Handbaggin!

I'd forgotten how much I enjoy handbag techno as background doof.
Especially for coding.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, handbag techno is the generic, StrongBad [0] style techno, with lots of bass, hihatmchicks, snare rushes, and even more predictable 8 or 16 bar dropouts that build back up (via aforementioned snare rushes and repetition of vocal samples) until they peak and go back to ... the same predicatable bass and hi-hat mchick.
If you don't know techno, it's what you think of as techno, if you do, it's the last thing you'll listen to. Cookie cutter doof. And it's great for just tuning out and cutting code. If I want to *listen* to music, then Juno, Messiah, or Utah Saints are my poison. If I want to code, then ... whatever this CD is is my poison.

but I can't for the life of me remember where I got "handbag techno" from. It's almost certainly a Lisa phrase, and therefore almost certainly a reference to Oxford St, and some memorable nights playing with the queens. Unless it's an Alex phrase, from roughly the same era, in which case it wuold be a refeence to Dome, the gay club behind Chevron. Either way, it's that trashy doof you got in gay bars in the mid-late 90s. Great stuff. Complete ear candy, but great stuff. I'm having flashbacks.

Does this revoke my goth cred?

sol.
[0] I can't seem to find a direct link. Try here, under downloads->Music . To truly appreciate the music, you need to read the email that goes with it - trawl around under Strong Bad's email.
Morgan may have a link to it somewhere on his lj, or be able to point us at the actual email.

Brain damaged.

Windows.
Someone with more windows clue than I help me out here.
I installed Windows 2000 on my main workstation. It dual boots W2K and FreeBSD on the main SCSI drive, from which it boots. Since I'm running out of space on the SCSI drive, I thought I'd add an IDE drive. Which I did.

FreeBSD, of course, says "Oh, new drive", and ignores it until I add it to /etc/fstab. This is Right and Good.

W2K says "Oh. IDE drive. I'll load my kernel from SCSI, and then try to mount the (blank, unformatted) IDE drive as C:. "
It gets a little way into this process, informs me that I'll need to frob my Paging File settings, and then hits a weird loop where it tries to mount drives (including network drives), fails utterly to load an operating system from C: (because it's, well, BLANK!), and then starts again, just trying to load drives.

This is PATHALOGICALLY FUCKED UP. When I installed W2K, I DID SO TO THE SCSI DRIVE. FOR A GOOD REASON.
NO two bit piece of shit operating system is going to tell me where I want my OS to be.

So. Pop quiz. How the fuck do I add the IDE drive, and get it mounted under W2K as, say, E: or F: ?

sol.
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Gar

SO apparently that's hosed my W2K config - I took the IDE drive out, and the problem remained, so I've fuX0red the W2K install somehow.

Man. All this for a game of starcraft.

On a lighter note, Longi and I are now having handbag wars to see whose CD collection is more shameful. I'm happy to concede this one to Longi. He's way more handbag than I am.

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Bahahaha

So longi, in an attempt to out-handbag me, drags out some lime green monstrosity - Ministry of Sound Hard NRG. Or something.
Turns out to be the very CD that inspired my handabg nostalgia this afternoon.

Hard NRG my well-rounded arse. It's handbag.
HANDBAG!!

Dee-Lite don't count, though. I don't know what they are, but they're not handbag.
sol.
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Better and fucking better

Now the bios and freebsd don't even recognise the 6 gig IDE drive.
It was a freeby, so easy come easy go, I guess, but FUCK.

This is exactly why I hate messing about with hardware.

sol.
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