To meme, or not to meme...

silmaril was seen on stage at yonder window what breaks light...

When thou dost see this, thou shalt quote some Shakespeare in thy Journal lest thee and thine be villains!

What, art thou hurt?

Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, 'tis enough.
Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.

Courage, man. The hurt cannot be much.

No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door;
but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.
Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
I am peppered, I warrant, for this world.
A plague o' both your houses!
Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic!
Why the devil came you between us?
I was hurt under your arm.

I thought all for the best.

Help me into some house, Benvolio,
Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me. I have it,
And soundly too. Your houses!

While I'm not a huge Romeo and Juliet fan, I do love that scene.

To meme, or not to meme...

silmaril was seen on stage at yonder window what breaks light...

When thou dost see this, thou shalt quote some Shakespeare in thy Journal lest thee and thine be villains!

What, art thou hurt?

Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, 'tis enough.
Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.

Courage, man. The hurt cannot be much.

No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door;
but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.
Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
I am peppered, I warrant, for this world.
A plague o' both your houses!
Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic!
Why the devil came you between us?
I was hurt under your arm.

I thought all for the best.

Help me into some house, Benvolio,
Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me. I have it,
And soundly too. Your houses!

While I'm not a huge Romeo and Juliet fan, I do love that scene.

To meme, or not to meme...

silmaril was seen on stage at yonder window what breaks light...

When thou dost see this, thou shalt quote some Shakespeare in thy Journal lest thee and thine be villains!

What, art thou hurt?

Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, 'tis enough.
Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.

Courage, man. The hurt cannot be much.

No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door;
but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.
Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
I am peppered, I warrant, for this world.
A plague o' both your houses!
Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic!
Why the devil came you between us?
I was hurt under your arm.

I thought all for the best.

Help me into some house, Benvolio,
Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me. I have it,
And soundly too. Your houses!

While I'm not a huge Romeo and Juliet fan, I do love that scene.

Mac Pan!

I have to admin some OS X boxes these days, so I bought a Mac to put next to my desk at work.

It joins the SGI Fuel R16000/800 running Irix 6.5.28m and and will soon have a Dell box running RedHat EL 4 joining the party. And on my desk is my Dell D800 with WinXP Pro and FreeBSD 5-Stable in dual boot configuration. I am OS man, hear me roar. Usually in anger. At the assholes who write operating systems. But I regress. Or was it repress? Oh wait, digress, that was it.

So far, it's a nice little machine :

[vampire:~] jamie% uname -a
Darwin vampire.photon.com 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc

Dual 1.8Ghz G5 with 768MB RAM and 80GB SATA HDD. Optical drive is a Pioneer DVR [A|1]08 DVD+/-RW rebranded as an Apple Superdrive, which is a nice drive in any machine.

It's running Mac OS 10.3.9 currently, but 10.4 is on the way.

I'm going to have to buy a book. Apple has nicely provided the Unix underpinnings, but the machine is definately not Unix. Things do not work like I expect. I like OS X from a user perspective, but why the hell do you set the hostname under sharing settings instead of under network settings as is, for everyone but Apple, normal? Setting up a printer involved digging around in the Finder until I located the printer setup utility. Nowhere in the system settings panel is there a place to set up printers? Why the fuck not? The annoyances are minor, but they are adding up. I can see now that administering OS X is not going to be anywhere near as nice as using it. Shame really.

Mac Pan!

I have to admin some OS X boxes these days, so I bought a Mac to put next to my desk at work.

It joins the SGI Fuel R16000/800 running Irix 6.5.28m and and will soon have a Dell box running RedHat EL 4 joining the party. And on my desk is my Dell D800 with WinXP Pro and FreeBSD 5-Stable in dual boot configuration. I am OS man, hear me roar. Usually in anger. At the assholes who write operating systems. But I regress. Or was it repress? Oh wait, digress, that was it.

So far, it's a nice little machine :

[vampire:~] jamie% uname -a
Darwin vampire.photon.com 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc

Dual 1.8Ghz G5 with 768MB RAM and 80GB SATA HDD. Optical drive is a Pioneer DVR [A|1]08 DVD+/-RW rebranded as an Apple Superdrive, which is a nice drive in any machine.

It's running Mac OS 10.3.9 currently, but 10.4 is on the way.

I'm going to have to buy a book. Apple has nicely provided the Unix underpinnings, but the machine is definately not Unix. Things do not work like I expect. I like OS X from a user perspective, but why the hell do you set the hostname under sharing settings instead of under network settings as is, for everyone but Apple, normal? Setting up a printer involved digging around in the Finder until I located the printer setup utility. Nowhere in the system settings panel is there a place to set up printers? Why the fuck not? The annoyances are minor, but they are adding up. I can see now that administering OS X is not going to be anywhere near as nice as using it. Shame really.

Mac Pan!

I have to admin some OS X boxes these days, so I bought a Mac to put next to my desk at work.

It joins the SGI Fuel R16000/800 running Irix 6.5.28m and and will soon have a Dell box running RedHat EL 4 joining the party. And on my desk is my Dell D800 with WinXP Pro and FreeBSD 5-Stable in dual boot configuration. I am OS man, hear me roar. Usually in anger. At the assholes who write operating systems. But I regress. Or was it repress? Oh wait, digress, that was it.

So far, it's a nice little machine :

[vampire:~] jamie% uname -a
Darwin vampire.photon.com 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc

Dual 1.8Ghz G5 with 768MB RAM and 80GB SATA HDD. Optical drive is a Pioneer DVR [A|1]08 DVD+/-RW rebranded as an Apple Superdrive, which is a nice drive in any machine.

It's running Mac OS 10.3.9 currently, but 10.4 is on the way.

I'm going to have to buy a book. Apple has nicely provided the Unix underpinnings, but the machine is definately not Unix. Things do not work like I expect. I like OS X from a user perspective, but why the hell do you set the hostname under sharing settings instead of under network settings as is, for everyone but Apple, normal? Setting up a printer involved digging around in the Finder until I located the printer setup utility. Nowhere in the system settings panel is there a place to set up printers? Why the fuck not? The annoyances are minor, but they are adding up. I can see now that administering OS X is not going to be anywhere near as nice as using it. Shame really.

More Mac Daddy...

So it turns out that the firmware in the Pioneer drive in the Mac reports itself as a DVR 117 DVD-RW. This is odd, because the label on the drive (of course I disassembled the machine and checked out the insides before I turned it on, doesn't everyone?) was definately showing DVR 108. That's a shame, the 108 does DVD+/-RW, DVD-R DL, and DVD+R DL, reads every optical medium known to man at the time it was built (so DVD-HD and BluRay don't work in it, but every other DVD and CD format do). Still not a bad drive. Looks equivalent to the DVR-105 in robeli's machine except faster.

Oh, and I can't believe no one has brought up Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead in the Shakespeare meme. It was such an awesome movie, and it's a great bit in Hamlet as well. I thought of it, but Mercutio's death scene is one of my favorites in all of Willy's works, so I had to go with that.

I started new meds today. So far they seem to be working okay, though I might ask for a slightly higher dosage. I'm still a little edgy. In celebration I wore my Heavily Medicated for Your Safety t-shirt today.

More Mac Daddy...

So it turns out that the firmware in the Pioneer drive in the Mac reports itself as a DVR 117 DVD-RW. This is odd, because the label on the drive (of course I disassembled the machine and checked out the insides before I turned it on, doesn't everyone?) was definately showing DVR 108. That's a shame, the 108 does DVD+/-RW, DVD-R DL, and DVD+R DL, reads every optical medium known to man at the time it was built (so DVD-HD and BluRay don't work in it, but every other DVD and CD format do). Still not a bad drive. Looks equivalent to the DVR-105 in robeli's machine except faster.

Oh, and I can't believe no one has brought up Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead in the Shakespeare meme. It was such an awesome movie, and it's a great bit in Hamlet as well. I thought of it, but Mercutio's death scene is one of my favorites in all of Willy's works, so I had to go with that.

I started new meds today. So far they seem to be working okay, though I might ask for a slightly higher dosage. I'm still a little edgy. In celebration I wore my Heavily Medicated for Your Safety t-shirt today.

More Mac Daddy...

So it turns out that the firmware in the Pioneer drive in the Mac reports itself as a DVR 117 DVD-RW. This is odd, because the label on the drive (of course I disassembled the machine and checked out the insides before I turned it on, doesn't everyone?) was definately showing DVR 108. That's a shame, the 108 does DVD+/-RW, DVD-R DL, and DVD+R DL, reads every optical medium known to man at the time it was built (so DVD-HD and BluRay don't work in it, but every other DVD and CD format do). Still not a bad drive. Looks equivalent to the DVR-105 in robeli's machine except faster.

Oh, and I can't believe no one has brought up Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead in the Shakespeare meme. It was such an awesome movie, and it's a great bit in Hamlet as well. I thought of it, but Mercutio's death scene is one of my favorites in all of Willy's works, so I had to go with that.

I started new meds today. So far they seem to be working okay, though I might ask for a slightly higher dosage. I'm still a little edgy. In celebration I wore my Heavily Medicated for Your Safety t-shirt today.