61,690 descendants - you're more genetically fit than 38% of the current population -

61,690. Not bad. You're no Mongol warlord, but to have that many copies of your genetic code running around 800 years from now is pretty impressive. You're at the lower end of the scoring spectrum, but, honestly, when you consider that the cheaters, swindlers, and football players of this world are statistically best-equipped to create children, scoring low is something to be proud of. As you'll see below, some of your lines will die out, but nonetheless your genetic material will thrive here on earth for a long time to come. A close friend of mine created a program to generate family trees for this test. It's based on your unique answers. We accounted for sterility, birth rates, death rates, disease, drug abuse, nitwitism, and accidents and came up with this, for you:

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on fitnessfactor

Link: The Genghis Khan Genetic Fitness Test written by gwendolynbooks on Ok Cupid

I bought an old v1.0 Xbox off of ebay a few weeks ago. I had already gather the requisite USB to Xbox adapter and MechWarrior (not GOTY edition) and did a nice install of Xebian. Since then, I have been working to get it to play SNES, NES, and Genesis games in a reasonable manner.



The first problem that I ran into was the controller. For whatever reason, the xpad driver for linux in Xebian is broken. The up and down directions sent to /dev/jo* are flipped. Also, the shoulder triggers are mapped as axes rather than as buttons. Last, but not least, the xpad is by default configured to emulate a mouse. This is useful if you want to use it as mouse and incredibly irritating if you want to use it as a gamepad. Just today I finally found how to fix all of this.

1. Get the kernel source that matches your installed version (mine was 2.4.31)


2. Get the kernel patch from the xbox-linux sourceforge project cvs repository which is tagged with your kernel revision


3. Open kernel.config and change the line that says
   

   
     CONFIG_USB_XPAD_MOUSE=y
   
     to
   
     CONFIG_USB_XPAD_MOUSE=y
   



4. Apply this patch by hand to xpad-core.c. (Note that you may be able to apply it using patch(1) but it failed for me)


5. (optional) add your controller's device id to the list of devices registered for control by the xpad driver


6. make dep modules


7. Copy the module over your old one in /lib/modules/<kernel revision>


8. reboot

As it currently stands, I have it working successfully to play SNES games. I am using snes9express as a front end for the linux port of snes9x. I have not yet found a suitable emulator for the genesis or nes yet. I may use dgen with tkdgen as a front end, though it has the distinct problem of being unable to set the joystick device without a recompile. I am currently looking into using the gens and it looks very promising. The downside is that I will have to manually configure the key codes for the game pad. For some reason, the xpad registers several button presses and this confuses the auto configuration program. As for the nes, since it is my lowest priority I have not yet put much effort into it.



Currently, I get my games by mounting a read only share on magi. This is done automatically on boot so that I don't have to log in as root to use the device. I plan to eventually use a usb harddrive to store the games, but until I get my usb hub I will continue with this method.



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Note: This is crossposted on livejournal.com.

Freasha is in working order again. I had some problems with the sshd rc script (it wasn't starting the server or even trying to for some unknown reason), so I had to put sshd in rc.local for now. I will try to research a solution. As it stands, I believe the we are good to go.

Last night, I reinstalled NetBSD on freasha. She now is running on a pair of 200 GB maxtor hard drives which are mirrored. The system is currently up and running, but may have a few bugs yet especially is she has to reboot. I intend to work those out soon. All web data except awstats has already been migrated.

the Wit (65% dark, 30% spontaneous, 33% vulgar)

your humor style: CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean you're pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that the Simpsons' philosophy?--but rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat. I guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer. Your sense of humor takes the most effort to appreciate, but it's also the best, in my opinion. Also, you probably loved the Office. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/. PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart - Woody Allen - Ricky Gervais

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 80% on dark You scored higher than 7% on spontaneous You scored higher than 47% on vulgar

Link: The 3 Variable Funny Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid

Wheeeeeee.

I migrated Andersonhighschool.com to freasha. I also set it up to use the same comment system as guyblade.com. An interesting note: since blogger post IDs are universally unique, I can use the same database to store the comments from both blogs. Quite handy indeed.

the link now validates properly as HTML 4.01 Transitional. At least on the front page.

I put the source up for the comment system that I made. It requires php and mysql. It be here

Yeah. YACCS (the old system I used for blogger comments) has decided to delete old comments. As such, I've migrated what few comments still remain to a new php/mysql based system that I coded up this weekend.

Fuck YACCS.

I've been working on my dns management system this weekend. I have it now properly outputting well formed bind9 and I have the backend database set up in a reasonable way. Not much of an acoomplishment, but ya'know. My next priority is to get the automated updating working.

Yesterday, I began the process of moving shoulddie.com over to being hosted on freasha. I also created a page which reads off the latest email that the shoulddie.com domain receives and put it here. It updates every 3 minutes. I hope to actually go about building the main shoulddie.com site this week.