Entries from August 2005 ↓

I got a new laptop last week after selling my 12 Powerbook. I was looking for something that would be easy to take with me but mostly for living room use. It needed built in WIFI and good battery life.
After trolling ebay for a while I honed in on the general class of machine and finally picked the Fujitsu P2021. (Planet COSI folk: I believe Oleg also has one). It’s a sublaptop i guess. It has a cramped keyboard and a small screen. It’s based on a 933Mhz crusoe which performs like a 1.2 Celron or so. If has built in WIFI, excellent battery life, and runs standard i686 ubuntu.
Anyway, I installed Kubuntu and I’ve been playing with it. It’s been a long time since I checked out anything but what’s going on with the latest gnome, so it’s interesting to see what else is going on there.

This is a test post from monkey journal. Every 6 months or so I set up xml-rpc posting just in case I want to use monkey journal or my phone. Then I don’t post remotely and it breaks. So yeah. The cycle continues.

Matt Sabins: My leather coat was stolen. If I find the guy I will kill him. I will make a leather jacket out of him. And wear it around.
Me:
see my vest, see my vest
made from real gorilla chest.
Matt Sabins: I hope its a fat guy.
Me: hahaha

I spent the day thinking I had bricked my ipod. I could mount it under linux and gtkpod recognized it but it wouldn’t create the directories or iTunesDB that it needed. Turns out after I partitioned the iPod and dd’ed the firmware on it I unmounted it and set my language and preferences.
When you do this the firmware creates the needed directories but does not create an itunesDB stub. The trick was to remove everything from the iPod’s data partition and then use gtkpod to create the needed files. Not that anyone cares but at least now I can google it and solve this problem in the future… future… future…

So figgy smacked my python script down. He sent me this IM yesterday:
`find /path/to/whatever -name ‘.DS_Store’ -exec rm -f {} \;`
I say fuck him and his noise.

In other news I’m wearing the most comfortable pair of socks ever. I got them at old navy on sale. $3.00 for a pack of 3. THAT’S .50 A SOCK. So get on that.