Guitarist and electronic programmer, pete has worked with a number of different groups such as Delimiter, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Negative Charge. Lead programmer & sysadmin of cytoplastik.com, as well as a few others..   discography: Crystal Cloud (2001) Cytoplastik Pods Compilation (2002)
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The United States prison system is a total failure
I upgraded my laptop to ubuntu's "gutsy gibbon" this weekend and found many a problem:
1) The video starts all outta whack
I had to add some stuff to my xorg.conf so my video would be in an even usable state
2) The upgrade did NOT upgrade my wireless drivers
My wireless card, a broadcom piece of crap, is not supported by native linux drivers. You must run the windows drivers "wrapped" in ndiswrapper.
The NDISWRAPPER source package was NOT upgraded and I had to get it on my desktop and transfer it over a usb drive to get wireless working again.
Annoying
3) Compiz fusion is broken
Gutsy comes with compiz, but you must remove all packages having to do with compiz and emerald before the gutsy repositories' version will work. I used the trevino repositories, and you have to run a command similar to the following to remove everything: apt-get remove --purge `dpkg -l |{awk /emerald/||/compiz/||/libdeco/{print $2}}`
and then follow it up by removing whatever repository you were using for compiz from your /etc/apt/sources.list The fusion-icon is NOT available in the gutsy repositories, and you have to run compiz from the command line with "compiz --replace" to get it to start. A little annoying to say the least.
5) The volume controls SUCK. I use the scroll wheel, and the indicator on my task bar says "muted" and the volume buttons produce a very similar effect.
6) Upon login, my wireless card is *not* associated with any network, and the networking card is down. You must associate the fucking card with an ESSID and then tell it to turn on.
I know most of this crap can be automated through making a script, and adding the script to startup programs and whatnot. I can easily do this, but I shouldn't have to.
The OS should have these kind of things in mind. I have to say overall I have also not noticed any real improvements in the interface, so I cannot recommend upgrading from feisty to gutsy for any reason ATM.
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| BUSH PWNT - Thursday, November 8, 2007 11:45 pm
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"Republicans desert Bush The vote is the first such setback for Mr Bush, after nearly seven years in the White House. Mr Bush has vetoed five bills in the last two years, after refraining from vetoing any in his first five years in office. His Republican allies in Congress, many of whom are up for re-election in 2008, sustained his previous vetoes, but deserted him on the water bill. Although Democrats have held a majority in both houses since the mid-term elections of November 2006, they could not have overturned the presidential veto without the support of Republicans. A majority of Republicans, both in the Senate and in the House of Representatives, voted in favour of the bill. "Republicans desert Bush The vote is the first such setback for Mr Bush, after nearly seven years in the White House. Mr Bush has vetoed five bills in the last two years, after refraining from vetoing any in his first five years in office. His Republican allies in Congress, many of whom are up for re-election in 2008, sustained his previous vetoes, but deserted him on the water bill. Although Democrats have held a majority in both houses since the mid-term elections of November 2006, they could not have overturned the presidential veto without the support of Republicans. A majority of Republicans, both in the Senate and in the House of Representatives, voted in favour of the bill."
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Ravens Logo Pumpkin made with a homemade stencil and a steak knife:
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Life has been busy and complicated lately. Usually thats why I write here. I never write here when I'm happy, because I mean, crap who can bitch to a WYSIWYG when you feel like being outside. I had a dream about something scarey several times recently. They have been very vivid. They have not been consistent in theme, other than the fear for my own safety as a living organism. I can't explain it. Anyways, my desktop died the other day, so I might be staying in my brain box for a while here. I have a project I may be working on in the near future, but it's a little up in the air this week. They are called Detachment Theory. Google it if you are so inclined. Meep
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| BUTTT - Sunday, October 7, 2007 5:29 pm
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http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-sou--teacher-buttart1004oct04,0,449687.story
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| less - Thursday, September 6, 2007 1:40 pm
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I feel like I am not really alive anymore. I am really just dead inside. I can't stand all of this monotony. Sitting in a dark, lifeless hole, strapped to a plastic board that administers pain to my body all day, doing things I just don't fucking care about. But who cares, what the hell else am I gonna do with my life. I cannot break free from this vast swath of bullshit. I cannot get away from the stress, and the stress, and of course, the stress. The thing that bothers me most is the stress though. I cannot really do it effectively anymore. I am running on the vapours of fumes. My threshold was crossed so long ago I don't think I can see it anymore. I feel sometimes like my life is one non stop interrogation technique designed to ultimately kill me. No one can really understand though, because I cannot tell anyone about anything. Every one has something at stake, everyone feels they rely on me for something. IF I fail, everything around me fails. I have, only imaginary supports. My weaknesses are overwhelming me now, so I have to stop typing again.
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| dreams - Friday, August 31, 2007 2:31 pm
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I have been feeling quite stressed at the moment. Sourcefire is slated to release 4.7 to the market, and I am tired. This place really knows how to suck the will to live out of you.
I had a dream, maybe it was a memory construed into a waking dream, about christian yesterday. We were sitting somewhere watching TV or something. John King was there. We started talking about something. Christian would occasionally interject a "tchea" every so often. But, in my dream, I seemed to be the only one that knew it wasn't real. I tried to tell John, "he's not really there, all of these things we are talking about he cannot hear." John didn't understand. Christian had a pale greyish tone to him, but not the way he did when he was alive from too many drugs. It was as if everything about him was almost two dimensional, and lacked saturation of color. He was there, but in a stark, almost colorless contrast to everything around him. Even the clothes and hat he was wearing. Maybe it's why I wore a Hawaiian shirt today, because that's the last thing I remember seeing Christian wearing. He had on his hat, his black shoes, his black jeans, and that redish Hawaiian shirt he would wear. We had just installed Beryl on his laptop, so he could have super cool UI effects under linux. It was still so bleeding edge. So many things I want to say to him. Fuck. Why did you have to die on me asshole. Fuck you.
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