What I did on my vacation from reality

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Eheheheheh.

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And public ridicule.

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It didn’t burn! Yaaaay

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Oh teh noes, Cal-ee-for-nyuh is on fires!

I feel like I should be using my vast powers of intarwebs to help unite and mobilize all of America to come to the aid of California.

Instead, I’m just going to say that celebrities are stupid.

People, why the hell do you care what Jamie Lee Curtis thinks?

(By the way, yes, my apartment is most likely rubble.)

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Well, I’ve been told to evacuate my home, due to the growing fires in the area. I’m now camped out in a hotel room about an hour from home with a couple other Marines from my unit, waiting for the all-clear.

My primary email will be down for a while, but I can still be reached at <jack.cuervo@gmail.com>.

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Adult Swim is fucked up.

You can tell those guys did a lot of drugs when they were kids.

And when they were adults.

And this morning.

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Apparently, sbcglobal has some antispam crap in place so that you can only send out so many emails per …day? Hour? I have no idea.

After you exceed whatever random threshold they’ve set, you get a cute little message like this:

Oct 17 18:20:03 crossbone postfix/smtp[25848]: 3143F43F73: to=<email address goes here>, relay=smtp.sbcglobal.net[207.115.20.26]:25, delay=0.73, delays=0.27/0.03/0.4/0.03, dsn=4.7.7, status=deferred (host smtp.sbcglobal.net[207.115.20.26] said: 451 4.7.7 Mail access temporarily suspended for 76.243.28.8**BCMI**flpi102 (in reply to MAIL FROM command))

SBC: While I commend your efforts to kill spam, I think you might have set the threshold a little low.

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After I moved apartments, my Wii mysteriously stopped working — at all. No power LED. A quick call to NOA, and they sent us a new power supply; when that didn’t work, they sent us shipping labels (BYOB) to send it in for repairs. I got it back, and all the downloaded stuff was free to redownload, but the MAC address for the wireless card was different, and all my save data was gone (probably due to my girlfriend looking for the paperclip button to eject the disc that was stuck in the Wii when we sent it in, and finding instead the CMOS battery).

All this, by the way, was free of charge from NOA. Whatever else I’ve got to say about them, I’ll say this: they make a decent game console, and their customer service is pretty f’n decent.

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After I got sufficiently satisfied with Linux on my laptop, I got a new task: putting it on girlface’s Compaq Presario V5000.

It’s ironic, because her sound and video work full-on right off the bat, but her wireless card is funky. It’s a Broadcom of the bcm43xx variety (”Air Force One”, claims lspci). It connects, most of the time, but it drops packets like it’s cool. The ndiswrapper solution doesn’t seem to work at all, and I’ve tried several firmwares with the bcm43xx kernel module. Best guess at the problem: something changed in the bcm43xx source in the kernel. Best guess at a solution: diff, patch.

What’s even more odd is that it worked with the original version of Ubuntu I gave it (6.10 “Edgy”, I believe), but started showing problems as soon as I upgraded it to 7.10 “Gutsy”.

By the way, no, I’m not moving away from Debian. Crossbone, my mailserver/firewall/proxy/etc., still runs Debian unstable. But this is a laptop system, and Ubuntu is fairly mature — aside from which, I didn’t feel like fighting with APT to get my video card working at full capacity, let alone doing it the hard way. Ahh, the good ol’ days.

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