Archive for May, 2008

To demonstrate that I have good music taste, and to educate y’all in good music taste, I’ve uploaded Totentanz! Yay Liszt! Yay Krystian!
I like Krystian’s version because he plays at this freaking breakneck pace. And I gotta tell you, Totentanz is a hard song already. Just look at the first page, where he tears through [...]

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 at 18:42 | 1 comment
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My eyes hurt – I haven’t slept for 24 hours. But I’ve finally gotten to the stage where the failure to install IRIX on the Indy is the Indy’s fault, not mine. It just locks up after loading the IRIX miniroot from the June 1998 Install CD. In some respects, this is a slightly worse [...]

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 at 09:00 | 1 comment
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Press Win+R, type in ‘net stop superfetch’ without the quotes. Okay? It’s THAT fucking easy. If you don’t know anything about Windows, stop trying to disable this and disable that. If you felt tech-savvy searching Google for this, you should get a life.

Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 02:57 | 10 comments
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So I just went down town today and got two 80pin U320 SCSI drives, one 18GB and the other 73GB for 20CAD total. Not a bad deal.
And so I came back pretty happy today. I was about to extract the images from the IRIX CDs I downloaded, set them up on dnsmasq’s TFTP server, and [...]

Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 02:51 | 13 comments
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Is a piece of shit. Having multiple GUI toolkits is the nail in the coffin, hammered in before the priest had even thought of mentioning Linux on the desktop. Don’t believe me? Try use OpenBox, and get a panel. Every panel out there relies on GTK except for pypanel, and obviously if I’m not running [...]

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 02:04 | 2 comments
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