Chocolate ice cream + Oreos + Milk + Blender = Liquid Heaven.

Give it like 3 big scoops of ice cream, 4 or 5 Oreos and dump some milk in there. Blend it up, dump in a glass and marvel.

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The last Harper's Island was pretty dang good. So watch it already!

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/harpers_island/video/?category=editorial

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That is all.

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and then I'm moving him to the basement.

Oh, for added lols, here are all of my servers.

Guybrush
El Pollo Diablo
Lemon Head
LeChuck

and I created a virtual machine on Adrian's server called Wally.

Why yes, all of these are characters from the Monkey Island series.

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It's a good thing average people won't want a VNC server on their Ubuntu machine. As it stands now, it's a little fucked with pretty much everyone on the internet going "OMG IT DOESN'T WORK!" followed by a hundred posts that say, "Confirmed, qwerty maps to c.gvn and a character that isn't displayed." There's one solution that I've come across so far that tells me to change an option in a file that doesn't exist. Sigh. Back to the VMWare Console for me.

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Edit:
My guess is that there are some X or Gnome config files that TightVNC isn't able to read for some reason. None of the few settings that I changed in the VMWare Console carried over to the VNC session. For example, my theme.

Edit edit:
export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1

Put that somewhere in your .vnc/xstartup file before /etc/X11/Xsession and life will be good. I don't understand why key mappings kept the theme from loading properly. Whatever.

I am looking for a Windows based media player that isn't ass. I am looking to switch from WinAMP to something else. Windows Media Player is out of the picture for obvious reasons. I'm thinking about trying out iTunes but I want to see what else people are using.

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http://bearbicycle.blogspot.com/2009/07/morality-of-carrying-weapon-for-self.html

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So maekern showed me the comparison chart for the various versions of Windows 7. Here's what it boils down to for you guys.

If you're not getting Windows 7 Professional, switch to Linux or Apple. Because you're not going to do anything with Windows 7 < Pro that you can't do with Linux or Apple. That's not entirely true. You can do gaming in Home Premium that you can't do in Linux, but Home Premium is so ganked you really shouldn't spend $200 on it.

Here's your link if you want to see what you will and will not get:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions#Comparison_chart

A side note:
Linux on a 32bit processor can address 4 times more memory than Windows 7 Home Premium in 64 bit due to arbitrary restrictions coded in to Windows 7.

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Michael Jackson is only more important to the American people at large because you've turned the American people at large in to cattle. Michael Jackson hasn't been important for a good long while now. Shut the fuck up about Michael Jackson for five goddamned minutes. He's fucking dead. He was fucking worthless. Now, I hear there's some pretty important things going on elsewhere in the world you might want to report on.

Fuckers.

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I do curse Acer for not making drivers for Windows XP for their LCDs...But then I curse Windows even more for even needing drivers for a fucking LCD.

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It's a good read so I'm linking to it.

http://niteshad.livejournal.com/151116.html

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but I fucking like it.



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So I installed the core OS so that things would be slimmer and I wouldn't have to deal with Explorer. Then I found out that the command line interface Server 2008 comes with is the much known and fairly well loved cmd.exe, rather than the more robust PowerShell. Not only is PowerShell not the default command shell, it's not even installed.

Also, despite the fact that the core OS install is supposed to be managed from the command line, it still installs a GUI and you just have a cmd window open. This is kind of going against the reasoning for managing one's server from the command line in the first place. Oh well. At least the desktop loads faster...Oh wait, it doesn't. In fact it takes AGES to get to your, well I suppose lack of desktop and command window.

Those are my initial gripes. I'm going through some of the commands for managing the server. The first thing I want to do is install PowerShell and see what it can do for me in 2008. If I can completely replace cmd.exe, I'll do it. cmd.exe is a really good command interface, as far as Windows goes. But when you're used to Linux, getting around in cmd is a goddamned nightmare. And that's probably a little unfair as most of my problems with cmd aren't cmd's fault. But rather they are the fault of the idiots at Microsoft who make command line interfaces to programs. They really shouldn't. Much like everything else Microsoft does, they suck at it.

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I think Microsoft may have done something cool that I'm going to have to play with. Upon firing up to the bootable Server 2008 CD I am presented with several options. A list of Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter editions with (Full Installation) next to them, and then the same list with (Server Core Installation) next to them. The description for Server Core is:


This option installs a minimal installation of Windows Server without the standard Windows user interface, and with a subset of server roles that can be managed from a command prompt, reducing management requirements and attack surface.


Iiiiinteresting. They kinda trail off in to the realm of BS towards the end, but this sounds like it could be pretty cool. I'm going to check it out. I haven't read about it in any articles yet. It's kinda taken me by surprise. But it looks like Microsoft has gotten it through their heads that having a GUI running all the time is kind of a resource hog. (Like I'm one to complain, I leave a copy of X+KDE running on my server to VNC in to.)

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Edit:
Awwww fail. It's not a GUIless installation. It's just an installation without Explorer. When you log in it fires up a cmd.exe window. But you've still go the GUI running. Oh well, at least Explorer's out of the picture. Server 2008 is already more secure. :)

Edit Edit:
Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm wondering why Microsoft didn't use this opportunity to push PowerShell. On other versions of Windows, it's kinda like a big dog with no teeth. It can do cool things, but really, why use it? The GUI's right there and is always going to be there taking up memory, so you may as well use it. On a new release of the server platform, they could've really drove home the capabilities of PowerShell.

Though it is nice to see that people are finally discovering the tools in cmd.exe that have been available since NT 3 if you knew to install the tool kit off the CD.

Date:	2009-07-02 07:27
Subject:	Fuck you, language bar.
Security:	Public
Mood:	bored

Of the tool bars on my task bar, the language bar is the one that gives me the most grief. It doesn't do anything actively annoying, it just sits there and takes up a tiny bit of space. I'd rather have that space, so I remove the language bar. But it keeps coming back. I had just resigned myself to getting rid of it every time I logged in, figuring that since Windows is a giant fucking black box there's really no way to make it be gone for good. Since my computer has become sort of the living room computer, I've created a guest user account that can remain logged in for most of the time. The very first thing I noticed about this account...

It didn't have a language bar on the task bar.

Fuck you language bar. Fuck you.

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Feminism, generally speaking, is okay. But if you're so wrapped up in feminism that you actually believe that She-Ra was the original cartoon and He-Man was the spinoff, you've clearly lost all touch with reality.

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Windows Server 2003 is named El Pollo Diablo
Ubuntu Jaunty is named Lemon Head

It would be nice to have another 1.5 gigs of memory to throw around in my server. Right now, with both VMs running and doing stuff like updates and installing and whatnot, I'm using about 50 megs of swap. It's not a horrible thing in the end. It's not like my server is particularly high traffic on anything. And even with the swap being used, files load across the network just as speedily as they ever have, and stuff gets served from my web server just as fast as normal.

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"We should ban assault rifles because police say that they are the most dangerous weapons they face on the streets."

Alright. I'll grant that they probably are the most dangerous weapon police face. Most likely this is because assault rifles fire rifle rounds and vests that protect against rifle rounds are too restrictive for police to wear generally.

So let's do this. Let's ban assault weapons. Now the most dangerous weapons police face are regular rifles. So we'll put added restrictions on those, possibly ban them as well.

Alright now the most dangerous weapons they face are pistols. Ban.

Alright now the most dangerous weapons they face are knives. Ban.

For an example of how this could work (or fail to, as the case may be) in real life, please look at England.

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Like not make major changes to documents in Office 2007. Yeah, it's because Microsoft could fuck up a wet dream. I removed 1 word from my resume in Office 2007. That's it. That's all I wanted to do. Saved it, exit. No errors, everything went smoothly. Except for the saving part, which didn't take place. Aside from that it worked fine.

Yet another reason why I do all my important work in Open Office.

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So aside from moving and putting things together and whatnot, I set up my Windows 2003 virtual server on VMWare Server version 2. VMWare Server 2 is a goddamned masterpiece, by the way. Anyways, once I got Windows 2003 updated I took me a snapshot of it and now I'm ready to tinker with it. I gave this virtual machine the name of "El Pollo Diablo" and sent a gig of memory it's way. I plan to host some Sharepointy goodness from it. Which leaves 1.5 gigs for Guybrush to play with. Should be just fine.

Which is good because I'm going to fire up another virtual machine, probably Ubuntu or kUbuntu to be my Linux Sandbox where I will test out all sorts of horrible things before I inflict them upon Guybrush. It'll also be good to get to know Ubuntu since all the cool kids (not to mention future employers) are using it these days. I'll probably give it 384 megs of memory to play with. Should be plenty.

So now all that's left is sorting through the crap that I threw on my main machine and getting it back over to Guybrush and I think I will have a fully armed and operational battle server once more. But that's a LOT of photos to go through and organize. A lot of zip files to dig through and see if I need anything from. A lot of videos I need to figure out if I want hanging around. And of course a lot of little apps I need to figure out if I want anymore. So. Much. Crap.

In other news, I'm told that our tap water is ass because it comes from Minneapolis. But the tap water at Adrian's house isn't nearly as nasty. I think there's something wrong with our set up.

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