Christmas, Vista, etc.
Doing a little after-midnight tech reading following a quite good candlelight service. It was nice to see the folks again, especially those back from college. We’re at the point now to where there are high school seniors I saw in the hospital as babies. Some of the people I knew around the halls growing up have certainly become outstanding individuals.
Changing the subject from more solemn, brooding topics… Vista just seems like vapor to me, devoid of any personal meaning to my life. My digital camcorder, on the other hand, has been subliminally snarky with me because I didn’t catch onto the appeal of the devices earlier. I honestly didn’t know they were as good as they are. Excellent devices, especially those just above the quality you tend to see sold prevalently at Best Buy (of course, everything is far cheaper online).
I think I now have just about all of the Barenaked Ladies studio albums. I plan to listen to them all very soon.
It was a great Christmas. I am very displeased to see my dad’s WPC54GS Linksys network card be such a piece of junk. A little-known fact is that the return route of Santa’s sleigh involves passing out RMA numbers. Wish me luck.
Actually, the card’s not a piece of junk; it’s the drivers. However, any good Linux dork knows a wireless card is all drivers when the drivers aren’t working.
Stupid Broadcom. Bring back the PRISM chipset, Linksys! Nothing screwed up back in the glory days. Well, except that everything but the drivers screwed up in the glory days. I remember sitting on the couch glaring across the room at an unblinking (that’s actually a funny pun now that I type it) WAP11, screaming at Windows to explain if it wanted a hex or ascii key, then entering the WEP passphrase instead of the key. What a mess! The only thing that’s improved is my knowledge of the mess.
Well, WPA-PSK is better, but we can’t use it here at home.
I think I’m going to go back to the dorms next year, much to my eagerly-anticipated embarassment. I might just do it because it would be funny, but not messing with furniture and meals sounds good, too. We’ll see what happens.
I guess I should get to bed, meaning I should read a few more pages of prewar German and then get to bed. If I even type the word Postfix (oh, darn) I’ll be up all night reading.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or whatever makes you happy. I’m not going to boycot!