Played with the template like whoa!

Selected a new template that actually had columns, spent two hours today deleting almost all the color out of the template... Now that it doesn't look like fruit salad, I decided to play with google addsense just to see how it worked. It's the first time in 10 years of writing webpages I've actually placed advertising on one of them. It doesn't look to invasive actually so I might leave it if it actually manages to fill itself with themematically correct ads.

After all this noodling I can come to only one conclusion, I know almost nothing about css2...

Cowhead?

cowhead milk? The mind runs wild.

T-Mobile is teh suck again...

They claim to have roaming in fiji, seems plausible, after all people with money come here... But a week worth of debuging aside, not for me apparently.

So...

The thing that looks like a kinda of ugly squirrel that's wandering around fiji is actually a mongoose.

Also there are mina birds everywhere, which are quite loud. Both are apparently imports from India...

The new laptop...

One of the problems I appear to encountered with the new laptop appears to be that desite what I thought I'd done ot the xorg.conf it still comes up in 1600x1200 instead of 1920x1200. That would kind of explain why eveything looks kind of wide.

My mistake here seems to have been assuming that intel inbuilt video would be better than a pci-express ati radeon for driver support. I might have been right in the normal couse of things but in this case it appears to be kinda not.

When I get back I see a week or so of intensive hacking along with fedora core 4 in my future.

T-Mobile may have disapointed me for the last time...

Even I'm shocked that they don't have a roaming agreement with vodaphone in Fiji... It's like there's one carrier here what's the problem?

It's not like nobody from the US or Europe ever comes here?

joelja

This was written while I was disconnected...

So something have gone horribly wrong with airtravel... My conculusion is a follows. Business and first class fares are the only ones that make money for airlines. So they collude with airports to insure that terminals are so miserable that you'll consider buying a business class ticket not because you git a bigger seat but becasue you want access to the lounge. airline loyality programs are the biggest screw-job ever because as soon as you don't travel enough to make their cutoff your sense of entitlement demands either that you fly more for lounge access or that you buy more expensive tickets. If neither is possible (neither is desireable), the all you're left with is the bitter aftertaste of some crappy perks that almost made the experience bearable.

Back before the place filled up with business class lounges terminal 2 at LAX had a couple restraunts upstairs where you could have a sit-down dinner and a cocktail before your flight... Now it's full of business class and international lounges that you can't access. All the food is crammed downstairs, with twice as many people as where intended in fit in the terminal are now there.

Also. boingo hostspot setup offers abysmal performance. and appears to require software to work properly... Thata'll work well on a linux box. Pig Fuckers. The boingo wireless webpage has been loading for about 10 minutes I see the signal level at -78dBm and the Noise Level at -86dBm so it ain't me.

In order to get power I'm am sitting againt a wall behind a trashcan.

theater

ballet where a bunny gets torn apart
http://www.harmful.org/homedespot/newtdr/NEWtdrARCHIVE/7diary/dfphotos/

jules verne bicentenial
http://www.nantes.fr/ext/royal_de_luxe_2005/

Some observations on newer laptops

Well, so In that last two weeks I've setup Fedora Core 3 on a thinkpad x40 and a dell inspiron 6000, the IBM works fine, though for me it doesn't have enough display to be usable.

I've surveyed several modern distributions on the dell (fc3, fc4 test 3, man(drake/driva) 10.2. and I must say the honeymoon was pretty short lived. I still haven't figured out how to make the thing sleep which is pretty much a non-starter for me. display is nice, the thing isn't significantly bigger than the inspiron 4150, though it is wider.

Some urls

japanese ass poking
http://outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher1.html

more ass poking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kancho

some guy who builds huge cardboard airplanes...
http://kancho.muncho.org/gal_f104.html
http://kancho.muncho.org/index.html

some observations

Camera vendor:
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_9561.html

Ugly light that might be cool
http://www.gnr8.biz/automata.html
Another one...
http://www.gnr8.biz/globo.html

Disks...

So uh... I have 24 x 400GB seagate drives, 8 x 73GB sata WD raptors all for the same box.

getting acpi sleep (s3) to work on thinkpad x40 fedora core 3

add:

acpi_sleep=s3_bios

to kernel line in /etc/grub.conf

create /etc/acpi/events/ lid.conf and sleep.conf

event=button/sleep
action=/usr/local/bin/x40-suspend.sh

event=button/lid
action=/usr/local/bin/x40-suspend.sh

create script /usr/local/bin/x40-suspend.sh

#!/bin/bash
rmmod ehci_hcd
rmmod ath_pci
echo 3 >/proc/acpi/sleep
modprobe echi_hcd
modprobe ath_pci

take a look at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/Fedora-Core-on-Thinkpad-X40/

some urls

http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2005/041905.asp

I hate...

Europeans who smoke like they have a divine right to pollute the atmosphere. This little fat portugese dude was here a half an hour ago smoking, and he came back to the lobby (from outside), just to smoke.

Theses are the same people who are concerned about gmo foods, immoral wars, green power, and driving high mileage cars but, giving everyone around them cancer apparently isn't a problem... I hope you die a horrible lung wracking death and people use your tar filled sack of a body to poison feral dogs you little french cigarette smoking shit.

Smoking portugese guy...

So um...

In a couple hours I shove off from Mozambique via the South African Airways aluminum tube mailer.

I have a couple thoughts and how far that african isp situation has come since I first came to .za 6 years ago. connectivty is nowhere near as thin now, there are more options, bust in general the serive is really better. This is compound of the problems the rest of us face as well, spam, bot infested machines, aging slightly unsuitable hardware, and good old fashioned half-assed african engineering. We have people who packet shape their exchange point connections... We have people who shape tcp connections both directions over satellite links... We have all sorts of crazy port filtering... We have double nats... We have transparent proxy servers that don't deliver webpages... We have isp operators who spend all day tweaking their packet shapers and port filtering in search of imagionary performance gains...

It's a strange world we live in.

joelja-out

Shopping for a laptop

Want three things critically.

A large display with a pixel count equal or great to the current one (1600x1200)

Acpi sleep to work in linux.

Battery life somewhere north of about 5 hours from the batteries in the box...

Said laptop doesn't appear to exist, but if it did, it appears that it wouldn't have a pci-express ati graphics chipset. it appears that nvidia has spent some time working on at least some acpi support. The one that will probably work best is the intel media accelerator 915 (maybe) at the expense of being really slow (maybe).

In terms of decent sized displays, Dell latitude d810/Precision Worstation m70 (nvidia) look like the best option, maybe the older d800 (agp nvida) or the inspiron 6000 (intel) are in the right range as well. the inspiron 9300 might with with it's top of the line graphics accelerator but not the lesser ones. the latitudes can hold a second battery, but the remainder probably aren't really all that great.

I've recently entertained the notion of a 17" powerbook but it just seems to silly, not enough pixels, one button mouse, no support for the airport extreme (broadcom) wireless in linux, the fact that it's not an x86 etc.

seal of the republic of mazombique

ied

Some URLs

guy follows cosplay girls around
http://www.juergenspecht.com/truestories/?number=5&page=1

more flooring
http://www.coveringsetc.com/pages/subcat_listing.jsp?i=153