Wake for a Netgear FA311 card

The first ethernet card I ever used bit the dust yesterday. I'd been noticing ridiculously slow downloads, and then at one point yesterday when I had to momentarily swap out a hard drive to get some file transfers done, Windoze suddenly recognized the card, had the card installed, but wasn't actually doing anything with it. No 'net for me.

If you know me at all, you know this was Unacceptable.

So I tried to reinstall. Now it wouldn't even install.

Wait a minute. The machine won't boot into Windows. At all. Not even Safe Mode. I can't even get to the screen that lets me choose Safe Mode.

So I do the old bit where you uninstall yon card, boot up the machine without it, then power down and reboot with the card in to.. damn. Won't boot. Again.

Try a different slot. No. Damn. Same thing.

I try this a couple more times before thicker than two short planks me realizes the machine boots just fine when the card isn't in it. At that point, the logical conclusion finally smacks me upside the head and I go fetch a backup card I'd bought a few months ago for just such an emergency and hey presto.

So.

This Friday, ladies, gentlemen, and bunyip too, I shall be running a show filled top to toe with low down dirty blues (a bunch of it dating back to the field recordings days from the 20s and earlier), Zappa, Subgenius, drunken debauchery, and maybe even The Rocky Horror Audio Show.

After all, kiddies, according to the Chinese Zodiac this *is* the year of the cock.

Well, well, motherf*cking well..

White House says Iraq weapons search is over

"The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has quietly concluded without any evidence of the banned weapons that President Bush cited as justification for going to war, the White House said Wednesday

The Iraq Survey Group, made up of some 1,200 military and intelligence specialists and support staff, spent nearly two years searching military installations, factories and laboratories whose equipment and products might be converted quickly to making weapons.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan said there no longer is an active search for weapons. "There may be a couple, a few people, that are focused on that" but that it has largely concluded, he said."

In short, they got fed a line by the Mesopotamian version of P.T. Barnum and we went to war for bupkes.

You, Mr. Resident Of The White House, are a goddamn liar and the next four years are going to be your personal purgatory. I, for one, can't wait to watch it all unfold.

You bastard.

scottbateman's take on the search for WMD coming to an official

( Quite. )

I'll be doing a Dennis Miller style rant at some point over the next couple days about good ol' George The Chimp.

That Miller style rant I promised

( I don't want to get off on a rant here.. )