note to self

stop using "frink" as a random filename that I then have to go investigate to see what's in there.

you made the mess, you clean it up

Haw haw haw. Looks like it's going to cost a lot to "free" Iraq. So having pissed off the entire international community by disregarding their wishes, America now wants to get the same people to pay for the mess:

"Now where [does] the other half come from? That requires our going to the international community in a big way."

public service announcement

Since it appears that nobody bothered reading Red Hat's release notes for Red Hat 9, let me quote the following:

The following packages have been removed from Red Hat Linux 9:
- WindowMaker - Developer resource constraints
- Xft - Integrated into XFree86
- Xtest - No longer required by Anaconda
- anonftp - functionality pulled into vsftpd package
- bdflush - No longer required (needed by 2.2 kernels only)
- fileutils - Replaced by coreutils
- fortune-mod - Unclear copyright status
- gkermit - Replaced by ckermit
- ipvsadm - No longer part of Red Hat Linux product profile
- kbdconfig - Replaced by redhat-config-keyboard
- kernel-uml - Experimental package, removed
- ksymoops - No longer required by kernel
- libelf - Replaced by elfutils
- librpm404 - No longer required compatibility library
- libxml10 - No longer required compatibility library
- mouseconfig - Replaced by redhat-config-mouse
- openldap12 - No longer required compatibility library
- openssl095a - No longer required compatibility library
- orbit-python - Replaced by pyorbit
- php-dbg-base - Not used within distribution
- php-dbg-client - Not used within distribution
- php-dbg-server - Not used within distribution
- redhat-switchmail - Renamed to redhat-switch-mail
- rhmask - Red Hat no longer distributes rhmask files
- rpm2html - Deprecated by author
- sh-utils - Replaced by coreutils
- stat - Replaced by coreutils
- textutils - Replaced by coreutils
- timeconfig - Replaced by redhat-config-date
- whois - Replaced by jwhois
- wine - Developer resource constraints
- wmapm - Part of Windowmaker removal
- wmclock - Part of Windowmaker removal
- wmix - Part of Windowmaker removal
- wu-ftpd - vsftpd is the recommended FTP daemon
- xtoolwait - Not used within distribution

This has been a public service announcement on behalf of IRRADIATED WAIDERS INC. Thank you for your attention.

breakdown

I was talking to Bob about my penchant/ability/annoyance of listening to multiple audio sources at once, and "tuning in" one or another at any given time. Specifically, I was suggesting that this is a flipside of my ability to follow a particular part of a musical piece, such as the bassline or the drumming or whatever, to the exclusion of the rest of the piece. Now, I'm not claiming some sort of rare or mystical ability here, but it doesn't seem to be a thing at least some of my friends can do, hence my remarking on it. Anyway, I'm brought to consider it again just now as I'm listening to the current jukebox track and thinking, "man, that is a lovely bassline". Think I'll be hitting "repeat" on this one.

no really, it's working

bwahahaha. Tax cuts have worked, says Bush.

I guess it depends on how you define "worked".