Napalm Riot

It is 1am here, as i type this, so any and all typing/spelling errors are forgiven.....


I just got home from seeing The Dark Knight in IMAX, and it was awesome, even if it was the 4th time seeing the movie....

Also, I'm 18 today! yay me!

now Im going to bed.....

This is gonna be short, as i have to get ready for class.....

i installed kubuntu linux on my 2nd HDD, and now when i go to boot into WINDOWS, i get a system crash right after clicking on the user icon to log in. I know I didn't overwrite Windows, because after I installed linux, I first booted into windows to make sure everything worked, and it did. To make matters worse, I cant seem to install anything in linux, as i go into the console, and for example type "sudo apt-get install fireofx" and everything goes smoothly until the window displays "configuring-sun-java6-bin" and a liscense agreement. there is the word "ok" at the bottom, but i cannot click it, and the install will not progress!

HELP!

Some of you may remember I was having computer problems earlier in the year. Well, it turned out to be nothing more than a stick of bad memory, so I FINALLY got around to sending in a request for an RMA number from Crucial. If they decide to send me replacement memory, I will then have 4gigs of memory in my system, which is the max supported by a 32bit OS, right?

anyway, here's to hoping!

it is absolute crap, as my upload speeds suck testicles...but it is there.

http://71.161.43.65:8000/listen.pls
i will try to keep it up....

In my computer. Windows is installed on one of them, but the other lies there, useless, as windows doesn't recognize it. Do any of you smart tech types know how I might make windows recognize the drive, so I can use i for things like media storage and the like? I understand there are pins involved, and possibly software....

Or I could just install Kubuntu on it, but I really have no interest in hunting for drivers for my wireless card, I've done that before, with my laptop....NOT FUN! >(

so i reformatted and installed windows, now with 100% less RAID-0. Only to find out that since I had to install windows on my laptop using the same CD while my desktop was out of commission, it is no longer a valid product key, which means I have 30 days to talk to MS and see if they will cut me some slack. Also, there is way lag when dragging windows around the screen, maybe cuz i need to update video card drivers?

any advice on the 30 day thing would be appreciated.....


EDIT:

Just found out that MS support requests cost $59. I am totally fucked, aren't I?
I dont have the $$ for a support request OR to buy a new copy of Windows to use that product key.....

It is an awesome Samsung model, uses SDHC cards, so I bought an 8 Gig memory card for it, enough for about 8 hours of video in Normal quality! This means my Youtube Stardom is that much closer!
EDIT:
No, it is not HD, those cost like $900-$1200
model is SC-MX10R

So I registered for classes yesterday. Managed to be exempt from Both Lab Science reqs and one Humanities req because of my AP Exam scores. (5 on Bio, 4 on Governement)

My classes are:

College Comp I
History of Western Civilization II
Intro Comp Apps and Concepts
Precalculus I
Mythology in Lit and Art

for a total of 15 credit hours.
Most of the classes are on Tuesday and Thursday, with 4 on Tuesday, which is gonna be hard.

So...My desktop was broken for a while, and it turned out it was a bad stick of memory. It is since working again, I have discovered it cannot go online. The wireless card APPEARS to be working, as it detects, and sometimes connects to, the router. When I go to go online, it gives a "page cannot be displayed" error. When I switch to ethernet cable, and plug it into the router, it connects, but still no pages displayed. I go to repair the ethernet connection, and get a "Failed to Query TCPIP Settings of the connection, cannot proceed." error.

typing ipconfig into the command prompt yields "an internal error occured, the request is not supported."

now, I have tried

Code:

netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt

Back from vacation, tired, unpacking, yadda yadda....My brother leaves at 9am tomorrow to go with his friend on their vacation, so he isn't unpacking so much as doing laundry.

Bought a few books at a neat used bookstore while out, went to Chincoteague, VA, btw.

I got:
Atlas Shrugged
The Gulag Archipelago
The Naked Angels
House of Leaves

all supposed to be good, (i already read Atlas Shrugged, I just didnt own it) so I will get to reading.

well, I just wanted to tell folks, I am in fact still alive, just very busy....I will be out of town for a week starting sunday, without internet access.

back in a week, see you then

I've decided against a car and aPS3, instead,I will save up a bit more money and me and my friends may go to europe next summer. I have always wanted to go,and I will have enough money.

So I found a 1989 Firebird on Craigslist for $1200. has 108,000 miles on it, autimatic transmission, but needs a new horn. Blue book value somewhere between $1300 and $1600. Good deal? I have a poll up, but feel free to leave comments here.

EDIT: forgot link to car...
http://fredericksburg.cra…st.org/car/725763041.html

So my desktop is working again, but there is a teensey problem, the wireless card is fried. I have an ethernet cable I can use until I get a new card, but my computer does not seem to like it... when i plug in the cable to my router, and the other end to my computer, it does not connect! when I tell the computer to "repair" the connection, it says "failed to query TCP/IP Settings of the connection, cannot proceed"
Now, I have no IDEA what this means, or how to fix it. I installed the ethernet drivers that came with the motherboard again, but no dice, it still gives the same error, and I tried restarting after the install.
Any help to be given?

The Good: My desktop is working again, turns out one of the memory sticks was bad.
The Bad: the wireless card is still not working, meaning I cannot get online, and i need a new card.

ended up buying new memory as well as a uninteruptible power supply unit, so if the power goes again, nothing will be fried

I AM OFFICIALLY A GRADUATE!!

CLASS OF 2008 FTW!!

NOW OFF TO PARTY!!

ALSO, CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

Three Cheers for Tornado Warnings. Im gonna just say, that if I get swept away in a screaming vortex of wind, it's been fun. hope the power stays up long enough to get this out, and remember, TOMORROW NEVER DIES

lol @ James Bond

finally, after almost 9 years of living in my current home, the basement is going to be finished off. In addition, I will be moving my bedroom down there, at least til I transfer to a 4 year school in 2 years. Im gonna attach a potential floorplan to give you guys an idea of what it will look like, done in MS Paint of course.

For me at least. Got to come in for one period on thursday and one on monday for exams, thats IT! Finally, it is all OVER!

So I got the ew Processor in the mail today. Installed it, no dice. for the backstory, see my earlier blog posts.

Anyhoo, it still dont work. Now, the only part we have not replaced is the Graphics Card. My VERY EXPENSIVE (at the time) graphics card. We have tested the monitor, the cable, every other thing display related, so it has to be the Gcard. The comp repair guy said he would swap in an alternate card to test if i brought it in, free of charge, so i will do that on my next free day. Right Now, Im going to go see Indy IV. I need to stare into space for a while.

So yeah, some Ron Paulites have a catchy video going around the intertubes, and it is pretty cool. Even if you dont agree with his policies, you should check it out just to appreciate the effort put into the vid.

Oh, and apparently, since RP cant win the presidency, they want him to lead a revolution a la the American Revolution back in the day.

I dont remember if embedding works so...

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VID LINK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOBsXHxzwKw

So, I have had trials and tribulations over the past few weeks diagnosing my computer problems. Finally narrowed it down to Motherboard or processor. Bought the mobo, installed, hey guess what? there went $150. Luckily, the processor was still under warranty, so it was not a complete loss. It told me that it was not the mobo, after all. So off goes the old processor for RMA. should be expected in a little over a week, allowing for 3 days for shipping both ways and 2 days processing on Intel's end. I hope to god this is the last bit, I have literally got no more time to devote to this.

In other news, I just ordered Randy Pausch's book "The Last Lecture" and Ron Paul's "The Revolution- A Manifesto" hope they are as good as the reviews say.

So the local gamestop is going to be hiring soon. I picked up and filled out an application, but have not yet turned it in as I was having some reservations. I know people tell stories of bad experiences there, on both sides of the counter. Now, my local store has always been excellent, and I have never had any problems. However, I have no idea as to what may go on between employees and supervisors, etc...
SO!
anyone with an opinion, tell me what you think. Should I go for it?

I'm freakin out.
I just spent $250 USD on an 80 gig ipod and had everything working great. tried to sync a video with thinliquidfilm, the ubuntu wiki community recommended GUI app for vid syncing, and now none of my songs display on the ipod. they are still there, taking up room, but the ipod says they are data type "other". tried clearing and re-syncing, everything went fine, but still they do not show in the ipod. read that restoring factory settings in iTunes works, but guess what? no iTunes for linux.

this ipod is ONE DAY OLD!
What do I do?!

BAHHHH!

For backstory, read "so my desktop is borked" , my previous blog entry.

I'M beginning to think it may indeed be the MotherBoard, as we had a power outage last night.(I was asleep at the time) and now the damn thing wont boot. the drives are fine, they power up and stuff, but nothing that draws power direct from the motherboard, such as keyboard, mouse, wireless card, have any lights coming on, and thus no power. Now if I get a new motherboard, presumably the same type, could I install it without having to wipe the OS? or should I get my drives backed up and just do a clean install?

So I go off to work this afternoon, all is well. 4 hours later, I return, my comp is locked up, black screen, no task manager showing up, noting working. I reboot, manually due to lock up, and run chkdsk. it runs fine. Upon booting into windows, all sorts of errors arrive, I believe most have to do with th fact that there is no internet connection available. this is ludicrious. I go to manually tell it to connnect, and it says "not connected" in the status box. double-click to connnect, get prompted "are you sure you want to disconnect" WTF? no internet, cannot connect, errors on boot.....
I know the router is working, as I am typing this on my laptop....the worst bit is, it happened while I was at work, so I didn't see any at-the-moment errors....

Any Suggestions?

It was all a joke, as it turns out. The English teacher in question had arranged for the administrator to come and take the books. Only problem, he told no one else, not even the principal. The school was apparently inundated with calls screaming for blood, metaphorically speaking. The teacher was chewed out, the books returned, life goes on in Spotsylvania County Schools, Dept. of Ineptitude Education.

So I found out that my school administration has apparently rounded up all copies of the book 1984 and confiscated them. Tried to take people's personal copies as well. Dunno if it is a really bad joke or what, but it pisses me off.

Opinions?

So I dug up my old GB Pocket to play some old games. I have narrowed it down to Pokemon Red, my first GB game, and LoZ: Links Awakening.

Which should I play? vote in the poll, or just shoot off comments. I value your input people!

So I installed Xubuntu Linux 7.10 on my laptop, from which I type this. I cannot get my wireless card working, so I am using an ethernet cable, but it's really not so bad. Very interesting, the liberal use of command line, with which I have ZERO experience. Should be an interesting experience.

Anyone ever been there? It seems suspiciously like a bigger, more ad-intense NR, if NR got an STD from Myspace. Not that its BAD, just....busier, is that the right word? bah, I need sleep, just thought I'd see if anyone here had been there. heard about it from the ECA newsletter.

http://www.flickr.com/pho…s/sets/72157604031908080/

too tired for more. Will describe when I get back from school...

Going to see Flogging Molly tonight at the National in Richmond. Gonna be GREAT! Saw them live last year at Shamrock Fest. Any Rioters going? seems unlikely if you live far away, as I don't think it is a BIG concert. Though it MIGHT BE! because their new album comes out tomorrow

So I got a new router. Cost me a bit more than I was hoping for, but oh well. For SOME reason I thought routers were $20-$30, not $40. Saw some NICE ones for like $180, media center routers and stuff. Anyhoo, got internet back, so it is partytime!

*30 SECOND RAVE*

woo...

back to updating a weeks worth of...updates....
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so My router at home died. Died as in not only does it drop connections, but no wireless link appears, and the comp hard wired to it cannot get online either. Guess I have to get a new router in addition to a new phone set. (the old one operated on the same frequency as the router, 2.8(?)GHz)

So as my previous blog stated, I had a bad weekend, culminating with a broken finger. I thought this week would be better, but was astonishingly mistaken. First I found out that my english class has been assigned an "independent reading project" and I got The Count of Monte Cristo. I love the book, but we have a month to read it and write an 8-10 page research paper on it. the book is like ~1000 pages long!
then this afternoon, ice was messing with the power lines, and caused the power to flicker. by the time i got from the kitchen to my room, the power had flickered 3 times, and I believe it fried my computers motherboard(im on my laptop). It was plugged into a surge protecter, but did it help? NOPE.
now the damn thing will turn on, but neither the Keyboard nor Mouse will activate, no image is coming out of the vid card (the monitor works though) an I am shit outta luck.

so many of you are probably wondering about the title. I have had a VERY bad day.....so bad I believe i have been gypsy cursed.

I wake up this morning shivering, cold and generally full of malaise. unfortunately, i cannot miss school, since i have a lovely test in physics. My condition worsens all day, no doubt helped by my lack of $$ for food. By the last period of the day, I have acquired a pounding headache to boot. finally i can go home, and as I am walking out the door, a good friend comes up and asks me if I had brought my copy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail to school. He had asked me if i could borrow it, but never specified when. BEING THE KIND SOUL THAT i am, (sorry, hit caps lock, didn't know it) i told him i would run home and get it, since i live like a mile from school and he needs it for a latin club party. i drive home, only to get a call from my brother, who is staying after for the party, asking me to grab him $5 for pizza. so i turn around, get him some money, and go back. Now by this time, I have not eaten all day, and my headache is approaching "gonna be sick" level. I drop off the stuff, go home, and eat some hummus and pita bread. I throw clothes in to wash, and lay down. get a call from mom, can i go get lil brother form babysitters. I explain I have no clothes but the pajamas im wearing, as the rest are in the wash. she says do it anyway. so i go to the sitters, get brother, go home, go to sleep. by this time it is about 5:00pm. I go throw my clothes in the dryer, and mom says she is gonna take lil bro to a dance at his school. I say fine, be quiet my headache is still kicking. I try to sleep, headache gets so bad I puke up dinner. finally, sleep. fast forward to 10:00pm. i wake up, mom is home with pizza. i debate whether to go partake. i get up, start downstairs. slip on stairs.

fall on hand

AGONY
I dont know whether i have broken or merely jammed my finger. I have an improvised splint made from unused Kabobs and duct tape. so how am I typing? slowly, and with one hand.