The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Yayy refunds!

| February 21, 2004

Between state and local governments, I am owed more than 2 weeks pay. Nice! Got touchpad stuff working well using this driver. The fans on my laptop (an inspiron 8100) were being goofy, so I recompiled the i8kutils, and that seemed to fix it. Probably depends on some kernel header stuff that changed or something. [...]

2.6.2 updates

| February 21, 2004

Okay: – xosview is fixed. Get the source here and the patch here (shift click). Untar the source, cd into the directory, then patch it with 'patch -p1 < path_to_patch”. Then compile as normal. – touchpad still moves to fast. The screen resolution doesn't seem to do anything, nor does xset. I figure I'll grab [...]

2.6.2 on laptop

| February 20, 2004

Oh, The Virgin Suicides was good too. Okay, so I have my wireless card working. It's wasn't the pcmcia-cs stuff; it was the fact that I turned on Ethernet over IEEE1394. Since it is on the board, and my wireless ethernet card isn't, it grabs eth0, and the wireless card wants eth1. My configuration is [...]

What a week

| February 20, 2004

This has been an interesting week. I met some folks from the other branches parts of the company They said that they got more cooperation in the couple days that they were visiting us than they do when they're back at their home offices. It's just stupid. No one at this company talks to each [...]

Updated house rules

| February 17, 2004

Added some more Weapon Proficiency feats The Rules

Figures for 1920'2-1930's games

| February 17, 2004

http://www.pulpfigures.com/main.php http://www.gisby.org/copplestone.htm

A piece of advice

| February 16, 2004

Because I didn't believe when the old timers at work told me. Don't ever give up doing something you enjoy because something needs doing and no one else will do it. You know, the whole “take one for the team” and suck it up and do something that's good for the company. Hold on to [...]

C-SPAN

| February 16, 2004

Wed, British house of Commons, “Questions for the Prime Minister”: “When is Israel going to be forced to surrender their weapons of mass destruction”. chuckle* I have to say, I like watching British gov't on C-SPAN better than US gov't on C-SPAN. I think the House asking questions of the Prime Minister is a good [...]

Vintage ads

| February 15, 2004

Silly TV

| February 15, 2004

1.) Our local news station is advertising their new helicopter – “the only news helicopter in Rhode Island”. 2.) The word “retarded” was bleeped on the TV. I guess I should stop using it to describe the business plans I keep hearing about…