Month: September 2007

  • PQI Sucks

    UPDATE 2007/10/12: PQI have now replaced the card with a brand new one which appears to be in perfect working condition. In an apologetic note, PQI’s warranty department mention that Eddie (the guy who handled my original RMA) “is not longer working with PQI.” So, the issue ranted on below is most likely a fluke…

  • Code monkey get up get coffee; code monkey goto job

    > DE wrote: > Anyone interested in having a fantasy ice hockey league. No money > involved, just for fun. Does this involve quests and dragons? My wizard’s hockey stick has a +5 against Canadians… — T. R. Myself etc etc Disclaimer: When said Canadians are vendors, said stick also deals +4 pissed-off EE damage…

  • Bulk update

    Lastlastlast week JR, Matt, HAL and I went rock climbing at MetroRock in Everett, kind of like a meta-birthday party. This was fun. I haven’t done any serious climbing since high school, and had to relearn all the knots, etc. Here at least they believed in actual fabricated harnesses; we didn’t have to go all…

  • Secret Incantations for correctly configuring Ubuntu

    Yeah, I made that mistake the other day setting up a temporary machine to compile dslinux on. I guess it’s not all bad… just not at all what I expected from everyone else’s ranting and raving. Anyway, if you already have no idea what I’m talking about, it might be a good idea to skip…