Dumb lady at Jack in the Box

So today I went to lunch with my friend at around noon at Jack in the Box. We finish lunch and head back to my car to head back to work. As we are walking, we are passing the drive-thru. The drive-thru actually starts once you pull into the lot and goes all the way around. First you pull in, go to the order menu and then pull around to the window where they take the cash and give you the order. Well there is actually a break in the drive-thru where you could easily just pull right in and bypass everyone. You wouldn't get to place your order but you can get into the line.

Well anyway, as we are walking, I see this lady in this little red car pull into that open section of the drive-thru. I started laughing and said to my friend "HA! That lady is dumb!". Then I kept looking back to see if anything was happening. Well we get to my car and start to leave. But then I thought,.. wait,.. I want to see what happened to that lady. So I turn around and go back and now i can see her car is hanging off the edge of a high curb section of the line. This is hilarious!!! Not only did she break into the line, but now she is trying to exit out of the line.

So me and my friend couldn't resist. I went ahead and parked so we could walk over and get a closer look. By the time we got there, about 6 or 7 people walked up there. We all were kinda laughing at the stupidity of the situation but knew we needed to help this lady. So we altogether, on the count of 3, lifted that car off the curb and back to the order lane. Now for the 3rd dumb thing she did. As we start lifting, she quickly jumps out of her car. Ok,.. so um,.. WHO'S GOING TO PRESS THE BRAKE WHEN WE PUT THE CAR DOWN? LOLOLOL. So we yell at her,.. "Get in the car and press the brake!!!!" as this car came within inches of the car behind her. Yeesh!

Needless to say, I'm sure she must've been embarrassed beyond recognition because she just left. She never did order any food. And I do hope she was taking her car to get it looked at because after all that, it looked like she leaked a bunch of stuff on the curb. Brand new car too. So sad. How do people like that even get licenses in the first place? =)

Below are 2 pictures we took. I took the one of the car after we lifted it back into the lane and the other is a close up of the wheel hanging off the curb. I'm not sure who the people in the picture are. Just some of the bystanders who helped lift the car up.







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Install Nvidia drivers on Red Hat 9 or RHEL3

This guide will help you install Nvidia drivers on a Linux based computer system that has an Nvidia card. This guide assumes you are using Red Hat Enterprise 3 or Red Hat 9 (or something along those lines. This guide would probably work ok for Fedora too. Not sure about SuSE or Ubuntu though.)

Basically, after a default installation, you will want to try to install your Nvidia drivers. You go to Nvidia.com, you try to pick out the right driver, you go to install and you have no luck. You probably get errors similar to what I have written below. Well, here is what is happening as best as I understand it...

The computer will try to take the Nvidia drivers and basically compile those drivers into the Linux kernel. But after a default install, the kernel source files aren't there. You either have to put them on the computer by copying from the CD or downloading from a repository of some sort. So in my opinion, the best thing to do is to just copy from the CD you installed from. In Ubuntu, you probably just download it, but with Fedora or Red Hat, use the CD.

Ok, so now you should have the kernel source file and the nvidia driver located together in one directory (can be anywhere, just as long as you know where).

Problems: These are the messages you will get if it's not setup up properly.

No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you like the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel from the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)?

ERROR: Unable to find the kernel header files for the currently funning kernel. Please make sure you have installed the kernel header files for your kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel header files are installed, you may specify the kernel include path with the --kernel-include-path' commandline option.

ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com

Solution:

1. Install and configure Red Hat Enterprise 3 as best as you can. Configure NFS, NIS, etc. if you like. Or just jump right away into this...
   
   
2. Be sure you are in run level 3 (text mode) before doing all this.
   
   # vi /etc/inittab
   id:3:initdefault: <-- make sure number value is a 3 so you boot to text mode # reboot
3. Determine kernel release
   
   # uname -r
   2.4.21-40.EL
   
   
   
4. Install kernel source rpm file. First, get it from from one of the CD's (either CD-3 of the install CD's or use the CD that I made (which if you are reading this from my blog, then you probably don't have it.) Just make sure the kernel release numbers match up before proceeding or you might have to format/reinstall).
   
   # rpm -ivh /full_path_to_rpm/kernel-source-2.4.21-4.EL.i386.rpm
   
   
   
5. If all goes well, Then try to run the Nvidia driver. In this example, I assume you copied everything to /tmp
   
   # cd /tmp

I assume you have the Nvidia driver. In this case, this is the one I am using. You can go to nvidia.com and get one from there too. It might be a newer version too.
I just happen to like this one because I know it works with what I have.

# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8756-pkg1.run

Note: You might get an error message similar to one of the ones above, but keep going and let it recompile. You should see a progress indicator which shows that it's working. It will say it's finished at the end. Then you can change /etc/inittab back to run level 5

# vi /etc/inittab
id:5:initdefault: <-- make sure number value is a 5 so you boot to graphical mode # reboot

Please feel free to comment if you find any mistakes here. Thanks in advance.
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