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Could i ask for:

A notice to be sent to the 'owner of the post': if someone writes in their journal and someone else posts a response, could the owner of the journal get a notice of a post in the journal to their 'new messages' 'inbox' if this makes any sense at all.

If it doesn't make any sense at all, blame it on Captain Morgan, Black spiced rum... gluten free and YUMMMMMMMMYYYYY!!FORMYTUMMYYYYYYY!!!1

STRIKE THAT! SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING NOW! Thanks.

***Now can i have my [strike][/strike] usage back?????? :)

Supermoon, ooh, you are SO big! In action as we type: half way. Teh sky cleared just in time and the eclipse is in motion. The moon is sooooo bright right now!

Oh man... didn't know so much time had passed... more like 90% there.

No one else on my block seems to care (or know?). I should go around banging a pot... or a bong???

Well, it's been over a year now since my wife and I decided to open our marriage, so I think it's time for a quick update.

Things between my wife and I are better than ever. Dating other people has just made me realize what I love so much about my wife. We are good. We are still trying to make a baby. No successes there, yet.

My wife has been wearing braces for the last year to fix her teeth. Her teeth weren't too bad to begin with, but they were crowded and causing gum problems, so we needed to get that fixed. My wife hasn't been as active in trying to find new partners, and I think that a big reason for that was that her braces made her feel self conscious. Now that they are coming off (and I'm really excited to see how beautiful she looks now!) I'm hoping that she will actively start looking for dates.

I think that if/when my wife starts dating it will be a little tough for me to see all the attention that she will get, while for me, it feels like a struggle to get even a reply on a dating site. I'm sure she will be flooded with messages, and it will be a little disparaging to see exactly what my competition is. Up until this point, I've been able to live in an ignorant bliss. I have a feeling that seeing exactly how much attention women get will be a little disheartening.

That being said, I really am excited by the thought of my wife going on a date. I've really enjoyed myself on dates, even when things don't work out, so I'm excited for her to have that chance too. I'm excited that once she is in the scene, we can start going to events together, and really start growing our poly social circle, and that might help me get dates. We'll see...

As for poly itself, after doing it for a year, it no longer seems so taboo or strange. It seems really... normal. I find it hard to keep it a secret from co workers. I've almost let it slip on numerous occasions. A lot of plot lines in stories don't make sense... "Why do you have to choose which one you love! You obviously love them both!" The knowledge of being able to have loves enter and leave your life is really a freeing feeling, and after a year, I really don't think I could go back to a normal monogamous relationship.

I like stats, and after year, it seems like a good time to post some, so here we go:
# of dates: 10
# of women: 4
# kissed: 3
Most # of dates with one woman: 4
# of titties suckled: 2
# I had sex with: 0
$ spent on dates: $400-$500 (total, that's a best guess)
# of times the woman picked up the tab: 2 (same girl, but on different occasions)
# of bouquets of flowers bought for wife because I felt guilty: 2
# of women that I actually felt an actual connection with: 1

I had realized pretty early on that finding the right person might take some time... Maybe years. It's really looking like that might be the case. In the mean time, I'm enjoying the journey, even if it is a little slower than I had originally hoped.

--Snow

Guake, in combination with i3wm, is great: hit alt+enter to open a terminal, type 'guake &', then hit F12 to open and close guake. You can then 'exit' the terminal you first opened to leave your screen empty and ready to use.

F12, palemoon &, F12
F12, cvlc [movie you want to play] &, F12

Very nice!

So, it's been about nine months of Experiment and here's a metric I randomly checked today for you:

First Time Mod Bans Given Out: 13
Second Time Mod Bans Given Out: 0

That's less than two a month with a registered user base of 5875 (~90% of you are apparently committed to remain AC last I checked). This means, by in large, nobody is abusing the Spam moderation or mod-bombing. Cheers for that, folks. None of us on staff like to hand them out, even when they're unquestionably warranted.

Two weeks ago, on 02015/08/30, a desktop that I had been relying upon for the past 6 years, died very suddenly. No gradual instability, just suddenly dying out of nowhere.

Since all usb ports were dead, I optimistically expected that it was a PSU problem. If the 5v rail were missing, the usb ports would probably all die, too.

Connecting a voltmeter to a spare molex connector, saw that both the +5v and +12v pins were good. So it's not a PSU problem.

Life's not fair. 6 years is too young for a desktop to die. I'm used to laptops being fragile and breaking occassionally. But desktops are supposed to be immortal.

After a week or so of feeling totally fucked, began pricing out a few options; and the cheapest was . . . buy a completely identical computer, swap all the drives, and it should work ?

I didn't expect this to be possible. I bought it used 6 years ago, so at least 7 years old overall. No consumer electronics aside from 555 timer chips have a production life that long. No such completely identical computer would exist.

But, inbetween 5 or 6 pages saying "out of stock" / "discontinued", there were still exactly 4 copies left. One seller on ebay, had 4 of them. Only 85 dollars (140 incl. shipping . . . it's a desktop)

It arrived surprisingly quickly (only 2 or 3 days), and after 2 hours running memtest86, 1.5 hours swapping all the drives, 2 more hours running memtest86, 0.75 hours listening to angry beeps of "error: hardware changed", boot device order being screwed up and rebooting constantly . . . everything works perfectly. Not even a single pixel out of place. Unbelievable.

So, I was drinking coffee this morning and watching my twitter stream and somehow the thread count of sheets came up. Being as I didn't feel like fitting my feelings on the matter into 140 characters, it goes here.

High thread count sheets can suck it. I'd happily pay inverted prices to have to never sleep on them again. It is my firm belief that sheets should not feel like you're lying between two ultra-thin layers of cloud. They damned sure shouldn't end up wadding themselves into a ball just from one night's worth of sleeping between them.

Sheets should feel like you're sandwiched between two new dollar bills. Slightly rough and starched as stiff as you can manage. You should damned near be able to make a drum head out of them. As soon as they start feeling soft and showing signs of wadding up, they should be laundered and starched to within an inch of their lives again.

It took a while to get there, life gets in the way, but today I finally made it to 1000 stories edited/posted. This excludes all the stories as second editor, and the dozens of submissions i've made over the last year or so.

So please feel free to shower me with adulation for all the hard work!

So I just got this message from Aaron Hoag at the DOJ.

It looks like we're fucked.

My original letter to the FTC, which was then forwarded to the DOJ, is here.

Mr. Hopson,

Thank you for your e-mail regarding changes to Microsoft's Secure Boot policies in Windows 10, which was forwarded to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice by the FTC given our history with our cases against Microsoft.

I spent many years working on enforcement of the Division's judgment against Microsoft. As a result, this is an issue that I personally have followed since it initially arose, as you note, in Windows 8. While I appreciate your concerns and those raised by the open source community at large, from an antitrust point of view it is difficult to build a viable case in light of, amongst other factors, Microsoft's willingness to work with the largest Linux vendors to ensure their operating systems will be able to load when Secure Boot is enabled. Without disputing or diminishing the fact that in your own case this solution has not been sufficient to allow you to install your preferred variety of Linux, I can only note that to build an antitrust case, we would be required to show a market-wide effect, which would be exceptionally difficult given the ease with which a user can install Fedora or Ubuntu, to take two of the largest Linux flavors, on a machine even where the OEM has chosen to prevent users from disabling Secure Boot.

We will of course continue to watch this market and will take appropriate action if Microsoft engages in anticompetitive behavior in violation of the antitrust laws.

Thank you again for taking the time to ensure that we were aware of this issue, and do not hesitate to contact us again should future events warrant it.

Yours truly,
Aaron Hoag

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Aaron Hoag
Assistant Chief
Networks & Technology Enforcement Section
U.S. Dept. of Justice, Antitrust Division
450 5th St, NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20530
Phone: (202) 307-6153
E-mail: aaron.hoag@usdoj.gov

If you have something to say to him, be civil, rational, and kind. No good will come to our cause by being a dick.

So I converted my /home to btrfs, because I'm quite tight on space and thought the compression would be a benefit.

I had to compile btrfs-progs myself, which also included compiling libext2fs from e2fsprogs. Once I started the conversion, it took 3 hours to convert.

It was successful. I rebooted, logged in, and all my data was intact. The transparent compression I had asked for in my fstab was working.
There was a noticable performance penalty, but that's to be expected with compression.

I use compressed btrfs on my portable SubLinux thumbdrive I keep on my keychain. I've had no problems there,
However, once I started copying data to and from the newly converted filesystem in any size, I noticed a padlock had appeared on everything in Thunar file manager. I suspected a problem, so I went to dmesg. There was a backtrace from btrfs. The kernel's driver had crashed, and it had remounted my new filesystem read-only.

I panicked, fearing the worst. I quickly went to a tty, killed Xorg, unmounted /home, and ran btrfs-convert -r on the partition to undo the conversion.

Thankfully, the un-conversion was successful. I remounted /home and restarted my login manager, logged in, and everything was normal again, running from ext4. No data loss I can see. I ran md5sum on files I suspected might be damaged, they match. No harm done it appears.

Lesson for today: While the filesystem's disk format is indeed stable, the drivers and utilities for managing the filesystem are NOT. Use btrfs at your own peril.

I still like ext4. It's so hard to kill an ext4 filesystem.