so, i restored my T2 onto the TX and some stuff broke. aparently it didn't like m e instaling older versions of stuff it has in rom. luckily i'm mostly a mater of deleting the wrong stuff.

broke down, went to fnac and got a palm TX. it's purty. and it plays video.
however, it has the same annoying white noise in the phone connector as in T5.
palm, could you please hire someone who made it past undergrad EE. i mean, having your digital ground noise *not* leak into the analogue sound bits is not rocket science.

"I believe my story is not atypical. A friend of mine and I attended the same university and received high GPA’s in engineering and physics. We both entered excellent graduate programs at the same time. He completed his law degree in 3 years, and I completed my PhD education in 6.5 years. I now generate patents in industry; he codifies them as a patent lawyer. These are both valuable activities arguably comparable in worth. However, the market does not bear this out. My friend’s salary is 2.5 times my own." -- EE Times
And this is why our race will die bickering over round rocks and funy looking sticks.

anyways, i decided for safe and expensive. i'll get my palm TX at fnac and pay their ridiculous price. nothing beats brick'n'mortar for some stuff

mee word. shops this days. you wouldn't believe it. fnac is trying to pimp me for 20% extra on an article they don't even have in stock.
and pixmania is aparently sticking people up and tried to sell me the warranty i already have.
i just blame palm for not having a .pt representative.

it's official. my T2 is pissing out. it's either the battery or bad memory but my money is on "both". now, to decide what to get next.

so, looks like the battery on the t2 is fairly shot or the charging circuit is werd. plus i think the memory is weirding. clearly, one knock too many

seems like treo is bad m'kay and i want either a tx or e2. that is, of course if my t2 stays as dead as it was today. i could *try* to claim warranty on it but the case is like, broken :)

the T2 is acting even more broken. not wanting to wake up, aparently having memory corruption. it has clearly fallen one time too many.
otoh, this is making me crave a treo. bad.

my T2 is acting strange. and when i say strange, i mean broken. this is making me very very sad.

why the hell is my GL stuff being softrendered ?? this is driving me nuts.
that and coming down with a cold.

on other news, i bricked a dlink adsl modem today. rock on!

we tried our best for an wholesome happy fun sun day but the rain didn't play ball. baadd rain baaaad.

also discovered there isn't any XCompose hapy funness with xinerama so no showing off eye kandy on the lappy.

work work work.
play with vasco.
work.
have a go at GR or something.
rinse.
repeat.

another news, i bumped my X2 3800+ to 2.2GHz without any glitches. that's overclocking for the masses!

it really shouldn't be all that hard to make a dvd from a mpeg+ac3 stream. i'm obviously doing something very wrong.

back to playing in the clear cool winter air. too bad we're still a bit dodgy

i sure hope sg-1's plot line is going somewhere.

humm... did atlantis se2 end already ? damn!

dude, i haven't played NWN in a year!

didn't the colonial fleet find earth on old bsg ? i'm all confused now!

Difference Engine mechanical computer made from legos
there's still hope for us!

you know, i hate python. xen makes me hate python. hate it to hell.
would it kill them to give out slightly helpfull error messages ??

work work work

gave rome total war a go. it's a bit too crowded and messy if you don't pause the game every 3 minutes. that doesn't make for very fuild game play.

vasco is still being a sick puppy so we're keeping to home this weekend.
that would allow for all kind of geekery if well, vasco weren't being a sick baby.

meanwhile, i redid my iptables stuff. as it turns out i was using an overly complicated set rules and a mechanism derived from a mechanism first used in slackware. pheeewee

harntrox hx missions are showing me how much is suck at GR. fun fun fun.

meanwhile, if you ever try to install xen3 on a rhes4 booting off lvm, remember to install the updates.

work work work.
or something to that efect.

as it seems, our government will be paying for 1 million microsoft courses. microsoft stands to gain about 600 million euros.
this is *clearly* a bold move forward into our bright technological future!