spoonfork

dear geeks, a triple threat question:

• how do i list all the files that will be installed/required when installing a package in freebsd? in gentoo linux, i can do it by emerge -pv package_name.


• how do i install and download dependencies at the same time? for example, gaim requires several dependencies, and i want to save downloading/installing files by having them done in parallel (i.e. one process is doing the downloading, and another, the compiling)


• does anyone have any experience installing freebsd on a dell 700m notebook?

your freebsd n00bie, spoonfork

update: the answer to question 1 is make fetch-list or make pretty-print-run-depends-list. thanks rosli.

update: forget about those questions. i am done with freebsd, and will NEVER EVER again install it on desktops/notebooks. for an OS that claims to be bloody damn advanced, please explain why fluxbox crashes everytime i switch styles. heck, try explain why the kernel hanged when i unmount a vfat volume this evening. and explain the random kernel debug messages that appear on the console when i install a package. oh, don't bother because i don't want to know.

listening to: lyrics born - send them (instrumental)

the weekend:

• the linux partition on my notebook was replaced with freebsd 6.0, and macos x. i'm triple booting now: windows xp, freebsd and macos x. macos x runs fine, about 10% faster than windows. i'm utterly miffed with freebsd. fluxbox core dumped whenever i changed styles. this has never happened before in gentoo linux. i am guessing it may have something to do with xorg and the intel driver (i855), but i'm miffed nevertheless.


• apparently, there is an item of clothing for the nipples: nipple tassles. and that they are worn by sticking them to the nipples using natural latex body adhesive.


• i bought five DVDs, but never watched them. and i'm still halfway through o brother where art thou?


• i realized that i have an oxymoronic way of answering binary questions: yes, i never will; yes, it doesn't; no, you can. i guess that explains why people get exasperated when chatting with me.


• alphademon went to paris, and all i got was this gay blog post.


• casualties of life is a month old. go read it.
  

listening to: quannum mcs - blue flame

old news, but the price of taugeh increases by 10 sen, yo!

The humble taugeh (bean sprouts), a popular and cheap vegetable, has not been spared the effects of spiralling prices. Widely used in hawker food and as a side dish served with salted fish, taugeh will cost 10 sen more here from Saturday. A spokesman for the state's 10 taugeh producers, Vinny Tan, said bean sprouts now cost 70 sen a kati (about 600gm) and the price would rise to 80 sen.

She said this was due to the increased cost of their most important raw material, the imported mung bean. Its price had gone up by 80% in October.

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shout:

• december 13, 2005 is dean gray tuesday. read all about dean gray at downhillbattle. mp3s downloads can be found on the main page of downhillbattle.org.


• jim geovedi (fellow computer hacker/geek from indonesia) has produced some self-made digital "noises", under the guise of hyponemesis. you can download his stuff here. they're good; raw digital sound.


• fyodor, another fellow hacker/geek who resides in taiwan also occasionally releases some digital "noise". you can download his stuff from the links in his blog, and visit his music blog here.


• i was asked the difference between noise and noise. it was a tough question, because what is apparently not noise to one may sound like noise to another, and vice versa (i can't find a good example now). i found this link from fyodor's blog that might provide (if not, guide) answers to the question.


• christmas is around the corner. remember this: cds from major record labels make crappy presents. instead, make mix cds (or tapes) for your friends.


• digital music library categorization. i could not agree more. the way we listen to music sucks. we rely too much on mp3 tags (id3). seems like moodlogic is the answer i've been looking for.

outs.

listening to: mogwai - stop coming to my house

[ this is a fan boy review ]

at last, the movie that goes back to its basics: the great hong kong movies of the 80s: sha po lang. this movie has it all: no-nonsense plot, great action and kungfu, badass characters, badass cops, badass triad boss, ample violence, and my favorite instrument of torture and death: the japanese tanto.

heck, it even has a badass character who, apparently, has the same fashion sense as alexander 'alex' de large in the clocwork orange.

there's the badass sammo hung , who plays a baddass triad boss. i am getting tired of the characters created by the infernal affairs trilogy, and sammo hung's wang po screams i'm a badass all the way through.

there's simon yam, who, as a cop, is even a badder ass and has got more bad ass attitude than bruce willis in that airplane hostage movie, or samuel l jackson in shaft.

and there's wu jing, a wushu champion, who uses the tanto to perfection, which makes him an icy-cool-ultra-violent bad ass gangsta.

and then there's donnie yip who will surely win more female fans this time around than daniel wu. he's so bad ass: the best fighting scene was the baton vs tanto in the alleyway. the moves are very natural, instead of choreographed. in the scene, both fighters continuosly studies each other's movements, and adapt their fighting strategies after studying the opponent. simply superb.

the end fighting scene, while a little bit over the top, contains some awesome grappling moves by both sammo hung and donnie yip.

the rest don't matter: what i mean by the rest is the other characters: the wives, the child, the beach and the sea, the regret, the wrongs and the rights. this is the baddest ass movie hong kong has offered me this year. go watch it. (spoiler: there are no hot chinese chicks in this movie).

damn, i feel so bad ass now.

listening to: the sabres of paradise - smokebelch ii (beatles mix)