The damn clock stops me cold

[pseydtonne]

Warning: all of this will be geek. Sorry. In fact, I'll hide it all behind a cut tag and promise there won't be any important announcements hiding behind the cut this time. hee hee...


I've tried to install Gentoo on two computers. One was a Shuttle P4 1.8GHz which was dual-bot XP Home; the other my dual-Celeron 500 MHz with 512 MB RAM. Notice that I say "tried": every time I start, I get hung up on the part about setting the clock at the beginning of chapter 5. I've set up enough partition tables that putzing with cfdisk and fdisk no longer phases me in the least. It's that clock... you gotta check it on out...

Many of you geekier folk already know that Linux doesn't trust the BIOS clock.

I'll have to finish this later.

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[tkitch.livejournal.com]

I WANT IT...

I NEED TO POST IT

Information wants to be free!

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

here goes...

pseydtonne, May 18th, 2004 @ 10:48 am

Warning: all of this will be geek. Sorry. In fact, I'll hide it all behind a cut tag and promise there won't be any important announcements hiding behind the cut this time. hee hee...


I've tried to install Gentoo on two computers. One was a Shuttle P4 1.8GHz which was dual-bot XP Home; the other my dual-Celeron 500 MHz with 512 MB RAM. Notice that I say "tried": every time I start, I get hung up on the part about setting the clock at the beginning of chapter 5. I've set up enough partition tables that putzing with cfdisk and fdisk no longer phases me in the least. It's that clock... you gotta check it on out...

Many of you geekier folk already know that Linux doesn't trust the BIOS clock.

Well, today at work sucked. the boss was all kinds of up my ass about a lot of stupid shit I didn't wan to hear about, so I decided it wasn't worth the effort and told him to shove it. And apparently he didn't take all that incredibly kindly to it and was getting bitter about a lot of it, so I decided to flip the bird at him with the phrase 'Sit and Spin, bitch.' Then I threw my headset at him, bounced the shitty new phone system off the ground and the proceeded to flip the bird to the entire place as I stormed out the door.

As I was extremely bitter about the whole day I was going a little bit fast on the way home and managed to get a 250$ parking ticket. I was happy. *grumble*

"sit and spin, bitch" indeed. :)

Re: Information wants to be free!

[starphire.livejournal.com]

See, now I get the "live" in Livejournal. 'Cause I just happened across an impulsive post at the right moment, then got caught up in this reality warp after it was edited a moment later.

I liked Big Fish, too.

Re: Information wants to be free!

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I'm juuuuust coming to the conclusion that pseydtonne didn't post the impulsive part; instead, it was a whim of chaggalagirl and/or tkitch. Right?

Totally confused.

Re: Information wants to be free!

[starphire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that's the story-behind-the-story.
Man, to think that perhaps nothing more would have been said here if I hadn't read the original post when I did.

I want to know, though: how does one look up archived posts? It must be reasonably easy...