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04 Nov 2009 20:31
- November 5th, 0:00
- Long time no post!
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- doctorpinkerton
- November 4th, 20:14
Sorry for the lack of info. I've just been really really busy... doing the backstroke in a really complex flow of projects, plans and evil schemes! This week, I'm simultaneously working on:
Writing new music (Evil is Fun!!!) I'm making Wednesday nights our new 'music writing' night. Having a regular night for this will accelerate things...Casting the perfect Lab Girl (still searching...) Also casting another backup musician; everybody needs a backup. Possibly even me! My vow for next year is NO GIG TURNED DOWN.Fooling with electronics (fixing Z's old Western Electric telephone, an old Peavey amplifier, the C.O.G.'s PA system, and the usual pile of computers.) LOVED the old school telephone BTW - gotta get one to go with my old school (1974) modem! Yes, it actually works...Working on making my day gig last by upgrading my company's products' compatibility with Windows 7 (actually with Vista & 7, although I haven't had to really worry about it until now due to Vista's extreme unpopularity with the I.T. crowd.)Cleaning up some more 'Morgus' TV footage for his forthcoming first DVD (I already did this 4 years ago - but I have learned a lot about video since then. Also I can now do MUCH better color correction with this nice Macintosh and Final Cut Pro.)The coming weekend will be a real break from all that, as I'm going to be hitting the Houston Arcade Expo. Yeah, I know I had vowed that my next trip to Houston would involve a C.O.G. performance, but fear not. I've got an Evil Plan to make that happen soon... soon as I line up a good band to perform with over there, or a con that will play along with my plot (still looking for THAT too unfortunately...)P.S.: New 'Sarah Jane Adventures' was lightweight fun, but I'm stoked for November 16th, for some REAL 'Doctor Who'. (Anyone else think K-9's acting kind of schizo lately?)
- Specialization Question
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- sonatina911libraries
- November 4th, 16:33
Hello! I'm in my first quarter of library school and am interested in becoming a children's librarian. I'm working on my specialization paper this quarter, and plan on doing it on digital media for children's collections; I also plan on taking as many courses in children's related topics as I'm able to. However, I also want to get a job when I graduate, and I'm flexible about this. I plan on taking courses in cataloging and computer programing, as well.So my question is, am I limiting my employment options by focusing on children's librarianship? If I wanted to apply somewhere like the LC or a special library, would I be less likely to get an interview? Thanks for your input!
- GRE
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Hello everyone,I have been watching this community for 6 months now - ever since I decided I wanted to go back to school for an MLIS. Next week I am taking the GREs. This makes me very anxious and nervous. I bought the Kaplan GRE book to study and dowloaded the ETS software to help learn the style of the test. But I am interested in everyone's experience in taking the GRE. Mostly, I am curious about how you think it affected the college's decision to accept you. Did you do well? Did you do poorly and still get in? Did you do better than you hoped? What would you do differently if you had to do it all over again? Did you college have a min score?Anyways, I look forward to all of your input! Here's to hoping I do well!
- ssh behaving strangely
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- anivair
- November 4th, 13:09
So here's a really weird issue I'm having with a fresh install of Karmic Koala. I've never seen this before. I have the new machine set up nicely and I have a static ip assigned. I cannot, for the life of me, ssh into this machine when it boots. no ssh, no ping, nothing. like it's not there. if I reset the ip address, hit the net, etc I get nothing. BUT, if I ssh from that machine into my box, then I can ssh into it. It's almost as if I have to prove to the Karmic machine that I'm a real boy before it will play with me. Anyone have any idea what that might be? i thought iptables, but it's blank. I have no firewall running (on the machine) and the only thing between me and it is a router.
- Wednesday already.
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- chris21718
- November 4th, 10:20
Wow! I haven't posted in a while. This past Saturday (Halloween night), I ended up going to Doug's since Mandi told me about the party and invited me to go. Both of them have been on my LJ friend list for years although I haven't been around either of them in person much, so increasing the familiarity with them was great. The party was the right size for me since I haven't been to many social gatherings outside the coffee shop for a while. The people there seemed nice and friendly. I also got to meet Mandi's husband, Jon, who seemed really cool. Jon has a somewhat mysterious property in that my mind cannot form a good image of what he looks like, even after seeing pictures of him and meeting him in person (although in costume and in dim light). This is rare, especially for a male. Mandi and Jon looked great in their pirate costumes and I wore a bright orange pair of jeans that I got around 1992 (and can still wear), with a black shirt. I used to have an orange top that went with it (maybe I still do). Times were so much more colorful before 1993. Doug likes a lot of the British comedy shows that I've collected, and it was neat to see someone else with some of the same collections.Monday morning, I had a something strange happen to me. In a dream, right before waking up, I was looking at something bright. After waking up, I had the "afterimage" effect from it for a couple of minutes, just as if you looked at something colorful or bright for a while while awake and then looked away. I don't recall that happening to me ever before. That means that dreams are actually physically stimulating something as if something were really being seen if I had a real afterimage effect from it.Sunday nights and Monday nights are usually stressful because I'm often trying to get stuff done for a Tuesday morning meeting. This week's meeting didn't go as well. There's so much to be done and it's scattering me mentally. This morning, I woke up worried, as I did Monday and Tuesday mornings, between 4 and 7 AM. The neighbors are letting their dogs out in the morning and one of them barks constantly for no reason as long as it is out. It does help me not sleep through the alarm, though. My sense of time in the morning has been seriously screwed up since the time change, and I hate that it's dark so quickly after work, and wish Daylight Savings Time would stay the "standard time". It's harder to get work done at night when 8 PM seems so late because it's been dark so long.I can't believe it's Wednesday already.
- bzip/hashsum mismatch problems
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- November 4th, 16:18
Anyone else having these? Downloading via Synaptic or from the terminal? It's not my internet connection, I've just tried it in work.
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- budhaboy
- November 4th, 10:46
I've got a box running Hardy Heron I've been using as a file server. It's been acting a little flaky lately, and today for some peculiar reason when it reboots the machine seems to just die. I can log in remotely, the shares still work, I just can't access the box locally. When it does boot, just before the orange line gets to the end (on the splash screen) there's a peculiar system beep (i.e. not through the audio port), then nothing. I've tried restarting in recovery mode, and there don't appear to be any obvious problems... until you get to the login screen, and the video gets wonky and it appears to hang.
I've tried booting from the live CD, but the options on what to repair aren't obvious... I strongly suspect a boot drive is failing, but what do I know?
I'd like to keep all the configurations as I've got a rather large OS RAID I'd hate to reconfigure, as well as the server settings. Is there an easy way to back up the relevant boot drive settings remotely, replace the boot drive, and install a more recent version of ubuntu (while still retaining the settings)?
- Nature Photo of the Week
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- jj_maccrimmon
- November 4th, 7:12
- Current Location:
- United States, Alabama, Huntsville
- Current Mood:
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good
- Current Music:
- Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness/Tonight Tonight
Burritt on the Mountain - 2009
- Nature Photo of the Week
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jj_maccrimmon wrote in
huntsville
- November 4th, 7:10
- Current Location:
- United States, Alabama, Huntsville
- Current Mood:
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good
- Current Music:
- Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness/Tonight Tonight
Burritt on the Mountain - 2009
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