{"id":531,"date":"2010-03-17T20:08:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T02:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2010-03-17T20:08:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T02:08:50","slug":"well-lawdy-freakin-daw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Well, lawdy freakin daw"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure many of you out there have noticed that motherfucking godawful bloody Daylight Saving time has cursed us all with its presence one more time.\u00a0 Except for folks in Saskatchewan.\u00a0 Why did they realize that DST is a useless fucking turd and not the rest of us?<\/p>\n

Anyhoo, you’ve probably guessed by now that I fucking hate DST.\u00a0 When I lose an hour of sleep on that Monday, the whole week is fucked.\u00a0 I needs my sleep.\u00a0 I likes to sleep, and I do it very well, thank you.\u00a0 We have artificial lights now.\u00a0 This DST bullshit is completely unnecessary.<\/p>\n

But enough complaining.\u00a0 I will now blab about something more interesting.\u00a0 When I switched to LXDE from Xfce (after long ago having switched from GNOME) on this here Ubuntu installation, I was miffed (yes, miffed) that my PC’s very shitty battery clock wasn’t keeping proper time, and that the time servers on the interwebs were no longer being asked for input in the matter.\u00a0 See, this PC’s clock is off by just over 2 minutes a fucking DAY.\u00a0 That’s a very inaccurate clock.\u00a0 That’s enough to make me miss my fucking bus in the morning if I don’t remember to set the clock to the right time each and every fucking day.<\/p>\n

Someone once said that there is too much profanity in the world.\u00a0 Hi Uncle Furry!\u00a0 Well, I say FUCK THE FUCKING FUCKER!\u00a0 Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.\u00a0 Fuckitty fuck-fuck-fuck.\u00a0 Fuck-a-mole.\u00a0 Fuckled.\u00a0 Fuck-O-Rama.\u00a0 FUCK!!!<\/p>\n

And FUCK APPLE too.<\/p>\n

Where was I… Oh yes…. So to mitigate this odd circumstance, I had a shortcut to the Time and Date interface on my LXDE panel.\u00a0 I had the app set to “manual” and each morning, I’d start it up, insert my password and manually set the time.\u00a0 LXDE didn’t seem to want to play nice with the interweb time servers.<\/p>\n

But the situation has improved!\u00a0 Zoy!\u00a0 On my laptop, which also runs the bastardized and customized Xubuntu\/LXDE dealy I have going here, I clicked on the Time and Date interface to set the time.\u00a0 On a whim, I set it to automatically update, and it informed me that I needed the NTP packages installed.\u00a0 It then installed them after I clicked Okay, and it let me choose my time servers.\u00a0 And it works!\u00a0 Zoy!<\/p>\n

So of course I went and tried it here on this computer.\u00a0 I already had NTP installed, so I just selected the Canada time server along with the Ubuntu one (which I think Mark Shuttleworth left in space…) and Clickitty-Clack… it’s back on track!<\/p>\n

Alternatively, Fuckitty-Fuck, it’s not a duck!<\/p>\n

The moral of the story is that my computer’s time doesn’t need to be set manually every morning.\u00a0 You know, it’s hard to tell just what I’m saying sometimes.\u00a0 That’s because of all the fucking swearing I do, and because of the cunt fact that shit I balls motherfucker swear a fucking hell lot.\u00a0 Bitch.<\/p>\n

My keyboard has Tourette syndrome.\u00a0 No, I’s shitting you.\u00a0 I just have a nasty filthy foul mouth.<\/p>\n

Ass.<\/p>\n

Now, all I need LXDE to do is to automatically mount my external media.\u00a0 I was going to make a joke about “mounting” a female android but I can’t think of anything clever to say.<\/p>\n

Cock Balls Ass Cunt Bitch Motherfucker Fuck.<\/p>\n

Fuck Apple.<\/p>\n

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