Sunday, February 22 2004, 7:37 PM

Yah, the title says it all. I didn't do much of anything this weekend. For the most part, I just sat around the apartment doing nothing noteworthy - playing guitar, dinking around on the computer, watching movies, etc. Really exciting stuff. I did help out Steve with some computer crap. I also got my wireless card working with an open source driver instead of using DriverLoader. Now I can run Kismet and see the status of my wireless card and stuff... stuff that wasn't possible using DriverLoader. Hats off to the guys at prism54.org!

I know it's an old and well-worn tale, but I need a girlfriend. I'm entirely too lonely. It sucks a lot when 99% of the people you know have significant others while you sit alone lonely watching TV, just waiting for something to happen on an internet matchmaking service. Quite sad really. Such are the doldrums that are my life.

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Tuesday, December 02 2003, 3:22 AM

Yes, I finally have a day off... after 7 days of working the ass end of the day, I finally have a day where I didn't have to do anything. Sooo... I slept for 12 hours! Hah. And took an hour nap around 6pm! Hah! Ok. Yah. I'm still playing around with the laptop, mostly in the Gentoo area. I got MythTV going on it, and combined with the wireless, it rocks a lot. I can watch live or recorded TV anywhere that my wireless (or wired) LAN can take me. Pretty cool.

Speaking of wireless, I got it working in Gentoo, but with kind of a hack. I had to use DriverLoader, which is a program that allows you to use Windows drivers in linux where native linux drivers haven't been made yet. It's kind of handy, but I'd rather have a native open source driver. There have been a couple times where the connection has flaked out, but I don't know wether it was because of the hacked DriverLoader system, or just an anomaly in the wireless connection. Could be both, who knows.

The wired network card also has a little oddity going on it as well... When I try to mount a NFS share and send files to it, it's slow as freakin hell, but copying from the share is pretty damn fast. I was noticing that there are no transmit statistics being taken for that interface in ifconfig, so there maybe something goofy with the driver, or my installation of it. Whatever the problem is, it's really lame. I guess it could also be the cable... I don't think I've tried changing that out yet. I guess I'll try that soon.

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Sunday, November 30 2003, 10:08 AM

Yes, the title says it all. I'm freakin exhausted. And once I finish this last godforsaken midnight shift, I get to drive down to my aunts house for Thanksgiving part deux. I probably won't get to sleep until like 9 or 10.... if anybody's counting, that's 27 hours of being awake, barring any naps or falling asleep at the wheel. Good thing I have monday and tuesday off - I'll probably wake up sometime tuesday once I get to bed tonight.

I've been working on the Gentoo install on my laptop over the past few hours... (it's probably the only thing keeping me awake!) I've made a bit of progress, but there are few things that I need to get working still before I'm happy. I've got sound, video, and the synaptics touchpad/usb mouse working right, but I still need to get the wireless ethernet working. There seems to be a couple open source projects that have drivers that are still in their infancy, but they don't seem to be very stable yet. There's also DriverLoader, but I don't have my WLAN drivers here at work and I couldn't find them on the web. Blah. Once I get wireless going I'll be happy, and can go onto other things, like installing MythTV on here and using it as a mobile frontend system... :-D

That's all for now... let's hope I don't pass out at the wheel or something.

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