I miss the good ol’ days!

Anyone else remember the days of the BBS?  You know, that pre-internet message board where you connected at 56k or less, probably knew most of the people who posted there (because it was most likely hosted in your town and was a local call,) and would occasionally meet, in person even, and hang out (Ah, Darknet / Ghotinet…  I remember you well!) 

Does anyone also remember the “understood ettiquette” that went along with being on a BBS?  Stuff such as:

1.) Staying on topic in a message thread.

2.) No flame wars (unless the message thread/area was intended for that.)

3.) Using (mostly) correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

4.) Making appropriate replies to messages.

:::sigh:::  Seems as if most of the above has been lost regarding modern message forums.  Sure, there were always people who thought they were better than others, and there were people who were just plain a-holes, but by and large, it was a much more civilized messaging experience. 

When I read through message forums now (specifically majornelson.com, 1up.com, joystiq.com) I’m reminded of just how terrified I am of living in my old age when these people are running the country.  :::shudder:::

My latest obsession: Geocaching

I’ve been out geocaching lately… basically, a high tech cross between a scavenger hunt, hide-n-seek, and hunting for pirates’ treasure. Using a GPS, you track a set of coordinates and find the “cache,” some type of container that may contain anything from trinkets to a sign-in log only. Lots of fun, and another excuse to get outdoors.

Check out the geocaching website HERE.

Vista – I’m so glad the bitch is gone…

Well, was finally able to get Vista fully removed from my machine.

Decided to install Kubuntu 6.0.6. Amazingly, it didn’t fry the MBR during installation, but something else odd happened (Although, I now know why.)  For this particular attempt, I decided to install Linux over the top of the Vista install. After installing Kubuntu and rebooting, I was presented with the Linux bootloader (don’t recall whether it was LILO or GRUB, but it doesn’t matter.) So, I boot into Linux to make sure everything is working correctly.  After getting the networking set up, I reboot to check that XP works.

Thank you, Norton Ghost!

For some strange reason, I decided to do a Norton Ghost “backup” of my active system drive this morning.  Don’t ask me why, I just got a wild hair, I guess.

 So, then I have the whole “Linux debacle.”  Unable to boot into Windows after Linux screwed the MBR (see previous post below.)

Here’s what I tried:

Linux is pissing me off…

Well, attempted to reinstall Linux today, and guess what?  It fucked my MBR again(!) so now WinXP won’t boot anymore.  :::sigh::: And Linux supporters wonder why the masses won’t use it?  Could it be because of occurances like this?

Actually, it’s probably not Linux’s fault in this case.  It was working once before, but now, it refuses to correctly write the MBR.  If anyone has suggestions (real, legitimate suggestions, not smartassed comments,) please comment.

XBox 360… 361… whatever it takes.

Jeez, everyone’s blogging these days…  even my XBox 360!