March 19, 2003
broken quake damn kernel
so i had just fixed quake/nvidia drivers when the redhat network informed me that i needed to upgrade my kernel(and i really did need to, as it was a pretty big hole that would have let anyone sitting at my machine(i have my eye on you roommates) get complete control). well i did, and in the process broke my nvidia kernel specific drivers. i also broke my ntfs drivers and had to download the new version. so i don't have quake working at all, let alone locking up at the start of level 1. what this means is that for now i will have to boot into win2000 to play quake/urbanterror. oh well.
on to politics.
i just want to get one thing clear, this war is stupid. it will result in a large loss of iraqi lives, and probably not a small loss of us lives. anyone who thinks this will be a clean neat war is crazy. and after the war is over we will be in iraq for at least a decade doing nation building, or at least we had better be if we don't want iraq to become the biggest breeding ground for terrorism ever. we will be encouraging terrorism by starting this war, especially since we has so little backing by the rest of the world, which will give a sense of justification to the terrorists. it's much easier to convince someone to die fighting a country that most of the world is opposing than it is when the country has international support. bush likes to think he's a cowboy, so democrates show some backbone and run him out of town.
Posted by dshepard at March 19, 2003 11:00 AM
