I iz l33t hacker
Turns out I've been accidentally stealing internet from one of the neighbour's for about a week. My wireless setup on linux was not connecting to my secured network, and by default there was a fallback to "any unsecured network I can find". Since it connected to the internet, I didn't notice there was anything wrong. Ooops.
I could go knock on some doors and ask people if they have a D-Link wireless modem without a password, and apologise. Or I could switch it on again, see if they're got any shared network folders and leave a file called "apologies.txt"...
Um, hello everyone. Long time no post. I think last you heard from me I'd just moved to the new place. And I can say it's still all going well. Looking much more like a home than it did back in August.
Anyway, I'm not going to go into everything that's happened that I should write about since last time I posted, for that way lies endless putting off, so it would never actually get done. That was mostly why I never actually posted since the move. But I promised myself I'd just post whatever when I got my new computer set up, on the theory ta I would maybe then keep posting, so here we go.
Yes, I have a new puter, which is my current excitement. It is a laptop, finally arrived, and working very well.IT is also my first Linux system ( Gentoo distribution, using the amd64 platform, if anyone cares), though I'm keeping a dual-boot of Windows, mostly to play games on. I went for the obscure 64-bit version of Windows XP, so with that and Linux it was a bit of a challenge finding drivers and getting everything set up, which has actually been a lot of fun. Still ongoing in a few respects.
This post was supposed to be full of pretty photos of my laptop, since I commissioned velvetmafia to make some awesome artwork for me that was going to be painted on the laptop, since the US-based company I ordered it from offered that, only they fucked up rather majorly, and didn't actually paint it. They've offered me my money back, but it hasn't arrived yet, so the ongoing saga of nagging ongoes... So, poot. May end up getting it painted here anyway (I've had it explicitly stated thatthat would not void my warranty), but will have to do more research first. Ah well.
Anyway, shortly to be heading off for late birthday dinner for hespa with some of her friends from school, so I should hit post and sign off and start getting ready and stuff. Be good, peoples!
I could go knock on some doors and ask people if they have a D-Link wireless modem without a password, and apologise. Or I could switch it on again, see if they're got any shared network folders and leave a file called "apologies.txt"...
Um, hello everyone. Long time no post. I think last you heard from me I'd just moved to the new place. And I can say it's still all going well. Looking much more like a home than it did back in August.
Anyway, I'm not going to go into everything that's happened that I should write about since last time I posted, for that way lies endless putting off, so it would never actually get done. That was mostly why I never actually posted since the move. But I promised myself I'd just post whatever when I got my new computer set up, on the theory ta I would maybe then keep posting, so here we go.
Yes, I have a new puter, which is my current excitement. It is a laptop, finally arrived, and working very well.IT is also my first Linux system ( Gentoo distribution, using the amd64 platform, if anyone cares), though I'm keeping a dual-boot of Windows, mostly to play games on. I went for the obscure 64-bit version of Windows XP, so with that and Linux it was a bit of a challenge finding drivers and getting everything set up, which has actually been a lot of fun. Still ongoing in a few respects.
This post was supposed to be full of pretty photos of my laptop, since I commissioned velvetmafia to make some awesome artwork for me that was going to be painted on the laptop, since the US-based company I ordered it from offered that, only they fucked up rather majorly, and didn't actually paint it. They've offered me my money back, but it hasn't arrived yet, so the ongoing saga of nagging ongoes... So, poot. May end up getting it painted here anyway (I've had it explicitly stated thatthat would not void my warranty), but will have to do more research first. Ah well.
Anyway, shortly to be heading off for late birthday dinner for hespa with some of her friends from school, so I should hit post and sign off and start getting ready and stuff. Be good, peoples!