Neurotech - the weblog of Luke Reeves

Just as I was walking to the store, I caught the Snowbirds tearing ass above my street. Hella cool.

I’ve been dying to use that title for so long - just to fuck with people who search for Matt.

Long time, no post. Busy as shit at work, and any spare time at home I have is spent bonding with the new PC. I’m sure you all understand. I’ve got Linux and Windows 2000 both working beautifully on the thing, and they both fly like bats out of hell. Some of the games I’ve tried out:

• Warcraft 3 - Rocks.
• Simcity 3000. Kicks my ass.
• Simcity 4. How the fuck was this ever released? The patch causes more problems than it solves.
• Enemy Territory. Kicks my ass - and impregnates my dog! For real, get this one.
• Command and Conquer Generals - Half-decent. Good nostalgia value. Anthrax rules.
• Quake 3. All time classic baby.

Some other random shit:

• Capricorn One is the original Wag the Dog, only better. Plus it has O.J. in it for bonus points.
• Notice how there’s still no goddamned public reason for the power going out? And how it also went out across London?
• The latest X-Windows driver for my laptop suddenly stopped compiling. I hit a moment of hardcore geek transcendence when I fixed it.
• Freddy Vs. Jason is fun to watch, but I don’t recommend paying for it. The dialogue is simply amazing; Matt and I almost wet our pants laughing at some of the lines.
• Two of my coworkers are now running Linux on their work systems (the aforementioned Matt included). And I didn’t twist any arms!
• Madonna kissed Britney Spears. Rock on.

That’s it. The long weekend is upon me, and I’m stoked. Having a bunch of people over on Sunday, should be loads of wholesome fun.

Air Canada got really fucked up by the Blaster virus, right? OK, so a lot of big companies won’t use open source and free software because there’s no one to hold responsible when shit hits the fan.

Well, the shit hit the fan - and no one is even thinking of holding Microsoft responsible. They shipped every OS they make with freakin’ DCOM enabled and listening on an open port - does the average user even know what the hell COM, DCOM, or COM+ is? Do any of them need it? You’d think there’d be class action suits flying left and right. But no.

I’m wondering if America’s Army works in Canada. Does that make me unpatriotic?

This is gonna be a long technical post describing how to best setup this configuration for Debian GNU/Linux. I’ll keep this updated as I mess with it more.

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Every blog gets a shitload of anonymous comments, most of which are retarded. I delete stupid comments on site, and almost always delete anonymous comments. I hang everything out here; you can see my full name on most pages on this server, my e-mail address, and most of my personality is exposed.

So why the hell would I allow retards to post shit like “Solaris r0xors!”? Ugh. Sometimes Google can be a bad thing. If you have an opinion, it should be backed up by an identity. This is the Internet of 2003, where most of us aren’t scared to show our actual names.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is an amazing game. And it’s free - free as in beer! Go get it now. James turned me onto it and I’m pretty sure I’m hooked. There’s so much strategy involved, and I’ve yet to play a team-based multiplayer game as good as this. 60 players on a map, with the Allies trying to repair a tank and get it through a smashed city as the Nazi scum tries to stop them… Man, it’s really cool.

And it’s for Linux as well. And, rubbing it in here, it really smokes on this system.

From the new computer that is. Holy fuck this thing is fast. Good lord, I’m definitely sexually aroused. That is all.

Stunning new images of Gran Turismo 4.

Thanks for all the recommendations of computer shops, but nah, PC Village. I mean, I bought all OEM parts so the price difference is pretty damned tiny in the end. And thanks for the tip Ron but there’s no way in hell I’m ordering a computer from Vancouver :-).

So yeah, I bought the fucker. It’s really fast, cleanly compiles the Linux kernel in like 2 minutes. It’s a single chip system, an AMD 2500. Damned fast. I can upgrade to a two-chip board and another chip for a couple hundred bucks so I’d figure I’d test out a single system for a while.

The problem though; I inadvertently overclocked the thing to about 3000Mhz so it was a little unstable… But now after consulting the net I’ve found the proper settings for the motherboard (Asus A7N8X deluxe) and CPU speed. My bad! It’s been like six years since I built a system from scratch, and it’s pretty cool.

The motherboard itself is fucking awesome. Two built-in network cards (with different hardware), built in 6.1 channel (I think) Dolby sounds, built in modems - um, yeah - firewire, six USB ports, and on and on. And it all works out of the box on Linux (minus a tricky IDE controller that I found the right driver for). Nice new video card too, an ATI Radeon 9100 with 128 megs of RAM. I think I’m getting sexually aroused.