Enough! out with the duodecaphobia! enter triskadecamania!! as 4 moi: SOS I'm afraid. still holding down the line as rent controlled handy-dude on highway 13. latest foray with linux: ubuntu! had to use it on a "new" 2.8ghz machine donated to infoshop (still doing the " computer janitor gig there;-) cause my flavor of windoze xp-flp dont support SATA:-( works fine to get on wired line. no one was using it (LH staff all use mac os on non-intel boxes which apple no longer supports. hows that for planned obsolescence?!? they shut down all but one of the public access terms because of poor layout as in non moderated as in homeless would come in and F*&K $H#T ^PP!!! piss on the grave of stevie J!?> so i borrowed it cause my stalwart win98 box that Ive been using to get online " dialee upee sty-lee" with magic smoked it. power connector on MB was melted, WTF? turns out xp-flp dont support dialup and neither does ubuntu!?( (there may be a work-round for both with flp needing a bunch of .dll files and ubuntu needing some "packages" which i duly tracked down and installed and, after hours of "entertainment" hohoho, still no workee!! hahaha!! then i remembered the 1.8ghz win98 laptop with the broke keyboard in the closet that i had grabbed all the drivers for (prob not supported anymore:( and that what I'm typing on now. hey i got a viao! was "gifted 2 moi when previous caretaker couldn't get linux to install on it. flp works great, all drivers right out da box!! even sees the modem but still same prob, no dialup. apparently MS crippled it with no "?" support. any thoughts? whats the trick for the linux install? shows: won free KALX psychic TV tix last week at the uptown. dunk lady friend got to the bullet-proof plexi before i did and started demanding said ducats under one of my nom-de-guares. when i handed over my passport at first door lady said i only had 1 ticket . when i pointed out that KALX always gives 2 comps the bouncers came out and " your not on the list, we're sold out and you have to get the fuck out of here right now" hahaha!!! take yer uptown and shove it up yer town!!! hahahahah!!!! so moi and said lady friend went back to the underground punkrauk noise show at RCA squat, not before she proclaimed "need more alcohol". hahaha, ohhh-kayyy........... with a glorious night of thrashing, passout and puke at 4am 4 her, next day had to look in mirror. " gettin little old for this eh geezzz?" hahahhaha, na! hahahahahah!!!!!! flickers: got free KALX tix to the end-O-world film fest at the castro tonight, "they live" and "miracle mile" (which i havent seen) maybe a date with above mentioned 4am puke gurll on this 12/21/12 solstice, maybe even drag her to the art reception at evergold from which attachment came. if ye ever up in B-town stop by & say hi!! guerrilla gardening: developing west side of apt building. enlisted neighbors help and the rats didn' t even eat the tomatoes this year!!! sorry i didn't make it to yer BBQ. would like to say i had bigger fish to fry but you guys dont eat fish, right;?> (gratuitous vegan joke;-) happy solstice 2 U & noelle!!