So there’s this new law that gives, more or less, immunity to telcos for complying with law enforcement data disclosure requests.  For example, if you get arrested for illegal pr0n, you can’t sue Comcast for giving your data to the local constabulary.  Seems logical enough, right?  To anyone with half a brain and/or some common sense, it would be.

Apparently not…the libtard (a portmanteu of liberal and retard, for those who don’t know me too well) on my team at work thinks that he should be able to sue the PD *and* the telco if he gets arrested where due process isn’t followed.  To make things worse, he would seek only punitive damages for the incident, just to screw the telco and the PD out of some money.  This astounds me…he wants to make sure that when he gets arrested, he can blame everybody but himself.  When I argue with him, he calls me a “fascist”, as if it’s a bad thing.  I’d honestly rather a liberal think me a fascist than an intelligent person think me a liberal.  Common sense is fascism to you liberals, isn’t it?

Why do liberals refuse to take personal responsibility for anything? If you’re doing something that could get you arrested, either do it anonymously, or don’t do it.  If you’re not smart enough to commit crimes and not get caught, crime just isn’t for you, bucko, the Burger King (or God forbid — a real job entailing hard work and commensurate rewards) awaits.  If you’re worried about your ISP abusing your data, *don’t* give it to them.  It’s that simple.  Don’t want your boss reading your email? Encrypt it.  Point is, take personal responsibility for yourself and the consequences of your own actions.

Fucking liberals…stop treating the government like your mommy and your meal ticket.  We can’t afford you lazy slackers anymore.  Grow the fuck up.

So I finally got around to getting Ubuntu 8.04 installed on my desktop at work…which means my Windows XP working area is being moved into a Windows 2000 SP4 VM.  At least until we stop using SourceSafe.

There were some issues with getting it up and running though, mostly hardware-related.

ATI Radeon X1550 DualHead card - This was a pain in the ass to get set up in Ubuntu…primarily because it’s a PCI card running off a PCI-E bus and has some memory ranges molestered by the BIOS on my Dell.  Basically, it still shows 2 Intel 915 cards (.0 and .1; the .1 doesn’t really exist, it’s just a memory area for a second head on the card that’s not there) and 2 ATI cards (again, .0 and .1).  Ubuntu seemed to have detected everything OK, using the fglrx driver for the Radeon cards, but the displayconfig-gtk tool is hosed beyond comprehension and couldn’t sort its ass from a hole in the ground.  Don’t use it.  Anyway, Ubuntu does something really, really, stupid here…it turns on Beryl/XGL/Compiz/whatever they call it these days and sets the default BPP in xorg.conf to 8; a resolution that is unsupported by the fglrx driver; not that you’d ever figure that out, since gdm decides to init a failsafe X config and totally clobber your X11 logs.  After manually molestering the xorg.conf and getting fglrx-control package (for my catalyst control panel) I finally got the fual monitors set up correctly.

Here’s my xorg.conf, in case anyone else is doing battle with this card:

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier    “Generic Keyboard”
Driver        “kbd”
Option        “XkbRules”    “xorg”
Option        “XkbModel”    “pc105″
Option        “XkbLayout”    “us”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier    “Configured Mouse”
Driver        “mouse”
Option        “CorePointer”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier    “ATI1″
BusID        “PCI:5:0:0″
Driver        “fglrx”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier    “ATI2″
BusID        “PCI:5:0:1″
Driver        “fglrx”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier    “Configured Monitor”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier    “LCD1″
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier    “LCD2″
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier    “Screen1″
Monitor        “LCD1″
Device        “ATI1″
DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier    “Screen2″
Monitor        “LCD2″
Device        “ATI2″
DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier    “Default Screen”
Monitor        “Configured Monitor”
Device        “Configured Video Device”
DefaultDepth    24
SubSection “Display”
Virtual        2560 1024
Depth        32
EndSubSection

EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier    “Default Layout”
Screen        “Screen1″
Screen        “Screen2″ RightOf “Screen1″
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load        “dbe”
Load        “dri”
Load        “glx”
EndSection

I finally got around to posting Project Stack up in the software section.  Go check it out!

I threw a new application together out of neccessity in a couple of hours this morning…it’s coming to the software section soon.

Project Stack is just a stack based project organizer.  Promote and demote projects as priorities change.  Double click to edit.

Pretty simple, here’s a screenshot.  Click for larger version.  I’ll add this formally to the software section later today or tomorrow.

So I was using the HTC official Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM on my Tilt…I went from a cooked Dutty’s ROM thinking it would be less buggy.

Well, it was.  The other problem was it was just too fucking slow.  I got used to the speed of cooked ROMs, so I went back.  Unable to find a newer Dutty cooked ROM that wasn’t recalled for being buggy (at least he’s upfront about it) I went with one of Laurentius26’s Kaiser/Diamond hybrid ROMs.  This thing is fast and stable so far…

I had to disable the large start menu though…irritating as hell, but you can turn it off from the Settings/TouchFLO control panel.  Now to figure out how to make my menu text smaller.  I really think Laurentius26 over at xda-devs must have bad eyesight or something.  Gyah.

On another note, this is starting to look like a good day: everything I’m working on is in subversion, so I don’t need to bend over for sourcesafe at all.  w00t.

I stumbled across this yesterday while at work.  Thought I’d share.  Funny as hell, most of them definitely NSFW.

http://funnyexamanswers.com/