Wambach gives U.S. Women’s Soccer veterans golden parting gift in extra time

SI.com – Wambach gives U.S. veterans golden parting gift in extra time

Golden girls!
Wambach score in extra time nets U.S. women’s soccer team gold

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Mia Hamm and the rest of the Fab Five of women’s soccer from the United States had just enough left in their thirtysomething legs for one more title, beating Brazil 2-1 Thursday in extra time to win the Olympic gold medal in their final tournament together.

Drew and I watched the entire game and both overtimes- I literally thought I would have a heart attack, it was a freaking great game!

Voltaire – The Quotations Page

Quote Details: Voltaire: The art of medicine… – The Quotations Page

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
-Voltaire

ussoccer.com – U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Advances to Gold Medal Match

ussoccer.com – News – U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Advances to Gold Medal Match

HERAKLIO, Greece (August 23, 2004) The U.S. Women’s National Team put in a gutsy and at times dominating performance to defeat 2003 Women’s World Cup champion Germany, winning 2-1 behind a dramatic overtime goal from 19-year-old forward Heather O’Reilly in the 99th minute after she had hit the post just five minutes earlier.

The win put the USA into the gold medal match against Brazil in Athens on Thursday, Aug. 26.

Drew and I watched the game- including both overtimes, and boy was it a good one! It brought back memories of the good ol’ days of Cy Creek High School Soccer.

I will be glued to the TV on the 26th as the Women go for the Gold in Athens :)

Closer Movie Trailer

Closer Movie Trailer (Julia Roberts, Jude Law) Empire Movies

Director Mike Nichols brings Patrick Marber’s highly acclaimed theatrical tour de force Closer to the screen, an erotically charged tale of love, loneliness and betrayal featuring an all star cast headed by OscarÆ-winner Julia Roberts, Jude Law (Cold Mountain), Natalie Portman (Star Wars) and Clive Owen (Gosford Park).

Cast:
Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen

This movie/trailer intrigues me… definitely on my list of movies to see. Plus it has the song “Caramel” by Suzanne Vega in the trailer… great song :-D

Lord of the Rings – Secret Diaries

~*~ Lord of the Rings: Secret Diaries ~*~

These should be read in order, starting with Aragorn, then Legolas, Boromir, Frodo….you get the idea. Continuity is a good thing.

Good for some hearty laughs :-)

More Gmail Invites

All of a sudden I’ve got 4 Gmail invites to give away, so if you need one then leave me a comment here with your current email address and I will send you one.

Wednesday (25th) Update: 1 invite left!

Another Wednesday (25th) Update: 0 invites left! Sorry ’bout your luck

Update: August 31st 6 more invites to give away, let me know if you need one ;)

Debian apt-get Broken Pipe and Overwrite Error

MepisBelle (Michael Dill) has a quick fix for those times when apt gives you an error similar to this:

Unpacking libxt6 (from …/libxt6_4.3.0-7_i386.deb) …
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxt6_4.3.0-7_i386.deb (–unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0′, which is also in package xlibs
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

First, issue the following command (Note: that is 2 ‘-’ before force- WordPress is combining them as one line):

dpkg –force overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/packagename-x.x.deb

Then follow up with this cleanup command (Note: that is 2 ‘-’ before configure- WordPress is combining them as one line):

dpkg –configure -a

This will force the install and then cleanup afterward.

Thanks Michael!

Debian – Running Local Applications at Bootup

Another great guide from MepisBelle (Michael Dill) from #LinuxTalk:

DEBIAN – RUNNING LOCAL APPLICATIONS AT BOOTUP

1. Create a file in/etc/init.d called ‘local’
Note: this is not to start applications like a terminal, gaim, Mozilla, etc. at startup. This is used for things like modprobe, /etc/init.d/networking restart, etc.

2. The file will be a script – put in all commands you need to run locally.

3. Then make it executable:

chmod +x local

4. Then type the following:

update-rc.d local defaults 80

5. And that’s it – reboot.

6. So now that local file is like an rc.local file in RedHat

Quick Debian Kernel Compile

Normally in Debian when I want a new kernel I just ‘apt-get install kernel-image-2.X.X’ and the sources or headers if I need them. MepisBelle (aka Michael Dill) from our IRC channel #Linuxtalk on irc.freenode.net has a quick and easy guide for compiling your own kernel.

How to compile and install 2.6.x kernel
(…if you are already running on a 2.6.x kernel)

1. Make sure you have binutils, coreutils, libncurses5, libncurses5-dev, fakeroot and module-init-tools packages installed. You can find out by doing:

apt-get install binutils coreutils libncurses5 libncurses5-dev fakeroot module-init-tools

If they come up already installed or if any are missing you will be able to install them automatically this way

2. Download the kernel source:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.x.tar.bz2 (replace ‘x’ with the version of the kernel you are trying to get- i.e. linux-2.6.8 linux-2.6.2 etc.)

3. Extract to /usr/src

4. Remove the sym-link ‘linux’ pointing to your old kernel directory and create a new one as follows:

cd /usr/src
rm linux
ln -s linux-2.6.x linux

5. Now create the .config file for your new kernel:

cd /usr/src/linux
make oldconfig

Choose ALL the defaults when asked about new kernel options!!

6. Create your new kernel image:

make-kpkg buildpackage -rev Custom.1 kernel_image

(You must be root here or use the fakeroot command with the above)

7. When build is complete – install it:

cd /usr/src
dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.x_Custom.1_i386.deb

8. Edit grub:

cd /boot/grub
kwrite menu.lst

Copy the whole paragraph that has your other 2.6x kernel boot info. Paste it in UNDER the previous kernel line, then change the version numbers in the NEW entry:

ex: change 2.6.5 to 2.6.7 – etc.

WARNING: Do not remove the old kernel entry until the new kernel is tested. This your fall-back bootable kernel!!

Save the file

9. Reboot and select the new kernel at bootup.

If you have any questions or problems, join us on IRC and ask MepisBelle, he will be happy to help out :)

More FFXI Screenshots

Well I gave up playing Final Fantasy XI Online several weeks ago- I was so addicted to the game it was insane. Anyway, I’ve added the remainder of my screenshots that were in my account storage to the gallery, so you can check those out if you’re interested.

Though I don’t play anymore, the game is awesome and I would definitely recommend it.
Drew still plays all the time- I think he’s got his Monk up to level 71 now (Level 75 is the highest you can go). It’s fun to watch him play and beat the crap out of things! When I quit the game, I sold the majority of my items and gave Drew all of my money so he has had the top of the line gear for a while now. Sometimes I pop on and fish for a while – a stack (12) moat carp sells for 4000 gil, so it’s easy money if you’re bored!

If you do play and are looking for some help I recommend these sites:
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/
http://ffxi.killvoid.com/

Anyway, time to upload to the gallery :)