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Thought I’d make a post about it. Yea, I know, but I must complain. Facebook, a social aggregator of information, used to track people and who they know, as well as what they look like, and what they do, is a crap site.
Check this out. Not only does the status/mood/tagline message not work, I also get this:
You’re using an old web browser to browse Facebook. To use the full version of Chat from within a regular Facebook window, please upgrade your browser.
OLD? WTF.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux 2.6.26.5-anamality; X11; x86_64; en_US) KHTML/3.5.9 (like Gecko) (Debian package 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6)
That’s my browser ID. Yes, it’s a custom kernel, and no, it’s not the latest. But it’s close, just a couple revisions old.
“Please switch to Firefox”
NO. I’ll use Iceweasel, which you have no problem with, but I won’t deal with the branding. How about instead of complaining that I’M the problem, you code to standards, and if I really don’t have this one feature that you absolutely need, degrade gracefully? Hmmm. Maybe I’m asking too much. Maybe korea’s really getting to me. (It is.)
jeez.
And yea, konqueror’s my primary browser. up next is links2, and then iceweasel.

I made a mistake. I specced out another machine, and I want it. This could cause complications, as I’d be then going from one to three computers in less than a month. I didn’t go to HP today, I was too tired. And now I may have gotten too much sleep, because I have a headache. Maybe I’ll find a balance someday. So many things I want to get done, but I just don’t feel like doing them. Perhaps without WoW I can get this stuff done? I’d be playing WoW right now if it weren’t for the fact that I can’t seem to get it to like my intel video card. That’s why I need the tx1000 working again, nvidia ftw. The 2500z has an ati radeon in it that is real powerful. That’d be sweet to have. And it works well in linux. I knew rushing out to buy another machine was a bad idea, but I did it anyway. I know that if I buy it, I won’t be able to get anything else while I’m here. But hey, with 3 machines, an n810, a ds, and pandora’s box on the way, I should be set. Plus I’ve got a bunch of electronic parts here.
Mupen64plus is a pretty sweet n64 emulator. Ah, and I have that dreamcast, too. Sorta makes me want to buy the 2500z, and then just not touch my account. In fact, I’m now trying to convince myself that that is not what I want to do. And I’m afraid it’s not working.

Ok, so last night I took it apart. Finally had enough time, and was able to clear out/off my desk to do it. My mobo(motherboard, mainboard, w/e) is shot. Not cool. Checked ebay, and online elsewhere for one. I can get one for about $300. I think on Monday, since it is a 4day weekend, I’ll go up to yongsan. There’s an HP center up there, and they should be able to get me one. Well, that’s the theory. I don’t have the thermal grease(or paste) to to the proc swap properly. I hope I can get it done under my “limited warranty,” but the likelyhood of that is in the realm of slim to none, even though I’m within my year, as I bought it in february, or early march. I know it was still at AIT.
I’ve got pictures of it, but I’ going to sort through them first.
This computer, the HP Pavillion dv2000 model isn’t bad, but the intel X3100 graphics chip doesn’t like linux+wine for games, even though it says I’m good to go, direct rendering, yes, and glxgears pumping out ~800fps. bah, there goes WoW again. Ha.

Hey, if you don’t wantthe computer, put it in my shop, and I’ll take care of it whenever I get to go home.
Ranges, and going to the DMZ are good for fnishing games. Last night, I finished(as in, beat the final boss) Legend of Zelda, the Phantom Hourglass. My review is this. Great game, but I want more. I think that’s a good thing, as I’ve been hooked on zelda since forever. Well, okay, Ocarina of Time for the N64, but I went back and played the others on emulators. Yes, you may boo me for that. Windwaker was great on the Gamecube, though. This one takes place pretty much right after windwaker.
So I cheated on setting up this new computer, what with pulling the drive and all. BTW, speakers have more bass on this machine(duh, it’s bigger). But what that means i that I’m copying over my stuff, and my settings, and my keys. That’s what I’m doing now, and on thursday I’ll be compiling another kernel, drivers, and what not, since I’ll have all day. That is, if I don’t get to it now. And yes, today is tuesday. I may also work on the dreamcast then, too.
Ok, well I think that I don’t have any actual news. Other than zelda, and that I’m back. w00t.

Yea. Still trying to rez the other one, but in the meantime, I’ve got a new machine. This one’s intel. Model HP Pavillion dv2000. Aside from switching to a generic kernel, a generic video driver, it’s not all that different. I’ll be compiling drivers, and a nice shiny kernel for it. We’ll see how it goes, the keyboard size and touchpad type and placement are still throwing me off a little, but it shouldn’t take too long to get used to it. So, sorry guys, I was without a working computer for a weekend, and it sucked. Sure, the one I borrowed for a couple hours, well, that doesn’t count. Mostly because I wasn’t going to install anything on it, and it just didn’t wat to cooperate with me. That just shows me I need better LiveCds(as in, get knoppix burned), and an updated DSL on my knife. Yadda yadda, need to get ready, finish packing and go to sleep. I like sleep.

Another quick posty.  I’m using a buddy’s comp for this (with permission), seeing as how we were in WoW, just finished an instance(SFK) and my lappy just shut down, and refused to boot.  Freaking video card, most likely, there was a good amount of heat in that area.  PX don’t sell it no more, so I can’t get another one.  I’m looking into getting another machine with the money the army’s saved me by putting an exercise right on the time I planned for leave.  Bah.  I had plan’s that I’d only be upgrading the RAM on that machine, and possibly the hard drive, otherwise keeping it through my whole miltary career.  As in, another 2.5 years.  I sure hope I can rez this guy, because our PX has a poor selection, and I don’t like riding the bus, let alone going to yongsan on the weekend, if at all.  I really should’ve known better, my fps was sucking majorly while playing, but the  temp was slightly lower than my normal for WoW, so I wasn’t worried about it.  Looks like that was the wrong thing.  But, what’s done is done, and I downed too many java monsters right after, so I’d calm down.  Came close to drinking a beer, too.  But, it smelled horrible, so I turned it down(I’d've been “stealing” it from the guy, so I don’t know if that counts).

Well, I’m going to do something.  Oh, and yesterday I put in my preorder for a pandora box.  nice.  Won’t be able to build my bike lights or anything until I can get my mail, which hopefully will be monday, maybe wednesday.  My month has been ruined, and today started pretty bad without this.

Oh, and Ubuntu liveCD is pretty nice.  But now I’m burning a knoppix :)  Ok, D/Ling it, to burn.  After that, I’ll prolly just give this comp back.  Yea, I know, bad form, but at least I didn’t blow away his vista install.  I guess I’m becoming more tolerant, even if I won’t use it.

Hey, short post, because I’m on someone else’s computer.  Presumably they left to get me, and missed me, and now I sit here typing away.  Don’t worry, I need to change this pw anyhow.  Shouldn’t do stuff like this, eh? EH?

Yea.  Don’t worry, m not messing it up too badly.  So getting yelled at for this, but I don’t care, because I’m hungry.  Ah.

Why are so many places in korea named happy … or smiling? Like real estate, I don’t know, I guess they want to get you in a good mood, so you spend more monies there. Who knows.
Ok, I got it mostly done, as in good enough for now. I’m referring to my notes for linux on the HP TX1000, which I lovingly call my T1000. Can’t believe some of the people here don’t get that reference. Yes, smart people think about interesting things, ok?
TX1000
Bah, whatever.
I was so tired last night, I fell asleep before I finished typing in my notes. Interesting note, Tylenol, more specifically, the acetaminaphen seems to have no effect on my headaches, but is good for muscle pains. Excedrin, on the other hand, the asprin+caffeine combo is good for headaches, and not so much muscles for me. Maybe it’s phsycological, I don’t know. I just know it wasn’t a dehyrated headache last night. What’s more unusual is that I didn’t do my laundry last night. Had to do it this morning/noonish.
Ok, on to more important things. Due to a miscalculation, I did in fact, shoot expert with my machine gun. Good stuff. If only I was as accurate with my rifle.
Sure wish my roommate would stop forgetting his key, as he woke me up at 0330ish, this morning, pounding on the door, probably kicking it, and calling his phone. I’m going to have to devise a way to open the door remotely just so I don’t have to deal with that, but I think the lights on my bike should be of a higher priority.
On oddity, I figured out why my bottom lip hurts, alternating sides. It’s because my canines are quite sharp, and every now and then I’ll miss what I’m eating, and hit my lip. It’ll leave a mark, too. I never really thought that they were all that sharp, until I noticed that other people don’t have teeth that pointy.
Oh, and this post brought to you under the music of The Pancake Chef. Good stuff.
Still enjoying Zelda on the DS. Don’t worry, I’m not putting linux on it any time soon. Jeez, I need to get an SD cartridge adapter first. I wouldn’t dare do anything unreversable to it, as it is technically my primary gaming system. Aside from that, I don’t modify anyone else’s equipment without permission, like that WRT54Gv8, which I through dd-wrt onto to make it more stable, and included the rules and such to allow more efficent data transfer.
Woot on the LHC, but it sucks that one of the magnets failed, and I hope they can get it working relatively quickly.
Well, that’s all for now, I’ll work on the site some more after I do some more work on my VPS.

Ok, quick note, I’m using my VPS in New Jersey as an exit point for my ssh tunnel, which I push skype through. Interesting note, they still haven’t blocked skype for me or the others I know who are using it here.
I like my machine gun, it’s good stuff. More powerful, too. What were they thinking? Yea.
Why am I the guy people seem to be going to about computer problems here? It’s not like I’ve fixed pretty much every problem they’ve had so far.. Oh wait. I think the real question is who told them I can do it? Anyhow, due to an upgrade problem, I borked my ia32 compatability, and since there were a bunch of people expecting me to be playing WoW and running with a raid, I broke down, and took 3 hours to wipe, install, compile a kernel, and get WoW running. I’ve got some notes on that, and while I’m still trying to get my webcam working again(I used another driver plus an ugly hack to get it working) and haven’t configured my internal wireless yet, I was able to salvage configs and really clean up the machine. Oh, and get MPD working better. So now I sit here compiling kernels, because I forgot the sound driver, then picked the wrong one. I’ve got it now, but I’m working on tweaking it to accept the webcam driver module.
And the site needs to get updated. I could’ve used having configs up here, but I remembered most of it, which is pretty good, considering it’s been a long time since I’ve done it.
Oh, one more thing. I’ve been playing zelda on my DS. Good stuff. Real great for compiling. *wink*

Ok, this is garbage. I got this email from LG Dacom, my ISP here on post in korea.

>Dear Valued Customers,
BS. Stop raping us for money just because you are the only ones who can provide the service, and then it might look like you actually somewhat value us.
>Please be informed and reminded that according to the agreement between USFK and LG Dacom effective June 21, 2007, VoIP services not registered under the South Korean Telecom Act is no longer available on bases and camps, and those unregistered VoIP services, including but not limited to, Vonage, Lingo and Magicjack etc., are currently being blocked, without prior notice, from accessing LG Dacom networks.
Ok, BS again. You are an internet service provider, which means you are how I connect to the internet. You do not control what I do on the internet, just the size of my pipe. I pay for the pipe, and that’s it.
I cut out the part about the grandfather clause because it does not apply to me (I have not been in Korea long enough.)
The servicemembers who have arrived in Korea after the Grandfather Clause deadline are required to use an authorized South Korean VoIP provider. To accommodate these servicemembers, LG Dacom is currently offering VoIP services in comparable prices that have been approved and accepted by the AAFES and USFK.
BS once more, you can’t tell me what to do. And I don’t care if they deemed the prices comparable, they aren’t. My Skype account is much better, but that’s a chat program. Even if they did classify it as VoIP, psh.
It is regretful LG Dacom does not provide US phone numbers at this time, but in our ongoing efforts to improve the quality of life for USFK personnel while in Korea, we continue to seek ways to achieve this in the near future.
Boo hoo. You won’t do it. It’s too much fun raping people, and the people that call them.
I don’t understand why they sent me the same email twice, one on Wednesday, and again on Thursday. Did they forget? Now granted, it is infact cheaper to use skype through a server in say, New Jersey, but that is an extra couple steps I’d have to do. And probably will do soon. But that’s not the point. It’s the principle of the matter. Which is why LG Dacom can lick my balls.