Call me kooky

I got an email from gmail asking me to change my password…. in spanish.  Probably a lame hack attempt but I reset the password anyways since I couldn’t remember it either.  Oddly, it’s the account I don’t use.

Ah man, remember the 5.25″ floppy?  No, of course you don’t.  Damned kids!  Back in the day we used these flexible plastic squares to store our data.  They made horrible noises and we slow.  They also didn’t hold jack for data.  800k I think was the max.
And that’s what’s missing from virtual machines/emulators!  The real floppies!  Having to turn the latch for the 5.25″ to work was a pain in the ass, but by god it made you a man!  I can’t wait till vmware pops up a message like “Floppy not inserted properly, jiggle mouse to continue”.

…….

I’ll go back to being old now.

Since windows is stupid and dumps a bunch of crap to c: I needed to put more space on that partition.  No problem, I’ve got a lot of free space on another partition.  I’ll just use gpartd to move it around.  Boot ubuntu from the cd and promptly forget linux doesn’t  switch to the BNC connector like it should.  After rebooting a bunch of times and generaly freaking out I boot into “safe” mode graphics.  Load gpartd and shuffle the partitions around.  A side note here, do ONE operation at a time.  The vesa graphics apparently don’t like power management, so I ended up with a blank screen not knowing if gpartd had finished or not.  And no way to login to the machine over the network.
Turns out I might have been saved by a bug in gpartd that makes it crash when rescanning devices.  Then it turns out my ntfs drive is not clean.  Chkdsk doesn’t work 90 percent of the time so in desperation I booted a recent ghost disk that includes a “live cd” windows on it and was able to run chkdsk from there.
Over a week…. to fix something simple…. fuck you ntfs.

The other side of this is whoever thought placing game data in My Documents needs to fucking die.  Horribly.  To add to that, games that don’t tell you they didn’t save are very annoying.  I’ve been playing fallout 3 and the saved data is pretty large.  Guess where it wants to store that data?  Yup, on the drive with no space.  And it just doesn’t say anything when the save fails.  Thanks fuckers.

We went out for some pizza last night and got to find out they finaly killed off the personal pan pizza meal.  It was a great offer, a personal pan pizza, breadsticks/salad, and a soda.  It doesn’t suprise me though, when getting the individual componets is much more expensive.

I’m by no means a power linux user anymore, I just don’t use it that much but I thought I’d give 8.10 a spin for giggles in my vm.

Good thing I did it in a vm, the upgrade process didn’t go smoothly at all. I ended up having to force the update manager to install some packages so it could get the rest or something crazy.

My webcam still doesn’t work. But this might be because of how the vm handles USB instead of just linux being stupid.

Other than that, I really don’t see a point in upgrading to 8.10. There’s probably a whole lot under the hood I didn’t notice, but 8.04 seems to be a fine and stable platform.