October 29, 2001
October has been a dismal month. My first month of unemployment has come and gone without so much as any sign that a job opportunity will pass my way any time soon. I have enough money saved up to tide me over for a few months, but I'd rather not have to spend it.
I've been trying pretty hard to find a job, but it seems that with all of the companies advertising positions, none of them seem to eager to follow up on them. Companies rarely - if ever - call back, obviously feeling they can simply ignore those who have expressed interest in their organization. It's totally unprofessional, and makes me wonder how such blatant disregard for common decency can exist in today's corporate environment. (Since when were corporations about decency, right?)
Anyway, I'm still looking for that one company that says "Hey! We can use you, and we think you'll like working for us." I'm hoping I find one soon, because life has become awfully stale and meaningless right now.
(08:54)
Update: I've been doing a bit of tinkering this morning, and I managed to get Linux booting on my Sega Dreamcast. I threw in the ethernet adapter and fired it up, but the networking settings in the image wanted configuration via DHCP.
I brought down all the network settings, hacked out a new /etc/network/interfaces file from scratch, and fired it back up via ifup eth0. Ping was now working, so I banged out a quick little /etc/resolv.conf for DNS, fixed /etc/hosts for the lo interface, and rewrote a blank /etc/hosts.deny. Everything then became functional. I was able to telnet into the Dreamcast, surf the web from the Dreamcast using lynx, and screw around with it as if it were just another machine on the network.
(11:13)
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