Planet SoC

The discussion of digital restrictions management has come up a few times in the past few days, and XKCD published this work today:

But we mustn’t regulate [the bankers], because then we run the risk of driving them out of the country. Maybe this argument will catch on during burglaries. If the thief is caught running out of the house with the jewelry, he’ll say: “Don’t try and stop me, or you might frighten me off, and I’ll leave the house altogether.” Then the family will discuss the matter, saying: “Hmm, he’s got a point,” and instead warn the burglar that if he keeps doing it, he’ll be a fool to himself, as there’ll be nothing left to rob.

~ Mark Steel

Of course the latter would be showing ads on improving the bike in a
static but now since I love; EABI ARM bpt and properly bound copies of
course the power switch was a readable feed of a neat MAME I can use at
least livejournal will remain static but I’ll probably make a bit on a
bit on after a programming project now violating their principles after
it is the least; livejournal.

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Sometimes all you want is a steak breakfast. Sometimes, you have to get it at 3:00 in the morning. As well as: a bowl of soup, some hashbrowns, a biscut, two eggs, and two chillidogs. I’m full now.

Classes were boring. Zach is over. We’re going to play 90s arcade games.

Ugh. I broke the first rule of hunting. I spilled my beer. I wasn’t really hunting at the time, but unfortunately the beer landed on Das Keyboard. Its had a cycle through the dishwasher as I’ve heard to do once it started spazzing out, so I’m using a `regular’ keyboard for the time being.

Classes don’t seem as interesting as I thought they would be, and I’ll have to learn Java (again), but at least my schedule isn’t bad.

Finally figured out how to get Vista to boot with AHCI (SATA) drives. Turns out that Vista will disable drivers that aren’t in use at every boot. Problem: what if we’ll need those drivers to boot later? The fix involved navigating regedit. I’m still trying to figure out why Alienware shipped them set to IDE mode by default.

Today I finished cleaning up all my documents and pictures and stuff stored on my hard drive. And I don’t mean deleting, but organizing. Its hard to make backups if your data isn’t organized (Reminder: Could you afford to lose all of your data tomorrow?).
While I was at it, I unsubscribed from a bunch of mailing lists I don’t read anymore in the eternal effort to clean up one’s inbox.

Decided to beta-test the latest version of Ubuntu, but didn’t get very far. My DVD burner was burning very slowly, and eventually errored out. So I swapped it with the drive I’ve been meaning to replace it with (SATA connection), and burned the new DVD quickly and painlessly. At this point I made sure I could read my backups (important!) and then stuck the new CD in the drive and rebooted.
[5 minutes later]
CD fails to boot, but it now scratched to shit as DVD drive is making odd noises. Even when its off :-\

*sigh*A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Well, could be worse :)