughtsJust three months from today until Bush leaves office, finally. And as long as everyone who wants and needs to vote, do, the next eight years and beyond hold promise.

TJ, tell us how it is:

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
-Thomas Jefferson
 
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Gravitation

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Friday, October 17 2008 @ 03:10 PDT
Contributed by: Alvin
Views: 232
Video GamesYou download it. And it takes less than 10 minutes to play.

It's fascinatingly deep and oddly compelling for such a simple gameplay process. Arrow keys move you. Space bar jumps. F if you don't want to play full screen.

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/gravitation/

A video game about mania, melancholia, and the creative process.
 
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That's my president!

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Thursday, October 16 2008 @ 09:40 PDT
Contributed by: EZ
Views: 209
ThoughtsMcCain and Obama joked with each other at the Al Smith dinner, a regular politcal function.

My favorite line: "I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton. I was sent here by my father Jorel to save the planet Earth..." - Obama

He added: "Many of you know that I got my name from my father. "Barack" is Swahili for "That one." I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't realize I would run for president."

"My greatest strength would be my humility. My greatest weakness is that it's possible I am too awesome."
 
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Mr. McCain, could you tell us how you felt about the debate?

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Wednesday, October 15 2008 @ 11:00 PDT
Contributed by: Alvin
Views: 202
General News
 
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It's alive!

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Wednesday, October 15 2008 @ 02:02 PDT
Contributed by: EZ
Views: 116
ThoughtsI got windows up and running on some backup hard drives I had. I'm not thrilled with the current set up because a) they don't have the proper mountings and aren't secure and b) they're still RAID, which I'm less pleased with after this fiasco (looks like the problem was mostly a crappy Windows CD, not the RAID, but nonetheless).

Chkdsk tried to run, which had me worried since it looked like it was trying to delete files the last time it ran. But unlike the last time "Press any key to cancel" actually worked, and once I got into windows, I could see the old drive fine.

None of that matters too much because I can access my data. I can let this system go for a week or two and turn back to focus on a backup solution. And in case something happens again, I'm backing up my important stuff onto both sets of RAID drives. Once I have a proper backup drive, I can move everything there and then figure out what I want to with the system drives (clean and wipe, go back to big fast RAID, or keep as is but secure for the new drives). Now that I've conquered RAID, and have some extra parts that might be good, I can play with the old system and possibly get that up and running for the Fiancee to play PC games on.

Now, I'm not a superstitious person. Especially when it comes to astrology. But I was hipped to the idea of Mercury retrograde last year, and, well. Mercury went into retrograde the day my computer suddenly shutdown and wouldn't boot back up. I didn't get the computer fully up and running, and certainly not my old drives until after midnight, today. Mercury's retrograde status, astrologically anyway, ended at the end of the day, yesterday.

I can't help but wonder.
 
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I don't know what to do anymore

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Tuesday, October 07 2008 @ 09:47 PDT
Contributed by: EZ
Views: 217
General NewsA coworker pointed out a brilliant idea. I could install windows to another hard drive and, at the very least, recover my data from my other hard drive.

So, I tried this, and it installed pretty well. It's unable to properly install some drivers, and I have no idea why - except that the only windows CDs they gave me have pre-installed drivers and setups (so I can't do a perfectly clean install). And for some reason it installed windows to Drive H. To be extra careful I unplugged my former hard drives, and plugged the backup one into the SATA ports my primary drives used. So I'm baffled why it's drive H, but it works, so whatever.

After getting windows setup, I plugged back in the other drives. Of course, now they are drive C again, for reasons I can't fathom. To top it all off, I had to do this in IDE set up, because despite having the proper drivers and setup, RAID refuses to be recognized by Windows setup.

But horrifyingly, I see CHKDSK running and running through a list of "deleting orphan files". Counting up from 1, up into the hundreds and thousands. Seeing my data being deleted, I reboot. It again tries to do it, this time I actually see the message that I can cancel the process, except that I can't - no keyboard press, ESC, Ctrl-C, nothing is stopping it as it begins to scan again.

So now, here I sit, with all my work - my writing, my photos, everything I've created - and I have no idea if its even salvageable anymore. Maybe the drive is irrevocably corrupt now. Maybe it's trapped on there. I have no idea. But it sucks and I'm completely out of ideas.
 
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Beyond reprehensible

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Tuesday, October 07 2008 @ 07:55 PDT
Contributed by: Alvin
Views: 216
ThoughtsSo, here's a snippet from a recent Palin speech. You might have heard about it:
"Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers...And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,'" she continued.

"Boooo!" the crowd repeated.

"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-feldman/is-palin-trying-to-incite_b_132534.html

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/as-dow-plummets.html

Kill him? There was no shame or admonishment from her. In fact she went on and finished up with "I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as 'imperfect enough' to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country."

Now, in all fairness, candidates can't control all their supporters. Maybe she didn't hear the man in the crowd. The campaign has tried these excuses. But they also have this to say. One of McCain's top campaign strategists: "I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as 'imperfect enough' to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country."

So, there we have it. McCain's last hope for victory, and primary campaign strategy is nothing less than to incite the most fanatic of his supports to assassinate Barack Obama.
 
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I have had it with RAID setups

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Tuesday, October 07 2008 @ 12:20 PDT
Contributed by: EZ
Views: 108
ThoughtsEither my power supply or motherboard died two weeks ago, so I took the opportunity to replace the one and upgrade the other, along with the required CPU and memory.

Little did I know that Windows is so draconian as to NOT BOOT if you change your motherboard. No problem, I can repair it with my Windows CD right? Well, no because the windows CD doesn't recognize the Raid hard drives. If I tell the BIOS they are IDE, windows thinks I've got two drives that are either unformatted or unrecognizable. I discovered after a couple of hours that my Bios can be told I have RAID drives. Awesome! Well, no because now Windows blue screens immediately, Safe Mode or not, and if I boot from the CD to repair Windows it doesn't see ANY drives at all and crashes when I press the up arrow.

I tried to install an old hard drive, thinking at the very least I can back up my stuff and mess around without worrying about losing almost all my photos (everything I've taken since May, at the very least, which includes the last Hawai'i trip), and much of my writing. Inexplicably, windows is as slow as molasses, taking about 10 minutes to boot. On my old system, I was familiar with that (when long ago I tried to reformat my old system's Raid drive and pretty much had the same problem). What I wasn't familiar with was it not being able to find my mouse and keyboard, so I was stuck on the login screen unable to do what was asked.

I didn't mention that I had to take it to a repair shop in order to get my new parts installed because my old power supply was trapped in such a way that I didn't have the tools to free it. So here I am, with a grand in new parts sitting in my PC that doesn't do a fucking thing. The purchase of which will have me delay abandoning the PC for a Mac Pro.

I'm torn between taking it to work were maybe someone knows what the hell to do, or taking it back into a shop to get Windows working, or at the very least, back up my data so I don't have to worry about everything being trapped in inaccessible data forms.

At least I understand how Windows is a world without walls. I want to take a sledgehammer to those walls. Then, shove the rubble down Steve Ballmer's throat.

I'm a PC.
 
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One of the best politcal speeches I've seen

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Thursday, October 02 2008 @ 09:47 PDT
Contributed by: EZ
Views: 211
MoviesAnd it's not by Obama. Or McCain. Or Clinton. Not a politician at all. A union man. A third generation coal worker, one of the leaders of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka.

 
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