I put Stargate on and decided I would lay down for a few minutes before getting online; last thing I remember is O'Neil and Jackson being captured and about to be brought before Ra. Next thing I know, I wake up out of a sound sleep to see some show on depicting a 2 on 1, like wtf!? I slept through Stargate!!!

That's what I get for taking a nap, instead of camping out in front of a computer lol.


N I'm wide awake and glad that unlike the rest of my family, I don't set my TVs volume loud enough to be heard from Kansas..

Hooah a stroke of luck!


Just caught Top Gun starting a few minutes ago, usually I always find it on after the first halfhour r so; but my favorite part is in the beginning. They're dancing with the MiGs, when Maverick and Goose end up inverted above the MiG, almost canopy to canopy -> Mav gives'em the bird while Goose takes a Polaroid of the look on the other pilots face xD --> Priceless !



Managed to get through work today in one piece, singing a song in my head to keep my mind else wheres; but not to bad a day overall, I guess. I don't really have a problem with working a lot, it's having to scrimp and scavenge my time whenever I'm /not/ working. My family drives me nuts at times.... and after work tomorrow, I'm expecting a headache with what's planned.


I did get to have sme fun today though, joined PG#3 for a few games of SWAT 4. My custom skin is labeled 3.x.x beta, but I think unless I find any visual bugs of interest that it will probably be going gamma soon. I really like how the last take on the NWN BDU came out. The no armour vest didn't come out as intended, but I kinda like it, really might pass as "no armour" if it wasn't for the dang games design.


I can't wait for the weekend.... I outa be off Sat/Sun/Mon, and I've got a projects meeting n Sunday. Hopefully it won't take forever to pull off, but I might get some of the other days to actually get stuff done on, hopefully anyway...

Just a little bit of time left until it's time to leave from work, and odds of getting any work done before are dismal. (be lucky if I get time for lunch :\). I was up to after 0500R, getting woken up at the crack of dawn, and dragged out on a shopping expedition around 1000R. Tomorrow is 2 jobs, so that's the end of getting anything done then; but luckily one is short... it's just the margin-time on pre and post op that's the killer.

sigh

I really need a vacation..............


but that's not likely to happen, before the next ice age lol.


Been wprking on several things when I can, and playing a mixture of games whenever I can't work on crap. *SIGH*

TODO: compile a more detailed analysis on all possible solutions (and their implications) to the meetings point 0 topic.

sounds like mental fun, if it wasn't for family to drive me nuts and reck my train of thought every chance they get lol.

QTOD

While ProgramName always endeavours to protect its users from unnecessary harm, it will not stop you from ignoring the big red warning signs.

Some day :\

My brother finally showed up around 1230R, to bitch at me for nt being ready - my response being, "Your late, so you can wait". Good sized headache helping him ove crap around, I tell ya... family are the only creatures alive who have the balls to ask for help and insult you all the way through it!

Ducked into a few levels of F.E.A.R. to pass the time until he finally shoved off and Ma found something to do, not involving driving me nuts.


I managed to sort out the meeting, it's either tomorrow at 1800GMT or next weekend lol. I still don't think we'll be able to get everyone present by then, but w/e works for most of us. Tomorrow, I also need to take some time to catch up with my email lol.


I also eventually made it into Proving Grounds #3 to join Chester, Decapi, and Duke for some great games. Pardoning my mother trying to shipwreck the highlight of my day, but it was still good to get the games in, even if I was last to show and first to leave :-(. One thing that did bring a smile to my face though, on the angels of mercy mission; I called for a reload before we continued on, b/c I had 18 rounds left and we were moving into 2 small rooms, followed by a hallway and 2 very large rooms without much time to reload if things hit the fan. When I completed our reloading drill, (EL) Duke stepped out of formation and asked us if we had ever seen this before, leaving all of us flabbergasted to figure out what he meant lol -> every thread angel was covered perfectly by the element, from gun down to gun up.


That made my day :-)

Just once, I wish someone else in this family knew how to keep a schedule... dang nab'it. Well, o be fair there is at least one besides myself; but Uncle Pat was a coast guard captain, if he's late, ya start to worry lol. Otherwise I'm about the only one who knows how to manage time... in a manor that approximately works.


I woke up around 1028R, my brothers not here. I was woken up around 1156R to find out he called a few minutes ago, to say that he was just starting out; our mothers been up since 0800R. And the other day, he said he was going to be here early [in the morning]... Well, I'll probably be out of battery charge on my laptop before he even gets to the city limits... the putz !!!



Was dreaming several things, but I remember dreaming that I was going through CQB training before I was woken up. The last thing I remember, was 2 man stack, kick it in, he moved left, I took right. Tango across my sector, 2 to the chest with a single action revolver; made it to my corner, then sliced the pie around. Two more tangos, put a quick shot in the right ones chest, then the left while advancing, then cycled back and put a head shot in each, right to left. Then dropped to one knee shouting "GUN DOWN" and started reloading the revolver as my teammate took up a cover position from his point of domination; 6 in the can, "GUN UP" and moved out...


Something like this:

|--------------------------|
|  y                       |
|            T           T |
|   /--------------\      T|
|   \______________/       |
|                          |
|               ___x___x___|
|Y             x|          |
|--  -----------|----------|
X=Spidey01's way point
Y=teammates  way point
T=tango position

Which reminds me, there are supposed to be some team games on PG#3 today hehe :-)

running off the deepend

Well, finished one portion of my docs (Grrr... wasting time in #kde-chat and #vim lol); even got one of the manual pages written out.


Ya know, with the mdoc.samples(7) and mdoc(7) manual pages + a few simple manual pages for reference (head, cat, pkg_add) the process of writing a manual page is actually much less painful then I remember it being. I've only got one small problem so far, thin I'll post on daemonforums later and see if anyone has an idea; if not I'll probably have to adjust the man pages wording a lit' bit.


nroff/troff is also strangely addicting once you start playing with macro packages...

Scientists turn Tequila into Diamonds

http://www.physorg.com/news145255770.html

Me thinks the next fourty years or so will be interesting, hehe :-)

It's been a very tiring week...

It's been a very tiring week...



Decided to install F.E.A.R. and have some R&R. It's not particularly my kind of game, but he AI used by the opposing forces is awesome. Heck, ambushed a few replica soldiers, moved my way through the area along the flank - only to be ambushed from behind, by one that hid and waited for an oppotunity. Of course, a quick drop to slow-mo, a 180' and leaping into the air for pair of double taps from my dual .40cal pistols, and finishing it with a pistol'whip put the thread down quickly. FEAR is about the only game I've played when one has a chance to do both CQC and handle multiple-shooters the right way, b/c there are usually several coming out of the word works lol. Was trying to flank and ambush a squad and got detected, I pushed on - impact grenade to mash their right, fell back on the centre and bounced between the flanks to keep them busy.


The last replica solider climbed through a gap in my cover for a little face to face, so I kicked the putz back through it ;-)



About all that is missing is access to a knife in the meelee action, like a yung Big Boss once said - sometimes in a fight, a knifes more useful then a gun. Ahh, anyay good for stress relief. Now it's time to get my docs & notes prepped for an up comming project meeting. If I'm _really lucky_ I might even have some test code ready op, but with my family... *sigh*



Which reminds me, my brothers do over tomorrow to waste my time, lol



Hmm, it's times like these that I really wish I had picked up more troff.. but LaTeX does the job well enough for what I need. With luck, by meeting day I'll have all my files done, and my laptop updated & ready to rock'it as well.

Writer's Block: A Little Light

Now that the election is over, we can get to the important stuff. Why is there a light in the refrigerator but not in the freezer?

Submitted By vivichick

Live Journals Writer's Block

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581/page/1

!!!

The problem with typing to quickly

Check if the program 'named' is running and listening. I don't know off the top of my head if /etc/rc.d/named supports the status command or not (rc), but finding out if it is running the hardway is still easy.


I'm not familiar with any of the dns/ apps in ports, so I can't say what name they would run under; but I'm sure someone here would point it out.


---

$ ps xa | grep named
   ... is named running?
$ cat /var/run/named/pid
   ... does the pid file exist?
$ netstat -n -p tcp | grep 53   -- s/tcp/udp/
   ... is anything listening on the usual port?

-> Assuming that the standard issue name server was used, you may want to check named.conf first, in case the settings were changed. On FreeBSD I believe this is etc/namedb/named.conf.

I really should check my posts for typo's more completely, before I make an ass of myself so easily.... at least J65nko spotted it. Most times I try and check what I write, but after work, it's not exactly a high priority - compared with finishing the sentence before I get AFK'd for the umpteenth time lol.

Well, I've generally set a course... In the short term, I have a few goals of immediate concern:

1. Get my school work done (how boring...)
2. Improve my understanding of (useful) mathematics
3. balance getting work done

I need to begin making more progress with my schooling, what I've got on the plate right now is in no way challenging... beyond time constraints; every moment spent on homework is less on every other pile of shit in my todo-box. I also want to try and teach myself more about mathematics, both to prepare for harder stuff, and because I'm generally interested. Although, I think writing a device driver would be easier then reading some of the notation without something like this.


One thing I do bloody well know, I'm using bc(1) for the leg work. Although I never used a calculator in doing homework before, I also ain't used a pencil to solve a math problem in ages when walking around ^_^. I type with 10 fingers both out of need and love for efficiency; time is precious!


For getting stuff done, that's generally the one thing that does hit my schedule. That's one of the reasons my homework always piles up... I figure though, if I can properly split my time, and not have to compromise the other parts.. I might actually get something done eventually!

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are
greater.

-- Albert Einstein

Now that quote really makes me feel better.... lol.

how to apply pc-bsd updates manually

http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11261&hilit=lzma+update

how to apply pc-bsd updates manually

Writer's Block: A Conspiracy of Beards

November is National Beard Month. Muttonchops, Van Dyke, goatee, soul patch, ZZ Top–style—tell us about your own wild and woolly facial fuzz. Even better, post a picture.

Submitted By cwcsonichu

Live Journals Writer's Block

From 5 o clock shadow to looking like Chewbacca the wookie.... I think I probably shave like every 3 to 5 months or something lol.

I have no idea if I'm working tomorrow or not, but I hop I'll get the day off... The weekends been more or les a total ash out. If I'm working though, it'll be a full day. I come from a family, where we go to work unless your head is practically falling off lol.

Hehe, that reminds me... Some funny news, my brothers supposed to be getting a physical this week. Oh man, this is going to be funny, I hope he doesn't faint! his is a guy, who chose to who made us all go out of state for his wedding - just to avoid a blood test!



I have more that I want to write, but to little energy and not enough time. If it really is 0800Z and I /am/ working tomorrow... I best get some shuteye, it's a hell of a day.

Crud...


Crept into the kitchen, got a glass, knocked over the cap to a travel mug, and made it to the fridge for some OJ. Like, can I make any more freaking noise!? At this time of night, the sound of a plastic cap falling ~a metre to the ground is loud enough to give away ones position (to my ears anyway) from half the building away...


Stealth is my specialty, I'm generally good at being unobserved and when desired, and I can be very silent in my movements - when I know the environment well, even more so. But every now and then, I just fsck up :\


*sigh* all I need is to end up in round 1,000,346,412,782,965,000 of annoyance !!!

My families more or less managed to consume or destroy all parts of my life, about the only thing they've yet to dig into is [SAS]. Fuck... I couldn't even get a space on the couch, instead I'm balanced off the side, foot stuck on the corner of a stand and who knows wtf stabbing me in the backside. What will they leave me with next? A throbbing head, a soar backside, numbed hands, crink in the neck by tomorrow, and legs that are as good as ten feet ahead of the rest of me, for the speed they move at.


I don't know if I have any hope left at this point, those hat know me best, would probably find irony in that. It's like, the more I try to get ahead, the further behind the eight ball I end up :\

Sheesh.... What a crazy night.


I was exhausted by the time I went to bed, so I figured I'd lay down, watch TV, then switch to the laptop. Next thing I know, I've slept through the entire movie, and it's almost 0330Q... So screw it back to bed. Woke up around 0940Q, to early.... Back to bed lol.


Between all of the sleeping, I've had some of the craziest dreams :\. From a singing math teacher from hell (don't ask lol), and getting even with him years later. To leading a human insurrection against a wave of Terminators; I forget just how effective the aerial HKs could be, but at least I was smart enough to keep the location of our forward operating base secret. All the way to what's probably best described as Star Trek meets the Invasion of the Body Snatchers. ALl the way to various engagements with Orcs; both peaceful and combat filled encounters. Even a stint best described as a mixture of being stranded in deep space Orc country, and a bad Babylon 5 episode. Hmm, I wonder what those human star-fighters were called, ain't gotten to watch B5 in over a decade lol.

And even ending up in Raven Shield, wasting tangos, sneaking around, meeting a tango that was bullet proof, meeting a tango that was in "spectator" mode, and oy...


One great thing about dreaming, and knowing your dreaming -- when you enoucnter a super tango... shoot him about 20 times, reload, put 2, then 4 rounds more into him (centre mass and head). Then when the tango finally gets close to you and start shooting back, unlike in the video game...

You can tell the tango to go to hell and ignore him lol.