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Mar. 16th, 2008 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickThe last time I installed Linux, it was on a RedHat Cd for work purposes. I never got a GUI working, I never had a mouse or sound or anything other than a machine with a network interface suitable for 300 day (and up) uptimes running things like RADIUS, named, apache, qmail, and so forth. I didn't use it for, y'know, personal stuff. Now, I have a laptop with an embarrassing amount of free hard drive space (over 200 gig).
It being a lazy Sunday, too cold (and raw) to go out, I decided I would look into putting linux on my laptop so that I could have a dual-boot system with XP and Ubuntu, which has a cute name and a pretty logo. (How did you choose your *n*x distro? I was totally scientific about it. Cute name, pretty logo. What the linux world clearly needs is the Hello Kitty distro, sponsored by Sanrio...)
Lazy Sunday, too cold (and raw) to go out. I'm doing laundry. Laundry is kind of boring. Need entertainment.
Anyway, I haven't got it running (or even limping) yet, but I'm still trying.
The first thing I did, before reading anything, was download the "live" 6.06 stable i386 ISO for CD flavor and I couldn't get shit to happen with that. It crashed and burned right after the 'loading kernel' message.
So then I went and read. The internets suggested that the "Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7500" is, actually, a 64-bit type deal so then I went and got the "Live" 7.10 for amd64 ISO. That got further than the first go round. It got past the "loading kernel" part and started to make noises about how it couldn't detect my graphics and crap and I had a mouse briefly) and then it shit itself on a black screen of nothingness. Bugger.
I read some more. (Easy way to kill me: Hand out directions for jumping off a bridge, something like "1. Climb aboard handrailing. Position self with wide stance, slightly-bent knees. 2. Launch self off of cliff bravely. 3. Oh, yeah, also make sure bungee is firmly attached to your jump harness before you complete Step 2. I'll die reading step 3 on the way down.) Internets (as informative as the magic 8-ball, usually) suggest that one may install ubuntu on a 1520 Dell Inspiron laptop provided one does (a) the i386 install of 7.10 OR (b) the text-based amd64 install of 7.10. In either case, "Media Direct" will be fucked unless I take special precautions (I do not use "Media Direct" and wasn't aware that I had it on my laptop until about half an hour ago. Therefore, if it shits itself, I will not care.) and I'll have to fiddle to get the wireless and the sound to behave properly but both have well-documented solutions that I should be able to manage. Right. I'm bravely downloading at the moment, "live" i386 and "other-non-live" AMD64 so that hopefully one of the two will work.
Oh, and totally unrelated but still interesting! Playboy has a nice study of below-the-waist hairstyles for women since the 1970's. Also be sure to see how the women get more plastic, way skinnier, and faker-titted as the years go by. Start here, link OBVIOUSLY CONTAINS NEKKED WIMMINS, so don't look at it if you're at work or something. I was amazed, amazed, I say, at how fucking *vintage* bush looks. Younger readers, take note: The first chunk of pictures? That's what actual naked women look like if they don't wax/shave/aggressively trim. And *tan lines* -- another relic of a bygone era. *rowr* Also, I really like the hips on that Lisa Welch. She's a hottie.
Finally, while I was playing games with my OS and looking at vintage porn, the Fed fucking had a fucking SUNDAY RATE CUT (25 basis points) that took place TWO GOD DAMNED DAYS before their regularly-scheduled meeting during which they are WIDELY expected to have yet *another* rate cut. Do they think we're too busy playing OS games and looking at vintage porn to notice their sneaky moves? We can see you, Ben Bernanke. Even on a weekends.
The Fed is also opening (on Monday) yet another freebie-borrowing window so that big investment banks to secure short-term loans. This would be in ADDITION to compressing the spread at the discount window in August '07 (to make there be liquidity) and the "We'll take your crappy collateral, no questions asked" TAF that was created in December '07 (also to make there be liquidity). Oh, and JP Morgan Chase bought Bear Stearns in a "Fed Approved" deal for about $2 a share because Bear Stearns was in a liquidity crisis due to the previous liquidity efforts being stuck in a state of FAIL.
Are we having fun yet?
You should really read the NYT coverage of this crap, because quotes like Even with the Fed's aggressive moves, economic and financial conditions keep deteriorating. do not adequately convey the seriousness of the problem here. Phrases like broadening financial crisis and push the economy into a deep recession seem to lack force and immediacy. Maybe it would be funnier in LOLCats?
Ben sez: I CAN HAZ BAILOWT?
Markets say:NO CAN HAZ!
Ben sez: I CAN HAZ LIKWIDITTY?
Markets say:NO CAN HAZ!
Ben sez: I CAN MAYK FIX0R3D EKONOMEE?
Markets say: NO CAN MAYK!
Ben sez: WE IZ ST1L BETTR DEN ZIMBOBWAY!!
Markets say: FUR NAO, BEN, FUR NAO.
No. Is still not funny.
I have *finally* turned off the fucking "auto-format entry" shit that is fucking up all my fucking links and things. PROGRAM OF ASSHATTERY! I can format my own shit, thank you. And take your god-damned & n b s p shit and shove it up your asshattery, kthanxbye. (There are two spaces after a period ending a sentence. There are also two spaces following a colon that initiates a list. So I was taught in ninth-grade typing and so mote it be, for ever and ever, amen.)
It being a lazy Sunday, too cold (and raw) to go out, I decided I would look into putting linux on my laptop so that I could have a dual-boot system with XP and Ubuntu, which has a cute name and a pretty logo. (How did you choose your *n*x distro? I was totally scientific about it. Cute name, pretty logo. What the linux world clearly needs is the Hello Kitty distro, sponsored by Sanrio...)
Lazy Sunday, too cold (and raw) to go out. I'm doing laundry. Laundry is kind of boring. Need entertainment.
Anyway, I haven't got it running (or even limping) yet, but I'm still trying.
The first thing I did, before reading anything, was download the "live" 6.06 stable i386 ISO for CD flavor and I couldn't get shit to happen with that. It crashed and burned right after the 'loading kernel' message.
So then I went and read. The internets suggested that the "Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7500" is, actually, a 64-bit type deal so then I went and got the "Live" 7.10 for amd64 ISO. That got further than the first go round. It got past the "loading kernel" part and started to make noises about how it couldn't detect my graphics and crap and I had a mouse briefly) and then it shit itself on a black screen of nothingness. Bugger.
I read some more. (Easy way to kill me: Hand out directions for jumping off a bridge, something like "1. Climb aboard handrailing. Position self with wide stance, slightly-bent knees. 2. Launch self off of cliff bravely. 3. Oh, yeah, also make sure bungee is firmly attached to your jump harness before you complete Step 2. I'll die reading step 3 on the way down.) Internets (as informative as the magic 8-ball, usually) suggest that one may install ubuntu on a 1520 Dell Inspiron laptop provided one does (a) the i386 install of 7.10 OR (b) the text-based amd64 install of 7.10. In either case, "Media Direct" will be fucked unless I take special precautions (I do not use "Media Direct" and wasn't aware that I had it on my laptop until about half an hour ago. Therefore, if it shits itself, I will not care.) and I'll have to fiddle to get the wireless and the sound to behave properly but both have well-documented solutions that I should be able to manage. Right. I'm bravely downloading at the moment, "live" i386 and "other-non-live" AMD64 so that hopefully one of the two will work.
Oh, and totally unrelated but still interesting! Playboy has a nice study of below-the-waist hairstyles for women since the 1970's. Also be sure to see how the women get more plastic, way skinnier, and faker-titted as the years go by. Start here, link OBVIOUSLY CONTAINS NEKKED WIMMINS, so don't look at it if you're at work or something. I was amazed, amazed, I say, at how fucking *vintage* bush looks. Younger readers, take note: The first chunk of pictures? That's what actual naked women look like if they don't wax/shave/aggressively trim. And *tan lines* -- another relic of a bygone era. *rowr* Also, I really like the hips on that Lisa Welch. She's a hottie.
Finally, while I was playing games with my OS and looking at vintage porn, the Fed fucking had a fucking SUNDAY RATE CUT (25 basis points) that took place TWO GOD DAMNED DAYS before their regularly-scheduled meeting during which they are WIDELY expected to have yet *another* rate cut. Do they think we're too busy playing OS games and looking at vintage porn to notice their sneaky moves? We can see you, Ben Bernanke. Even on a weekends.
The Fed is also opening (on Monday) yet another freebie-borrowing window so that big investment banks to secure short-term loans. This would be in ADDITION to compressing the spread at the discount window in August '07 (to make there be liquidity) and the "We'll take your crappy collateral, no questions asked" TAF that was created in December '07 (also to make there be liquidity). Oh, and JP Morgan Chase bought Bear Stearns in a "Fed Approved" deal for about $2 a share because Bear Stearns was in a liquidity crisis due to the previous liquidity efforts being stuck in a state of FAIL.
Are we having fun yet?
You should really read the NYT coverage of this crap, because quotes like Even with the Fed's aggressive moves, economic and financial conditions keep deteriorating. do not adequately convey the seriousness of the problem here. Phrases like broadening financial crisis and push the economy into a deep recession seem to lack force and immediacy. Maybe it would be funnier in LOLCats?
Ben sez: I CAN HAZ BAILOWT?
Markets say:NO CAN HAZ!
Ben sez: I CAN HAZ LIKWIDITTY?
Markets say:NO CAN HAZ!
Ben sez: I CAN MAYK FIX0R3D EKONOMEE?
Markets say: NO CAN MAYK!
Ben sez: WE IZ ST1L BETTR DEN ZIMBOBWAY!!
Markets say: FUR NAO, BEN, FUR NAO.
No. Is still not funny.
I have *finally* turned off the fucking "auto-format entry" shit that is fucking up all my fucking links and things. PROGRAM OF ASSHATTERY! I can format my own shit, thank you. And take your god-damned & n b s p shit and shove it up your asshattery, kthanxbye. (There are two spaces after a period ending a sentence. There are also two spaces following a colon that initiates a list. So I was taught in ninth-grade typing and so mote it be, for ever and ever, amen.)
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Date: 2008-03-17 11:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-18 12:55 am (UTC)On a happier note, I have Ubuntu installed and it is sort of working at this point. I have low-res graphics at the moment (Dell has hardware-specific drivers which I must locate and install), no sound (the forums have a fix for that which I gotta go read. There is internet, which is what I am on now, and it works and dhcp's itself painlessly. Firefox totally lacks an "Import my bookmarks from the other OS on this machine" button, which is a regrettable oversight. The bootloader works, the partition automated thingie-for-dummies (Note to programmers: Always, always put sensible things in as the "default" choice. Note to n00bs: Trust the "default" choice.) worked and took almost exactly half the free space on the drive. The *mouse* works. Install process mostly painless, took less than an hour. I feel rather less l33t than I expected to feel, though. It wasn't very heroic or anything.
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Date: 2008-03-18 01:19 am (UTC)