School Of Hard Knocks

This is a really neat utility, it allows you to change all kinds of values to do with your fan speeds, even reads and diagnoses SMART drives (Even if your drive hasn't failed yet) gives charts for those that like that stuff, info about memory (timing etc) but it's nice to just see the temperature of the system, it would be nice if all this was logged somewhere, but i suspect such things would take retarded amounts of space... or not.. (tar, gzip) Without further ado, I give you SpeedFan. :) http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

When I updated my XP x64 box, I got this mystereous error: "Initialization error. This program requires at least windows 2000 with SPTD 1.21 or higher. Kernel debugger must be deactivated." The solution is to uninstall patch KB914784. AFAIK my box is secure and stable without it. boo urns!

I hate those stupid mouse overs, and the option box is quietly tucked away. Here's how to disable it. :) Click on personal settings -> Desktop -> Panels -> Appearance Toggle "Enable icon mouseover effects"

Checking the current settings: ifconfig -a The -a will make it show all interfaces (both up and down) Bringing down an interface ifconfig down ie: ifconfig eth0 down Note: You can also use ifdown Bringing down an interface ifconfig up ie: ifconfig eth0 up Note: You can also use ifup Setting the IP, Netmask, and Gateway: modify the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth[tab-complete] : IPADDR='192.168.1.3' NETMASK='255.255.255.0' GATEWAY='192.168.1.1' If your using DHCP: modify the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth[tab-complete] : BOOTPROTO='dhcp' DHCP Client Usage: dhcpcd -k : Sends SIGHUP signal to the dhcpcd process that is currently running. This will send a DHCP release, and destroy the dhcpcd cache. dhcpcd -n : Sends SIGALRM signal to the dhcpcd process that is currently running which forces dhcpcd to try to renew the lease Files: (These are usually tab delimited) /etc/hosts: This is where you can create a lists of known hosts. This is refrenced befo...

This site has a good site for getting all the codec's to work in SuSE 10.1 using rug http://susediary.blogspot.com/2006/05/fresh-start-and-fresh-approach.html Watching Rurouni Kenshin as we speak. :)

I'm not sure why, but sound is a bit flakey in SuSE 10.1. Here are some commands: user: alsamixer root: alsaconf alsactl (not sure how to use this, haven't bothered to google) If your using XMMS you may need the new MP3 decompressor, you can get it here: http://www.filewatcher.com/m/xmms-mpg123-1.2.10-4.i386.rpm.86281.0.0.html (for XMMS 1.2.10) I had to do a rpm -ivh xmms-mpg123-1.2.10-4.i386.rpm -nodeps (Don't laugh, it worked..) Also, for some reason X got re-linked back to the original binary, I'm not sure why, but it disabled my XGL. Relinked, and all was good again in the Land.

For the full rundown, see this page: http://en.opensuse.org/Setting_up_VMware_on_SUSE_Linux Prerequisites: gcc gcc-c++ kernel-source kernel-syms make (this is probably already installed) Installation: Prepare the Host System for Building Kernel Modules 1. Open a Terminal window 2. Use su to become root 3. Change to /usr/src/linux directory, and run the following command: make cloneconfig 4. Run the following command: make modules_prepare Install VMware Workstation from RPM YaST is able to install the RPM for VMware Workstation on SUSE Linux without any problem. You can get the RPM-based installer for VMware from www.vmware.com. Also, VMware will provide you with a 30-day evaluation license to try the product before you buy it. After applying the RPM for VMware, DO NOT run the VMware configuration script (/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl). It will not work properly yet. Download and Apply vmware-any-any-update Download the latest vmware-any-any-update from http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware. This updat...

From http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/mouse/index.html "KDE is designed to make use of either single-clicks or double-clicks, but the default is single-click mode. The reason for this is that double-clicks are hard to learn for new users and can cause RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury). To accommodate users who are already used to double-clicking and who don't want to change, as well as to accommodate users who work on a daily basis with systems that require double-clicks, KDE will allow the user switch to double-click mode on a system-wide basis. Otherwise, a double-click is treated as one single-click." If you like single click (I accidently click sometimes when trying to move stuff around and such) go into Control Center, click on Peripherals and then Select Mouse, under General there will be an option to "Double click to open files and folders (select icons on first click)" select that. Viola! :)

If you use the regular Monowall build on the VMware site, you'll notice one shortcoming, the vlance driver. :) If you'd like to modify that image yourself see this page: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=35543&tstart=0 At the bottom, there is a pre-built image to use http://www.xs4all.nl/~brugh/ Use that one. :) Uuuuuseeee it! With the old one I had random and frequent monowall hangs that could only be fixed with a soft reset of monowall from the console. You will want to disable the Host OS screensaver (This shouldn't cause a security issue because people should not be staying logged in anyway right?) if your using a hosted product. I've found that when I use Server in conjunction with UltraVNC, UltraVNC spikes to 50-60% CPU at times, so I've turned that off. You can turn it on and off using RPC calls from the windows Services widget, so it's not much of an inconvience having to turn it back on. The vmxnet driver has yielded some great up...

a Floater day is just a nice way of saying 'playing hookie', at least that's what it feels like (Why didn't they have this shit when I was in high school?).  Good thing I took the day off because the brakes on the RSX need to be replaced. I'm thinking it's either the factory old rotors, or, the ABS somehow, I dunno, but you would think the mechanic would have seen this when I took it in, and advised me of this problem ahead of time. meh...  I was playing BF2 last night, omg, I don't mind when one or two of my team mates are unskilled, but man, when it's my entire team boat anchoring, it's kinda hard to win.  I've also started playing BattleField 2142, here's the trailer     Read the review here

Another day, another dollar. :) My BF2 stats: http://bf2s.com/player/10576834/ My Xfire stats: http://www.xfire.com/profile/fidelite

Nice going EA.. I needed to clean my registry anyways, so I ended up re-istalling... Windows. This is how I got mine going, I had to go through all of these steps, maybe one of the less evasive ones will work for you, or just skip to the more evasive. What was happening to me was that I was getting kicked back to the desktop after loading (or half loading) the map, I would also crash on re-optomizing the video (at 60-62%). From reading a bit on the EA forums, I've come to the following conclusions... Non evasive: (These didn't work for me, but may for you) 1) Try just changing the audio to software decoding only 2) Force the game to re-optomize the pixel shaders etc by changing the screen res 3) Rename the "Battlefield 2" directory in your My Documents, this will wipe your custom settings. 4) Refresh your video card driver and DirectX --- --- Evasive: (This did) 5) Uninstall BF2 6) Install BF2 original 7) Install BF2 Special Forces (Also will patch) 8) Install BF2 1....

tgif Being gone for 12 hours a day is getting to be somewhat... excessive. I am going to develop some better time management skills. :p pats crazy neighbour keeps looking at me. wierdo... Pat is taking his sweeeeet ass time... there goes Tims, let's see if we can manage to be there on time at least..

ah shit! I think I forgot to lock my car, and I'm late for work, uhh, at least its really nice out. Hopefully the day gets better...ok its not better the fucking keys are in the car!!

week something This is the first post of the purposed daily postings, lol. I got my VCP. Work has been quite the learning curve. I'm really impressed with the work culture. I'm not really impressed with the 80 km drive in though. I carpool with Pat most times. We will have to move waaaay out west at some point soon. Hopefully I'll get around to adding more stuff to this but it still needs a host, so until then this blog will have to stay on my treo.

blog o lishoulous! This will be the start of my blogs.

First post on this new system.. I was going to set this up on my own server, but I guess this is just as well. Let the games, begin. I'll have to upload my blogs from my treo at some point.. Meh.