banky's Journal: Hyena

Tomorrow night I will very likely go out and get drunk.

Sadly tonight I am not drunk. I need to be drunk. That would help, probably.

Anyway... for the 'weekly farscape banter', we get the point already, he's pissed at her. Don't let the show turn into Lexx, please. I liked all the nerd references (Monty Python, Douglas Adams, computer games in general) but it was too kooky.

The scifi.com discussion group was full of noise about it. That place is a lot like /. in that there's basically two types of people, those who feel Farscape (Linux) can do no wrong, and trolls. It's not very fun to hang out in. Anyway everyone was bitching that Stark is able to pinpoint Crichton in space-time. Seeing as how he (Stark) is pretty much incorporeal right now (and, as such, probably outside our spacetime most of the, well, time) he can bloody do whatever he bloody wants.

I am happy for the rain, except I'm taking Alleve like candy and considering looking for morphine or heroin. The pain is really bad after a couple days of this shit. My right kneecap has basically popped out, I expect to find it down by my foot in no time. OUCH.

Watching 'Good Eats' tonight, thinking: how the HELL do you shuck clams with a machine? And how do you get crab meat, for that matter, without a little fork and a nutcracker? Must research this, but if anyone knows, by all means speak up.

Put W2k on my old laptop for purposes of testing some work I'm doing. Getting it up-to-date takes FOREVER. I must have had to go to windowsupdate.com 6 or 7 times because so many updates were "this update only". MacOSX can download and install an arbitrary number of updates within a single point release, why can't Windows? Does XP correct this behavior? The CSS for windowsupdate.com is sweet, quite pretty in IE. Anyway it took like 15 reboots to get it up to speed but it's working fine.

That's all for now.

xp doesn't correct

[jpthegeek]

XP doesn't correct this, and XP has twice as many patches, hotfixes, security holes. It will take you twice as long to install XP, especially if it's on older hardware.
Try DL'ing the HF Net Check Tool. It will give you a listing of all the Q numbers and you can get the patches individually and run them all at once. It might save you some time. I don't have a direct link to it (3rd party from MS), but a Google search for HF Het Check Tool will return a link.
Hope that helps!

xp still broke

[gmhowell]

No, XP still has plenty of 'this update only' BS. I was thinking about this the other night when playing with my Debian box. I can upgrade/update EVERYTHING, but the kernel. That is the ONLY thing that requires a reboot. Why can't MS force you to logout (that I can almost understand) then kill/restart processes requiring new stuff? The only thing a reboot should be required for are kernel.exe.

I quite like/d Lexx. But I agree that Farscape isn't Lexx, and shouldn't turn into Lexx.

And if Crichton is so pissed, why doesn't he just go and kill Scorpius? Who would blame him? Who would complain? Sputnik? I saved a few rounds for you, sweetheart.

Re:xp still broke

[banky]

The thing that pisses me off about OSX's update is, it makes you reboot for things other than the kernel. Their reason for this is, "the majority of users don't mind rebooting, and it reduces the potential for trouble". MS probably does the same thing for the same reasons - I find the W2k series Registry code to be relatively robust (certainly more than W9x and NT4) so it's not stark raving fear of registry corruption.

The nice thing though is that within a point release, you can pretty much update everything all at once, not unlike Linux. If you're at 10.1.3 (I think that's what currently resides in the retail box) for example, it's basically one update to get to 10.1.5. I really think that's what makes a software update application useful. Needing 6-10 updates, one at a time, is really a bother.

He can't kill Scorpious because he promised Aeryn he wouldn't. Kinda lame but I guess we'll just have to deal with it.

Yeah Sputnik needs to die. I'd put her in a cell too.

They want to create a sense of tension again. Mid season 3, the crew truly unified. There was no more tension between them - Crichton and D'Argo are best friends, C & A are getting closer, etc etc. The tension revolved around external forces. I think they're taking the tack of, "let's not have Graza spend all her time hunting them, and let internal forces cause tension". It's a good idea, I think, but a hard thing to do right.

Re:xp still broke

[gmhowell]

Most people are incredibly pissed about having to reboot. They've just given in and accept that it is something that 'must' be done. Funny that MS (and others) will put some BS little bit of functionality in Word because one corporate account/golf buddy requested it, yet they don't make the changes that would really matter.

Having to update ~40 machines at work is pretty annoying with all of the reboots. Hence, they don't get done.

Fuck his promise to Aeryn. At this point, I must say that he owes her nothing. Maybe I've missed something in the past (almost certainly) but it certainly seems she has brought little/nothing to the relationship of late.