Archive for January, 2008
Categories Are Back, But At What Cost?
Posted on January 28, 2008
food, horrible cookie, wordpress
After arcane shenanigans involving mysql command line interface (I tricked WordPress into thinking my database was vintage 2.1.x and then let it re-run the upgrade) I have re-enabled the categories within SafeTinspector. And while this allows me to specify categories once again, it did not restore them. They are all lost.
But now I fear that these nuggets of precious data, with entries such as “suck”, “foot”, “stench” and “tax accountancy”, will be lost to time and posterity alike. If you or any of your friends or relatives have unexpected pain, stiffening of the joints and/or arteries or come upon piles of unexplained moneys or excrement please let me know.
I hope we all survive.
The object shown above is a horrible cookie.
Not What You’d Expect
Posted on January 26, 2008
Ages ages, I had some pages with things I wrote on my knee.
I think I carved them with a knife and had my way with rampant vice.
Vermicelli was like a noodle to my needle haired Christopher, wangled with wangly wanglehood.
Wordpress Got My Categories
Posted on January 24, 2008
I upgraded WordPress and it destroyed the category list which was so carefully imported from Blogger. Well, good riddance, I say. The blogger import utility had converted all my Blogger “tags” to categories, which had resulted in hundreds of them. We start fresh, and hope that new efforts will not be so fleeting.
Compiz Fusion on my Laptop
Posted on January 22, 2008
My old laptop, as you may remember, was smashed in the same car accident within which I lost my virginity and self-respect. I replaced it with a big-screen laptop which seemed like a pretty good deal.
Problem was that the thing wasn’t really compatible with Linux; however, I’ve been using OpenSUSE as my operating system since 2006 and had no real interest in switching back to Windows unless absolutely necessary. After much struggle everything as working except for 3-D desktop. Something I cherished.
My old laptop supported XGL, which is a direct-render 3-D desktop solution. This would NOT work properly with the ATI card built into this laptop.
I heard of AIGLX and compiz-fusion, an indirect rendering version of the same dealy that XGL did for me. I couldn’t get that working, either. Months go by and ATI released a new version of their “proprietary” driver–a family of code legendary for its inherent crappiness in comparison to nVidia. I tried to update, but lost the ability to support the proper resolution. So I rolled it back, but now 3-D acceleration was busted and but good.
After many hours, friends, I was finally able to determine that ATI’s installer had, at one point, dumped a copy of its driver (fglrx.ko) into /lib/modules/2.6.22.13-0.3-default/extra, while subsequent versions had placed newer versions of the same file in /lib/modules/2.6.22.13-0.3-default/kernel/drivers/char/drm
I simply copied the newer atop the older, restarted, and YES! I now have what I wanted.
Still runs kinda poorly, never exceeding 90fps, but as you can see above I now have 3-D desktop… and its snowing inside.
Everybody Gets the Flu
Posted on January 17, 2008
family, heather, riley, samantha
Sing it to the tune of “Everybody plays the fool,” and you may giggle just a little. Under your breath. Provided you are an idiot like me.
In the meantime, let me tell you how much it sucks to be married to SafeTinspector:
First, SafeT gets the flu on Sunday, so you end up with no assistance with the general production of proper parenting during the all-important second half of the weekend. Production schedules are off, backlogs grow long, and shareholders threaten you with lawsuits if some quality nurturing doesn’t get made RIght Now.
Second, both your daughters get sick on Tuesday, with the toddler being so pitiful that you can barely catch your breath from going, “Awww….” all the time. And, of course, by this time SafeT is back at work so you get to tend the flu-ridden without his assistance.
Cap this off with the near absolute certainty that you, yourself, will soon be afflicted with the flu (probably just in time for the weekend) and we have the orgasmic bliss of SafeTmarriage. Hats off to you, Heather!
The picture above was taken with Heather’s cell phone and sent to me with the caption, “I don’t feel good, Daddy!” I felt bad, but I still smiled.
