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There is a struggle in my mind but I haven’t resolved it fully. I was tested on a daily bases but I’m too damn stubborn to give up! Work keeps me busy and frees the mind of the distractions and I welcome this change. I can’t say much about July, it was dull but I suppose that can only mean that things are finally beginning to go back to normal for me. Maybe next month will be more exciting…

Now I’m going to go listen to Limbik Frequencies.

This isn’t anything fancy but I think it may be useful to some peeps out there. If you run FC and would like to add a Maxtor brick, you may run into some small issues with the existing partition tables. To get around that, you can follow the steps below:

• First off, connect the brick (USB) to your FC box
• Look in dmesg for “OneTouch”. You can run dmesg | grep OneTouch. You should be able to find it
• Now sudo as root and run fdisk /dev/sdd1 (you need to look at dmesg to determine what it is, in my case it was sdd1)
• Okay now you can run $p (for print) under fdisk to view the partition table.
• Now you’re going to run $d (remove paritions 1 - 4 …) so you’ll end up with nothing on the brick. If you run $p afterwards, you’ll see nothing.
• Now create a new partition $n just use the default options. You should end up with something like /dev/sdd1p1
• Do $w to write the prition table. Ignore any of the messages, remove the drive, reconnect it.
• Now run mkfs -t ext3 -j /de/sdd1 and wait until it’s done.
• At this point you should consider making a directory under /mnt/ (call it brick)
• Mount the brick using $mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/brick
• Run $df -h to make sure you can see the mount
• Consider editing the fstab and adding the new partition to it. If you know *nix well enough, you should know what I’m referring to. If not, please use ‘man fstab’ or email me, k?!
• You’re done, you can use the brick. Trivial but useful…

Because you’re friends are obese. Well that’s what a recent study seems to show but that’s nothing new… I choose my friends based on one thing: How will they benefit me in life…?

High Tech. Low Impact.

I need say no more…

Apple announced their financial results for the 3rd Quarter of fiscal 2007. Apple posted revenue of $5.41 billion and net quarterly profit of $818 million, or $.92 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $4.37 billion and net quarterly profit of $472 million, or $.54 per diluted shar…

f’ing Apple and their fan boys…

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… there’s one thing that I like about myself and that’s being Stubborn as a Saint…

Oooooh, pretty.

This is a good read.

I hate waking up in the morning to find out that my stocks are flopping: DNDN and ESGR! No wonder my blood pressure keeps going up!

“A friend loves at all times”… I’m not one to get sentimental on friendships and that’s because of my up ringing. At the age of 20 and some 8 years I’ve finally realized the net worth of my friends and how utterly important they are and how they contribute to my life. Relationships will come and go but my friends remain right where they are. That’s a comfortable feeling to have.

While I’m not at peace with myself I feel peaceful enough to know that if I ever need someone I can rely on my friends. In a sense, they’re my church…

Enough said. I’m going to go listen to the new Deftones CD.

A few days ago I was having a conversation with my colleague about the past. It turns out that he worked for our family friend (Plastic Surgeon) along time ago. This morning on my way to work on highway 580 I let VW Golf cut over to my lane. The guy sticks his head out the window looking back to see if I’ll let him through and it turned out to be Ron Grosjean (a very old acquaintance). He looked tired and worn out though.

The odd thing about this entire episode is that I was deep in trance thinking about this sort of thing last night! (sign maybe?)

It’s my hope that someday I may cross paths with someone that I loved or have loved and we hit if off again or maybe an old friend that I haven’t seen in years. Wishful thinking I suppose, but the point is that this is a small world and we all seem to cross each other’s paths. We’re just oblivious to the fact… This reminds me of the movie “crash”…

I left the Iron on! I could have burned my place down. That might have been good… (sigh). Note to self: don’t leave Iron on. If you do, don’t blog about it!

I will never again touch Patrón tequila again… big thanks goes out to Kevin for keeping an eye on me.

I finally found my favorite pic of MM over at ZGallerie:

nice to earn a hefty paycheck… Now which way to the strip club? (bad joke…)

In VI you can convert all characters to lower-case: s/[A-Z]/\l&/g subsequently you can use the same command to upper-case the text: s/[A-Z]/\u&/g

I ran into the scenario a little while ago so I thought I would post the results:

• Power off the switch (un-plug it)
• Power it back on while holding the ‘mode’ button
• You’ll go into bypass mode
• In bypass mode run the following:
  • > flash_init
  • > load_helper
• > dir flash:
• remove the config.text
• rename the config.text using rename flash:config.txt flash:config.old
• use boot to complete the task

Your old configuration is now gone and you can start off fresh. Remember to go to conf t, and set the the enable password. Also be sure to use service password to encrypt the password.