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Starting my day with my normal dose of slash, I found this article calling for the end of the Linux Standard Base. Basically, I’d have to agree with the article it linked to, posted on Ulrich Drepper’s LJ. From what I’ve seen, the LSB is based around stupid standards and testing software that blatantly sucks, and it seems that anyone that passes it is using software that they’ve had to modify to run on a) slower uniprocessor machines b) a distribution that isn’t binary compatible to the shipped verision.

Ok, so I’ve just finished watching Final Fantasy advent children. First thing – I think it has the thinnest plot in a movie that I’ve seen in a long time. Wow, bad guy gets something he wants, bad stuff happens, then the good guy beats him up and everything goes well! I’m glad this wasn’t actually publicised too much in the media, since it wasn’t much more than a lame fan service. With no development of characters and no explanation of what was going on other than “well, there was this company, and they did some bad stuff, but nature got them back, and screwed over humanity.” After that, if you hadn’t played the game all the way through and knew what had gone on, you were lost. I was, and I had sat through my friends playing it a few times. As far as I can tell, it’s basically an hour and a half of cut scenes taken from what could have been Final Fantasy 7.2, since it was basically x years after FF7, and a bunch of stuff happened! The best part was the fight between Cloud (the good guy) and Sephiroth (guess what, the bad guy!), with the cool-ass 80′s rock backing track, lots of destruction and stuff blowing up. The modelling was great, the voices I couldn’t tell, since they weren’t in English (I’m sure it would have ruined it had they been in english)

Overall, it wasn’t bad if you knew the Final Fantasy 7 world, and there were some hot 3D modelled Asian chicks and a funky rendered world. Well worth watching if you’ve seen all your other anime and gotten really bored one night.

I setup a Gnome desktop machine based on Gentoo on my dad’s spare laptop a couple of months back, to see if the centrino-based pile o’ junk would work properly, and it did. (for the most part) One of the things that was included in the Gnome install was Vino, a program that helps with setting up remote desktop sharing of the desktop in use. I never knew what the program’s name was, and I couldn’t work out how to get it working on my two-year-old install of Gentoo, and I didn’t want to go to all the effort of reinstalling Gnome just to hope that the program would be installed at the same time. I was cruising newsforge as I do when I’m at work, and I found out what it’s called! Hooray!

Well, I don’t know what the point of this post is, but it’s probably good to remind myself of what the program’s called, so I can install it when I get home so I can use my desktop machine’s stuff from my laptop when I’m lying in bed being lazy

This article (news.com.au) is a good example of how not to do NO2 (nos, bulbs, nangs, name it what you will, it’s Nitrous Oxide) Seems the kids had a one meter long bottle of it in the boot of their excel (maybe it’s a good reason why not to drive such a pussbox) and it seems that all but one of the four people in the car died. The police say they don’t know if it leaked or if it was them that opened the valve, but geez – you seriously know about it if you’re affected by the gas – they should have known better and stopped. STUPID PEOPLE DIE!

Uh, this is from ages ago – when I punched my windscreen because I’m a silly silly man. Just testing the whole file upload thing here on wordpress – it’s not bad. Pity once it’s uploaded, there isn’t a list of files or something to go “click here and insert the picture into your post”. Maybe I’ll have to make one.