Loyalty Bonus 14:55

One of the restaurants I eat (almost regularly) at is now giving off a loyalty offer. I had always wanted this to happen but had not expected this from this particular eatery. For most of the places I used to visit for my daily intake, I had been a regular for sizable time periods.

This particular one was not something that I would like to make a regular one. Not counting couple of items in the breakfast menu and the fact that its close enough to walk down, there is nothing that is attractive to me. Hardly a couple of weeks ago they denied me the pleasure of dosas at dinner stating that its to be ‘bundled’ with a non-vegetarian curry. I had decided that its the wrong restaurant to have a ‘relation’ with. Today’s offer is not changing anything because the kind of people they are targetting are just not mine.

Things go differently at my real regular place. They have no formal ‘loyalty’ bonus. However being regular worked out quite well. I get bonuses like these – they cook stuff just for me when I barge in late (when they are almost closed for the day), they offered to take me to a doc (tho I did not take it). In most of the cases my loyalty is fake and usually due convenience. This one was due the feeling of the food being ok on my stomach and mildly the taste.

Standby sux 15:21

Last week when I saw the system go to sleep on acpitool -s I thought I got one of the desperately needed facilities on my linux box. It does not work that well. Kernel panics almost every time it comes out of sleep. The funniest part is that there is a delay. Yesterday after waking up the kernel panic was like 10 minutes later.

HL2 back up. 12:34

Backed-up the half-life 2 files. I wanted to do that badly as some games need 100s of MBs to be downloaded to get up-to-date (from the package I had bought). Its a bit surprising to see that the whole back up is only around 3Gigs. While the data files total up to 6 Gigs. I wonder if its doing some kinda informed compression. It definitely appeared that way from the kinda time it took to prepare the backup. I hope it works when I need it.

New home

Thanks to Vikas and Melvin, I got myself a domain name. I’ve been lazy on this (though I knew its not the right thing to be lazy about) and Vikas’ showing me his domain was a catalyst. Mine is kinda lousy being a third level name and all but hoping for first name in second level is too much.

Powernow

This had been crawling for some time, last month (yeah, before I took ill, for those who know about that) I did a BIOS upgrade and powernow-k8 module started working. But then no big deal except for 2-3 degrees drop in the temperature when I switch to the 1 Ghz mode.

Bridge mode

Another thing that was crawling but not for long. apt-get install pppoeconf and run it after setting the MT 882 to bridge mode (in the WAN settings). Add route to ppp0 and that was it. Its not of much use except debugging plus the extra tension about setting up the firewall. But then one could setup Counterstrike server on Windows. Then again I’ll have to figure out how to get this working on windows plus a firewall is kinda un avoidable.

Needle phobia

Yeah the nurses at the hospital fixed that. I had blood samples taken every 6 hours. Can’t believe I let them do that. Plus the cannula almighty – It was the first time I had that one on me. Horrible.