War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ketchup is a vegetable.

I really need to work on this ‘going to bed at a reasonable time’ thing. As I’m typing this, my eyelids are getting heavier and heavier. And no, I can’t dope up on caffeine or guarana; then I’d never get to sleep. Ah, sleep…Such a wonderful word… For all I know this snow is just a figment of my imagination. Yes, I said snow. In Seattle. In November. It’s not much, but it’s there (mixed in with rain, slush, and hail). I love winter.

I haven’t posted in a while so there’s a few things to say: I picked up the Revolutions soundtrack a while ago. Most of the tracks suck, except Juno Reactor’s Navras. Described by critics as a “9 minute epic”, it’s the opera/taiko drums/african vocal thingy that plays at the end of the movie, during Smith and Neo’s duel. I love it.

What else is happening? I picked up a 4-port data transfer switch for $20 on Ebay that allows me to plug four computers into one monitor (although I’m only using 2). Yay for me. Now I get to move another one of my computers into my room for a yet undisclosed purpose.

The big news in my life is that last Thursday I switched Wintermute’s OS from Mandrake Linux 9.1 to Slackware 9.1. So far I love it. The packaging system is great, everything works, and I’ve learned a whole bunch more from configing everything via command line (It’s not a desktop distro, so none of that fancy GUI crap). I think my only complaint is printing. I configured CUPS, which perfectly suits my needs, but some apps seem to want lpr. I’ll have to get that setup this weekend. All things considered, Slackware 9.1 gets the Pig Monkey Sweet Lurv Seal of Approval. I recommend it for intermediate users looking to move away from the GUI world of Mandrake, Redhat/Fedora, and Suse. Although that’s not to say anything about the desktop-oriented distros. Speaking of which, has anybody used Mandrake 9.2 yet? Until I hear good things about it, I think I’ll recommend SuSE for beginners. In other news (of the OS-switching type), I formatted my laptop and put Libranet 2.7 Classic on it (which is just Debian with a nice installer).

Right. Well, I’m going to attempt to be in bed in…3 hours. Wish me luck.

Electric Sheep is a screensaver that, when activated, takes advantage of distributed computing power to create artificial organisms: sheep. The sheep are fractal flames that evolve, mate, and die based on specific algorithms and user ratings. I recommend watching the documentary.

If you aren’t already harnessing idle cpu time with distributed.net, download it and colonize cyberspace.

Not only has 2600 20:3 been released, but HOPE 2004 has been confirmed as well.

After a bried hiatus, 3jane is also back online.

I went to go see Alien at the Cinerama. I never realized how much those aliens really do drool. They need to learn how to swallow or something. Anyway, it was pretty good and would have been scary if I hadn’t seen the movie so many times already. They also had a preview for Alien vs. Predator, which looks likes fun for the whole family. My money is on the Predator. I mean, come one, he’s like an invisible monkey.

So, then I was like “he said that?!” and then she was like “totally!” and then I was like “oh my god!” and then she was like “I know!”

Oh, and I got Slack 9.1 running perfectly on my 500mhz laptop. It’s so beautiful. tear

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Let’s see if I can find something to post about…

Nick finally released v7 (or v 0.7, I can’t tell). It only took 6-7 months.

Ice mentioned something about a possible LAN party this Friday. We have Monday off, too. We have Monday off, too.

Uhhh…errr…yeah. Not much is happening. I want to make some more minor updates to the site this weekend, including fixing the blog for IE. Which reminds me, the phorums might be down for a bit Saturday, Sunday, or even Monday. It all depends when/if I get unlazy.

You know, everybody should go spam– I mean post here. They need more traffic.

There’s a cool new video up on Old Skool Phreak.

According to the Mandrake Store, all 9.2 pre-orders will be shipped by the fourth week of October. This just happens to be the fourth week so it should be out soon.

I’ve just updated from b2/cafelog to the brand new, and very shiny, wordpress! From the website:

WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog, as b2 development has stopped. We hope by focusing on web standards and user experience we can create a tool different from anything else out there.

It only took me about 5 minutes to get it running (transferring everything over from b2 was extremely simple) but there’s still a bunch of little tweaks I want to make. And, of course, I need to update the template.

If you are considering updating from b2 to WordPress, the only piece of advice I can give is to change $table_prefix in wp-config.php to b2. It eases the pain while WordPress tries to upgrade your database.