For the HOWTO: Install and Use Poker Client in Linux, I’m in the process of getting installation media for ubuntu linux 7.04, on an old Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop.. So far any CD I burn, the damn drive will not recognize. I’m downloading the DVD file via bittorrent to see if it will read DVD’s (after all, it IS a DVD rom..) So hopefully I will update the howto to use ubuntu as well as Fedora Core [456].

For the 2007 Donkey Challenge, I think I have either completed or damn near close to completing the $10 level. I have been really bad about updating the DC page.

I also think it’s time to re-read Harrington v1 and v2. My tournament play has gone from ok to poor.

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Via /.

“The Daily Telegraph is reporting that intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research. Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent “metalheads” are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders.”

Hmm. Last 5 Songs my iPod played were:
In Flames - System
Slipknot - Surfacing
Lamb of God - More Time To Kill
Fight - Vicious
Broken Hope - Earth Burner

It was the summer between my freshman and sophomore years in high school that saw my music taste change from top 40 KIIS FM (Mariah Carey, Paula Abdul (Heh Rini), Amy Grant etc…) to metal KNAC (Slayer, Fear Factory, Megadeth, Metallica). I’m not exactly sure what triggered the change, but something said “Hey.. you. Check this shit out. You’ll never look back.” Even to this day, my wife says that by looking at me, you wouldn’t know that I enjoy the hard side of the rock. You know, the Double-Bass-Cookie-Monster-Death-Metal type. Six Feet Under, The Crown, At The Gates, Cryptopsy, The Black Dahlia Murder, Face Down, what the majority of the planet would listen to and say “That’s not music!”

Last Summer Classic Iggy gave me shit for listening to an iPod at a Blogger event by saying, “Headphones at a blogger tournament? You are a douchbag.” I replied back, “Do I get any bonus points for listening to Death Metal?”

tags: metal, music

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For those of you that never upgraded to XP or Upgraded your hardware and OS to Vista and do not want to pay another MS tax (of about $4k) to get the hotfix, I suggest that you checkout this article and the TZEDIT.exe. My 2000 server is running just fine, thank you very much. I see no need to upgrade to XP or build a complete new system so I can learn everything all over again with Vista.

Then again, there’s always Linux.

tags: geek, tzedit

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Via GalwayFirst

A man who was found dressed in latex and handcuffs brought a donkey to his room in a Galway city centre hotel, because he was advised “to get out and meet people,” the local court heard last week.
Thomas Aloysius McCarney with an address in south Galway was charged with cruelty to animals, lewd and obscene behaviour, and with being a danger to himself when he appeared before the court on Friday. He was also charged with damage to a mini-bar in the room, but this charge was later dropped when the defendant said that it was the donkey who caused that damage.

Didn’t Full Tilt move it’s offices to Ireland? I mean the story’s based in Ireland and involves a donkey. It’s not that much of a stretch is it?

Yes, I am joking about the link to Full Tilt, but the story is true..

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tags: donkey, funny

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So Saturday night my server room, along with the rest of a few blocks around my house, had a power outage that lasted a few hours. It was nice to have the house lit up with candles and lanterns. But when the power came back and I tried to turn on the box that this site and a few others were on, no dice. The box would not come up. After a few minutes of tinkering, I found out that the HD had failed. If the HD was connected to the power supply, the box would not turn on, but as soon as I disconnected the HD, the box came to life.

Now I tell my family to make regular backups, just in case something happens. You would think I would take my own advice. I didn’t.

I called a few data recovery places to see what the cost would be to restore the drive, and the range was from $500 to $2,700. 3k to get my drive back? Key-ryst! Luckily one of my co-workers helped trouble shoot what was wrong and the board on the HD had a short in it. We replaced it with a compatible board and the drive came back to life! The the drive was cloned and that’s where it stands now, back in the box and running, as you are reading this.

Now I take my own advice, and I am in the middle of backing up every machine in the room. Twice!

power outage

tags: power outage

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From Online gambling poised to pull $528bn | The Register

Internet gaming is now the fastest growing segment of internet commerce, according to a report from Gamingpublic.com, an industry trade publication. Revenue in the sector is growing at a rate of 22 per cent per year.

Gamingpublic.com cited a Merrill Lynch study that concluded the global internet gaming market could reach – wait for it - $528bn annually by 2015.

Yeah, I’m sure the US Government has tons of loot and doesn’t need any tax money that could be gained by taxing Internet Gambling instead of banning it.

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tags: online gambling

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Via BoingBoing..

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On Oct 17, George Bush quietly signed a bill allowing him to declare martial law. The Toward Freedom website summarizes it:

For the current President, “enforcement of the laws to restore public order” means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them loose against “disorderly” citizenry - protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.

The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called “illegal aliens,” “potential terrorists” and other “undesirables” for detention in facilities already contracted for and under construction by Halliburton. That’s right. Under the cover of a trumped-up “immigration emergency” and the frenzied militarization of the southern border, detention camps are being constructed right under our noses, camps designed for anyone who resists the foreign and domestic agenda of the Bush administration.

It’s easy to get scabbed over about the Bush White House’s assault on the Bill of Rights, but every now and again, they rip loose with an attack so egregious, it rips the scab right off. Between the right-to-torture bill and this one, it’s clear that Bush intends to bring back the pork-politics glory of the Cold War by reinventing the Soviet Union on American soil. The elections are coming up in a matter of weeks. Vote America. Throw the traitors out. Install some leaders who love the Constitution more than the raging hard-on they get from settling political disagreements by imprisoning their opponents.  To read more, follow this link.

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Might be a good time to pick up Mark Ehrman’s new book, Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America. As an added bonus, online poker would be legal again.

If the American Public doesn’t fix the mess that the current “government” has created by electing a group of people that is “For the People” instead of a group that is “For Themselves” I will lose all faith in the US governement and seriously think about leaving. I feel that Bush is destroying America one signature at a time. It’s a sad time.

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tags: boingboing, government

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PartyGaming pulled out of the US Market right? So why did I get this message today?

Hi Player,

Are you ready to turn up the heat this October? We have special complimentary cash waiting for you.

PartyCasino.com will give you a red-hot bonus of 10 USD* when you try our casino games for the first time.

To claim this bonus all you need to do is download the PartyCasino software and login using your existing Partyaccount. Once you click the opt-in button your complimentary cash will automatically be credited to your PartyAccount.

In September we paid out over 4.5 million USD in jackpots alone. Our Party Mega Jackpot is well above 1.4 million USD - So make sure you log in, claim your bonus and start playing. The next PartyCasino millionaire could be you.

Sincerely,
Daniel Miller
Casino Manager
PartyCasino.com

* Just make sure that you wager this amount at least once before cashing it out.

Even the message headers say the message was sent today:

Received: from partypoker.com (pp-29-29.partypoker.com [66.212.229.29])
by athena.unearthed.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89EC3590267
for [xxx @xxx.xxxx]; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:25:22 -0700 (PDT)

Ummm.. thanks?

tags: banning us players, party gaming

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I ordered Scott’s book, Pressure Poker: Poker Strategy and Tools to Improve Your Game, via BookSurge and aside from a shitty 2 week ship time, I (possibly) get my credit card and other personal information stolen.

August 8, 2006

Dear BookSurge Customer:

I am writing to let you know that we have learned that an unauthorized
individual may have gained access to files on a BookSurge server which
contained credit card and other account information from some BookSurge
customers.

We have no indication that your credit card or other account information
was compromised, but we wanted to notify you of this event out of an
abundance of caution.

I’d like to reassure you that we take the protection of data very
seriously and are committed to providing a safe and secure environment
for our customers and authors. We are taking additional security measures
to help prevent such an incident from happening again.

I apologize for any inconvenience this incident may cause you.
If you have any questions, please contact us by sending an email to
questions@BookSurge.com.

Sincerely,

Andrew Roskill
Managing Director
BookSurge

Funny thing is, the card that I used to buy the book was already flagged for fraud a few weeks ago, because ANOTHER retailer had shit for security. That’s three times in two years that some knucklehead chose profit over security. From now on, I will not help out the little guy and I will stick to the big named etailers, even if I hate them.

Seems like no one cares about security. Even Online Poker sites chose profit over security.

tags: booksurge, hacked, secutity

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Ok.. a few of the recent updates started to eat comments, so those plugin’s are toast.

WPBT Summer Classic trip report is in the works.

I played micro limits this morning for a few minutes and almost made 50% of my buyin. First online poker I’ve played since the Summer Classic.

The A/C unit at my condo is leaking water and has started to leak into the unit. Not good when the National Weather Service says:

HEAT AND HUMIDITY MAY REACH DANGEROUS LEVELS FRIDAY AFTERNOON
ACROSS THE VALLEYS AND LOWER MOUNTAIN ELEVATIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN
CALIFORNIA.

VERY HIGH TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH INCREASING HUMIDITY LEVELS ARE
EXPECTED TO PRODUCE DANGEROUS HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 103 TO
108 DEGREES FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

Fux0r3d.

Update: A/C unit’s outtake line was clogged, yeah! I’m not out 4k yet!

tags: summer classic ii, updates, wpbt

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