Today on the A train, I was approached by a young brother attempting to sell his rap CD. "Excuse me. Do you listen to rap music?" he said in a very respectful manner. I nodded. He then went on to explain how he was selling his CD: "No bootlegs, all original tracks, laid down professionally in a studio." While impressed by his professionalism and modesty, I turned down the $5 U.S. CD. My annoyance with having my asocial commute interrupted precluded my from giving the kid a real chance. Not to mention is was the second time I had see this aspiring rapper on the subway humbly peddling his wares.
Afterwards, I realized that I should have shelled our the $5 U.S. and purchased the CD. This young man was doing something that seems to be lost in modern rap music: working the streets the hard way. I miss the days when popular rap was the voice of the people and MCs earned there "street cred" by getting play on student radio and doing shows on the rough side of town. When there distribution came from spending a day on the A train trying to get people to give their tape a listen. This young man was helping to put the grassroots back into rap.
I am not going to pretend that I do not bob my head of tap my feet to the latest one hit crunk wonder put out by an Atlanta based record label with a main line to Viacom. I do. But I miss the days when rap music was about more than champagne, automobile customizations, and mansions. I am not saying that a Negro cannot dream, but do we really need to "make it rain"? Is the value of a Colored man really determined by his "ice"?
30 January, 2008
pkgadd -d /var/tmp
Few things amuse Systems Administrators more than double entendre:
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Black Wilmar wrote:
...I thought you were going to insinuate that I used a pkg to install Samba. I laugh at your package, and substitute my own! ....
Black Wilmar
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Ranting Nerd wrote:
Don't pkgrm me, bro!
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Zetetical wrote:
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Black Wilmar wrote:
...I thought you were going to insinuate that I used a pkg to install Samba. I laugh at your package, and substitute my own! ....
Black Wilmar
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Ranting Nerd wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Zetetical wrote:
This is making me very insecure.
08 January, 2008
Setting up Java. Please wait...
I have recently been going through the exercise of installing Solaris 10 08/07 OS on an x86 system. In my line of work, it does not hurt to practice working with different operating systems on various hardware. The desire to be frustrated, bewildered, and enraged prompted me to do this on a work issued Dell Latitute D620 running Dell A08 BIOS with an Intel 945GM Graphics controller.
The most challenging part of the install for this and the previous release of Solaris 10, is figuring out the proper BIOS settings to prevent the install/OS from getting wedged on start-up. The combination for a Dell Latitute D620 running Dell A08 BIOS is to disable multi-core support, turn off speed step, and disable the PCMCIA port.
The true beauty here is that when you go back and boot to Windows XP SP2 from the GRUB menu, the laptop proceeds to run like the bits have been dipped in molasses. This begs from the BIOS to have multiple hardware profiles to choose on start up, alas the Dell Latitute D620 running Dell A08 BIOS does not contain this feature.
A little poking around on the internet and a well crafted web search yields the solution to the multi-core and speed step problem: Add "-B acpi_user_options=2 kernel/unix" to the kernel line in GRUB, /boot/grub/menu.lst. Most directly, it is a user added comment to the official Sun hardware compatibility list (HCL) for the Dell Latitute D620.
Ultimately, the point here is that I do not recommend multi-booting very different operating systems in general and on laptops in particular. I do this to occasionally practice installing, configuring, and manipulating operating systems not necessarily running operating systems for any kind of mission critical services. All in all, it makes for an interesting, quiet Saturday night alone.
The most challenging part of the install for this and the previous release of Solaris 10, is figuring out the proper BIOS settings to prevent the install/OS from getting wedged on start-up. The combination for a Dell Latitute D620 running Dell A08 BIOS is to disable multi-core support, turn off speed step, and disable the PCMCIA port.
The true beauty here is that when you go back and boot to Windows XP SP2 from the GRUB menu, the laptop proceeds to run like the bits have been dipped in molasses. This begs from the BIOS to have multiple hardware profiles to choose on start up, alas the Dell Latitute D620 running Dell A08 BIOS does not contain this feature.
A little poking around on the internet and a well crafted web search yields the solution to the multi-core and speed step problem: Add "-B acpi_user_options=2 kernel/unix" to the kernel line in GRUB, /boot/grub/menu.lst. Most directly, it is a user added comment to the official Sun hardware compatibility list (HCL) for the Dell Latitute D620.
Ultimately, the point here is that I do not recommend multi-booting very different operating systems in general and on laptops in particular. I do this to occasionally practice installing, configuring, and manipulating operating systems not necessarily running operating systems for any kind of mission critical services. All in all, it makes for an interesting, quiet Saturday night alone.
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