Linux Woes Geekery

Damn you Deepest Sender, for erasing my post.

Linux is up and running on the box. It still doesn't post most of the time - I think it's a voltage problem (on startup, when it was attached to a monitor, it read over 4.5 V for +3.3). I'm inclined not to care, as long as it's stable (which it seems to be). As it's primarily a music storage box, I really don't care if it dies, it'll be an inconvenience, nothing more.

It still has several issues. Firstly, it crashes the router here at home. After a few hours of being connected, the router stops accepting new connections, and eventually shuts out the existing ones. I don't know why it's doing this. The other problem is that Samba doesn't work. I can see it on the workgroup, but when I try to connect, it says address not found, or something like that. I suspect it's a WINS/NetBIOS/etc. issue. This means I'm not going to worry about getting it working until I get back to school and I see how well it talks to the network there, where it'll be spending most of it's time for the next few months.

Discovered the MPC (musepack) codec last night, it's supposedly the "best" lossy codec. It, so the experts claim, is better at 160 +/- a bit Kbs than MP3 is at 320 kbs. There's no hardware support (but a WinAMP pluggin is all I need for now), but if I end up with an MP3 player, I'll just batch convert everything, assuming I get it ripped in the first place.

Botticelli Redux

And you'd thought I'd forgotten all about this...

I'm an R.

You know I'm not Richard III, Sir Robin, Teddy Roosevelt, Rollo, Edward Rochester, Agneta Rautavaara, Andy Roddick, William T. Riker, Rodin, Rosencrantz, Riddick, Rincewind, or Ronaldinho.

I'm Real, Male, European, Not Alive, Not Born in the 20th Century, Not in Music, In Politics, Not Pre-Renasisance, Not British, and Not the Ruler of a Region or Country.

Click here if you've forgotten the rules.

fiddledragon, tirerim, and sildra have stumped me and have identified their guesses and asked questions based on the last post. Everyone is free to fire questions at will.

Hrm...backdating does in fact make the entry disappear from friends pages. I'll keep updating this post, but if interest wanes, I'll make a fresh post.

Rah Rah Rasputin

Congrats to jdh92, who blundered into our secret identity, stumping me on details about him which I may or may not have once known.

Thanks y'all for playing, sorry to all of you who killed brain cells today thinking of guesses or questions after jdh92 found the answer and before I made this post. Anyone else want to run a game? It's a great way to get lots and lots of comments in your LJ.