2 SCUBA stories

Man, I had the best diving week in my life.

First day of diving we go to a wreck at 100 feet. I start to get some sort of strange panic attack at 80. Weird sensation, since I didn't lose it, but I knew I wasn't all there. Everything turned into vivid colour, the fish all flashed their teeth at me as if they wanted to eat me, the ship was slipping in place ready to keel over, and I could SWEAR there was a rattling noise that only I could hear, from some mysterious diving instructor.
Now, I knew it wasn't nitrogen narcosis 'cos I wasn't deep enough and I had enriched-air, but I signalled to my buddy that I couldn't handle it and we started to head back. Got out of the water and I still felt high. Must have been the spinach burrekas I ate. No more diving that day, which was fine, I had three already. Fortunately, it turns out that my buddy had also heard the annoying rattling, which means it probably was some mysterious diving instructor. At least I wasn't completely crazy.

Then on our last day we went for a night dive to a sunken missile boat. Now, I've been there a few times, but never like this. We stood on the deck and switched off the flashlights. The moon lit the old ghost ship in silhouette, and everything was just awesome. On the way back, the flashlights light my buddies in a strange yelow light that seems to come from within, but only shows lines and curves, no solid shapes, like glowing embers.

I forgot how much fun this is.

That's a lot of pirates

I knew that Lost was popular, but there's a loooot of people out there who can't seem to get it on TV.

Someone explain to ABC that those are NOT missed sales.

Oh, it's much worse than that.

My website is now Google.

Try it:

http://www.jonogetsschooled.com

This is hysterical. What have I done?

Update: it's not google anymore. It's back to nothing.

i fiddled with it till it broke

Stupid, stupid stupid.

I tried to set up my domain on Google My Domains thing, and I broke it.

So I went into one of my other domains that points to the same server(Why the hell do I own three domains?)
and tried to duplicate the settings there, from these defaults.



Din' do me no good. Now my homepage is just a dead link. Nice going, a**hole.

the lounge panorama

the lounge panorama
Originally uploaded by morbid88.

The lounge. 'Nuff said.

my room panorama

my room panorama
Originally uploaded by morbid88.

My room isn't QUITE this messy today, I tidied it, and hung some stuff on the walls. Still not sure what to do with the big discworld maps that I've had for ever.

my street at night panorama

my street at night panorama
Originally uploaded by morbid88.

the view from my room. Over on the right is the circle with the makolet and falafel stand, and also a hardware shop.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Greetings from Israel

I made this at Erica and Shami's after Yom Kippur. It was a bit of a hassle uploading, since it takes forever, and then sharing it isn't much fun either, 'cos at first blogger.com wouldn't let me embed it. I'm not sure if this is "the way to go".
Oh, well.

Shani, thought you might like this. Happy birthday.

Why Shutterfly must die

The original picture isn't just cute little Zoe on a playground backdrop.

It's cute little Zoe with these big white BLOBS on the side of the picture that Shutterfly sticks there to screw with my Dad when he prints.

Bes t-shirt EVER

Photograph by Shani Barel

And Happy Birthday, sis!

Linux on the internet, Part Deux

Hah.

Who'd'a thunk it.

I called up my ISP and just asked them to have me taken off the dialler. And they just said YES.

Are we the only country in the world that has to "dial-up" ADSL or cable?

That means now I'll be able to plug in anything and get internet.

Like my wireless router, for instance, which can't dial a cable modem.

Or a linux box, which can't (easily) dial a cable modem.

Hooray, baby!

Things that suck

http://www.fresh.co.il/vBulletin/printthread.php?t=223372

And don't tell me it's not represetative. It's irrelevant -- for the community, these forums are the ONLY source of support, for software that doesn't work right out of the box for the average user.

setting up linux for the internet

It's a shame, that linmagazine has dead links.
That I can't really find articles on the 'net for setting up linux on the internet, without already being connected to the internet. In other words, I need a seperate computer and have to have networking running on them.

Which I don't seem to be, for some reason.

so what do I do now?

fedora, part II

This looks a lot like Ubuntu. I don't think there's going to be much difference in managing this system, since they're both running GNOME window manager. I like that KDE is really slick, and windows like, but it's not really comfortable for me. The GNOME system works better in my opinion.

Let's see the options we have. First, I need some food.

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linux, Fedora Core

I've installed Fedora Core onto my desktop.

I backed up my windows partition first, I hope I can get into it in the future. God help us all if I can't. No not really.
Impressions: Install was pretty smooth. Need to note, in case you have more than one network device, what make your network card is and which one is connected to the internet. Then you have to fiddle with DHCP settings. Not for the faint of heart.

Firewall was pretty straightforward -- if you don't know what the service is, then you don't need it (Telnet? No thanks. Ain't no one getting in on port 110 on MY computer.)

Now I'm onto a screen that deals with SELinux. This is some security enhanced crap, that I might understand, but we're looking for something the regular user can grasp. This is not it.

my suggestion -- leave it as is.

now it's running some configur--- oooh! It's up. Nice login screen.mui importante.


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May Buddha shine his Gracious Light on your Inner Tiger.

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