When it Snows It Pours

Well, let me begin by saying how unhappy I am.

Admission No. 1)
I've had three PC's at my house for varying lengths of time. I have been trying to reload/repair/do something with each of these PC's ever since they came into my possession. I have felt less than zealous to complete these PC's since they are all for family and I wasn't charging for these.

Admission No. 2)
My home office has been a disaster for some time. In recent history there has been a clear path from the door to my wife's desk and one from the door to my desk which then continues on to my closet door.


Yesterday, after church and visiting with family, I sat down in order to make a dent in my tasks of finishing these pc's and maybe cleaning up my office or at least my desk. I sat down and reloaded one of the pc's I already had the data backed up previously. Meanwhile, I am attempting to figure out why I am having trouble installing a new os (FreeBSD preferably but I'd settle with Ubuntu) on my 1.5 TB harddrive in my computer. DING! Reload finished. w00t! Ok now I go to stop what I was doing and hook my harddrive back up and move the old data back to the newly reloaded PC. All is fine. I then exclaim, “Oh Crap!” I realized that I had neglected to hook up the “broke drive” which is a 100gb sata drive I bought off a guy at a flea market. The reason I call it the broke drive is that the rail for the sata data connector to fit snuggly (not snuggie) into is broke so I just have to jimmy-rig it to stay in place. I do that and boot the PC back up. Comes back up. I start to click on “My Computer” (yes I know it's a windows pc – hush!) BLUE Screen-then-REBOOT “CRAP!”

Well when I boot it back up the computer is doing the good-ol' “Splash-screen - REBOOT” game which I hate oh-so-much! I disable reboot and it tells me, “Unmountable Boot Volume” well after 10 – 15 minutes of swearing. I grab the newly found 40GB drive that I had plans for, load it up crap now it cant find my network card. Oh wait, I have a slipstream that has my driver on it.

I'm going to pull a Kanye West on myself and interrupt myself. All this is after spending hours yesterday attempting to load BSD or Ubuntu onto my 1.5 TB drive, running MemTest 4 against the RAM and a myriad of other tests. None of which had the best video of all time.

Ok, so while I'm letting the slipstream disc run I went to put my daughter down for the night since my wife had been keeping an eye on her during all this. I get her to sleep and put her down. Then I go back into my office and it's rebooting, “cool it's ready!” XP splash screen... REBOOT!

Requiring all the energy in my body I restrain myself from shouting and picking my computer up to throw it through my window. After a bit of cool down I sit back down and start back to work on it.
Unfortunately, with no resolve.

I could have shortened this by saying, “ARGH!!!” but then you wouldn't really know what was going on would you?

Hopefully I'll get SOMETHING resolved soon.

Last post.

Well apparently I caused a stir among several friends and people with the last post I made.
I wanted to update those who expressed concern either via email, txt msg, phone call, blog comments or some form of communication.

Recently as things have calmed down, I have had the opportunity to dig through some music to meet my emotions. In the process, I accidentally ran across a song that I hadn't heard in a while, this reminded me that I had typed up the lyrics and added it to my website because of how much I like the song, and what is this song you might ask...
Superman's Song

I feel much better.
Thanks for the concern.

To Hades With It All!

Alright, I've had it.
I've done all that I can do.
I hate computers.
I am tired of working on them.
I'm tired of putting up with their stercus tauri.

I decided to put my mind on some other topic, so after being introduced to a firewall application that I could run on one of my old linux boxes, I thought 'hey that would be a fun project to get my mind off of all this.'
this being the problems I'm having with my primary desktop computer)
So i took out the old box that's just been sitting in a corner with a half-arse load of FreeBSD on it, popped in X-files DVDs and I dug out this great old blue box that I bought for $5, a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, that was retail version of RedHat 5.2. I plug the machine in, make sure it POSTs. So, I put the disc in the cd-rom tray and hit reboot. I start the install, Stack trace!?! hmm, ok let me check something. I take the disc out do some checks on the BIOS settings, all looks good. I open the try and put the disc back in. After closing the try and hitting reboot, my computer stuck it's tongue out at me. The Cd tray shot back out. So i hit the button, it closed and opened again. I'm thinking ok, i have fat fingers maybe i'm double tapping the button so i real quickly punch the button. Closed. OPEN! OMG!! WTF!?

So after a few minutes of fighting with the cd rom, and it not working. As I am an only child, I did what I do best. I threw a temper-tantrum. Denting cases, bending chassis, and as a side note: i don't like that the plural form of chassis is chassis.
All-the-while doing a few other destructive things to the computers around me.
SO, this brings me to my point.

I have:
5 non-working white-box PCs
1 maybe-working Compaq PC
1 working PowerMac 7600 which I recently upgraded to MacOS 8.1
1 working Rosewill 19" Flat panel monitor
1 working 17" Mac CRT (Big-butt behemoth)
1 working 17" Dell CRT
1 sort-of working 17" Philips CRT (it pin-cushions every now and then)
1 working Sun 1U Netra X1 server
I think I may have a couple Toshiba Satellite Laptops (1 working; 1 not)

Anyone need some parts. Sold As Is.

BURNED!!!

Alright, most of you know how anti-buying music at wal-mart I am. Nothing against Wal-mart i have family that work there. I do hate that walmart censors their cds.
I have a set of rules:
1.) Do not buy music at Wal-Mart
2.) Do not buy CDs at Wal-Mart
3.) Avoid purchasing Music CDs at Wal-Mart

Alright, well I broke my rule for the first time in two years I bought a CD at Walmart. Most of you know I am a lemming for a certain little Canadian Anti-pop Princess, so I bought her new cd the day it came out. I went out to get pizza and a movie as well as picking up some Milk and OJ for my wife and decided to go ahead and pick it up. It was a matter of convenience. I felt pretty sure that I was safe to buy it at Wal-mart. Did not expect that it needed to be edited, well I was wrong. Now normally, there is a simple little word on the label or on the security label on top that says (Edited). I saw none, and as I said I didn't expect to. I got in my car on my way to pick up the pizza and head home.
Track 1, a little over a minute into the song, "and hell yeah I'm the Mother Princess" I nearly caused a wreck. I was furious! I had been BURNED! Damn you wal-mart and your not offering cds with dirty words!
I'm adding a rule to my rule set:

4.) NEVER under Any Circumstance, no matter how convenient, buy any type of musical item from walmart!!!

On the day the wagons come...

...I just pray that you let me out.
I realized something today, I am a very unhappy person -- at least right now I am. I'm touchy and sensitive; I have a really short fuse; I feel as though I could blow up at the next person that barks at me.
I don't want people to talk to me; I don't want to be around people; just let me be; let me do my thing and do not bother me. I'm liable to cut your throat and keep walking.
/roar

From Two Stories Up a Zenith Makes a Big Boom!

Ever have one of those days where it's not really a bad day... it was actually almost a good day but you just want to scream! That's the kind of day I've had. Honestly it was not a bad day at all but I honestly felt like going out of my mind. I think it has a lot to do with when you have nearly one hundred things on your mind and they are all constantly running at full speed.
/sigh
I need another vacation already.

Me vs. Kernel.

well welcome to the last day of the rest of my life.... ever wrote a shell script that was perfectly harmless... and it all goes awry?

Yeah that happened to me today... when your shellscript eff's up on you and suddenly ends up in your / filesystem and deletes a file... to most people that wouldn't be the biggest thing in the world. To a freebsd user the first question is: "It wasn't the kernel was it?"
The first words out of my mouth were....well explitives...but after that were....well... more explitives...and then was....inaudible....well i'm not sure I really said anything... worth repeating.
In case you haven't figured it out by now I had a shellscript delete my kernel..
i hate my life.