Advogato blog for seklos

7 Jul 2001

Sat, 7 Jul 2001 02:16:55 GMT

okay this is so cool so I leave for work this morning, everything normal I come home, all of a sudden an ant trail from the garden outside through my front door, to the kitchen to the trashcan, I ate strawberries lastn ight and those little buggers saw them check this out http://wilber.gimp.org/~wcoekaer/antz/ so cool !! hehe anyways, after 10 minutes of pictuer taking and being all excited on irc, I grabbed the vacuumcleaner and had a blast ;-). mr anteater woudl ve had the meal of a lifetime,, ahhh the simple pleasures in life.

oh the barium test I had turned outt "fine" so I guess I ahve no nasty things in my stomach, mebbe in my head but not there :).

hmm oh, so other than that I got rid of shit at work, clean platem ostly, off to doing interconnect stuff, hmmm sounsd like fun, and clusterssssssssssssssssssss, oh yeah and wading through bcrl's patches, funfunfun

23 Jun 2001

Sat, 23 Jun 2001 16:41:49 GMT

So it turned out I didn't have to return my linksys box, but and this is funny : it doesn't work on winblows, surprise, it doesn't work on macos, whee, but it does work with the drivers in linux 2.4.5+! yay, so I am happy now :) I sent a note back to linksys support saying "the linksys router works well with the OS you do not support, you might want to make a note of that" hehe

had a barium xray test last wednesday, man, that' some gross stuff, but oh well, 't was only 45 minutes and at first glance I guess it looked like everything is ok internally so that's good, well, I haven't heard the detaills yet, but at least they didn't go "uh oh" right there and then

work is going reasonably well we re (mostly) getting stuff done, there still is shitloads to do, and it's time for some yelling at some people. There is a lot of stuff up in the air right now too, and I am kind of anxious to find out what is going to happen I guess. Nothing bad or so, just changes :)

3 Jun 2001

Sun, 3 Jun 2001 08:37:25 GMT

heh been over a year. start on a dialy basis, for a week, and that's it.. I just never have been a writer type person ,even if it is just a few lines.

so today uzi posted another one, so I figured I'd do the same, the poor guy getting kicked out of house, really sucks!

so I spent most of my day trying to get my wavelan cards to work with my newly acquired linksys wireless access point blahblah router thing. it just doens't f... work. sigh- iwconfig shows the mac address and the levels and stuff but I can't get to the box or anything. made sure it was managedmode, essid was correct , tried with/without encrryption.. nada. it's really pissing me off.

Then looked into getting a firmware upgrade for the linksys, it needs crappy winblows, even tho it seems to be using tftp, tried that but it doens't do the ugrade. I do see tft kicking in and pushing the firmware over but it never does anythin with it, the file says it needs IE so,e or other monopoly release and winblows some or other hang more and reboot moreo often than anything release. So stupid me "quickly/" tries tio put w95 on a machine that I had laying around, yeah was that a mistake. That OS is so messed up, it's not even funny, or a joke, it's just Wrong. what a society where the richest is the biggest scammer ever, and people worship him, yeehaw.. at least it shows where we re heading I guess... where is my little island.

anyways time for bed. tired, sick, need rest.tommorrow going to try another time and then it goes back to vendor . this sucks

at least other stuff is going well, i am setting up every boxx I have with something different

ultra30 -solaris8 ultra1 -solaris7 x86 smp -ilinux2.4.4smp x86 uni - linix.2.4.4-ext3 x86 solaris8 x86 openBSD x86 BE :-) yay X86 QNX indy irix hp712 linux hp735 hpsux11 looks like a good start L:)

18 Mar 2000

Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:05:03 GMT

Well, been a while, but a lot of stuff has happened. I actually ended up getting my own team at work to do linux stuff yay. Funnily enough I am to hire folks myself, which is a pain in the arse since I do not want to do any of that. I just want to get some friends and stuff on board and not having to deal with it. Hard to find the right folks. But a challenge is good some times.

One of my friends from Belgium is in town, he is here for work really but he is going to come over this weekend and we are going to hack away sat+sun and then he can go home ;-) thanks bert ;)

more later

2 Mar 2000

Thu, 2 Mar 2000 04:39:26 GMT

Woohow. Dudes... I got my screen, the sgi 1600sw flat panel. awesome! yay 1600x1024 32bit in X... purrrrrfect :)

Well, it was a very good investment :) Iam a very happy camper. came home early today when I saw on the fedex tracking site that it was delivered, it sweet!

So, didn't get too much done at work because of this :) oh well. now its almost time for vger and then probably do some more coding tonight... ta!

1 Mar 2000

Wed, 1 Mar 2000 05:25:33 GMT

Well, had my friends kids visit for a few hours this evening, picked them up from school and they stayed over and watched tv, ADDICTS. Was fun they are cool kids.

All day was hectic, sounded the alarm on a major project I am involved in, because well things are kinda chaotic... Friday meetings will hopefully sort some of the mess out.

Other than that, darned ! sgi sent my flatpanel monitor but I have not received it yet *crycrycry* Hopefully it will be here tomorrow ! yay 1600x1024 lcd baby read it and weep

now time for tv, then hack and bed, mostly hack

24 Feb 2000

Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:38:35 GMT

Boring day... Waiting for a meeting that did not happen ah well, hopefully tomorrow...
played with nutscrape 4.72, still the same, actually worse, can't use it to go to wellsfargo's website, it says it's not good enough (even tho it IS the 128bit encryption one).. argh...here mozilla mozilla
Then to top things off, taxes!!!!!! what the $%&#%$^... spent all night turns out I have to pay tons of $$ eg $nK where n > 3 ... so I spend a frustrating evening going through my paperwork just to realize I have to pay more, this is so ****** up. wrong absodarnedlutely wrong

even missed vger for this, altho I have it on tape. Oh, I had a voicemail this afternoon from someone, if you ever saw Office space, this guy was like right out of that movie "If you could do that, that would be great" AHAHAHAHAH funny... uzi is still not doing anything on his diary, the dork :)

23 Feb 2000

Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:03:44 GMT

Well, already tuesday evening, I can't believe this. So much stuff to do, so little time. It was Dilbert night :) funny one too. Had chinese food, spent all day bitching at email. I did not have email access for like half a day, and then there was a huge backlog and it took another half day to get it all in. Oh well at least I could get to my older stuff for a while.
Nothing exciting happened. closed a bug, was not my bug :P added some diskspace. Having some more ideas bout wild new disk stuff. I guess the STP discussion on l-k got me thinking about object based disks. Anyways more later.
Trying to get uzibeatch to post something but he is being a dork about it :)

22 Feb 2000

Tue, 22 Feb 2000 05:09:55 GMT

Dangit. Just realised that I put my home directory on 700 so apache said "duhuh" when going to my homepage ! Hah.
Anyways... Had a long day at work, got in at 8.30 and got home rather late. 7.40ish, which meant I had to bail on dinner with the gang :( Sorry Tali, Boren, Bofh and whoever else was supposed to be at Taxi's in Palo Alto at 7pm.
Got some stuff accomplished today, Found a bug in my code, which I now need to go fix. Long live people writing test suites so they can break your shit. Now its just after 9, finished doing my bills and got some stamps too. I don't like the current online billing thing from Wells, lets just say I don't trust them. Most of the addresses are not there etc... argh. stupid banking system. *burp* had some great vegetable soup tho :) Anyways. Off to watch Ally Mcnekkid err beal. and then back to hacking.

21 Feb 2000

Mon, 21 Feb 2000 01:11:26 GMT

Btw, I agree with uzi that we need a linux cscope type thing. I know there is some similar stuff outthere but as far as I have seen nothing comes close. Maybe we will get this going and get other folks on the train