Somewhere back in July I made some kind of minor misconfiguration as I hurriedly built the business machine for my company. The massive update (Kids, NEVER let your Gentoo box go 3 weeks without an update!) from two weeks ago demanded payment for my arrogance in ignoring that little misconfiguration. That box is now hosed until I have time to Do It Right ™. So now I’m on the back up machine that I built correctly.

I’m buried alive in work right now, don’t really have time to post this, but I’m pissed off. Yesterday on-board sound failure (really worried the motherboard was toast) on the back up machine had me looking at lots of sites online before I confirmed it was a hardware failure. I found the most irritating website I’ve seen in a long time. I’m not going to link it cause it’s got too much page rank already. But it is a Linux Forum ORGanization, if you get my meaning…

On there, they block part of each page with an ad. To get rid of it so you can read the forum post you would have to create an account and log in. I am loathe to create accounts online, I got millions of them that I almost never use and it’s a password headache as it is. This is not a social networking site, it’s a forum for people looking for solutions and hopefully people with informative answers. I’m looking for solutions to problems other people have already posted about and obviously I don’t have an answer. So I don’t have or want an account. And, since it’s me looking at it, if I really want to read the post I’ll view it in Lynx…

E.W.

Speaking of people with informative answers, there are some people out there, probably the ones who think these kind of places are for social networking, who post helpful answers like “Well, did you run alsaconf?” in reply to people who posted the error message they got from running alsaconf. These people also piss me off.