eric’s extremeboredom

I got my new router that I ordered on the 13th (yes, it took 10 days, stupid amazon.com…). It’s the Linksys WRT54G. Now normally I would never allow a linksys product to come within 300 feet of my house but since this thing runs Linux I figure they couldnt have screwed it up that badly… [...]

So I just bit the bullet and ordered a 19″ LCD. With any luck I’ll be able to use it instead of the two giant heavy hot CRTs I’m using now. Product link

My onboard (nForce) sound fried yesterday during the process of unplugging my computer, transporting it to evan’s house, and connecting it to his stereo. Oh well, I’m thinking about getting this and this to replace it :).

So I was getting really tired of Firefox making my system run like poo on a stick so I decided to try the browser that comes with gnome, Epiphany. The first thing I noticed was the preferences window, or lack there of. The entire preferences window has a grand total of 16 options, giving you [...]

So I finally gave up trying to fix the MSI service, moved my data off my primary harddrive, and did a repair install of Windows. Everything worked great, booted up to a desktop and everything. Amazingly when I attempted to install something buit with MSI it gave me an error saying H:\ was not found! [...]

So I was playing around with a free opensource C# RSS Aggregator today and I noticed that my blog’s feed was missing quite a few items. A quick look at the source showed that whoever wrote RSS v2.0 support into bBlog was either high or just incredibly stupid, as half the elements were either missing [...]

So I was wondering if I could set “su” to only allow users in the “wheel” group to su to root like with BSD. I never thought I’d be lucky enough to find another reason why Richard Stallman (the hippy who started the FSF) is an idiot in the process. The man page pointed me [...]

I couldn’t believe how hard it rained today. I was outside for about 5 minutes walking home from the bus stop, during which time I got COMPLETLY drenched. The rain was so hard it knocked my contact lenses out of place several times. I snapped a quick picture from my front porch looking across the [...]

So I managed to break the Windows Installer Service (MSI). This means I cannot install, “safely” uninstall, reinstall, or otherwise modify any program that uses it. Naturally because it’s built into Windows XP Microsoft didnt bother to create a way to reinstall it (why would they need to? It’s not like ANY of Microsoft’s code [...]

So during my only telephone conversation of the day the firealarm went off. Building administration eventually figured out that it was a false alarm at one of the condos attached to the building our office is in so the fire department didnt show up, but that didn’t stop me from snapping a few photos of [...]