So, I took another walk today - this time I brought my camera.  Here are some photos of all the corporate stuff across the street from my place.

Picked up the new (as of Sept.) Paul van Dyk album, Politics of Dancing 2, the other day.  Great album, even though most of the tracks are from other artists.

It's mischief night this evening, but I don't think I'll see much toilet paper around here, considering the majority of kids in the development are either younger than four, or about my age.  Oh well, it's not like I'm missing anything.

So yeah, I'm getting quite annoyed lately with tacolinux.  The system oops'es every 6-8 days, usually due to some inability to handle a kernel paging request caused by seemingly random processes.  The first couple came from X, but then zsh started doing it ... so I'm discounting a bug in Xorg, probably foolishly.  I'd file a bug for the gentoo-sources ebuild, but I'm sure I'd get stoned for doing it becuase ...

• My kernel is tained with nVidia's modules that have a non-GPL license.
• I have a bad habit of mixing ebuilds from ~amd64 and amd64.

So, thinking it may be an nVidia bug, I've upgraded to the latest bleeding-edge version (1.0.7676-r1) of their Linux drivers.  I've also upgraded my BIOS, since I noticed the stupid thing stopped booting up 50% of the time, this weekend.  I don't think it's a memory problem, since 13 hours of Memtest86 3.2 didn't produce any errors (yes, I should leave it running for a week, just to be sure, but.. bah) or lock the system.  I'm pretty good at keeping tabs on my system temperature, so I'm pretty sure nothing's overheating.  We'll see if the BIOS and/or nVidia drivers fixed stuff, in a few days.

Speaking of Linux, I just saw the 2.6.14 announcement today.  Host AP actually made it into the Linus kernel.  Just.. wow.  It has a couple nice fixes, too:

15:11 < Unprompted> Fixed problem with amd64 machines named taco*.
15:11 < Unprompted>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
15:11 < Unprompted>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Oh, yeah.  I've added a custom start page for myself.  It's DB-driven, and maybe I'll actually make it fully-interactive and customizable, one of these days.. when laziness is defeated.

NetScreen's ScreenOS finally supports IPv6 in the mainstream release, 5.3.

einstein-> get int trust         
Interface trust:
  number 2, if_info 176, if_index 0, mode route
  link up, phy-link up/full-duplex
  ip6 is enable/operable, host mode.
  ip6 operating mtu 1500, learned mtu 0
  ip6 Interface-ID: 0210dbfffe7820c2
  ip6 fe80::210:dbff:fe78:20c2/64, link local, PREFIX
  ip6 2001:5c0:8ad6:5:210:dbff:fe78:20c2/64, global aggregatable, AUTO-CONF
  ip6 ff02::1:ff78:20c2(2), solicited-node scope
  vsys Root, zone Trust, vr trust-vr
  dhcp client disabled
  PPPoE disabled
  admin mtu 1500, operating mtu 1500, default mtu 1500
  *ip 10.3.5.2/24   mac 0010.db78.20c2
  *manage ip 10.3.5.2, mac 0010.db78.20c2
  route-deny disable
  pmtu-v4 disabled, pmtu-v6 enabled(1500), 
  ping enabled, telnet disabled, SSH enabled, SNMP enabled
  web enabled, ident-reset disabled, SSL disabled
  DNS Proxy disabled, webauth disabled, webauth-ip 0.0.0.0
  OSPF enabled  BGP disabled  RIP disabled  RIPng disabled  mtrace disabled
  PIM: not configured  IGMP not configured
  bandwidth: physical 100000kbps, configured egress [gbw 0kbps mbw 0kbps]
             configured ingress mbw 0kbps, current bw 0kbps
              total allocated gbw 0kbps
  DHCP-Relay disabled
  DHCP-server disabled
Number of SW session: 2060, hw sess err cnt 0
einstein-> ping ws.arin.net
Type escape sequence to abort

Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to ws.arin.net [2001:408:3000:1::80], timeout is 1 seconds 
!!!!!
Success Rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip time min/avg/max=199/202/206 ms

Seems to support DHCPv6, too.  Sexy.

So, I tried out Quake 4 (warning, flash) today.  Some of the multiplayer maps should look familiar ...

Pretty fun.  Look for a server running on nonce, soon.

Quake3 over IPv6!  Score!

Fixed the date stuff from yesterday's mess.  Also updated my RSS feed to 2.0.

I moved all of prolixium.com, prolixium.net, and antiderivative.net over to dax.  Lots of stuff broke, like the timestamp for this news entry.  I'll fix that later.  Now, www.prolixium.com and prolixium.com should work correctly w/SSL ... goodnight.

... the DMV.

I have every official, original, unaltered, unlaminated documented with me, yet they can't find one that actually spells out my middle initial.  Now to try and find (or get a copy, if they'll accept that) my birth certificate.  This should be fun.

Or, I could ...

17:21 < dilinger> prox: you should file for a name change
17:21 < dilinger> get it changed officially to prox