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Day's been kind. Woke up to a kernel update. I always love those, because I have to compile everything over again. Desktop is the most obvious one to go, I'm welcomed to a lovely message which says X cannot display anything graphically. That's nice. What that means is I have to compile my graphics driver over again so that I can actually do ANYTHING. Which means typing this:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop (Just in case the desktop is still running, which it isn't)
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-backup (Because I might screw up!)
cd home (Where the driver is...)
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run -n -s --x-prefix=/usr/lib/xorg/ --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r` (Guess how many times I type that wrong)
sudo nvidia-xconfig --no-composite (Initialising, getting somewhere!)
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start (Hooray!)
Welcome to Linux Kernel 2.6.17-11! Why don't I run as root? Because I always forget where my home folder is, because I'm dumb. It updated from kernel 2.6.17-10, so I'm more than used to re-compiling my graphics driver. Still a bit of a bitch. Ah well.
Anyone understand that?
Good.
Went to Papa Hilz for breakfast. No wait, wrong place to start. Woke up at 8. I haven't been sleeping well lately, 8 is an accomplishment, even though it's a sunday. I woke up at 4 yesterday. I think there's some underlying reason for my latest bout of insomnia, as it's usually just a case of being awake for a very long time, yet compensating by being asleep for a very long time. I'm actually happy at the moment, so I don't give a toss about whatever underlying reason there is for my insomnia, it can wait. Went downstairs, needed scones. Woke up Tim again. Yesterday I went into my living room at about 6am, turned the light on, saw someone on the sofa, oh fuck, it's Tim, oh fuck, I've woken him, oh fuck. This time I knew he was there, but still managed to wake him up.
So went to Papa Hilz for breakfast. Had a breakfast baguette. Was thoroughly greasy. Yum. England won the cricket, apparently there's going to be a parade. If there is I will give up hope for English sport. Went to Nandos for lunch, that was such a lovely burger, chicken was beautiful. Go to Nandos, have a chicken breast sandwich, go! Bought some Turkey, I figured it would be a while before I could eat it. It's strange how you start appreciating food only when it's gone. Look at Double Deckers. Sales of Turkey Twizzlers rose 33% after the Jamie Oliver thing and it looked like they would be banished from our plates forever. Do they still sell Wagon Wheels? For Mash eat Smash. What idiot came up with the idea of changing the name of coco pops? ANYWAY! It was me, Tim and David for Papa Hilz, and David was replaced by Rich for Nandos.
Rich is going for a student union position next year. Made me remember when I stood. Got 62 votes. Did I ever say how pleased I was with that? Thankfully the current administration is complete shite and there's rumours of £60,000 going missing from the union's bank accounts. I reap misery. *shrug*
Pub Quiz tonight. Apparently we came fourth last week, although they didn't really bother counting after third, so we'll never know. Rob thought that the euro notes wouldn't show a map with the UK in it. I said it was bollocks, I was right. I also said that a photo of Jenson Button was Chris Martin. They do kind of look similar. Jenson has longer hair now anyway.
I feel dead, more tea!
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop (Just in case the desktop is still running, which it isn't)
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-backup (Because I might screw up!)
cd home (Where the driver is...)
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run -n -s --x-prefix=/usr/lib/xorg/ --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r` (Guess how many times I type that wrong)
sudo nvidia-xconfig --no-composite (Initialising, getting somewhere!)
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start (Hooray!)
Welcome to Linux Kernel 2.6.17-11! Why don't I run as root? Because I always forget where my home folder is, because I'm dumb. It updated from kernel 2.6.17-10, so I'm more than used to re-compiling my graphics driver. Still a bit of a bitch. Ah well.
Anyone understand that?
Good.
Went to Papa Hilz for breakfast. No wait, wrong place to start. Woke up at 8. I haven't been sleeping well lately, 8 is an accomplishment, even though it's a sunday. I woke up at 4 yesterday. I think there's some underlying reason for my latest bout of insomnia, as it's usually just a case of being awake for a very long time, yet compensating by being asleep for a very long time. I'm actually happy at the moment, so I don't give a toss about whatever underlying reason there is for my insomnia, it can wait. Went downstairs, needed scones. Woke up Tim again. Yesterday I went into my living room at about 6am, turned the light on, saw someone on the sofa, oh fuck, it's Tim, oh fuck, I've woken him, oh fuck. This time I knew he was there, but still managed to wake him up.
So went to Papa Hilz for breakfast. Had a breakfast baguette. Was thoroughly greasy. Yum. England won the cricket, apparently there's going to be a parade. If there is I will give up hope for English sport. Went to Nandos for lunch, that was such a lovely burger, chicken was beautiful. Go to Nandos, have a chicken breast sandwich, go! Bought some Turkey, I figured it would be a while before I could eat it. It's strange how you start appreciating food only when it's gone. Look at Double Deckers. Sales of Turkey Twizzlers rose 33% after the Jamie Oliver thing and it looked like they would be banished from our plates forever. Do they still sell Wagon Wheels? For Mash eat Smash. What idiot came up with the idea of changing the name of coco pops? ANYWAY! It was me, Tim and David for Papa Hilz, and David was replaced by Rich for Nandos.
Rich is going for a student union position next year. Made me remember when I stood. Got 62 votes. Did I ever say how pleased I was with that? Thankfully the current administration is complete shite and there's rumours of £60,000 going missing from the union's bank accounts. I reap misery. *shrug*
Pub Quiz tonight. Apparently we came fourth last week, although they didn't really bother counting after third, so we'll never know. Rob thought that the euro notes wouldn't show a map with the UK in it. I said it was bollocks, I was right. I also said that a photo of Jenson Button was Chris Martin. They do kind of look similar. Jenson has longer hair now anyway.
I feel dead, more tea!