Demo! What's going on?

You ever hear from Revka these days?

I'm the Support Manager for a growing Managed Services company.  We have 50 offices in 9 states now, and we're in the process of going nationwide.  So it's going well.  Still living in MN, where the company HQ is.  I travel a little bit, mostly to deal with situations that come up from when we acquire other companies.

I haven't heard from Revka for quite a while -- he moved to North Carolina years ago.  He's on Facebook (though I'm not anymore).

Doing well.  Living in San Antonio with the wife and running a company.  Started a foundation to help vets transition this year, and the IRS adjudicated our 501(c)(3) status just about a month ago, so about to start pushing hard on that.  I really enjoy helping vets, so pretty excited about that one.

Wow, getting 501(c)(3) status is a big deal!  Congratulations!  Good cause, too!

What kind of company are you and the wife running?

Holy shit, it's Rico!

Holy shit, it's Chris!

HOLY SHIT THE GEEKERY!

OMFGLOL!!1

(13:17:48) Gildencrantz: Do you want to play Questions?
(13:17:53) Rosenstern: Are you asking me?
(13:18:00) Gildencrantz: Is there anyone else?
(13:18:11) Rosenstern: Does Reimero count?
(13:18:23) Gildencrantz: Does Reimero count what?
(13:18:41) Rosenstern: Should we be asking stuff like that without his input?
(13:18:48) Crantzenstern: Does he count or can he count?
(13:18:55) Gildencrantz: What's the difference?
(13:19:09) Rosenstern: What about Biz?
(13:19:41) Gildencrantz: Well, there's no accounting for taste.
(13:19:53) Rosenstern: STATEMENT
(13:20:03) Gildencrantz:
(13:21:33) BizB: What?
(13:21:51) BizB: Isn't this the place for an argument?
(13:22:01) Gildencrantz: Don't you know how to play?
(13:22:02) Crantzenstern: No, it's the place for an argument
(13:22:24) BizB: is that not a statement?
(13:22:37) Gildencrantz: Wouldn't it depend upon who you asked?
(13:22:45) Gildencrantz: WHOM. DAMN IT.
(13:23:00) Crantzenstern: Don't obvious Monty Python references get assigned differently?
(13:23:11) Gildencrantz: God, I hope so.
(13:23:22) BizB: do you think everyone is playing?
(13:23:33) Gildencrantz: What if they weren't?
(13:23:40) BizB: would that matter?
(13:23:44) Rosenstern: Am I still playing?
(13:23:59) BizB: Why aren't I capitalizing the first letter of my questions?
(13:24:05) Gildencrantz: Can you imagine not playing?
(13:24:17) Rosenstern: Would that be scary?
(13:24:23) BizB: wouldn't it though?
(13:24:24) Crantzenstern: Can you imagine the game not ending?
(13:24:30) Rosenstern: Does it have to?
(13:24:32) Gildencrantz: Are you trying to scare me?
(13:24:35) BizB: is it nap time?
(13:24:47) Rosenstern: Are you asking me?
(13:24:48) Gildencrantz: How can you sleep at a time like this?
(13:24:51) Crantzenstern: Do interrogative hockey cheers exist?
(13:24:57) Rosenstern: Are there restrictions on nap times?
(13:25:07) Rosenstern: "Go team?"
(13:25:17) Gildencrantz: "What the fuck?"
(13:25:19) Crantzenstern: "Would you mind scoring more goals please?"
(13:25:21) BizB: do you think it's wise to nap in all situations?
(13:25:27) Rosenstern: Can these questions be rhetorical?
(13:25:35) Crantzenstern: Why not?
(13:25:42) BizB: hey ref, are you watching the same game we are?
(13:25:43) Gildencrantz: Is it possible to answer a rhetorical question?
(13:25:52) Rosenstern: Can we suppose for a moment that this question is hypothetical?
(13:25:59) Crantzenstern: Didn't you just do that?
(13:26:09) Gildencrantz: Didn't I?
(13:26:09) Rosenstern: Which time?
(13:26:40) BizB: time for a nap?
(13:26:49) Rosenstern: How old are you?
(13:26:51) Gildencrantz: Why are you so into naps?
(13:27:07) BizB: does age matter in nappiness?
(13:27:11) Gildencrantz: Did you put the right emphasis on that syllable?
(13:27:42) Rosenstern: If I have upward inflection in my laughter, can that be considered a question?
(13:28:04) BizB: What if you're Pennsylvania Dutch?
(13:28:14) Crantzenstern: What Would Drew Carey Say?
(13:28:22) Rosenstern: What if you're GOING Dutch?
(13:28:24) Gildencrantz: How many licks DOES it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
(13:28:36) Crantzenstern: What if the Dutch are going YOU?
(13:28:38) BizB: the world may never know?
(13:28:38) Rosenstern: Is the answer three?
(13:28:47) Gildencrantz: Do you want it to be?
(13:28:55) Rosenstern: Is there consensus?
(13:28:59) BizB: I do?
(13:29:03) BizB: There is?
(13:29:05) Rosenstern: Do you?
(13:29:20) BizB: Not so much?
(13:29:47) BizB: Can you keep a secret?
(13:29:53) Rosenstern: What does Marsellus Wallace look like?
(13:29:55) Gildencrantz: is it about you?
(13:30:04) Novice: What'd I miss?
(13:30:12) Crantzenstern: What'd you aim at?]
(13:30:12) Gildencrantz: Can't you read back?
(13:30:14) BizB: if it is, would you tell me?
(13:30:49) Gildencrantz: Does your alternate personality not know?
(13:31:19) BizB: Is that Defect?
(13:31:28) Gildencrantz: Which one of you has the brane now?
(13:31:28) Rosenstern: Is Defect your known personal alternate?
(13:31:50) BizB: It does seem that way, doesn't it?
(13:32:01) Gildencrantz: Can one have an unknown personal alternate?
(13:32:07) BizB: can you believe he's a father?
(13:32:14) Gildencrantz: Isn't that how cloning works?
(13:32:41) Rosenstern: Have you studied cloning?
(13:32:43) BizB: ok... stuff to do
(13:32:46) BizB: l9r
(13:32:48) Rosenstern: STATEMENT
(13:33:00) BizB: indeed
(13:33:20) Rosenstern: Did Biz just quit?
(13:33:32) Gildencrantz: Weren't you paying attention?
(13:33:43) Rosenstern: Isn't it reim's turn to pay attention?
(13:33:50) Novice: Is "statement" not a statement?
(13:35:05) Rosenstern: Don't you believe in meta terminology to keep score in the game?
(13:35:27) Gildencrantz: Would it help if I told you there is no way to win?
(13:35:42) Rosenstern: Is anyone trying to win?

catwritr: Sour Patch Kids don't count as fruit snacks, right?
Shifty: They do if a glass of bourbon counts as my daily serving of corn/vegetables
catwritr: I'll allow it.

Mods keep deleting my posts.  It's not really dead.

Well, there is that.   

I've never read that one at all.  While I was into comics, I mostly read Conan Saga, Savage Sword of Conan, and old X-Men and Punisher comics.  I was into the NOW Comics Terminator series for a while too, which had pretty amazing artwork, and even better stories.

I was only ever a casual comic fan; I still have my old Conan Saga books which are probably valuable these days, but I really have no idea.

1.  The Turing Option by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky
2.  Ur by Stephen King
3.  Cell by Stephen King
4.  Gridlinked by Neal Asher

Now I'm reading The Line of Polity by Neal Asher.

I was driving my old 1982 Buick LeSabre and I was working with a couple of other people on a surveillance operation, like the ones I did when I worked IRL as a PI back when I had this same car in Virginia in the mid-90s.

We subcontracted counter-surveillance (which was common those days) to a couple of locals, and one of them was telling me frantically my car had been made by our mark and the cops were onto us.  I was going from window to window and I couldn't see the cops.

I said "fuck it" and got my team together and we left anyway, and nobody ended up following us.  I had one of my cohorts driving my car and I was watching for tails.  We were completely clean and we moved on to our mark without a scratch.

(12:11:39) Shifty: Their product selection does not appeal to me
(12:12:11) TameableExpert: Make your own.
(12:13:23) Shifty: Don't tell me what to do
(12:13:45) TameableExpert: Don't tell me not to tell you what to do.
(12:14:07) Shifty: Don't tell me to not tell you not to tell me what to do!
(12:14:19) catwritr: C-c-c-c-ccccombo breaker!

I was digging through some old text files I have in my Dropbox account, and I came across one entitled "The Book of Hackernetworkius.txt".  I figured this was an appropriate thread in which to post it.

And as a good lead in, here's a Pepe angel tossing.

In the beginning, there was the Internet.  It had form, and it had chaos, and it had many islands in that chaos where many netizens dwelled for a long age.

There was Crazy Greek, and he saw some of this chaos and made it his own.

Then, from some of that chaos he said "let there be a place where egos grow large and ranting is a skill.  Let it be called 'Hackernetwork', and let it be funny, and entertaining, and sarcastic, and filled with the fire of its members."  And there was Hackernetwork, and it was all that he said it should be.

Then there was tricky, and Cyber_Sniper, and Katt, and thunder3davis, and Kryzec, and Wiley, and Demosthenes.  Soon after there was Nebuchadnezzar (whom the gods name "Chris"), and Jon, and ErgoSumDominati, and LifeFateDeath (whose name was also LFD), and Lacerda, and TheJudge. 

Later still there was Joe Sixpack, and Jesterpoet, and TeKnowledge, and Jonas, and Nowledge, and Revka, and Leonidas, and Law, and Catwritr, and Detta, and Reimero, and Vespertine, and ydnamtnediserp, and jeee, and Daria, and DogStarMan, and PeyoteCoyote, and Phoenix, and SpurtReynolds, and Fade^C, and biggyfred, and dcrog, and Paco DeGaillo, and DiscipleOfChaos, and bane, and 12AX7, and 7thSON, and Jaepheth, and Phyre, and Malachi, and LuciferSam, and milifist, and Relandr, and Socrates, and gorgeous_si, and Rico, and Pinki, and LadyGendom, and Timberwolf, and Pseudonymph, and 0ren, and BlackWidow, and Inferno, and zao, and many others whose names are lost to us.

There was laughter, and much political discourse, and social discourse, and much flaming of the trolls, and the stupids, and the Age of Hackernetwork had begun.

There was also in the chaos of the Internet FARK.  Fark too had much rejoicing and discourse and flaming of trolls and stupids.  But lo, when the trolls and the stupids became great in number, and they became the favored of the gods there, many of the wise and funny and elite sought refuge from the hurrrrricane that it became.

So there were also BizB, and Pbsaurus, and PsiDefect, and Ivan, and Nexus Reaver, and Tedneedles, and Zorgon, and kgb33ns, and talix18, and Hisey, and Dangermonk, and others.

And Nebuchadnezzar (whom the gods name Chris) had also brought forth The Geekery (OMFGLOL!!1).  And there were still others.  There was Dark Shade, and Banshee, and binoboy, and HeavyJay, and hob goblin, and ho0ber, and blitzkrieg bop, and SoupBandit23 (whom the gods also name scribcake), and Crystalmonkey, and The_FOO, and snyperx, and Terrordronze, and Anyanka_was_framed, and Frozen Shade, and ihatecliches, and Agent_Tachyon, and still many others.

And many dwelled in both Hackernetwork and The Geekery, and much laughter and merriment and discourse was had by all.

There was the casting out of thunder3davis in Hackernetwork.  There were losses of forums, there were mass attacks upon both by trolls who cast their seed of stupid and discord throughout, and were smote in destruction by the mighty moderators of both forums to the delight of the membership.  There were the words of pepe, and there were the searches for ergo, and there were also the Time Wasted From Work, and much was good.

Many of the old regulars have been lost to time, and to the chaos of the Internet, but some appear again in other forms, in other places.

And lo, at last one day Hackernetwork was no more.  And Crazy Greek's eye did wander to other toil, and he became weary of Hackernetwork and its upkeep.  And he turned from it.

And there was also Bizarre Confessions.  And many sought it in the loss of Hackernetwork, and many more sought also The Geekery.

Thus the Age of The Geekery (OMFGLOL) had begun.  The Geekery became home to many that once dwelled in other places as well.  The Internet had changed, and now there were other places still that held the eye of members, but The Geekery held a special place in the hearts of many. 

We're not savages here.

In the interim, until I get the new server built, here's the #hn in exile deets:

Server: irc.efnet.org
Port: 6667
Channel: #hn

Okay, so here's the deal.  My /home partition on Azalin shit the bed, and I'm in the process of trying to repair it.  In the meantime, the server's down.

Worst case scenario, I can still have IRC services running without the /home stuff working (ircd doesn't need it), but I can't leave the machine running perpetually like that, so if that's how this ends up, I'll be rebuilding it.

I already have a bootable thumb drive image prepped, but because of how hairy this will be to completely redo, I won't be tackling that task until next weekend at the earliest.

Sooooo, right now I've got a full fsck running, and it's taking for-fucking-ever. 

This is a thread for just general tech crap.  Ramble to your heart's content on any tech subject you feel might not really deserve its own thread.

I'll start it off by discussing what I did tonight. 

I upgraded my Subsonic server at home and discovered that Chromecast support is built into it now!

Really high-def content seems to have buffering problems, but that doesn't bother me much.  The main reason I wanted this was so that I could stream any of the 206 episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 that I have on that server via my Chromecast to my TV.  The MST3K episodes are all low-def, and when I tested it out, it worked perfectly!

It's the little things.