o/` A Perfect Circle – 3 Libras o/`
I was in #linux on minute.clockbot.net yesterday helping out an acquaintance with a Perl script he’s working on. It was really cool, he can check his mail (hosted in linux) from a web browser, the page looked really nice too, but he was having trouble viewing each email. You could see the inbox, the subject, sender, date… but when you clicked on the mail to read it you got an error. Now my knowledge of mailservers is severely lacking, Myk controls everything to do with our mailserver and I only weakly grasp the workings behind it all, but I said I’d take a look at the perl just in case I could be of help. On first glance I was lost! I understood what the script was doing, but without more knowledge about mail I had to admit I was really at a loss to what it was. I was able to tell him that it was not the perl script however… the error he recieved on the page when he tried to view the inbox was nothing like the error that the perl should have given if that was the problem. In the end he found out it was a simple mail problem, I was happy to point him in the right direction tho, and it made me feel better about my Perl abilities %)
Ah, last night Myk got printing all set up on my computer %) It’s so nice, color even! I have to say one of the biggest problems with linux is the difficulty in printing, that bothers me, but eventually (with a weekend of work!) we finally have our network printer printing perfectly, it’s so nice! And the color quality is actually better than when we were printing from linux to win2k, I am so happy… not that we print a lot, or care too much about the ‘quality’ when we do print, but it’s nice to have the ability and reliability there %)
We watched “The Sum Of All Fears” last night, it wasn’t bad, ‘cept for the whole Ben Affleck saving the world from nuclear disaster thing… oh, that was the whole movie? Dammit!!! It really wasn’t that bad, pretty much what I expected, but nothing award winning in my books *shrugs* After watching that I went to read for a while. I have about two chapters left in Book 9 of the Wheel Of Time, I will probably finish it tonite %) I went to bed rather early, around 10, since Myk wants to get on a “better sleep schedule” and keep a “better diet” He’s so cute %) He really looks fine, I mean neither of us are in top physical condition (no 6-packs I’m afraid, LOL) but we are healthy and by no means fat. I am glad I am involved with someone who is health concious tho, I have a terrible tendancy to revert to a bad diet when people arent looking, heehee, I guess I would have more self control if I gained lots of weight on such a terrible diet, but my weight always seems to stay within a 10 pound buffer zone around 130 pounds.
Myk didn’t have time to set up Unreal IRCD on my computer last night since he was busy getting printing to work, so I’ll work with services later sometime, instead I think I am going to go lurk in the wonderful world of my computer’s BIOS. Well, I am going to play with it a bit anyway %) See, my wonderful Asus board talks, but it has a female voice! It’s turned off currently, all it does is “talk” when booting up (to say the boot went successfully or not and why) and it verbally warns you if the CPU is too hot, or a couple other problems I can’t think of right now. When you turn the voice off it just uses system beeps to warn you of such things. But I have a pretty good handle on my box’s stability and cooling needs, so I was thinking of turning the voice back on, and changing the startup wav.. yes, you can change the wav files!!! So on bootup I can make it beep like R2 to say my boot was successful!!! YAY!!! Also, there is a “splash screen” that comes up when you first boot up, currently it’s turned off, and says “Asus P4S8X” with their pretty logo, but you can change that as well!!! Yeah, so I can have an r2-d2 picture there instead %) I am gonna mess around with gimp for a bit this morning to get a good splash page made. All these things are changed with a win
dows program that came with the motherboard (ick windows, but what could I expect?), I havent even installed the program yet. But this will give me a good lesson in how to backup a BIOS %) since there is no way I am changing anything until that is done, fun stuff.
Yeah, so I am going to go do that noew *wanders off*