karma from #bifemunix on EFNet clued me into some new behaviour introduced in FreeBSD 6.1: rc scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d must end in '.sh', or they will be ignored at boot. I wondered why mysql-server hadn't started after updating to the latest version and rebooting. :)
BSD: May 2006 Archives
EFI is cool and all, but it would be nice if I could get FreeBSD working. Also, fuck the dock with it's bouncing icons, and fuck Finder which has so many annoying traits that I don't even know which one to pick on first.
I installed Boot Camp and succesfully installed Windows XP (um, yay?), but then it occured to me that since WoW has an OSX port, there's hardly any point to running Windows anymore.
I popped a 6.1 CD into the drive and rebooted, then pressed the option key during boot to bring up the boot prompt. I selected the CD-ROM drive, got past the loader and boot menu, but shortly after loading the initial modules (acpi), the spinner froze. I didn't think it was an ACPI problem - after all, ACPI usually makes things crash in a horrifyingly spectacular fashion - so I disabled ACPI from the boot menu, but the results were the same. Although I'm fairly certain the cdboot patch was for the 6.x branch, maybe I should try -CURRENT?
This is going to be a fun day.
I'm tired of being sick. Fucking ovaries. I don't need 'em, anyways.
It appears I passed my two phone interviews with Teh Google, so now I've got an in-face interview...sometime. They still haven't given me a time. Mhmm. I thought I did pretty horribly on my second interview, but it's not like I know what they are looking for. It's a SA position, and I'm more of a coderish person now, but I'll probably hear more about it when Italk to the team. NDA's galore.
