marcmagus | Secret Decoder Ring

I have been informed that some of my recent posts here and to my Twitter account have been less than clear to the lay reader. I accordingly offer the following translations:

"Congratulations, you are the baddest motherfucker in the galaxy now!": The devnull tournament has a "Unknown Challenge" every year (Unknown because they don't tell you what it is). These both indicate that I completed it. See the LJ post for more details on the challenge.
ARGH!! I "upgraded" xorg, and it completely stopped working...they renamed the driver for my video card. And fixing it is...having problems.: xorg is the part of Linux which allows it to display graphical things including a GUI. Without it it's like using a computer running DOS circa 1988. They released an upgrade to this key component of my operating system, and the people who made the upgrade cleverly designed it in a way that it required reconfiguring to work with my video card, but didn't *mention* that. This caused things to stop working correctly.
emerge -avtuND world: Update everything installed on the system. (That post is about how a particular upgrade which came out recently is a little extra-tricky if you don't do it exactly right.)
e2fsprogs, etc.: Important programs, without which my system will not operate correctly. Notably, they are required to be in working order for the program which updates bits of the system to operate correctly. Notice that having them get messed up when upgrading them therefore creates a major problem.
drm: Direct Rendering Manager -- a component which allows the computer to take advantage of advanced features of video cards released after 1995.
hup: Hangup. In this case, my computer has been randomly freezing approximately every 4 hours for the past few days. I'm playing nethack on a remote server, and I was concerned that the loss of connection could cause my games in progress to be messed up. I've been lucky.
04:48 < oracle> *** magus (Kni Hum Mal Law), 1937255 points, ascended. [Washington DC 1]: I won a game of nethack in the /dev/null/nethack tournament (abbreviated devnull). I played a lawful male human knight, on the Washington DC 1 server. This being my first ascension (win) of the tournament, it earns me a Dilithium Star.
x11-drm: See above regarding DRM. This is the package which supplies DRM support. Apparently the latest versions of it don't work with my hardware. I've now had to learn this twice, and I'd prefer to avoid a third time.