Jeffrey Harlan

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  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-04

    • Saw Transformers 2. Not great, but not horrible. It is exactly what Bay is best at: paper-thin plot, hot chicks, & lots of kewl ‘splosions #
    • DO WANT! RT @thinkgeek “What happens in the holodeck stays in the holodeck” tshirt, mens: http://cli.gs/QSu58t womens: http://cli.gs/ge8aTq #
    • @NathanFillion You didn’t steal anything. You appropriated assets in lieu of additional monetary compensation for your services. #
    • All right! I’ve got 8 hours of class starting in 3-1/2 hours and I didn’t get ANY sleep last night! #
    • Aw crap. Just found out about paperwork I had to file last mo for GI Bill that’s gonna delay my check up to a mo. I need it for rent on Fri! #
    • Despite operating only on 2 hours of sleep that I grabbed between 7&9am, I did OK at school today. Even got 100% on my speech this pm #
    • Best thing about my Yoda lunch box: picnicing on the quad between classes every day #
    • Have to give 2-3 min memorized speech from history or film. Think I’ll do Sisko’s log entry at the end of the DS9 ep For the Uniform #
    • Whoops. Meant I’m going to do part of Sisko’s log from DS9’s In the Pale Moonlight. “Most damning of all… I think I can live with it.” #
    • Wow. Gorgeous redhead in shorts laying on a blanket & reading a book across the quad. #
    • It’s definitely a holiday weekend. Getting loaded down w homework by my professors #
    • What? Can it be true? Do I actually have a date this weekend? Survey says “yes.” #
    • “A girl who can tie a knot in the fiber which encircles the kernel of a nut is sure to be married.” Yep, that’s a vital skill all right #
    • My life’s a soap opera. Friends dying in Iraq & car crashes. Brain tumors. Cancer. Psycho exes. Name a cliche and I’ve probably lived it. #
    • RT @BadAstronomer WOOHOO! LRO first light images of the Moon! AWESOME pictures! http://tr.im/qEKL #
    • HA! RT @mashable Reading: “64 percent Say Too Much Jackson Coverage”…the ad above the article is amusingly ironic: http://bit.ly/amvGb #
    • @gadgetdoll One of my friends suggested we should call it As JeffreysWorld.net Turns LOL in reply to gadgetdoll #
    • RT @def_leppard Free Def Leppard concert tickets for military personnel and veterans! See http://bit.ly/uHEGX for details. #
    • @gimliaxewielder Both B & C: we’re watching Star Trek and I’m making dinner. in reply to gimliaxewielder #
    • Can’t seem to get the dropdown menu for kingdom-con.com to work, but everything else is looking ok, at least. #
    • @Quarksbartender that is is obviously one of the beer tap handles from Quark’s. Used to get Blood Draft & Romulan Ale from you all the time in reply to Quarksbartender #
    • @wilw Please, we want to be all “HOLY CRAP!” Spill! #
    • Upgrading my computer to Ubuntu 9.04 (I know, it came out 3 months ago). Need to do some laundry, grocery shopping, maybe wash my truck too. #
    • majorly updated http://www.kingdom-con.com and am currently working on the forum skin. Will work on the dropdown menu CSS issue later #

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  • I’m online again

    Well, the wireless modem on my laptop is dead as a doornail. HP’s “customer service” wasn’t much help. I really wasn’t inclined to send my laptop in to them for two weeks, particularly due to the stories I’ve heard of them reformatting hard drives and resetting everything back to the way it was when the computers were first purchased… Instead, I just bought an inexpensive USB wireless modem that works with Linux, and I’m back online NOW, with no risk of someone wiping all my data.

  • Dead wireless

    The wireless modem died on my laptop the other day. As a result, the only working connection on the thing is the ethernet jack. Unfortunately, the only way to get online with the network at home is wireless. I’m able to bring my laptop to work and plug in there, so I can at least check my email, but they restrict the access pretty heavily, so I can’t do a lot of things that I would normally do online.

    I wrote to HP about the problem, but their response was fairly typical. They first told me to try reinstalling  the drivers (even though I told them I’d already tried that, but the computer isn’t recognizing even the presence of the hardware in either Vista or Linux, indicating that the modem simply burned out), and then said to mail it to them for servicing. My main problem with that is the fact that my laptop has been my primary computer for nearly a year now, and it will likely take nearly two weeks for the turnaround on repairs. My desktop has been sitting in the garage unused, so I may end up sending the laptop in and using that at least temporarily.

    This is, to say the least, more than just inconvenient. I’m halfway tempted to just buy a replacement modem and do the repair myself, even if the computer is still under warranty. They’re sending a postage-paid box for the laptop, however; I’ll probably send it in after I get my desktop set up and running again.

  • Laptop screen works now

    I got the screen on my laptop working now. Turns out I had to use the vesa driver instead of the ATI driver. As always, it’s something simple that trips everything up. I’m still working on getting the wireless and ethernet connections working, but that’s a less pressing matter. At least until the movers come and take my desktop system, anyhow.

  • My laptop’s working… sort of.

    Last week I bought an old IBM Thinkpad A22M on eBay for $150. Damn good deal. It’s an older system, but $150… Seriously. 900MHz Pentium-III, 128MB RAM, 10GB Hard Drive, DVD drive…

    So what’s the catch? No operating system installed. Like that’s an issue for an alpha geek like me, right? (more…)

  • More old blog entries

    Here’s my blog entries from MySpace…

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  • Linux explored: Operating system offers alternative to Windows

    Originally published in the Fullerton College Hornet, Vol. 78, Issue 17; 3 Mar 1999

    In the midst of the Microsoft antitrust trial, a true competitor has arisen.

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