How to be an artist
June 22, 2016
Stay loose. Learn to watch snails. Plant impossible gardens. Invite someone dangerous to tea. Make little signs that say YES! and post them all over your house. Make friends with freedom and uncertainty. Look forward to dreams. Cry during movies. Swing as high as you can on a swingset, by moonlight. Cultivate moods. Refuse to […]
Linux RAID1 repair
June 22, 2016
See below for detailed command output. So there are two RAID1 (= hard disk mirror) volumes (=’drive letters’) in use by Koozali. The first one is called /dev/md1 and is 106MB in size. The second one is called /dev/md2 and is 79GB in size. The new hard disk showed up as /dev/sdb. It was not […]
Motorcycle Emptyness
June 22, 2016
Culture sucks down words Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles Organise your safe tribal war Hurt maim kill and enslave the ghetto Each day living out a lie Life sold cheaply forever, ever, ever Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness Life lies a slow suicide Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths From […]
Server time (Macromedia Flash clock)
June 22, 2016
Create a clock in Macromedia Flash containing an hourHand, minuteHand and secondHand. Then, add the following actionscript: Load = function() { now_init = new Date(); daysummertime = (31 – 5*now_init.getFullYear/4 – now_init.getFullYear/100 -now_init.getFullYear/400 +5) % 7; daywintertime = (31 – 5*now_init.getFullYear/4 – now_init.getFullYear/100 -now_init.getFullYear/400 +2) % 7; dateSummerTime = new Date(now_init.getFullYear, 3, daysummertime); dateWinterTime = […]
Woken Furies
June 22, 2016
“Two centuries.” “What?” “As I said. You have been in storage for a little under two hundred years. In real terms—” Envoy cool goes out the window, rapidly. “What the fuck happened to—” “Please, Kovacs-san. Hear me out.” A sharp note of command. And then, as the conditioning shuts me down again, pared back to […]
Broken Angels
June 22, 2016
Final Selection In recall, their faces come back to me. Not the faces of the beautiful rad-resistant Maori combat sleeves they wore up to Dangrek and the smoking ruins of Sauberville. Instead, I see the faces they owned before they died. The faces Semetaire claimed and sold back into the chaos of the war. The […]
Altered Carbon
June 22, 2016
The Smith & Wesson was at eye level, gleaming silver, still where I had left it less than two minutes before. Perhaps it was that, the scant shavings of time that had been planed off since Sarah was alive and all was well, that drove me. Less than two minutes ago I could have picked […]
Bolo Brigade
June 21, 2016
LOAD SLFDIAG/LEVEL 4 ELAPSTIME: .23 SEC RUN SLFDIAG LEVEL 4 POWER SYS: 21.05% DRVTRAIN: OP, REDUCED CAPABILITY: 42% NAV: ONLINE TRACK/SENS: 12% SUSPENSION: FNCTNL AT 52% TAC/COMM: ONLINE/JAMMED SYSOP: LOGIC ARRAY INTEGRATION AT 87% MAGSCRN: ONLINE, REDUCED CAPABILITY: 53% WEAPSYS: ONLINE INFRPTR 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 DSTRYD INFRPTR 10, 15, 18 DMGD, 40% END […]