Not Wack

You can listen to the entire new Thursday album, "War All The Time," on mtv.com’s The Leak.  (OK, the name "The Leak" is probably at least somewhat wack.  But the idea isn’t.)  This, a week before the album is actually released.  Of course, I’m a big geek so I pre-ordered my copy of the album 2 weeks ago  : )  But that’s just because Thursday is pretty much my favorite band.

In other exciting news, my musicbox now displays the temperature of the CPU on the LCD screen.  The new motherboard I got for it a few weeks ago has temperature sensors built in, so I installed the i2c and lmsensors packages (and they installed without any problems whatsoever, which is highly unusual on a Linux system).  Also, I realized 2 really obvious ways to make the screen scroll much faster: 1) copy the lcdwriter program into RAM before executing it, and 2) only do the LCD initialization once, at boot time, instead of every time I write any characters to the LCD.  So with those 2 improvements, it scrolls just a shade less than real-time -- it’s really really fast and smooth.