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UER Forum > Journal Index > Tux's /var/log/ > Life Outside (Viewed 2366 times)
Life Outside
entry by uem-Tux 
6/29/2004 4:50 AM

My regular life in every day society and my exploring life are completely different. In the day I work full time, visit my girlfriend weekly and on most weekends, and if I'm lucky I'm left one weekend day a week to do some exploring. Lately the other UEM guys have been doing most of the scouting and daytime exploring. The recent stuff I've been on has been almost exclusively stuff one of the other two is showing me. Crazy.

My main computer is on the fritz of course, I just finished up doing most of the preliminary reinstallation of software. I hate Windows XP. Even Win98SE was more bulletproof than this hunka-junk OS. I'm watching SP1 and hundreds of security patches install now. Since this is a new install, I have a chance to do things differently, so I'm gonna try using FireFox and Thunderbird for Web and Mail respectively exclusively. Windows is fun. I'm actually typing this on my little G4 iBook, which, while it cost 2 grand, has yet to even freeze up on me. The lack of a decent video player for Mac OS X though is... disturbing. Streaming anime eps to watch on the laptop across the network from the main machine has so far proven impossible. If I ever scrape up enough cash to get a bigger (read: huge-ass) hard drive for this thing, I'm gonna dual boot gentoo. We'll see who can stream video then!

I'm worried about Panic! too, of course. Why hasn't he shown? What the fuck is going on? I wish I had sat down with him and gotten his phone number or something because I'm really worried that he's not okay. Nicest guy you could hope to meet. Maybe a little eccentric but who isn't in this hobby?

In 15 minutes, I will only get 6 hours of sleep. At least this week ends on Wednesday for me. I can afford to stay up a little later than normal this "week".

I liked Freedom Downtime... it's kinda funny how in narration Emmanuel Goldstein sounds almost exactly like Micheal Moore. Speaking of which... Farenheit 9/11... maybe I'll go see it tomorrow, and attempt to inf the theatre. Get myself out of this exploring hole I've dug for myself.

Bills to worry about too. Can't UE be my job? Gotta pay the cell phone, the credit cards, and gotta send Logik his 8 bucks shipping for that hard drive he sent me. The controller card I was planning on getting for this thing ended up being a no-go, so now I'll probably have to buy one. Oh well, at least a backup is gonna start gettin' made for all the websites and stuff.

Note to self: Move the mail server over to the stable connection. Finally figuring out how to reset the modem remotely was awesome! Now all I've gotta do is write a program that can do it for me when the connection gets dropped.

My 21" monitor fried, and the soothing Windows XP background is just not AS soothing on a 19". Soon another 19" will hit the desk though, so I'll have my extended desktop back, at least.

So many peripherals, so little time.

Guess this is just rambling. i should really get off my ass and code my own little content management system. For now, I'll use the convenient method.




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Re: Life Outside
< Reply # 1 on 6/30/2004 8:49 PM >
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OSX media player? Try MPlayer. So far it has played everything I've thrown at it, except for realmedia files, which I can do fine in realplayer. Full screen option. Works nicely in the background, with a play screen without any ugly bars on the side, so you can watch it in the background ok. You can controll it from a command line interface too I guess, if your into that... Just need that, and a couple of codecs.




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