Month: September 2002
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The rebirth of the shire
Well shire is finally fully running debian! I spent the last several hours (its 3am now eak! Time for bed after this post) getting lilo back on, getting xp on the lilo bootup menu, getting X to run (fixing the no screens found error), and getting my ethernet card to work. Now it all works!…
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urgo.org’s bored.com
School is just starting to dump a lot of work on me so I thought I’d share a few cool links before I go insane. This week has not been that bad, but looking ahead to next week I have an exam, two homeworks due, a presentation to do, a wemalu meeting to goto (see…
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Looking in
Yesterday was hell. Class all day then 6 hours of 311 homework.. fun fun. Today was much better. After classes and work and such I came home and realized that I still hadn’t taken pictures of the room for the site. I took a bunch of pictures for a 360 degree thingy but I lack…
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New XP “feature”
As reported live on The Screen Savers, one of the major things that XP service pack #1 fixes is a bug that lets someone delete any file (including system files) from your hard drive. All you have to do is click a link or read an email to be exploited. You can fix this problem…
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2600
I just got back from the September 2002 2600 meeting which took place like usual in Northampton Mass. This is only the second meeting I have attended but I’m kicking myself for not going to these sooner. It’s a great place with lots of cool people talking about technology and other relative topics in today’s…
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Genderless Software
Two major events occurred today that will effect me for the rest of my… semester? Today was the first day of classes here at UMass. So far I’ve only been to my psych class which seems pretty cool and 311 which doesn’t seem as bad. We got a new book so hopefully it’ll be readable…
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Show me the love.. please?
Apparently someone doesn’t care for the opinions expressed on this site since for the past 12 hours urgo.org has been under a DDoS attack. Several other things are hosted off here such as mycmatera.com, dotGET.org, and a few other misc things like an irc bot or two so I have no idea why exactly I’m…