...where you kick yourself for not doing something at an advantageous time, that could have brought your fame, or fortune, or both, or something else valuable to you?

I'm having one right now, realizing that I could have bought two PS3s and sold them on Ebay and make thousands of dollars profit, even considering the $1300 initial investment.

Ya, I'm a dumbass idiot (let's not be too harsh now...)

Let's assume I could have sold each for $5000, that's $10000 minus the $1300 spent gives me $8700 to spend on the laptop I've been after for a while (the reason I have $1300 on hand) - $1700. A 24" 30" LCD - about $2000. And to power that behemoth, a GeForce 8800 GTX, which is $850 or there abouts. That still leaves me $4150, so why not throw in about $2000 for a new Core 2 Duo computer, and even that's fairly modest, I could go higher...

Point I'm trying to make here is, I had an opportunity to buy all the things I want right now, and STILL have change to maybe buy a PS3 for keepers. And I hate myself for not exploiting it.

* None of these measurements should be considered totally accurate on account of my being too lazy to calculate taxes into them or even look up actual prices.

Yesterday, with deep regret, I finally put an end to the hobby forum I ran for Warhammer 40,000 for two and a half years; The Smoking Bolter. The final closing thread is here.

I hadn't mentioned more specifically why I had to close the forum besides it's recent stagnation. Truth is, I haven't got the time to properly run a large forum anymore, and I didn't think it fair to the members and staff that supported it for me to do a half-assed job at it. I have an education, and a future career to worry about, and it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for my hobbies. It is a sad thing to do, but unfortunately, I had to do it.

RIP The Smoking Bolter.

Alright, so I used to have dual monitor, and even triple monitor, back when I used to use Windows. When I switched to Linux, I went back to my old solo-monitor ways, grudgingly at first, but I got used to it again. But just tonight, I was overcome with boredom, and decided to attempt it on Linux. Armed with some bravery, and some good old-fashioned sense of adventure (as well as a guide), I pressed on until finally, I got my setup working!

My setup by the way is my GeForce 7950 GX2, and 2 IBM CRTs, one 21" and the other 17", running at 1600x1200 and 1280x1024 respectively. I'm using the nvidia-glx drivers and TwinView, and everything is running smoothly :D

Seems the embargo on Geforce 8800 series cards has been lifted, Slashdot has an article linking to a few reviews here.

The consensus seems to be that its rather useless unless you have a 24" or bigger widescreen display.

Seems NVIDIA has finally released some updated Linux drivers (though the beta has been around for a little bit), and what's more, they finally support AIGLX! Compiz and Beryl fans rejoice!

You can grab them here. A few Ubuntu users have already confirmed that they work.

A few days ago I posted about my new sysinfo script, and now I am releasing the code to whoever may want to use it.

This code has some elements that are obviously made to fit it in with my site, but it won't take too much effort for someone to adapt it to their own. Read more to see the code, and download it.

The code is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike license, so follow it! :)

Download:
sysinfo.pl.tar.gz

Nucleus has a nifty feature built in called XML-RPC that is used by a number of blogs to facilitate remotely posting from a desktop application, or from browsers like Flock.

While I have been unable to get it to work with Flock, I have had great success with BloGTK, a program for Linux written in Python.

Nucleus isn't big enough to have its own XML-RPC API, so they use the Moveable Type API. All seems to work just fine :) Too bad the same can't be said for Flock yet, but I am hoping they can fix the issues. I've made a post in here appealing for help, time will tell if anyone can sort it out.

I replaced my simple "uptime" script with a full system information script, all coded by yours truly :) Go ahead and check it out:
http://www.w1ldt4ng3nt.net/cgi-bin/sysinfo.pl