Geekin’ out

Well, that’s done. The hub is plugged in to the router. I have 3 ports of 100 base T goodness (2 in use) directly from the router, and 5 ports of 10 base T goodness, none of which are in use.

I find it amazing that in a house of two macs and one (non-working) PC, it’s the ancient PC that’s the graphics machine. Parallel port scanner, zip drive, and cd-burner. Oh yeah. Bottleneck at the motherboard, baby.

Oh, and just in case I don’t say it enough in public:

I love .

Geekitude

I think, when I get home from work, I will add the hub into the mix as far as my cable modem and router go, thereby doubling the number of computers that can connect to my apartment’s network.

I haven’t done something like this just because I could in a very long time.

“I could fuck up some gophers! What are you gonna do, butter ’em?”

There is a phrase from the trip to visit that was noted as “LJ-worthy”. For the life of me, I can’t remember it.

Routers are stupid-easy to set up via web interfaces. Well, at least Netgear made-for-cable-modem-and-DSL routers are. Now I’m going to have to see if I can tweak it and mess with it. Any suggestions, ?

Yesterday was a good day all around, really. Thank you, , , , and . I’m tellin’ you, though, those Li’l Chef fries were undercooked.

Time to learn about RAID technology from Apple. Wonder if they’ve got anything I don’t know yet.

Normal
You’re a Normal. This doesn’t necessarily mean you
are dull and conformative (although it might).
It might just mean you’re a little bit of
everything, which isn’t bad.

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Yoinked from .

Thoughts while attempting to work.

I know I got sleep last night. I got quality sleep. I’m still tired. This annoys me a great deal.

Rackmount servers are the shit, but why have one in a home? Better to use older machines for things like linux-based routers, and get a minitower or tower rack for the closet.

I think my lunch break will include much Robert Jordan.

Connect Successful

Cable modem has been wonderfully re-installed. They took the RCA. They dropped off a Motorla Surfboard. Dig it. No more multiple IP’s. They say that if customers want to run their own network, they can, they just need to get a router and set up NAT themselves. *blink* They’re not only allowing it, they’re encouraging it.

Anyone want to recommend a decently-priced multi-port router with NAT for me?

Oh. And I have an interview for a tech job on Saturday with GarbCo, 7-Eleven’s parent company. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

Good Morning

There’s a slight pressure originating from inside my noggin that presses outward. This is a grogginess thing that usually goes away when I take a shower. I should take a shower.

I’ve removed Linux from my machine. I’m sorry, , but RedHat 7.2 just wasn’t working like I needed it to. One of my main apps looks like it will only run under windows, and I don’t really want to go to the trouble of having both OS’s on a 6-gig drive. I’d have to log out for the damn thing to unmount my zip drive as well. Just too much.

Today is likely to be a bit of a tilt-o-whirl. Hopefully the cotton candy and hot dogs won’t come back up on me. I swear there’s something wierd about this . Heheheheheh.

Writing and Geekdom

I now understand the motivation behind rewriting. I feel a fevered anticipation. I promised a completed Chapter 1 by the end of next week, and he’ll get it, even with the re-write. I’ll have to have him re-read the intro as well.

I got a Soundwave poster and rented an anime DVD yesterday. I found myself visually drinking in my surroundings, and those in them.

I crave a laptop with an internal zip drive. It would be perfect if it was used and cheap. Anybody? PC or Mac, no biggie to me. I could settle for USB support, but my zip drive isn’t USB powered. It’s got its own plug. Maybe I should just save up for a cheap used laptop with USB support and a USB-powered zip drive.

In other geek news, I ran across a 3.5″ floppy disk yesterday that was labeled simply “Book”. So I popped it in, and noticed the disk was going bad. I recovered what files I could, and I have eight text files. One entitled “Prelude”, and the rest are labeled 1 through 7.

It’s an old, old, old attempt at writing out an AD&D adventure in the worlds my best friend and I had created. Ok, so here’s my first attempt at a poll: