Listening to the latest Riverside album – Second Life Sindrome – (and I’ll comment on that when the due time comes) reminded me of something I used listen when I was in highschool: Heavenwood.
I’ve been listening to Heavenwood’s Diva (from 1996, and with score of 4,5 out 5 at allmusic) and I must say: it’s good! The growlings are very… well, I’d say “wide” and “deep”… hope it makes sense to you – and if it doesn’t, go listen to it !
Now… the next comparison might not be fair, but Heavenwood reminds me of Opeth, stripped down of most of all the intricacy, detail and the rampant changes on the music. Humm! What I just said was: “It’s like Opeth, but not, actually!”. Hey, I said it might not be fair!

Since I had to look this up twice, I thought it would be a good idea to log it…

The command is as follows:

tar -L «volume_size_in_kb» -Mc -f «file1» -f «file2» [...] «source_file_or_dir»

I forgot to mention, my laptop is back (for exactly a week now). I heard they had to bring in an extra 10 year-old peg legged to get food the first one… So he did finished his job, and my lappy is back!

Coupple of notes worth mentioning:
1) no hard drive was harmed during the repair, as everything was right how I left it;
2) I found out why the burning took place. And thank God I did, because it would happen all over again. It turns out that, for no known reason to me, I had a constant CPU usage of 100% (under WXP Home). I could speculate on the problem: I had windows… but it wouldn’t seem fair, and so I wont!

Well anyway, I installed Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) 64-bit, and last night I updated everything to Ubuntu 6.04 (Dapper Drake). I’ve also installed WXP-Pro 64, but its compatibility sucks for the time being. I’ll replace it for a 32 bit WXP-pro, since all I want from windows is to play games!

By the way, both hardworking peg legged corean’s are currently on vacation, and getting a prosthetic in the meantime.

I’ve finally managed to access an ntfs partition from linux, not being root! This has been a problem to me for quite some time now, in basically all linux systems i’ve had installed.

Here’s the magic line on my /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda5 /media/hda5 ntfs iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0

A little over six and a half years ago, one tiny little sample of a cat was rescued from a gutter. Only a few weeks old, he was drawn to an arm’s reach by the simple smell of pork butter, which my parents happened to have in the car at the moment. He would not have lasted another night like that. Pin-thin little tail and almost just skin and bone, I held him for the first time on both palms, trembling… both of us – him, fear and hunger, me, afraid to hurt the delicate creature. Puma. That was his name, though he would respond a lot better to a whistle. The first cat I knew that would not eat fish, and would puke at the scent of a dead bird. Never before I saw a cat who jumped so high to catch butterflies, and actually caught them! Never I saw a cat eat mellon, banana and yogurt like he did! Never have I known cat who would stay for 15 minutes laying on his back, paws up, sometimes sleeping, sometimes enjoying the sun on his belly… and even more so, that I was the only one he allowed get him that way!
He passed way on 23rd to 24th October.

Always will I remember how you made me smile.
Always will I smille remembering you.
R.I.P.