Issues with floppy drive…

This is gonna look really dumb, but I’m posting my fstab here.

I’ve been having an issue with my floppy drive (ie, not mounting, at least not automatically).

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=9f75686a-3ebd-428e-80df-3b23bd4fa3be /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=F008511F0850E5DE /media/sda1     ntfs    defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
# /dev/sdb2
UUID=72CD-9F9E  /media/sdb2     vfat    defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
# /dev/sdb5
UUID=6d1b9574-2510-4fab-b709-29dc80cd91bd none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec 0       0

It goes: root, NTFS drive, FAT drive, Swap, CD ROM and Floppy.  BUT, if I go to System Settings->Advanced->Disks and Filesystems, I get this:

Now, if you look all careful-like, you’ll see my “burner” (which is my CD drive) listed at /media/floppy0.  Well, I guess it’s not a problem, but it makes it hard to assign the floppy drive to something.

This is mostly for my own use, as I’m trying to fix this problem.  If any of my readers well versed in the art of Linux-fu happen upon this, feel free to hand me some instruction.  I’m gonna go post this on the forums as well.

Wish me luck!!

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CSI GSR Fic: “Missing You”

Ok. I have two parts to this fic up.

The whole story’s title is “Missing You” and it’s posted on Fanfiction.net.

First part:

Title: Letters
Author: gamerchick02
Show: CSI
Pairing: GSR (Gil/Sara)
Genre: Angst
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I don’t own them. If I did, Sara would never have left.
Summary: Grissom gets letters and responds to them.
Spoilers: Everything that’s aired so far, but mostly Goodbye and Good Luck.
Notes: From Grissom’s POV. Part one of two.

Second part:

Title: The Visit
Author: gamerchick02
Show: CSI
Pairing: GSR (Gil/Sara), shades of Catherine/Keppler and Warrick/Catherine
Genre: Angst
Rating: R; language, adult themes.
Disclaimer: I don’t own them. If I did, Sara would never have left. CBS owns CSI.
Summary: Grissom teaches at UC Berkley and sees Sara.
Spoilers: Everything that’s aired so far, but mostly Goodbye and Good Luck.
Notes: From Grissom’s POV. Sequel to “Letters”; please read that one before this one. This one will make more sense. WIP.

Compiz-Fusion

Ok…

Who runs Compiz-Fusion with KDE?

I can’t seem to get it to work.  All the related packages are for Gnome it seems.  Like the tray icon is only for Gnome.  I would like a tray icon for KDE.  Also, I’m not using the GL-Desktop or anything, so I don’t really have the right stuff.  I don’t know.

I’d like it to work and I’d like to show off my Compiz cube and stuff, but it’s not worth the headache.  When I have some time to fiddle around with it and read stuff online, I think I’ll give it a shot.

*shrug*

If anyone has ideas, please give me a holler… 

Thanks!  

Kopete

Hmmmmm….

Kopete likes to randomly not allow me to connect to MSN and gtalk sometimes.

It’s just strange.  I’ll be signed in just fine one day, and I’ll go to use it again the next, and it won’t let me sign into that account.

The most common error is in MSN, and it says that my password is wrong.  I know for a fact that it’s right!  Oh well, I’ve got Pidgin as a backup, so I’ll always be able to talk to people.

Woo-hoo.

I quite like Kopete.  I wish it would work all the time.

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CSI GSR Fic: Letters

Title: Letters
Author: gamerchick02
Show: CSI
Pairing: GSR (Gil/Sara)
Genre: Angst
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I don’t own them. If I did, Sara would never have left.
Summary: Grissom gets letters and responds to them.
Spoilers: Everything that’s aired so far, but mostly Goodbye and Good Luck.
Notes: From Grissom’s POV. Done for now. I’m working on a second part.

Letters

Enjoy. This is angsty.

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Christmas Music

It is a sad state of events when you only hear Bing Crosby at Christmastime singing “White Christmas”.  (*singing* I’m dreaming of a white Christmas/Just like the ones I used to know…*/singing*)

I love listening to old music.  Old, like… 40s and 50s old.  Showtunes.  Pop.  Jazz.  Big band swing.  All of that stuff is great.

*sigh*

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Kubuntu, Pidgin, and how it all works…

I’ve got Kubuntu up, running, and happy, like I said in my earlier post.  I love Kubuntu.  KDE is awesome.

BUT…  I’m getting an error that I’m totally puzzled with.  It has to do with the new d3lphin (dolphin) file manager that they will be rolling out in KDE 4.  Here’s the error:

“Unable to save bookmarks in /home/gamerchick02/.kde/share/apps/d3lphin/bookmarks.xml. Reported error was: Permission denied. This error message will only be shown once. The cause of the error needs to be fixed as quickly as possible, which is most likely a full hard drive.”

Any of the Linux/KDE users have an idea what this means?  I’m stumped, and I’ve tried a couple things.

First I tried:

sudo chown -R gamerchick02:gamerchick02 /home/gamerchick02/.kde

From this I got a “file not found” error.  I think .kde wasn’t found.

Then I gave this a shot:

sudo chown your user ~/.kde/share/apps/d3lphin/bookmarks.xml

Well, I just tried it, and it WORKS.  Yay.  Fixed my problem.  Apparently the ownership got changed somehow, and it didn’t want me to post new “bookmarks” to my dolphin profile.

I have Flock working.  Yay.  I also got Gimp and Pidgin.  I’m having issues with Kopete (again!).  It doesn’t want to connect to MSN.  I use MSN to talk to a couple of people exclusively, and I need that one, since they don’t have any other chat program.

I’m thinking about getting Firefox and a couple of games.  Games rock, especially Suduku, solitare and Yahtzee.  I also like the Blackjack game that came with Gnome for some reason.  At this second, I’m getting a couple emulaters to play SNES, NES and GBA games.  My brother wants it because he aquired some ROMs from a friend of a friend of a friend.  They were on his server… Anyway, he wants to play them.  *grin*

All I have to get done now is fix a problem with my floppy drive not mounting in Dolphin or Konqueror.  Not that big of a deal, but I want the floppy drive to work.  It’s a geek thing.  I can get it to mount in the terminal, but I don’t want that.

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Job Post

I GOT A JOB!!!

Now, before you all get excited, it’s an entry level position at Delphi.  Not too exciting.  It sounds like paper-pushing until I get an opportunity to move into an engineering role.  At this point, I’d take anything to get me in at the ground floor.  I thought the co-op was supposed to do that, but hey.  This job market sucks a big one, so at least I have something.

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Kubuntu Gutsy Upgrade

I did it.  I upgraded to Kubuntu Gutsy.  Well, I’m still kind of in the process, being on a dial-up connection and all.  The CD arrived on Monday and I had it installed and running.  I had to get the updates and such (which is what I’m doing right now) so I have a little while to wait.

I also got Flock up and running.  It was a little difficult at first since I needed a library that I didn’t have.  Anyway, I found what I needed and installed it, and Flock worked.  Ya-hoo.

I’ve found that using apt-get update and apt-get upgrade seem to work better than using adept for these insanly large updates.

I need to get (in order of importance):

1. Firefox
2. Misc. Games (Suduku, solitare, etc)

I got Yakuake, Gimp, ScummVM, Flock and some other games.  That’s the big pain about upgrading…  I have to get my computer back the way it was before I upgraded.  Oh well.

I also want to get Firefox because I think it would be good to have around.

Oh, and right now, I’m getting flash.  Woo-hoo.

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CSI GSR Fic: I Love You

Title: I Love You
Author: gamerchick02
Show: CSI
Pairing: GSR (Gil/Sara)
Genre: Angst
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I don’t own them. If I did, last night’s ep wouldn’t have ever happened.
Summary: What Grissom was thinking after he received the note.
Spoilers: Goodbye and Good Luck (8×07)
Notes: I HAD to get this out. I’ve been thinking about it since the ep was over. Goodbye, Sara.

I Love You

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Fanfiction

Yes, I know that everyone has been waiting for my fanfiction updates!  Well, maybe not…

Anyway, I’ve got a new one up (it will be up in a seperate post).  It’s CSI and is directly related to last night’s ep.

Ok…  Links ahoy!

This is all Inspector Lynley.  I’ve updated both stories to reflect the comments I’ve been receiving from LiveJournal and ff.net.  I’m only posting on dA and ff.net.  So… here we are:

New Beginnings: This one is my serial ILM fic.  Kind of a “getting together” fic.  It relates to Helen’s death and covers all of the eps aired in the USA.  Rated R.  (Four chapters, so far.  I’m working on a fifth.)
The Next Day: My first foray into smut-fic.  Lynley and Havers get together and fun ensues!  Anyway, this one is rated M.  If you don’t like this stuff, don’t read it.  (Two chapters)

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deviantArt Account, CSI News and Fanfic News

I upgraded my deviantArt account. Squee!

Now I have CSS with my journals… which I keep to be fanfic and art related. I post everything of meat-and-potatos over here on livejournal. *grin*

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CSI/Without a Trace crossover tonight! Squee! Must… watch… *grin*

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My fanfic is moving along. I don’t have anything new to post, but I’ve been working on some new ideas. Let’s hope I can get this done soon. Heh. I love it though.

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