I finished watching Firefly today. It was really good. I liked it a lot. Now I want to see Serenity again.

I fell off a cliff today.

I saw Doom yesterday. It was pretty bad, but the FPS part entertaining – they should have cut out the first hour or so of the movie and skipped straight to that. All in all, they successfully bastardized the game.

I’ve been messing around with Jabber a lot the past few weeks. My new account is now pm@pig-monkey.com (the same as my email), as opposed to the old pigmonkey@pig-monkey.com. I can also be found at pigmonkey@jabber.ccc.de (sometimes).

Both my problems with Breezy Badger have been fixed. It ended up they were user error, so I can’t blame Ubuntu for them.

I have all my backups restored and most additional software installed, but I’m still having two rather large problems. One, the Firestarter tray icon will not launch at login and two, running SSH via Startup Programs is broken. All in all, I’m not as impressed with 5.10 as I thought I would be – it does feel a little rushed. That said, there are many improvements over 5.04 and none of the problems I’m experiencing are enough to make me pop the Slackware disc back in.

If you’re currently running 5.04, I’d recommend holding off upgrading for a few weeks till some patches come out.

I just discovered that FiberCloud has a data center here in Bellingham.

I want a tour.

I thought Breezy Badger was supposed to be released on the 15th, not the 13th. Oops. I downloaded the iso this morning, which was interesting – I’m always worried now that whenever I wget large files at high speeds, I’m going to get another call saying that I’m eating up 25% of the bandwidth (this time it looks like my average bandwidth consumption was only about 2.1Mb, so I’m safe).

I’ve been planning on using this new release as an excuse to format instead of just upgrading with apt, so I did a backup during class.

rsync -rav --delete --stats /home/pigmonkey /media/usbdisk-1/backup/nyx/

I was also thinking about going home this weekend, so now I’m going to do that, update the backup I have stored on Wintermute, and format.