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March 07, 1999 by Eric Richardson

I crashed my machine twice today. I feel special. :) I think my uptime was like 19 days before that, and then it freezes twice in the same day. I know what caused the second one, but the first one it just froze up out of the blue. Oh well.

If you're ever stuck in a situation where you have to communicate via Latin (happens to me every day, if not more), be sure to memorize these phrases. If you get email from me, you might notice that this is the source of my always inspirational sig files.

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March 06, 1999 by Eric Richardson

I guess that should have been snippet... I really should write a modify function for this thing...

Anyway, life goes on. RealNetworks released RealProducer for Linux, and it looks fairly cool, but still no G2 player (although the libs from RealProducer fixed the problem with RealAudio and kernel 2.2).

If anyone out there hasn't seen Strange Brew (I'm finding this is a rather common void in modern culture), drop whatever you're doing and run to your local video store to rent it. It's got to be THE funniest movie I've ever seen. Second is probably Robin Hood: Men in Tights, but his surpasses even that. Heh. I'm laughing just thinking about it...

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February 27, 1999 by Eric Richardson

Code snipet of the day:

while (my $field = shift(@{$types{$input{type}}})) {

I love Perl...

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February 23, 1999 by Eric Richardson

I'm getting really pissed off at RealNetworks for their second-class additude towards anything but Windows. I think it's time to investigate alternatives. If anyone knows any good ones with Linux code, send 'em to eric@ericrichardson.com.

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February 21, 1999 by Eric Richardson

Progress is starting to get on my nerves. Why do I constantly have to upgrade half my system just to compile a library? Everytime I turn around, something new is requiring a new version of something else, which in turn requires you to upgrade something else, which then causes your old apps to require recompiling in order to link with the new libs... and by the time you're done there's a whole new version out that requires you to do the same fscking thing all order again. I know... it's the price you have to pay for being at the cutting edge, but it's getting old really fast.

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood... I ordered a 4.3gig hard drive and a SCSI adaptor for our home machine a while ago, and when it came (a month or month and a half ago), the SCSI adaptor (an actual adaptor between the drive and the cable, not the card itself) burned up (literally). I finally got the replacement for the adaptor about a week ago, and when I go to install it today I find that when the adaptor burned it must have fried the drive too. Why me? Sometimes I wonder why I even bother to try, the computer's just going to find a way to screw me up.

I better leave before I get mad and break something...