Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

[reddragdiva]

• Turkey eclipse photos by tamaranth.

• If you use OpenSSH ever for anything (which includes anything you connect to with PuTTY or WinSCP), go chuck OpenBSD some cash. They're hurting.

• I want to see what Gibson and Sterling make of this one.

• You need a pack of these.

• You can start answering idjits with a link and "y down, x across." (courtesy cavalorn)

• Two great shots from DP Review Canon Talk: Determination and Lightning. (That second one should be a poster. Fifteen-second exposure, best shot of a hundred and thirty-three.)

• The John le Carré Greatest Spy Novel of Our Time Generator.

• We call it schadenfreude.

Second interview this morning at the place I saw Monday. I'm one of two. No word as yet. I grabbed a dozen Krispy Kremes from Victoria; redcountess is less than thrilled, and I must say all I can taste is sugary lard.

After too little sleep (though the culprit made up for it later this morning with some job leads) and a lot of walking around this afternoon, arkady and I are Utterly Buggered and not up to Inferno. I was going to wear blue and black stripy tights and steal everyone's soul with my beautiful little camera. How very annoying. Cheers and good luck to allezbleu for her DJ spot!

My laptop now has a working Compaq W200 wifi module in its lid. It takes a bit of beating (why Ubuntu doesn't just include the module ...) and some extra kicking after a suspend, but I'm enormously pleased. We have resolved, though, no more eBay where the seller doesn't take PayPal and their English is about as good as my German. He really earned that "good communicator" feedback.

(Mind you, if the wifi ever fails, that's just a USB connector, so I could theoretically put anything whatsoever in there. Hmm.)

I now have WINE running on the household server. So that's a hand-compiled WINE on FreeBSD controlled via VNC or remote X from an Ubuntu laptop. I just need to get the Mac in the chain.

(We're gadgeted entirely up now. I'm still stalking a few favourites in search of a great deal — the thrill of the chase — but my heart's not in it. I feel purposeless. I should probably get a job.)

I need to get the words flowing. The Uncyclopedia writing competition is on and I was specifically told I wasn't allowed to judge because they wanted me to enter. So I've said I'll write some towering tastelessness to leave Cancer Porn in the dust, as well as a piece that someone might not actually spork their brain out at. Must get to work. Arkady and I came up with the start of a routine about green neon ninjas this afternoon.

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

PuTTY is not derived from OpenSSH... (Granted quite often the thing it's talking to will be OpenSSH's server.)

[reddragdiva]

O rly? Hmm, fair enough. That strikes WinSCP too, which gets its functionality from pscp and psftp. Corrected.

[notintheseheels.livejournal.com]

arkady and I are Utterly Buggered and not up to Inferno.
Shame, it's going to be my first foray into a London goth club for as long as I can remember, would have been good to see you.

[reddragdiva]

Aw, bugger! Mind you, my legs are still hurting.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Amazing the things that can be inspired by the chance sight of a Kawasaki motorbike. I'm still bemused by the fact that just about every Suzuki Bandit I've ever seen was black, whereas the Kawasaki Ninjas were all bright green. Suzuki got it right; Kawasaki got it oh so wrong.

Mind you, that's the only good word I have to say about Suzukis; I still maintain they sound like a pissed off hornet in a biscuit tin.

[mjg59.livejournal.com]

Pls2be filing bug kthxbi

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm, sugary lard! It's dee-licious.

Did you ever finish writing the Cat Piss Man article for Uncyclopedia? I've been looking for it.

[vampwillow]

someone else on my flist had mentioned Inferno and I had been considering wandering along tonight ...

[reddragdiva]

Nuh - some parts are proving really hard to find good cat piss for. I hope to have it ready for the competition.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

I buy the OpenBSD CDs and t-shirt every time, and always feel a bit guilty about not actually using it. (it's the poor state of the ports tree and updates that puts me off).

[grumpy-sysadmin.livejournal.com]

Now, I'm usually pretty easy-going about open source asking for money...

... but Theo can suck my rod.

Fuck them all. I can write a better implementation of same if they go away.

[reddragdiva]

Well, as long as Theo stays in Calgary ...

[reddragdiva]

It was already in as bug 29971, so I added a note with relevant detail (it's a horribly beta module, but it's that or nothing) to the bug, and a note on the bug to the wiki page. I dunno if adding a necessary module counts as a kernel bug, a feature request or what; presumably you know what to do with the bug in question. (And of course I have no idea how badly a dodgy kernel module can fuck shit up in general.)

As far as I can tell, the Orinoco drivers in general are pretty uh beta, and the orinoco_usb module remarkably so ... but the only alternative would be ndiswrappers, and that's a fate that's probably actually worse than Windows.