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Most of the wall of boxes is gone. Unpacked, broken down, and either in my car or stacked. We have a window in the dining room!
There’s awesome stuff hung up on the walls.
There’s books on the shelves.
I’m wearing a green shirt. (Why would I say that? How often have you seen me wear green?)
I pulled Slag (Compaq 266 mhz) out of the stack of computers in the basement, to see if it’d survived sliding around in my trunk for a few months. I mean, the hard drive was failing when I was using it for proof of concept at LW. It booted once, but I was getting a ton of write errors when running the apt-get update on it. So, the Quantum Bigfoot drive died, and I’ve replaced it with another drive – smaller in size, higher in capacity. Upgrade from 4 gb to 6 gb, I think. Anyway, the first of the two 8-port ATI hubs I got at MSU Surplus ($2 each) works, and Slag is halfway through its bare-bones Debian install.
I didn’t know how to dispose of the hard drive properly, because you’re not supposed to just toss a lot of computer parts. A quick Google search brought Back Thru the Future up, and so I’m sending the drive to New Jersey for recycling. If they can make some bucks on the aluminum that’s in the drive casing, and the steel that’s inside it, I’m all for it. Yay for profitable recycling.
I miss Aidan already.
A link: To the media: Do your job. Long article, but worth the read.
We’re moved in to the house! Holy cats. We keep finding more little things that need work, and our landlord/repair guy team are being responsive and actually seem happy that we’re relaying this stuff to them. They’re not annoyed that they have to fix things. They seem to -want- to make sure the house is up to par. It seems that they get that fixing things now means less work than having to fix a cascading failure later.
That sounded geekier than intended. In that vein, Ubuntu installs have a habit of being at 33% of whatever they’re doing when I look at them.
Yes, I’m a little sleep deprived, why do you ask?
While
Prepping CentoS for a Xen install now. Man, this post keeps swinging back toward the geek-centric content, doesn’t it? Why am I even a little bit surprised?
Much of my computer stuff has already been moved into the basement, where a wall-mounted workbench and metal shelving unit await their transformation into the SETI@Home for Twilight Computers. I’m not sure if any of the 486 machines survived, or if my oldest down there is a Pentium. In any case once Comcast (some would say, the devil) comes by on Wednesday, I’ll finally have the wired connection I need to sink my teeth into that project. Not that I’ll have the free time to nurture it, but whatever. Debian pretty much runs on its own, once it’s set up.
Maybe some of the cardboard forest will be defeated tomorrow. Wish us luck! :)
There’s about a billion things in my head that I keep wanting to get out, so I’m going to do a couple at a time.
This weekend’s move will start at 11 AM, and we’ll meet at my current apartment. Tomorrow is a packing/get water and gas turned on/grocery shopping day, and I should have the whole place packed by the end of the day. If you need directions, or the address or some such, just drop me a phone call or a comment here.
I desperately need to shave my face.
Remember that cassette tape MP3 player that I’ve been gushing about? This one? Well, I finally spent part of my Micro Center gift card on SD cards for it, and it… has issues. It spazzes out with anything longer than a four-minute song on MP3 when it comes to pausing and resuming. It ejects from my car’s tape player with an E11 error – broken tape. So, it’s basically useless to me. I ordered the thing back around my birthday, in early May, and so I figured I was stuck with it. No harm in trying to return it, though, right?
I e-mailed ThinkGeek with the situation, quoted this spot from the ad:
You will have no problems listening to hours of your favorite songs via the built-in SD card slot, and you can easily change to different songs if you have multiple SD Cards.
and got an email back the next day with a shipping label, RMA number, and apologies. So, I’ve packaged it up, labeled it, and sent it back. They’re going to give me a full refund. I think I’ll end up with a microSD-expandable Sansa player, because I want to be just like
The car has glass in it, and is able to be driven. Which puts me back to the repair that I was -about- to have done before a tree fell on it. Heh.
Ever see a seven year old video game lover walk into an arcade for the first time? I have, and it was just about the coolest thing ever. I even have one of those cheesy four-picture Polaroids to commemorate it. It’s hanging in my cube, labeled “My first Father’s Day, Hunter & Dave, June 2008.” Also, he told the waitress at Emil’s that I was his “part-Dad”, and I don’t think that I could have smiled any bigger. If you’re scratching your head, wondering how a guy without kids celebrated Father’s Day, read this post.
I have fifteen virtual servers running SETI@home on an OpenVZ test box. I’ve been working on this project in my spare time here at work for a long time, and it feels like I’ve earned a whole slew of geek points.
This is the last post from Skids, my Toshiba Satellite laptop.
That is IT. This laptop is meeting eBay very quickly.
Attention Canonical:
Please do not use a piece of beta software as the primary/default browser for your next release of Ubuntu. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is sucking so loud I cannot hear my industrial beats.
In short, don’t do this:
SUCK > 00NTZ
Thank you, please drive through.