12:59 – I just spent the last five hours trying to recover from a boot failure on my main system. As it turned out, it wasn’t the hard drive; it was either the power cable or data cable to that drive, or the ATA interface itself. After trying other drives, I finally connected the “failed” drive to a different power cable and interface and it came up normally.
Sunday, 7 August 2016
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Ah, Pournelle’s second law, “check your cables first”.
I’ve got an old XP machine down at the moment too. It may just go to the curb tonight after I screwdriver the drive.
“Ah, Pournelle’s second law, “check your cables first””
OFD’s law, too. Which I keep forgetting. But I bet if I had every time I would have saved more than a few hours over the years. I gotta open up this Windows box and find out what the spinning noise is that comes up periodically, most likely a struggling fan. I’ll tell the wife that Windows finally blew up and is NFG and we gotta go to Linux, haha.
I’ve once again decided what to do with the remaining two desktops; one will run Ubuntu Studio and be dedicated mainly to my artys-fartsy creative chit, like photo and video editing. The other will run Qubes and Whonix. And a new desktop or server will run CentOS, Nethserver, and OwnCloud.
From the What Does It Matter? Department:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cotton-clinton-discussed-executed-iranian-scientist-on-email/article/2598807
This evil creature has so much blood on her hands it beggars belief. Yet there she is. Fits right in with the previous lineup of national administrators, war criminals all. I point out to wife that at least cheeto-head hasn’t had a chance to commit war crimes yet and I get….crickets.
From the What Does It Matter? Department:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cotton-clinton-discussed-executed-iranian-scientist-on-email/article/2598807
This evil creature has so much blood on her hands it beggars belief. Yet there she is. Fits right in with the previous lineup of national administrators, war criminals all. I point out to wife that at least cheeto-head hasn’t had a chance to commit war crimes yet and I get….crickets.
“Hillary Clinton recklessly discussed, in emails hosted on her private server, an Iranian nuclear scientist who was executed by Iran for treason, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Sunday.”
Murderer.
But…but….but….she’s the most qualified, has the most experience and has a vagina. Just keep repeating this and you’ll be fine.
What’s distressingly funny is that peeps claim the cheeto-head will bring us World War IV but that’s FAR more likely with the creature. Somebody should assemble a database or spreadsheet of the Klinton Krime family’s trail of death over the decades, and still running. I bet they’re getting into the same numbers as all the peeps who died of various wacky and mysterious causes after Saint Jack got smoked.
As the days progress I find myself becoming more and more melancholy.
Then I think back to my high schools days when I played King Pellinore (“Pelly”) in The Once and Future King (Camelot) and the final scene. Indulge me for a few minutes and watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziTgoseyWoU
Edit: And I must add The Impossible Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfHnzYEHAow
The are a few Sir Toms out there, but for most of us, this will be our final battle.
Ruuuuuuun Boooooooy Run, Ruuuuuuun Boooooooy Run, Oh Run Boy Run…
Ah yes, the great actor, Richard Harrison….whoops. (the person who put it up got the name wrong, but not by much.).
This will indeed be our final battle and it seemeth as though we are appreciably older already than the character played by the late, great Richard Harris. Yes, he was only 37 when he did that gig. And he was a REAL knight, too.
I was just a freshman in high skool when that came out but it was all the rage then, with memories of the deceased Saint Jack and the Kennedy White House and Jackie, etc., etc.
My favorite fantasy world was “Brigadoon.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igs5UGskGTc
Well, we got us the Highland Cattle up here but that’s about it.
My high school had connections with the Broadway crowd and the money to buy the rights to perform plays that were fresh off Broadway. For Camelot we even had one of the directors that worked on the Broadway play, as well as costumes rented from the company that provided the costumes for the Broadway Camelot.
BTW, we had real live Percheron horses on stage. While not technically 100% correct for the time of King Arthur they were none-the-less originally bred to be war horses. On the last night of the show, I slipped in a pile of horse manure backstage and gashed my chin on a scenery support. I delivered my final lines bleeding all over the place. The show must go on.
There was a lot of manure at the high school I was incarcerated in, but most of it came from the faculty, the guidance counselor, and the administrators.
“BTW, we had real live Percheron horses on stage.”
We got those up here, too, plus Belgians and English Shire horses, still being used as draft animals and often in farm shows and 4H stuff. They’re gigantic. Mrs. OFD has ridden in English dressage stuff up here and one of her horses was a 19-hand white Westphalian who loved bananas. She’s riding again but much more casual style trying to get back into shape. The plan was for her to get me riding again and I would get her up to speed on firearms and explosives but she’s rarely here and when she is she’s exhausted for the first couple of days and then there’s a zillion other things to do.
“There was a lot of manure at the high school I was incarcerated in, but most of it came from the faculty, the guidance counselor, and the administrators.”
Ditto. I remember I had two excellent teachers, one in 8th-grade and my AP Murkan History teacher for junior and senior years. But the rest were time-serving hacks and lefty rumpswabs. I skipped a lot, drank beer and cheap-ass wine, did dope, went to Boston, rock concerts, etc., but managed to stay on the “honor roll” and do varsity track and football.
I never played team sports, other than pickup games. Well, than and doubles tennis with my brother.
and has a vagina
Is anyone really certain about that.
“I never played team sports…”
I got sucked into it ’cause my friends were on it and it made parents and grandparents happy and off my case. Kinda had fun doing the winter indoor track (middle distances and high jump) but I got creamed a few times being one of the ends on the f-ball team and also 2nd/3rd choice QB. Nothing like some fat 200-pound slug slamming into you in midair at about ten miles an hour with his shitty 1960s helmet and you’re all stretched out reaching for a pass.
Ex-wife was a tennis player, pretty good one, too. I tried it but sucked. Current wife is a horse rider but we’ll get her trained for counter-sniper duty.
“Is anyone really certain about that.”
Yes. Miles_Teg has the full scoop on that. You might wanna check with him.
“SHOCK PHOTO: Multiple staffers help unstable Hillary up stairs”
http://theamericanmirror.com/shock-photo-grandma-hillary-helped-stairs/
What is wrong with her ? Is she 68 or 86 ?
Huma says 69.
“Huma says 69.”
Oh my.
Gotta lissen up to ol’ OFD; he knows seizures and suchlike when he sees ’em. She’s a walking medical disaster, and even the walking appears to be a problem now. MSM ignoring it totally, of course; they’re SO in the bag for her and Obola.
At this point I’m thinking, let her have it, get her in there and then start a pool on how long she lasts before the VP has to take over. He’s just a run-of-the-mill dumbo Dem cretin and nowhere near as dangerous as she is. Their version of our RINOs. Now if cheeto-head can just keep his mouth shut from saying stupid chit all the time….
Ya know, when my rottie got old and fat, she started getting kind of addled and sickly. When she got to where she couldn’t walk by herself, I had her put to sleep. Just sayin’.
I hear ya five by five, kemosabe. Past time to put ‘er down. Larry, too. He’s a mess.
“Frank Luntz Focus Group: Republican Convention Successfully Made Case Against Clinton”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/07/22/frank_luntz_focus_group_rnc_convention_successfully_made_case_against_clinton.html
Here is the focus group on Fox News where one of the ladies called Hillary a murderer. I was shocked until I thought about it for a while.
“I was shocked until I thought about it for a while.”
You were shocked that she’s a murderer or shocked that someone would call her that on the tee-vee???
“”She’s a liar and a murderer and a bigot,” said another member of the focus group. “If it was your children at Benghazi, what would you say?””
No kidding. Many of us have known this for DECADES. What’s the big freaking shock here??? What’s shocking is that she’s continued in wealth and power anyway and tens of millions will joyfully vote for her anyway. What a country. What makes us different from some other shit-hole country that routinely elects and re-elects their own murdering pervert dictators???
And we know what she said about Benghazi; “what does it matter, now?” And she crapped on one of the moms to top it off recently. But everyone lost their minds over cheeto-head yakking about the musloid who contributes to her campaigns and foundations.
“I was shocked until I thought about it for a while.”
You were shocked that she’s a murderer or shocked that someone would call her that on the tee-vee???
“”She’s a liar and a murderer and a bigot,” said another member of the focus group. “If it was your children at Benghazi, what would you say?””
At the worst, she is a murderer. At the best, she is incompetent. I thought that she was just incompetent. I did not realize that she could be much worse.
“I thought that she was just incompetent. I did not realize that she could be much worse.”
Where hast thou been, kemosabe? We’ve been discussing the evil of this creature right here on this very board for quite a while now. Plenty of intel available elsewhere, too. For Benghazi ALONE she’s a murderer; then you add in Tripoli and the long trail of corpses behind her and Larry going back to their time chiseling the chit out of the poor taxpayers in Arkansas. Remember Vince Foster? He and Web Hubbell were her eager and competing paramours long ago; guess who lost? OK, that’s ancient history; how about the last couple of months? People are dying in funny ways who were about to do or say something potentially injurious to her insane lust for power.
She’s come a long way from pot smoking, threesomes, and purple granny specs in high skool.
Obola is a murderer, too, by the way. As were the Presidents before him going back a long way, so she’s most definitely qualified in that regard before she even gets elected!
I personally believe she is not just incompetent or just simply a murderer; I believe she’s actually evil. More so even than Obola. And possibly possessed.
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/just-a-coincidence/
Yup, just a coincidence.
Along with that $400 million of OUR fucking money, not a ransom or anything….
And she crapped on one of the moms to top it off recently.
Ah, since she wasn’t a “Gold Star” Mom, Cankles can crap on her with the MSM’s blessing. Ann Coulter has it right, why not ask Gold Star Mom and Husband what they think of Gays, free women, pork sammiches, etc.
See my James Woods Twitter post on the Klinton Krime Family. Too many deaths to just be a coincidence.
Coulter is right far more often than she is wrong. Or just ask any of the survivors who made it back out of that shit-hole. Anyone else seen “Thirteen Days?” It’s pretty accurate. The question is whether Ambassador Stevens was deliberately murdered and also how the local AQ fuckers got their weapons.
“Too many deaths to just be a coincidence.”
Indeed, like I said earlier: getting up into JFK post-assassination territory now. You think peeps in the MSM don’t know this, too?
Anyone else seen “Thirteen Days?” It’s pretty accurate.
I never saw it. I still have nightmares from my son being over there for two years. I know what happened, that is good enough.
Another variant of PTSD; often those of us with it from war stuff don’t realize or recognize at first that it redounds upon family, too, often for multiple generations.
Meanwhile Field Marshal Rodham wants to light off, if not World War IV, the same old sorry series of clusterfuck brush wars around the globe to keep her bankrolling buddies in high finance and arms manufacturing nice and flush and contributing gladly to her own tens of millions, chiseled and embezzled for decades.
Liar, pervert, drunk, junkie, thief, murderer, war criminal and traitor. Your next President, ladies and germs.