The transistion between child and adult; I’m still not sure how anyone really does it. The change from playing in the sandbox to creating a new sandbox that will keep the sand out of the kid’s shorts…how does one really make that change. On June 22, 2008; I graduated from DeVry University. That marked my transistion from child to adult in most eyes and yet I really can’t feel the difference. On July 7, 2008; I started my first day as a Keller Graduate student; what a shock really. I mean, HEY! Here I am…an adult, doing adult things like going to graduate school.
It’s really kinda weird. I am 20 years old, and yet I’m in a class where the youngest person besides myself is 36. Sitting back listening to them complaining about their “children” (wtf are those?? They keep looking at me like I’m supposed to have them!) and mortgages (”Hey mom, how much is the mortgage?”) so in some ways, I’m still just a child in an adult world.

All a really want to do is break out and find myself…where I truly belong and all that. My dream is to travel the world; to see the different places and experience the different cultures; but can I really do that…

Who knows?

So it’s been a long time since I’ve used this thing. So here’s what’s new in the world of r00t. I’ve got a Wii, it’s awesome. Bought Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Twilight Princess, and Super Mario Galaxy. I also got promoted to the full time administrative coordinator position at the local Albertson’s. Difference from that and being the “backup” is about .80 cents and being able to set my own schedule + 40 some hours a week. Hurt me, it comes out to about 300$/week. I’ve begun the latest round of updates as far as the site goes, I’m going to try to provide it with the best of everything, while keeping some stabilty…

But till next time chums,

r00t logging out.

Originally written as a comment, I thought it was worthy of being a post.

Background: In 2005, Ma3lstrom was trying to figure out his wireless problems in *nix, and I gave him a quick link that would help him out, and immediately afterwards I said something to the effect of “…now if you really wanted to fix that you would run sudo rm -rf /” His aim connection was almost immediately lost, and about five minutes later I was on the receiving end of a phone call by a very confused person who could just say “You’re a bastard”. They didn’t immediately figure out what they had done to their precious-just-installed distrobution, but once I explained the flames of hate were quickly roasting warmer….anyways:

In A.D. 2005 war was beginning
What happen?
Someone set up us the RM.
We get no signal.
What?
Main screen turn on.
It’s you!
How are you gentlemen? All your files are belonging to us. You are on the way to destruction.
What you say?
You have no chance to survive, save your pron. Ha ha ha…

All your files your files, files, files
All your files are belong to us
All your files your files, files, files
All your files are belong to us
All your files your files, files, files
All your files are belong to us
All your files your files, files, files
All your files are belong to us

All your files your files, files, files
All your files are belong to us
All your files your files, files, files…

All your files your files, files, files
All your files are belong to us
All your files your files, files, files
All your files are belong to us

For great justice, take off every ‘muziak’
Move ‘forced’, move ‘forced’, move ‘forced’, move ‘forced’
You know what you doing take off every ‘picture’
Move ‘forced’, move ‘forced’, move ‘forced’, move ‘forced’
You know what you doing take off every ‘program’
Move ‘forced’, move ‘forced’, move ‘forced’, move ‘forced’
For great justice take off every ‘directory’
Move ‘forced’, move ‘forced’, move ‘forced’, move ‘forced’
You know what you doing take off everything

All your files your files, files, files
All your files are belong to us
All your files your files, files, files
All your files are belong to us
All your files your files, files, files
All your files are belong to us
All your files your files, files, files…

Move ‘forced’…

files files files files files files files files files files files files files files files files files files You have no chance to survive, save your pr0n

/r00t | Come to think of it…I am a bastard….that’s nothing new… =]

Well it’s been a long time coming but I - Ma3lstrom have finally made the full switch. My laptop which had been running under a dual boot for the past 2 years is now fully N00Buntu (Ubuntu) so I can force myself into actually using it more and more. I’m decent at linux, not as good as Root of course (sudo rm-rf; nuff’ said) but decent and now I’m forcing myself to get better.

I’ve been switched for a week now and I’ve come to really like it. My wireless is working fully, the (non-existant) games are cool, my pokemon bring all the nerds to the yard, transparent terminal works nice, Flash works, and all the other cool stuff; I enjoy it alot.

I’ll post peridoically my experience with it as well as some screenshots of my system too; so keep watch!
~Hopefully this time root won’t trick me into deleting my WHOLE.FRIGGIN.HARD DRIVE.

//Ma3lstrom | Seriously Root. Rm-RF!?

I’m going to try science!

But no seriously, new header image. What does everyone think?

Woo! Finally, the main site redesign is done. After going with Greenlush for over two years, I thought it was finally time to change. The basic functionality is there, but there are a few quirks, like for instance the ‘forum’ link doesn’t link to the page it used to, well parts of it anyway. To access our forums click me.

All functionality and a lot more content is expected soon, so keep watching, and look for more blog updates in the future!

//r00tl1nuxu$r of rootlinuxusr.com

You never realize how fun life can be until time is almost up; why is it always that way?
No I’m not dying or anything like that, just let me explain a bit further.

In 2 months – I will be graduating from University and will be leaving for bigger and better things in my life since it’ll really just beginning. However at this point in my life I will also be forced to leave my current job as a help desk technician for the school as a student employee because – well I won’t be an student there anymore.

Now that doesn’t really sound too bad now does it? You’re leaving a job that pays $8 an hour for something that pays $70,000+ per year right? That’s what your BS degree calls for; if you get your masters then you’re looking at 6 digits easy!

Oh yea, I’ma be doing good in a bit alright.

But that’s not the problem.

I love my current job. Not the job itself per-say but the people that come along with the job I love like my own family. We’ve been together for about 3 years and in the next 2 months we’ll all be going our separate ways. And I realized how much that’ll hurt this weekend when we all went out.

You never realize how much you’ll miss it till it’s gone right? Well that’s the story here as well. You never truly realize how much you’ll miss a group of people till you start playing Livin’ La Vida Loca in a quiet office and without a word to each other you all stand up and start dancing in the middle of the hallway ignoring all the crazy looks that the people around are giving you and just jamming to crazy stuff.

You never realize how much you’ll miss a group of people till you start singing songs that you shouldn’t even know together in complete unison and scaring the hell outta the boss and other co-workers.

It’s that type of fun that you never want to give up.

The people I work with are literally a second family to me and I honestly wish that I had realized that a bit earlier; but since we only have 2 more months we’re going to wear the hell out of them. We’re going partying every week.

I guess what I’m trying to say is; you never know when something good is going to end so try to live everyday like it’s going to end tomorrow. Love, life, freedom – it can all go away in the blink of an eye. None of it is promised to you; nothing is. You have to work to gain it you have to work to keep it.

Just never forget the good times.

And try to keep them alive.

//Ma3lstrom. - Now if you’ll excuse me, I got a bowling trip for 20 to plan.

Well its raining here. I hate the rain. Nobody is outside having fun or gathering people to go do stuff. The rain makes my life boring and not perfect at all. So I decide to get some work done. Well me and everybody else on campus it seems. So now I have to wait for a certain computer to do my thing on because you know Linux nor my computer will support the software called Pro-Tools. Sadly there is an Alternative but I’m not allowed to use it. This sucks. So I now have to wait inside a very warm studio for a computer running an operating system I don’t want to use.

Well I get in there and by that time i have at least sweat off 2 pounds because of the heat. Then I get down to mixing finally. The stupid snare drum wont EQ to save its’ life. So now Im frustrated over things that probably could have been fixed by the simple fact that I had to use a University Mac in a small room with a bunch of guys walking in and out.

I so desperatly want a Linux Recording Studio in a room with Air Conditioning!

Chasing Perfection of Rootlinuxusr.com

Images modified and redone in the style of “The Last Supper”

Same theory, using mogrify to resize at 1440*990. Windiz Bless, modified.

=p

//r00t.