BSD: April 2006 Archives

Well, the Google thing has been explained. The person scheduled to interview me was someone I knew from #freebsdhelp/efnet, so he couldn't interview me. Bias and all. It's probably for the best, as I think I've managed to piss off everyone in that channel at some point when I used to frequent it a few years ago.

My interview is rescheduled for tomorrow with someone here in Atlanta. If I do take a job there, it means I'm going to be stuck here at least another year, until I can get them to transfer me to California. I'll be putting myself into a position I won't be able to escape. I don't know how I feel about that. I've been kicking around the idea of leaving here for quite some time. I'm not big on the idea of running away, but sometimes it's the easiest way out of a situation. This place hasn't felt like home in a long time. I haven't started over in a new place since I was 18. It feels like it's about that time.

I haven't bothered buying my return ticket from BSDcan yet. I'm thinking about taking an extended vacation, flying around to see various friends here on the east coast. I work from home, so it's entirely feasible. Airtran is pretty cheap.

I guess I'll see what happens in the next few weeks. I wish everyone here would just stop talking. No one understands the value of silence, and they keep questioning why I never say much anymore. I'm just tired, and I need a vacation.

root@fs01 ~> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/twed0s1a 496M 56M 400M 12% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/twed0s1e 496M 40K 456M 0% /tmp
/dev/twed0s1f 292G 262G 7.3G 97% /usr
/dev/twed0s1d 1.4G 637M 716M 47% /var
/dev/ad4 184G 169G 326M 100% /exports/hd2
/dev/ad5 111G 39G 63G 39% /exports/hd3
/dev/ad6 226G 196G 12G 94% /exports/hd4
/dev/ad7 226G 208G 623M 100% /exports/hd5
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev
fs03:/exports/hd1 82G 62G 20G 76% /host/fs03/hd1
fs03:/exports/hd2 233G 233G 124M 100% /host/fs03/hd2
fs03:/exports/hd3 93G 74G 20G 79% /host/fs03/hd3
fs03:/exports/hd4 75G 52G 22G 70% /host/fs03/hd4
//SEKTIE@TART/HD2 559G 549G 10G 98% /host/tart/hd2
//SEKTIE@TART/HD3 149G 41G 108G 28% /host/tart/hd3
greed:/mnt/sdb 458G 282G 153G 65% /host/greed/hd1

It's hard to write a blog entry in console. Links just doesn't give full justice to the wordpress admin panel, and I can't install the guified version due to svgalib not being supported on AMD64.

Story of my fucking life. Nothing is supported for AMD64. For example, take the nvidia driver. I'm being forced to use the xorg nv(4x) driver, which is just gross. I can't even get higher than 1280x1024 because it's "larger than BIOS programmed panel size". There's no way to force this, from what I've been able to tell so far. Gross, gross, gross.

What good is having a shiny new Samsung SyncMaster 204B if I can't run it in 1600x1200? Hm?

I'm buying my plane tickets for BSDCan 2006 Monday. This means I also have to go apply for a passport - fun stuff. Passports have gotten expensive! I think I may have to get a rush order on one, and I don't even want to think about what that's going to cost.

So no, I'm not getting married at BSDCan, but I'm still going. I'll be going by myself. Fuck yeah. This means I've got to go shopping... I don't have anything suitable to wear. And I need to get my hair done. My roots are starting to show. I seriously hate this time of year. My hair grows absurdly fast. I started eating a lot of bananas because I remember reading something about it helping with excessive bruising, a problem I've always had with my glow-in-the-dark skin. Apparently bananas also make hair grow really fucking fast. Hell. I preferred the bruising. At least bruises don't cost me $120 every 3 weeks.

Because I'm kind of splurging on this trip (let's face it, it's not the most responsible thing to be doing since I'm unemployed, but I need something to cheer me up), I'm not getting a laptop. This means I've got to find a loaner laptop to take with me. I'm not putting my poor powerbook through more abuse. It barely turns on as it is. That poor thing has seen more abuse since...well, since me when I stayed with Alfred in SF for the 10 year anniversary FreeBSD party. Heh. Remember that? Good times, good times.