I made it to about 12:30 last night, and then started to nod off. Was awake on and off until 2 am when I finally crawled into bed.
Turned on CNN this morning. Was happy to see Wisconsin went for Kerry and Feingold, but to say I’m disappointed in the end result nationally, is an understatement.
I’m shocked at the margin of winning, and how many Senate races went Republican. Shocked.
And I’m not talking about conservatism.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune’s lead story at this hour is about election concerns in Minnesota.
Higher than expected turnout, and that’s saying something as Minnesota led the nation 4 years ago at 69%, reports of voter intimidation, Moveon.org staffing their tables, and running out of new voter registration cards are just some of the things covered in the article.
And the mouthpiece of the Republican party, Norm Coleman, mouthing off about concerns of fraud.
As expected, way too close to call. Indiana, Kentucky and Georgia to Bush, NH to Kerry.
Ohio just closed – too close to call.
Winning Senate races all over the place – Colorado & Kentucky are pickups, lose Georgia. Way too early to really tell on all of those already.
Go vote! Take a friend out and have them vote! Ask your friends if they’ve voted!
One report here locally from a friend is he arrived at the polls at 7:05. And there was already a huge line of 100-150 people waiting to vote.
Go vote!
Spent the weekend on and off attacking my to-do list.
Got the den cleaned up, a bit. Most everything off the floor.
Spent a good chunk of the weekend trying to stop the lockups on my Ubuntu desktop. It’s definitely a Nvidia bug. Started with X freezing, but the mouse pointer works. Found the bug on nvnews.net, but no solution. Asked for help on the Ubuntu forums, but no luck there. Asked for help on the TCLUG, but can’t even get to my mail now with the frequent lock ups.
I’ve installed and un-installed the Nvidia packages from Ubuntu, messed with my XFree86-4 configuration file, including making sure the modules are right, and even trying with and without the DRI module as some posts indicate. It definitely has something to do with the GL functions – the screensavers and GLXgears lock it up instantly.
The next two things to try are swapping 4200 cards, and maybe trying to build the Nvidia drivers from source (ugh).
I did get Vino working on the laptop – that’s pretty cool as I can just use the remote desktop functionality to read my email on my box from my laptop in the living room over the wireless connection. I’ll need to play with the screen resolutions a bit, as my desktop has 1600×1200 and my laptop is 1024×768, which makes it a bit hard to read at times.
All of this makes the case for getting my Athlon64 up and running – it might be my solution to dedicate that box as my primary linux box.
I disconnected my Linksys router I use as an access point. For some reason, unlike my D-Link A/G router, the Linksys won’t serve as a passthrough to my server, so any device connected to the Linksys won’t have internet access. I attempted to hook up a second D-Link, a vanilla 802.11g, but couldn’t get it to work like my A/G. It’s a pain in the ass to do it too, as I have to dedicate one machine to it, turn DHCP and all that fun stuff off, but I’ve learned I’ll have to have a second box hooked up to the A/G so I can figure out what settings I’m missing to get it to work.
To top it all off, I’m in the living room watching football, and my UPS freaks out. It’s probably my own fault as I don’t drain it periodically like I should, but it starts beeping and won’t stop. I’ll have to re-evaluate my power needs for my den. It’s just more to add to my to-do list. One step forward and two steps backwards.
Babies don’t care about daylight savings time. Even when you keep them up late, they just want to get up the same time they always do.
Of course, it might not be a baby thing, and maybe be a kid thing, as Alex was up at 6:30. That might have been just the noise from Zoe though.
I’ve been meaning to write this for the last day or two, but I went out lunch Thursday to a Vietnamese restaraunt, and had Pho for the first time. Pho has been on my list of things to try since I joined the respective mailing list.
A Vietnamese soup, quite popular in the US as well, Pho is one of the few Vietnamese dishes not served family style.
Typically made with beef, it’s a soup served in a large bowl with rice noodles, beef, and a number of assorted spices. This particular restaraunt had it’s choice from beef, meatballs, tripe, beef strips, rare steak, and a few others I can’t remember. On the recommendation of the waitress I had the beef and meatballs. It was excellent – can’t wait to fnd another restaraunt to try it out.
I wasn’t there, but my family was well represented with my father and sister in Madison today as John Kerry was joined by Bruce Springsteen and 100,000 strong.
We are 5 days away and every vote counts. Pick up the phone, ask a friend to vote, it doesn’t matter for whom, but get folks to the polls. Here in Minnesota, same day voter registration is in effect, so get out the vote!
More photo’s & news from today’s event in Madison here.
So I knew Ubuntu was good, just see my last two posts. But I had no idea it was this good.
I took the liberty of installing it on my HP ze4600 laptop tonight. Popped in the CD, booted it up, clicked enter, and it hung. Repeat, hangs again. Guessing it’s an APCI problem, add a noirq to the boot command line, no go. Google around, see the F1 key is options before boot, and there it says add “noapic nolapic” to the boot command. Voila.
Normal install, quick and dirty. Boot up for the first time after installation is complete.
What’s this? My Synaptic touchpad is working? Double-clicking the pad is just like double tapping the mouse button. Awesome! I never did get this to work on FC2.
Looking up at the panel I see the wireless networking strength meter. Interesting, mouse over shows it sees device ath0, my D-Link AG660 PC Card that’s in there! (I don’t use the Broadcom builtin 54G, bad Broadcom for not supporting linux!) Fire up the networking settings, add the ath0 and WEP key, disable the ethernet, and wham! bang! Full wireless network support!
I spent days hacking at madwifi getting that to run on FC2. The first FC2 install I had it worked fairly easily, but after a reinstall I couldn’t get madwifi / atheros support to work to save my life. And here’s a distribution that installs this stuff by default.
I am going to make it a priority to get my music re-tagged, organized, backed up, and migrate my server over to Ubuntu in the next month or two. I’m in love, swept off my feet, by a polished, linux distribution run by Canonical, powered by Debian. I’m in awe of the work they’ve done, and am going to support them as much as I can.
So not only is email spam a problem, but Zoe’s blog has been hit by weblog spammers. Time to download some plugins.
Each post has 4-6 comments with regular text quotations, but then the poster’s name is a link to online casinos. You’re telling me online casinos need money so badly this is what they resort too?
I’m a little angry. Got some hacking to do tonight!