Jet turbine cooling
Please tell me this is a joke? Pretty please?
And I’m getting a Pentium M because my Mobile Athlon is too hot…
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She sleeps!
I think I’m in shock. Morgan slept the night through, last night. She slept from about midnight until, well, now. Granted, she woke up a couple of times to eat, but then went right back to sleep, no problems. I’m actually well rested! Now, if she can only do this on a weeknight…
A funny thing happed on the way to Wendy’s
A strange thing just happened to me. I was walking to Wendy’s, and a guy in a white TransAm yelled “Go Pistons!” out the window at me. I have no idea what prompted this. I don’t even know who the Pistons are playing right now. Very strange.
Mad props
Okay, this is the greatest mod I have ever seen. I only wish I had that kind of time, dedication, and skill.
\/\/1D0\/\/5 5U>
So, Saturday night, I was at my parent’s house, and, knowing that my dad had received the wireless cards he’d ordered, I asked if I could have the one I loaned him back. Not so easy. Turns out, he hadn’t been able to get them working in any of the three of his computers.
One of them was easy. It was the laptop I’d sold him recently, that had a clean install of XP from retail media recently put on it, and I just popped in the card, and the CD, and it installed. No conflicts or issues.
The other two were much harder. I also installed the 98 laptop, since that was the one he’d spent hours working on, and I just assumed that the HP XP laptop would work like the Sony. Anyway, after hacking around a long time (it couldn’t find the Windows install CD), I managed to get the drivers to install, and the card to work. Not too surprising, 98 predated wireless cards by years, and it was never that easy to install hardware on 98 anyway.
So, yesterday morning, my dad calls me up saying that he couldn’t get the other XP laptop (the HP) to install. I just complained that it couldn’t find the driver, no matter what he did. I did a bit of phone walkthrough, and decided he should bring the laptop over. Among other things, we could update it from behind my firewall on my cable modem, rather than on my dad’s naked dialup. And, I could install the card myself.
He shows up with the laptop, and, much to my surprise, I couldn’t get it to install either. It just refused to find the drivers, even after I downloaded them from the internet and pointed explititly at them. Anyway, we managed to get it to work, by pointing at the install directory in Program Files. Don’t ask me why the Sony found it and the HP didn’t. I blame the stupid, trumped up, OEM XP install on it.
People say that there are too many Linux Distros, and that the fragmentation of the Linux is a problem. However, Windows is just as fragmented, because every OEM has made their own modifications to Windows, that make them enough different that drivers and software don’t work. The above is living proof.
Thoughts on being a father
I know I promised you more blogging on the whole birth experience, but time in front of a keyboard with both hands free has been at a premium the last 6 days. Every day, it seems, I’m falling another hundred or so messages further behind on Linux Kernel. Only 677 to go right now.
Anyway, the whole father thing. The thing is, I don’t really feel any more grown up and responsible than before. I don’t want to be all adult. But, now I have to be. I mean, in another couple of months, I’ll have a kid and a mortgage. How adult is that?
Everyone says becoming a parent is a life-changing event. However, so far, the biggest changes in my life are lack of sleep and never having my hands free.
Wow, this turned out to be a negative post. I don’t mean to be negative, really.
The birth itself was truely amazing. Well, boring and amazing. 
The first part was quite boring, for me at least. I sat around and tried to help Janette through her contractions, But the actual birth part was almost as amazing as I was told it would be. Words can’t explain, so I won’t even try.
Ending on a high note.
Morgan has entered the building
So, yesterday, at 12:31 PM, Morgan was born. I’m only home to shower/change/etc., so I don’t have a lot of time. I’ll write more about the experience later. But, in the mean time, look out world, here she comes.
I’m already three weeks behind in sleep, and it’s only been a day…
We’re going in…
We’re going into the hospital. Hopefully this is it, and not a false alarm.
Security for Outlook
From a slashdot interview of Jeremy White, a Wine developer:
We also go to all kinds of interesting lengths to avoid problems with viruses and worms. For example, we have a hack in our flavor of Wine*, in the CreateProcess call (the code to start an executable) that basically checks to see if the parent process is outlook.exe, and if it is, we crash and burn, preventing many of the worms and such from running.
This is great.