I really don’t every post here, and all it does is collect more spam for Akismet to sort through, so I’m probably going to shut down this site.

When I’m browsing Digg for news, I don’t want to see videos. So I disabled all videos in my topics. However, it won’t let me save. Instead, it gives me the following message:

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Uh, that’s kind of the point. I don’t want to see any videos.

I swear, my Zen Micro is possessed. It’s set on shuffle, yet it seems to favor a single artist.

For example, I was listening to it during a long car ride. Within a span of 10 songs, it had played all 6 of the Cartel songs I had on my playlist, and the playlist contains 256 songs.

That night, out of the first five songs, I heard the 3 songs I listen to by Disturbed.

And just last night, it was “favoring” AFI, playing song after song with a few random songs in between.

It’s probably poor entropy or a poor random number generator, but it’s interesting. I never noticed that before now, so I still say it’s possessed.

50% bill increase due to “ZOMG THERE IS NO GAS WHATSOEVER LEFT IN THE ENTIRE WORLD”

Because there’s nothing the electric company can do to correct this situation, such as using cleaner, cheaper energy. No, no such thing exists.

And of course, if they can do it, the water company will try to do it too.

I realized that the Master and PCM aren’t connected. I can hear sound with “Master” at 0 and “PCM” all the way up, and with PCM at 0 and Master all the way up.

I just discovered that ALSA’s toggling “External Amplifier” setting, while having no effect on sound both with headphones or via the built in speakers, toggles my laptop’s mute LED. w00t.

That’s one of the things I love about computers. You’re always discovering new things.

Take just now, for instance. I’ve had my laptop two and a half years. And I’ve known there was a meter (by way of 5 LEDs) on the battery, but I’ve never been able to activate it by pushing the button. So I was just sitting there with the battery and I pushed down on the button with my fingernail. Bam, 5 LEDs lit up.

While Slackware 12.0’s move to a modular X is very nice and helpful, it’d be more helpful if the packages had actual descriptions rather than “<packagename> is part of X11.”

qartis.com - Read about all the projects someday.

Why, you may ask? Well, let me use Deepest Sender’s never-before-used list feature and tell you.

• A lot of them look interesting, like stuff I’d do if I had the resources/time/money/willpower.
• He uses Slackware.
• He’s the only person I’ve seen with more unfinished projects than me.

And after browsing a bit more, I found two other reasons:

• He likes Digg
• He likes PHP.

K, so new driver fixes somethings, but leaves others broken.

If I use Option      “AccelMethod” “EXA” in my xorg.conf, everything works but performance sucks. Without it, title bars still work, but small windows still have issues. Rar.

How ironic is it that, after making a nice long post complaining about compiz’s issues, I run swaret, and lo and behold, new version of xf86-video-intel. (and xf86-video-i810, but last I checked xorg’s i810 driver is symlinked to the intel one.) Upgraded, and voila, no more compiz issues.

Gets me +100 FPS in glxgears, too.

Compiz is very nice. Lots of fun eye candy. However, there are a few issues that make it unbearable to use for me.

First off, small windows (I don’t have exact sizes, but things like KDE’s run dialog and kwrite’s search dialog) don’t update. I can click, type, and they perform as they should, but the windows don’t update to reflect what I’ve typed.

Also, larger windows update, but the title bar doesn’t. This means that it doesn’t change color to show gain/loss of focus, as well as that if I tabs in Firefox, the title bar doesn’t update to reflect the title of the new window.

“Medium” sized windows work fine

And yes it is size-dependent. Resizing small windows larger causes them to update, making them small again restarts the issue. Likewise, I can resize large windows smaller and the title bar will start updating.

I was really starting to enjoy the eye candy like wobbly and cube, too.

Maybe I’ll wait for the next version of compiz to hit Slackware.

Seriously. I stopped liking “TJ2010911″ about a year ago. I made it up in 5th grade and it’s got a shitload of numbers. I’ve been trying to put it to rest.

So, I closed my GMail account.

And waited a few days.

I then tried to register again, only to see the following image:

“Why can’t I change my address?” is a link to a page that says, “It isn’t possible to change your username once you’ve created an account”, and “For more drastic username changes, you’ll need to sign up for a new account.” However, I am signing up for a new account. After all, I closed my old one.

Just another reason for me to not use GMail I guess. It appears to be a nice service, but POP sucks, GMail doesn’t support IMAP, and apparently it doesn’t want me to be able to change my address.

that the linux kernel doesn’t instantly flag itself as dirty, with these results.

root@biospark:/usr/src/linux# for word in fuck shit crap whore bitch bastard; do echo $word:;find -type f|xargs cat|grep -i $word|wc -l;done
fuck:
50
shit:
137
crap:
143
whore:
2
bitch:
27
bastard:
15

For the uninformed, that’s the swear count in the Linux kernel (The kernel being the core of the Operating System) source code as of version 2.6.21.5

Yeah. Best way to explain why some sites load slow (Flickr, Google) and some won’t load at all (Hotmail, FreeDNS) on this connection. Especially since the slow sites load faster when I use Tor, which is in itself very slow.

I think this place has SBC, not sure though.

The X-Box 360 apparently sucks so much they’re extending the warranty by 3 years.

I haven’t really used Slackware much because the random little things annoyed me. However, Slackware 12.0 came out and I decided to test upgrade there rather than risk blowing up a production server, I tested it on my laptop. I’m glad I did. 12.0 is so much better than 11.0. Hardware support with HAL and dbus is great. I’ve never used my USB DVD burner with Linux before, but I just plugged it in and popped in a DVD and it worked. The new K3B package burned a DVD just fine. Not to mention that I finally not WPA working for encryption, so I can get on my wireless net. Plus I get better battery life. My laptop made it 2 hours without dying (then I plugged it in, I never got to see how low it would go.) whereas windows can only go about one and a half hours.
Another nice new feature in Slack 12 (Thanks to the 2.6 kernel) is CPU throttling. What it does is lets you control your CPU speed, with different modes. There’s a mode that lets you manually do it, one that sets it to a very low setting to save power, and one that’ll throttle it based on how much you use. This throttling is the most useful, especially for a laptop user like myself. I can save battery by having it auto-lower the clock speed when I’m not really using the CPU.
I may use Linux for servers all the time, but I obviously need to use it for a desktop (laptop, actually) more.

…you see a topic on a forum titled “C-O-C-O” and your first thought is, “C₂O₂ is definitely not a real compound.”

Yeah.

First of all: How do you copyright a number? And such as huge one as 11,497,989,095,545,517,501,594,852,031,564,777,664 at that. I mean, I don’t think it’s eligable intellectual property. If it is, I call dibs on Pi.

Second: How the fuck does a number take over the internet. My front page is all about this number of magic, and I’m sure the second page is as well.

Whao.

[09:51:14] JT: DUDE
[09:51:15] JT: /http://carcino.gen.nz/images/index.php/4745ed0f/50a2e7c1
[09:51:15] T.J.: http://carcino.gen.nz/images/index.php/4745ed0f/50a2e7c1
[09:51:18] JT: Exceelet.
[09:51:21] JT: We showed eachotehr the same thing
[09:51:27] T.J.: I saw that comming too.

The excessively large amount of win comes not from the same-time linking, but what the link contains.