eric’s extremeboredom

So as some of you have noticed I/this blog have been having some connectivity issues these past two days… We just went out and got a new cable modem from the Comcast office, as our preveous one was apparently the oldest model that they have. Hopefully this one won’t cause any issues. By the way, [...]

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Hm, haven’t had anything to blog about for a while…but that just all changed… I beat Half Life 2 today!! This was, without a doubt, the coolest game I have ever seen. The whole game was just amazing… the graphics, the gameplay, everything. It’s quite amazing just how far technology has come, and I am [...]

So I got my amp and mixer today, meaning I was finally able to test out my new speakers. They sound great, huge improvement over my preveous (almost 5 year old) satelite system. More Photos PYRAMID POWER AMPLIFIER PA600X RACKMOUNT BEHRINGER UB802 EURORACK MIXER Polk Audio RTi6 Black

…when complaining about something you didn’t like gets you on the 6-oclock news. Last night right as I was about to turn off my computer a friend of mine sent me a link to a video of the to “Monday Night Football” on ABC. Some lady “wearing” nothing but a towel basically convinvced some football [...]

So I’ve been known to tell friends…relatives…people passing by on the street…that I think Windows…..sucks. Here’s another reason why. So I needed to install Windows. I wasn’t happy about it, in fact I was nearly in tears but it had to be done no thanks to a software company finally releasing a highly anticipated game [...]

The latest issue of WIRED came with a CD with 16 songs licensed under a new set of licences from creativecommons that permits you to rip, sample, mash, and share. Unfortunetly the question I quickly asked myself was “Why would I want to?” because most of the songs on the CD are terrible. There’s some [...]

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This certanly could be the most ridiculus thing i’ve seen, uh, well this month. School District Bans Halloween PUYALLUP – A local school district is banning Halloween parties because children dressed up as witches might be offensive to real witches. Apparently our concept of “witches” comes from a religion called “Wiccan“. The Wiccans are upset [...]

One of the huge annoyances at work is every internal system having it’s own user database, apache webservers being no exception. In light of this I figured out how to get apache to authenticate against an active directory domain using samba, winbind, and pam. At this point I’ll assume that winbind/samba are both already configured [...]