I'm typing now from Jaeger's Alcove. The former web content provider currently known as bouncing is sitting directly across the table from me, our monitors adjecent, but facing in opposite directions.

I was appauled and shocked -- appauled and shocked, I tell you! -- to earlier this afternoon discover bouncing stopping by the Louisville Compound .... stopping by the Louisville Compound... while wearing a shirt bearing... the enemy's logo! To his amusement, I chastised him severely for this, told him he was no longer to be trusted in any way, and warned against setting foot within sensor range of my current place of employment while wearing such utter filth. He would be clubbed over the head for sure, and rightly so! And to think I sat across from this heathen at dinner while he wore that... thing. To think I'm sitting across from him NOW! I feel dirty myself! Bleah!

So anyway, here in the Alcove. We're festing away, having a ball as Jaeger's (or should I say Third of Five's?) pots line is saturated while he downloads gnome applets, and I'm contemplating whether to grab xfree86 4, or pull the opengl drivers for my card out of cvs, patch my kernel to do direct agp (or get the 2.4 test kernels, which already have the option in the main tree), and blah blah blah.

We love bleeding edge.

The Dynamic Duo (a term I have decided to use when referring to Dagobah and Argo together) are sitting next to each other to my left. As seems to have become my protocol over the last 24 hours, I've got the monitor plugged into Argo, and am telnetting into Dagobah to type this rambling. I'm definitely going to need to grab an ssh rpm on this fest, since... ahem... SOME people just can't seem to resist the urge to run little packet examination utilities, and say "Bitscape, you're running an insecure telnet?!?!" ;)

And I'm like, "Wait a sec, how would you know this? I'm not even logged into your machine right now!"

Methinks I will be changing all of my passwords when this fest is over. ;)

(Actually, if I truly thought that there were anyone on this network with malicious intent, changing the passwords would be insufficient, because the exploit could already have been planted. A complete audit, and ideally reinstall of everything would be advisable. Fortunately, I think I know these people. Or do I? Given the shirt one of us is currently wearing. ;)

Well, anyway, I took advantage of the fact that there's a net connection to sync all the recent ramblings. I should be getting a temp dialup on Monday, but ya never know. And of course, also using the opportunity to find out more about how to take advantage of my hardware's features, and get the necessary software to do so.

So, on with the fest! :)