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Just once, I wish someone else in this family knew how to keep a schedule… dang nab’it. Well, o be fair there is at least one besides myself; but Uncle Pat was a coast guard captain, if he’s late, ya start to worry lol. Otherwise I’m about the only one who knows how to manage time… in a manor that approximately works.

I woke up around 1028R, my brothers not here. I was woken up around 1156R to find out he called a few minutes ago, to say that he was just starting out; our mothers been up since 0800R. And the other day, he said he was going to be here early [in the morning]… Well, I’ll probably be out of battery charge on my laptop before he even gets to the city limits… the putz !!!

Was dreaming several things, but I remember dreaming that I was going through CQB training before I was woken up. The last thing I remember, was 2 man stack, kick it in, he moved left, I took right. Tango across my sector, 2 to the chest with a single action revolver; made it to my corner, then sliced the pie around. Two more tangos, put a quick shot in the right ones chest, then the left while advancing, then cycled back and put a head shot in each, right to left. Then dropped to one knee shouting “GUN DOWN” and started reloading the revolver as my teammate took up a cover position from his point of domination; 6 in the can, “GUN UP” and moved out…

Something like this:

|--------------------------|
|  y                       |
|            T           T |
|   /--------------      T|
|   ______________/       |
|                          |
|               ___x___x___|
|Y             x|          |
|--  -----------|----------|
X=Spidey01's way point
Y=teammates  way point
T=tango position

Which reminds me, there are supposed to be some team games on PG#3 today hehe 🙂

running off the deepend

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Well, finished one portion of my docs (Grrr… wasting time in #kde-chat and #vim lol); even got one of the manual pages written out.

Ya know, with the mdoc.samples(7) and mdoc(7) manual pages + a few simple manual pages for reference (head, cat, pkg_add) the process of writing a manual page is actually much less painful then I remember it being. I’ve only got one small problem so far, thin I’ll post on daemonforums later and see if anyone has an idea; if not I’ll probably have to adjust the man pages wording a lit’ bit.

nroff/troff is also strangely addicting once you start playing with macro packages…

It’s been a very tiring week…

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It’s been a very tiring week…

Decided to install F.E.A.R. and have some R&R. It’s not particularly my kind of game, but he AI used by the opposing forces is awesome. Heck, ambushed a few replica soldiers, moved my way through the area along the flank – only to be ambushed from behind, by one that hid and waited for an oppotunity. Of course, a quick drop to slow-mo, a 180′ and leaping into the air for pair of double taps from my dual .40cal pistols, and finishing it with a pistol’whip put the thread down quickly. FEAR is about the only game I’ve played when one has a chance to do both CQC and handle multiple-shooters the right way, b/c there are usually several coming out of the word works lol. Was trying to flank and ambush a squad and got detected, I pushed on – impact grenade to mash their right, fell back on the centre and bounced between the flanks to keep them busy.

The last replica solider climbed through a gap in my cover for a little face to face, so I kicked the putz back through it 😉

About all that is missing is access to a knife in the meelee action, like a yung Big Boss once said – sometimes in a fight, a knifes more useful then a gun. Ahh, anyay good for stress relief. Now it’s time to get my docs & notes prepped for an up comming project meeting. If I’m _really lucky_ I might even have some test code ready op, but with my family… *sigh*

Which reminds me, my brothers do over tomorrow to waste my time, lol

Hmm, it’s times like these that I really wish I had picked up more troff.. but LaTeX does the job well enough for what I need. With luck, by meeting day I’ll have all my files done, and my laptop updated & ready to rock’it as well.

The problem with typing to quickly

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Check if the program ‘named’ is running and listening. I don’t know off the top of my head if /etc/rc.d/named supports the status command or not (rc), but finding out if it is running the hardway is still easy.

I’m not familiar with any of the dns/ apps in ports, so I can’t say what name they would run under; but I’m sure someone here would point it out.

—

$ ps xa | grep named
   ... is named running?
$ cat /var/run/named/pid
   ... does the pid file exist?
$ netstat -n -p tcp | grep 53   -- s/tcp/udp/
   ... is anything listening on the usual port?

-> Assuming that the standard issue name server was used, you may want to check named.conf first, in case the settings were changed. On FreeBSD I believe this is etc/namedb/named.conf.

I really should check my posts for typo’s more completely, before I make an ass of myself so easily…. at least J65nko spotted it. Most times I try and check what I write, but after work, it’s not exactly a high priority – compared with finishing the sentence before I get AFK’d for the umpteenth time lol.

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Well, I’ve generally set a course… In the short term, I have a few goals of immediate concern:

  1. Get my school work done (how boring…)
  2. Improve my understanding of (useful) mathematics
  3. balance getting work done

I need to begin making more progress with my schooling, what I’ve got on the plate right now is in no way challenging… beyond time constraints; every moment spent on homework is less on every other pile of shit in my todo-box. I also want to try and teach myself more about mathematics, both to prepare for harder stuff, and because I’m generally interested. Although, I think writing a device driver would be easier then reading some of the notation without something like this.

One thing I do bloody well know, I’m using bc(1) for the leg work. Although I never used a calculator in doing homework before, I also ain’t used a pencil to solve a math problem in ages when walking around ^_^. I type with 10 fingers both out of need and love for efficiency; time is precious!

For getting stuff done, that’s generally the one thing that does hit my schedule. That’s one of the reasons my homework always piles up… I figure though, if I can properly split my time, and not have to compromise the other parts.. I might actually get something done eventually!

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are
greater.

— Albert Einstein

Now that quote really makes me feel better…. lol.

Writer’s Block: A Conspiracy of Beards

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November is National Beard Month. Muttonchops, Van Dyke, goatee, soul patch, ZZ Top–style—tell us about your own wild and woolly facial fuzz. Even better, post a picture.

Submitted By cwcsonichu

Live Journals Writer’s Block

From 5 o clock shadow to looking like Chewbacca the wookie…. I think I probably shave like every 3 to 5 months or something lol.

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I have no idea if I’m working tomorrow or not, but I hop I’ll get the day off… The weekends been more or les a total ash out. If I’m working though, it’ll be a full day. I come from a family, where we go to work unless your head is practically falling off lol.

Hehe, that reminds me… Some funny news, my brothers supposed to be getting a physical this week. Oh man, this is going to be funny, I hope he doesn’t faint! his is a guy, who chose to who made us all go out of state for his wedding – just to avoid a blood test!

I have more that I want to write, but to little energy and not enough time. If it really is 0800Z and I /am/ working tomorrow… I best get some shuteye, it’s a hell of a day.