quiet despair » Emergency

For this cruel unsaid, won’t concede.

Maker — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:25:29 +0000

The fan plate is of the wrong type for the board. This confuses and frightens me. I will either solve this with additional mana or have faith in AMD’s ability to build a decent heatsink and fan. The board is built for a cpu plate with four screw holes in each corner. The third party one I bought has only two, and they are positioned in such a way that I can’t even rotate it 45 degrees to rig something together.

This completely halts my plans. It will remain in a disassembled state on the floor in my living room.

One people, One empire, One Leader

Maker — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:07:49 +0000

Intelligence Didn’t Back Bush Iraq Claims, Senate Reports Say
Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) — Bush administration claims (Not some liberal news media, but the actual adminstration itself) justifying the war against Iraq were based on fragmented, conflicting, and unreliable intelligence, according to two reports released today by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Administration statements that Saddam Hussein was allied with Osama bin Laden and was helping al-Qaeda obtain chemical and biological weapons proved wrong and misleading and weren’t based on solid intelligence in its possession, the declassified Senate reports said which make the Bush administration liars, proving to use any means necessary to coerce the citizens and Senate into fulfilling it’s whims.

Contrary to assertions by President/Chancellor George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and other senior Bush administration officials, Hussein didn’t have links to al-Qaeda and the Sept. 11 terrorist plot, the reports said. The Bush administration also reports that Bush has hereby appointed himself Führer of The United States. His official title since the United States is in a permenant state of war is “Führer und Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht” from today forward.

The End of Henderson

Maker — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 07:36:55 +0000

My company trip was cut short when I had to fly back to southern California; My dad got the heart transplant he needed and the operation was fast and went smoothly. His readouts look great, and it looks like everything went great. I’m heading back tomorrow when he will actually be awake. Our family couldn’t be happier, to put it mildly. It only took the excellent doctors at UCLA a little over three hours to perform:

emerge -u sys-libs/heart-2.0-r1

Yes, my dad’s internal systems run gentoo linux. When the right USE flags and packages are installed and running, he’s compiled for maximum performance.

Now What

Maker — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:31:45 +0000

As I’ve been trying to rebuild a new system, I keep getting lockups. I dont know what it could be and I can’t exactly switch out much hardware to test. I’m making a backup of the backup today, and I’ll just hope money falls out of the sky, which is a topic unto itself; It’d be really nice to build a brand new server with new hardware, half of which I have. Without a PSU it doesn’t exactly work as I envision, however.