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1. reiserfs

   Advice: Do not use reiserfs.

   ben: told you cough

   Posted on Blog over 24 years agoon September 08, 2002 - 10:26 PM and archived here at /blog/2002/2002-09-08-reiserfs/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2002/2002-09-08-reiserfs/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

2. wlan-ng

   Ladies and gentlemen, I am now officially wireless. Thanks Paul for the wlan-ng help and Jeff for the free 3com Access Point.

   Paul helped me get my wireless pcmcia card working in gentoo. I got up this morning and swapped the living-room hub with the hub in my bedroom (needed the uplink port) and plugged in the access point. I then brought up /etc/init.d/pcmcia and /etc/init.d/wlan. I was still configured for the guru SSID but that would soon change. The only problem was, Jeff never told me how he’d configured the AP before giving it to me… I had my fingers crossed for WEP to be turned off but it really wouldn’t have mattered that much.

   > airsnort

   “Oh, neat, scan.” click

   Airsnort saw the AP and I quickly put it’s name in /etc/wlan.conf and restarted /etc/init.d/wlan.

   > dhcpcd wlan0
   > /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop

   /me unplugs cat5

   Now if only there were a way to make batteries wireless - using the wireless pcmcia card drains my batteries in ~45 minutes.

   Posted on Blog over 24 years agoon September 07, 2002 - 8:02 AM and archived here at /blog/2002/2002-09-07-wlan-ng/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2002/2002-09-07-wlan-ng/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

3. 140 Cigarettes

   Ben: I have not had a cigarette in one week!

   Grant: !!!

   Posted on Blog over 24 years agoon July 07, 2002 - 8:09 AM and archived here at /blog/2002/2002-07-07-140-cigarettes/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2002/2002-07-07-140-cigarettes/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

4. reiserfs has officially decieved me

   Welp, reiserfs has officially decieved me.

   Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root filesystem on 03:07
   > reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda7
   
   [UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 110!
   
   [UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 111!
   
   [UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 112!
   
   [UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 113!
   
   [UNCORRECTABLE ERROR] SECTOR 114!

   It then makes it to about 133 before aborting and dying. Good times indeed.

   For those not in the know, that means, I just lost my / linux partition with all of my data on it. Suck suck suck.

   Edit: No seriously - this fucking sucks. hard. =/

   Posted on Blog over 24 years agoon June 23, 2002 - 10:24 PM and archived here at /blog/2002/2002-06-23-reiserfs has officially decieved me/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2002/2002-06-23-reiserfs%20has%20officially%20decieved%20me/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

5. I bought jokerbone.com last night

   Well, for lack of a better name, I bought jokerbone.com last night. It’s not live yet but will be soon.

   When it is live, I can be e-mailed at grant at jokerbone.com and you can all update your bookmarks.

   It sounds so 1997 saying ‘update your bookmarks’. Like back in the day when ‘dynamic’ sites were new ideas and taglines like hit refresh to update as content changes often and under construction animated gifs and warnings were the rage.

   sigh

   Posted on Blog over 24 years agoon June 21, 2002 - 9:10 AM and archived here at /blog/2002/2002-06-21-I bought jokerbone.com last night/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2002/2002-06-21-I%20bought%20jokerbone.com%20last%20night/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

6. Gauntlet gibbing

   Every other Thursday night from 7 to 9 PM, I am required to be at the office for “Tech Meetings”. The remaining Thursdays are listed as “Game Nights” but no one has ever actually had a ‘Game Night’ since I started working here four months ago.

   Last night (and into this morning) we successfully had our first lan party (unnamed) at the office. It went very well but the hour drive home at 5:30 AM was definitely rough. The boss even came and spent three hours trying to get Warcraft 3 working on our LAN - taking breaks to let myself and ben own him up in Q3 matches.

   Good times. Next time we’ll definitely have a camera handy.

   Posted on Blog over 24 years agoon May 12, 2002 - 9:17 PM and archived here at /blog/2002/2002-05-12-gauntlet-gibbing/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2002/2002-05-12-gauntlet-gibbing/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

7. Swapping bedrooms

   I had to move my ftp/ssh/www server + nat/firewall box. I had hoped to be able
   to leave it up but it was strung through too many powerstrips.

   > uptime
   Linux pcp243892pcs 2.4.17 #2 Sat Jan 19 22:25:47 EST 2002 i586 unknown
   
   14:27:35 up 102 days, 16:25, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00

   Tears were shed.

   Posted on Blog over 24 years agoon May 05, 2002 - 10:29 AM and archived here at /blog/2002/2002-05-05-swapping-bedrooms/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2002/2002-05-05-swapping-bedrooms/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

8. A Proposal

   I just wanted to extend my congrats to Paul, who is the geekiest guy I’ve ever met that doesn’t have /anything/ on the web of his own to which I could href his name.

   The congrats are in order becuase he popped the question the night before last.

   Now his lovely gf is his lovely fiance.

   gl to the both of them 😃

   Posted on Blog over 24 years agoon May 01, 2002 - 10:26 AM and archived here at /blog/2002/2002-05-01-a-proposal/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2002/2002-05-01-a-proposal/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

9. New Roomy

   My buddy Ben got a job where I work.

   Aaron and I are going to drive up to Cleveland to get him on Friday to help him move to Maryland, where he’ll be my new roomate. I’m still shacked up with ol’ pink eye, so it’s going to be close-quarter living for a bit, but you won’t be able to swing a cat without hitting a computer. 😃

   Good times will be had.

   Posted on Blog over 24 years agoon May 01, 2002 - 9:19 AM and archived here at /blog/2002/2002-05-01-new-roomy/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2002/2002-05-01-new-roomy/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

10. uncreative

    Back when I was an art major taking an ‘introduction to art and digital media’ class, I was given the assignment to make three animated banner advertisements.

    I knew the assignment was more or less a “learn the technology” piece, which was extremely aggravating for me, as were the majority of my college art classes. The first few years of art classes focus on learning the media, then focusing on the craft. The media wasn’t new to me, and I didn’t learn the craft. =/

    So anyway, my main banner ad was unintelligible sccribble with a red, then green, then blue background.

    During my review, the TA pointed out that I had chosen rgb wisely and that it makes my banner ad cool. Now I’m no better artist / mind than the TA - she, and all of the other people I interracted with are extremely talented, but I just laughed and said “I was cliche-dropping wired magazine. rgb ya know?”

    The so-far design of this site has been going that way so far. A parody of a designer site w/ some usability excpetions (a true parody would have 7px type somewhere). I think that, this, more than my disgust with the art department’s technology-hand-holding, was what kept me from a degree.

    I’m a un-creative bastard.

    Posted on Blog over 24 years agoon April 22, 2002 - 1:51 PM and archived here at /blog/2002/2002-04-22-uncreative/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2002/2002-04-22-uncreative/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.