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April 2, 2003 | In: Entertainment, Personal, Technology, Work
[This article has been retroactively posted from my Kuro5hin Diary.]
“How does your roomies b/f make money operating a male escort service? Whenever Egg Troll has tried to whore out his tight li’l ass he has to compete with the queens down at Daddy’s who give it away for free! In a way, its a good metaphor for the whole commercial vs open source software situation.”
– egg_troll
- I’m settling into the new place quite comfortably; however, I haven’t been around much in the evening this week.
- I decided a long time ago that I was going to retire my old server at home and build a new box. I very much would like to use RAID1 and have been experimenting with software-based RAID, specifically vinum(4), but I have found it to be lacking in many ways. I have come to the conclusion that a hardware-based solution is the right choice, for now. So far, I am liking the FastTrak TX2000 from Promise, especially since it has support built into FreeBSD’s ata(4) driver, which means I can take advantage of the relatively easy-to-use atacontrol(8) command to rebuild the RAID. It’s relatively cheap and also makes the baby Jeebus giggle.
- So, Queer as Folk is such a silly show sometimes. I am compelled to watch it (sex scenes), but to me it represents a projectional (i.e. the attribution of one’s own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others) image of gays, as gay people like to see themselves as being. In real life, that image only seems to exist amongst lesbyterians, and at certain dinner parties.
- If you’ve ever felt down or lonely or anything negative about your romantic relationships (or lack thereof), for a pick-me-up, you should visit Heartless Bitches International, especially you women. For men, simply adjust your pronouns, as necessary.
- Returning to the topic of computers, I am going to take my old server and put a smaller hard drive in it and then use it as a router/firewall. I am currently borrowing a Netopia router, which has worked very well, but I don’t get nearly the amount of pleasure from it as I would setting up my own router with ipfilter, snort, etc.
- I just found out about ten minutes ago that my contract has officially been extended here at Cummins through June. Woohoo! I don’t know exactly what I will be doing, but at least I have three more months of steady income. All praise be to Allah!
- fin
