File sharing on Ubuntu was very, very easy, but for some reason, I couldn’t access P’s XP system, and my SUSE laptop couldn’t access some of the partitions on my desktop; specifically one NTFS and one FAT32. I can now do all of the above; I just played Ola’s “Feelgood” (which lives on the FAT32 partition on my desktop’s second HDD that had stubbornly refused to allow more than file listing with no actual access) on P’s computer, and on my laptop, and I can access his shared directory, which I could not before even though his firewall wasn’t blocking me.

Now, this is where I detail the method I used to finally get it working, complete with a bunch of nerdy, cryptic commands….

I don’t know. I have no idea why it works now when it didn’t this morning even after I’d made the changes. All I did was edit my fstab to automount all partitions except for my XP partition, and I think I changed the permissions on the FAT32 partition to allow writing, which sounds less safe than it is because we’re all behind a secured router anyway and the laptop is on an encrypted wireless connection. If I allow write access, I can download a song on P’s machine or my laptop and put it on my desktop rather than having to stick it on a thumb drive or email it to myself or something. Actually, I think there are a few on the laptop that I never got around to putting in my music directory anyway. Someday, I’ll just put up a file server, but for now, my desktop is the de facto file server, and it’ll do. Anyway, who cares why it works, just as long as it does? 😀

No, the fact that at least half–if not an actual majority–consistently makes the same spelling mistake does not mean the language should change, it means you should. You are all illiterate fucking idiots. The English language has homophones–get used to it. Before you go ranting about cyclists who don’t obey traffic rules (granted, your “rule” seems to be, “I own the whole goddamned road”), learn to fucking spell! Unless he’s selling his bike on the street, no cyclist is “peddling”. Never-never-ever! I know that it’s very confusing, since both “peddle” and “pedal” are verbs and they sound the same when you say them, but if you rub your two fucking brain cells together reeeeeally hard, I think you can just manage to figure out which one is which. Illiterate douchebags. I hate you all. It’s patently obvious that no one fucking reads anymore because if they did, they wouldn’t make stupid mistakes like this.

The internet is global (okay, not in China), and there is absolutely no reason I should read, “Ny singel ute!” on an artist’s official site, see that it is supposedly available on iTunes, then search the iTunes store with zero results simply because the artist is not popular in North America. Magnus Uggla is one of the ugliest men I’ve ever seen, and a lot of people don’t like him because of his sometimes “politically charged” lyrics, but I like the sound of his voice, I like a good number of his songs (if the lyrics are political in nature, I wouldn’t understand it, and it’s not our politics anyway), and I had “24 Timmar” stuck in my head. Cute little song, and he doesn’t overdo the vocoder effect–sounds nice. Anyway, to me, the artist doesn’t matter, only the music does. For all I care, he can fuck goats and eat babies for breakfast. I looked on Telia’s music site, and they’ve got it, but the price is equivalent to $2.19 USD, which is a lot for one song. I thought I’d just get it from iTunes, but it apparently detected that I’m in the US and returned no results for a search of either artist or title. Thank you, iTunes, for deciding what I’m allowed to hear. Also, fuck off. What is the goddamned difference? It’s just a data transfer and no different whether it’s going from their server to a small town in western Sweden or a small town in southern Illinois. Same thing! If I can hear a song on Favorit or RixFM because I can listen to their online broadcast, why can’t I buy it? I would–I’d love to, in spite of DRM–but they sure don’t make it easy for me.

Why the legal way sucks:

Why one alternative (which shall remain unnamed..hehe) doesn’t:

Ctrl+H turns showing hidden files on and off “on the fly” without changing the preferences. I know that if I don’t write it somewhere, I’ll forget, but if I write it, I’ll remember it until I die

Also, E. is something like I expected, and a lot like I didn’t. Good guy…if I haven’t created some sort of monster. 😉

I think it’s a bug in Hardy that affects only a few users, but if it’s not and it happens with the next release, and I don’t remember how to fix it, make sure the last line in the Keyboard section of xorg.conf looks like this and it’ll “remember” that I want right Alt as Compose:

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Generic Keyboard”
Driver “kbd”
Option “XkbRules” “xorg”
Option “XkbModel” “pc105”
Option “XkbLayout” “us”
Option “XkbOptions” “compose:ralt”

How, in so few words, did you manage to make so many mistakes?

well your getting so good with these fungi’s LOl well done, I’ never seem to see many , I think I must walk to fast

Let’s see…we have “your” that should be “you’re”. We have “fungi’s” which is wrong on so many levels; not only do you obviously not know that “fungi” is already plural, you don’t even know how to form a correct plural with a word that does need “s” (hint: it doesn’t require an apostrophe). I’ll give you the apostrophe after “I” as an accidental typo, and the “LOl”, too, but no pass for walking “to fast”. Where’s fast? You can’t even use proper punctuation or capitalisation! Christ, I fear for the future of literate humanity.

I finally got around to putting Screenlets on the laptop, so it looks as snazzy (hehe) as the desktop. They’re not as useful, though, because the screen is only 17″ and I don’t like them “on top” because they get in the way, so I have to minimise windows to see them. Still, they look pretty.

My little green bug made Explore, too. I guessed the dragon probably would because most people like dragons, but for a bug to get there is more difficult. Yay, little green bug, and somebody even gave you a *smooch*, too!

I normally think this sort of thing is stupid, but this one actually made me laugh…

Winning a debate with your wife or female SO is like trying to “win” an earthquake. Your goal is to ride it out and survive with all your appendages attached and your property intact.

Yes, yes it is. 😆 Fuckin’ rain…what a crap MD weekend this has been. I did get to see Gandi and K-Lee yesterday, though…makes me want a parrot. Well, kinda; they are like two-year olds that will never grow up and will probably outlive me. Still, they’re awfully cute. Bird-head!

Most of the time, I’m a sarcastic, snarky bitch with little patience for anyone and active dislike for many. Sometimes, though, I’m actually sort of nice, and occasionally, I take it into my head to be really nice. I did that a week or so ago; I sent a Flickr Mail to Eric to tell him the Flickr ID pool was fortunate to have him, and also that he’s my bug idol. He is because he’s an expert, but not so specialised that he knows everything about only one group and little about any other. Also, he combines the knowledge of an expert with the enthusiasm of an amateur, and when he answers a question, he’s pleasant, not “all business” like many experts. I think that’s awesome because it’s encouraging for n00bs. Works the same as in Linux; the Very Serious People on a Debian board might give you the answers, but the Very Nice People on the Ubuntu board will not only give you the answer, they’ll also make you comfortable enough to want to return. Anyway, I sent a little note to Eric, and for a week or so, I didn’t get a reply. He’s not there every day, so I didn’t think much of it. I got a reply yesterday, and I’m glad I took the few minutes to write that note…

Lisa!

Thank you SO much for the sentiments and praise. You made
my day 🙂 I apologize for taking this long to get back to
you, I keep forgetting I can get mail AT Flickr…..

Well, feel free to ‘bug me’ any time, at:

bugeric24@yahoo.com

Just put your name and “bug” in the subject line or
something. LOL!

Take care, keep up the great work yourself.

Sincerely,

Eric

I made his day, and he made mine because it’s not every day an expert like Eric tells you that you’re doing a good job of making accurate IDs. Now, my kindness well has run dry for the rest of the month, and I may return to being a snarky bitch! 😆

Oh yeah…for when I forget where I put this and what it’s called….

Copyright© 2008 Kamoteus/RonMiguel RN
This image is protected under the United States and International Copyright laws and may not be downloaded, reproduced, copied, transmitted or manipulated without written permission.

I don’t even like the goddamned thing; I took it simply because you don’t want anyone to take your stuff and you’re a giant fucking douchebag.

All images are copyright-protected by default unless the owner specifically changes that, you dumbass, and if you think “spaceball.gif” stops anyone who’s even somewhat determined to have your mediocre photo, think again. If I wasn’t too lazy, I’d remove your stupid little watermark; I don’t even need to fire up Photoshop for something that simple.

P.S. Your highlights are blown and you might enhance the saturation a little–looks washed out.

Thanks in advance! Tx in advance…or worse, TIA! Jesus, how I hate, hate, hate it when people say that! Why don’t they just write, “I already know you’re going to ID my (whatever) because I am godlike and you’d do anything for me, but I can’t be arsed to come back and acknowledge that you did, in fact, ID my (whatever), so…here are three whole words for you, since I’m already here. Goddamn, I’m so good to you!”

The next time I see any form of “thanks in advance”, I’m identifying whatever it is as either something venomous and terribly dangerous, or a species of house pest, or both….

“Oh my GOD! I hope you didn’t get too close to that thing. I know it looks like a butterfly, but that is actually the Greater Colourful Scale-winged cockroach, Blattus uranassholis. This species has very large fangs, neurotoxic venom, and is known to infest homes throughout the world, biting humans in their sleep. Once established, it is extremely difficult and expensive–if not impossible–to eradicate. I would suggest you just sell your house and move several hundred miles away–those things will kill you!”