two more classic dream themes last night. the first was i stumbled into a neighbor's house (from when i was growing up) and he was lying on the floor, reading a book or a photo album. i'm not sure if his wife told me or not, but i knew he was dying. not dying in the sense of he has a few months to live, but as in this was his last day. he actually died a couple of years ago; i think i mentioned it but if memory serves me well (it rarely does), it was a poorly written entry, which i would be embarassed to link to. anyway, the thing was that as i came through the window or whatever (now that i think about it, i think i was just in their yard?) i tripped over him, and kept doing so... i couldn't get out of his way and kept stepping on him as he was dying there on the ground.
the other dream was i was naked at algiers or charlies or something. i think maybe lola was there?
another dream i had was i was playing duck duck goose with a bunch of friends from elementary and high school. well not all of them were friends.
and finally another one was i was at a friend's house playing (i think) sega sports football on his sega [genesis] and we stayed up all night, and i was supposed to be in a running race that morning. i guess my dad was organizing the race, because he started us off. it actually started out on harvard ave, went across beacon (coolidge corner) and then turned left onto longwood. i was keeping up with my dad, and so was my friend. he actually started to pull away, but i followed him. unfortunately i didn't know the course, but i think i woke up or switched to a different dream or something. usually in dreams where i have to run, i can't... i'm being dragged down or have to crawl or something. this (apparently) is due to whatever the brain does so that you don't flail around at night when having dreams. anyway in this dream i could run pretty well.
i made the docks on my macs the maximum size. my desktop is 2624 pixels wide (i have the docks on the right edge), so i figure why not. i deserve it, right? i don't know why, but for some reason the larger icons feel more friendly.
i guess this makes sense, but swsusp didn't solve the problems with the wavelan card after suspending.
i don't know why i feel so. tired.
well it seems my k6 does have some apm support (and maybe some acpi). unfortunately, it's an AT case (the motherboard can do both AT and ATX) so the fan still stays on. but i think when i suspend it, it beeps. i don't think i can actually flip the power switch to turn off the power supply fan, though, so i still want to use swsusp.
how i found out about apm support is a funny story. i got a usb card today, and my sun type-6 usb keyboard wasn't working with it - in much the same was as it didn't work with phil's dingus (in fact, the keyboard no longer works in my macs or the vaio). so, i was going to plug phil's dingus back in and try something else. at first i was going to try the ipaq, but decided a usb hub would be a safer option.
(btw - using swsusp doesn't let you add/remove hardware w/o rebooting. linux gets very confused (and angry) if you do this)
so i turned the box off, and plugged the dingus in, and screwed it to the case. flipped the power switch and there was a strange buzzing. turned it off, back on... still buzzing. so, i move the usb thing (while it's running) and get some nice sparks. i think i know why the keyboard doesn't work.
anyway after i took the dingus out, and turned on the box, it told me that the bios settings had been reset. in the process of making sure they were correct, i found that there were pm settings that i could turn on.
ALSO, if you use installkernel to install a kernel, but, oh say, get the arguments mixed up because a simple thing as --help doesn't work, and the kernel image gets installed as System.map, then depmod promptly seg faults. there's got to be a drinking game for this somewhere.