#! /bin/geek

I knew there's a reason I put an eject command in my CD-ripping shell script. Since my linux box crashes the home network, I can't connect it. Thus I need to SSH into it using a crossover cable to my laptop. Unfortunately, when I have the crossover cable connected to the laptop and the laptop connected wirelessly to the home network (and the home network connected to the hip bone), Firefox and Thunderbird use the wired connection instead of the wireless connection, which gets them nowhere. Thus I run the ripper in screen on the linux box, detatch the window, logout, detatch the crossover cable, and carry on. When the linux box ejects the CD I'm ripping, I know it's time to stop what I'm doing, reconnect the crossover cable, log in to the linux box, and start ripping the next CD. Is it an ugly hack, yes, but you should see the script that rips CDs.

Now all I need to do is get an MP3 player (tomorrow?), write another hack shell script to recursively call my hack mpc2mp3 shell script over my directory structure (anyone have any better ideas then greping and awking an ls piped to a dummy file, or something like that), run this script on what likely will amount to ~10 GB of music, load said 10 GB of music to said MP3 player (with my laptop, the device currently able to interface with said MP3 player, lacking 10 contiguous GBs of hard drive space (hurrah partitions), though I've now got more free space than I've had in a while, having moved a bunch of stuff off the laptop onto the linux box.

I really should get SAMBA working on the box. Not that it will help much right now, but it will make long term getting of stuff from the linux box to the laptop much easier.

In other news, I've purchased a camera to replace my old one, which walked away in Tarble last month. Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z10. Should be here Friday afternoon, in time for most of reunion and Vancouver, which is next week with the family.

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I CAST YOU OUT!

Begone foul spawn of Satan. Your work here is finished, this is no longer a willing host for you and your devil's work. You must leave this place now. No more will you block my e-mail and IRC. You cannot hide, you cannot sneak around where you think I cannot see you.

I CAST YOU OUT!

I think I've completely gotten rid of Swat's copy of McAfee. I've successfully installed AVG Free. I uninstalled McAfee once, installed AVG, then looked down at my task pane and saw McAfee sitting there, mocking me. I uninstalled it again, then purged anything related to McAfee from my running processes list, and it has stayed away. We'll see what happens on my next reinstall, but I think I got it.

I SQUISH YOU, McAFEE, I SQUISH YOU!