Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

Posted on Sunday, March 7, 2010 in Twitter Updates
  • is actually making an effort to run on 24-hour time #
  • keeps trying to fast-forward live tv. It doesn't work very well. #
  • is unable to sleep. #
  • alright, off to campus, if I have to. #
  • has had enough of the Internetz. Off to bed. #
  • apparently ndsu secure likes to just disappear and reappear, messing w/ my wifi client #
  • is on a call, back hopefully by 9am. #
  • 8:35a, just made it. #
  • now back to campus, and then for more food. #
  • I do believe it's Friday. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 in Twitter Updates
  • Requesting an invite for Tweetboard Alpha (http://tweetboard.com) by @140ware, for my site: http://andrewrlynch.com #
  • reminds yous of the code amongs guys who shook Sinatra's hand #
  • is seeing how long until I go out to eat again. So far so good… #
  • is very tired, and very bored, cause I expelled all my energy on HW. #
  • if anyone asks, we're on a diplomatic mission to Alderan #
  • making coffee in a French press. #
  • just plopped down some money for MATLAB. #
  • Id like to find some people who don't use dropbox and have them use this referral link https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTQ1NDczNTk #
  • updating Fourier to Debian 5.0.4. Had enough of Ubuntu 9.10 and its failures #
  • is pissed off at The MathWorks for denying my student status, since they approved another student based on the same criteria (ID card). #
  • bored… #
  • my car didn't act very nice last night. I think something might be wrong with the G-Diffuser… #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 in Twitter Updates
  • is heading back today. Hopefully the roads aren't too bad #
  • thar be White Castle in me future… #
  • networking seems to be down at NDSU. Can't hit any vital services. That's not good… #
  • is feelin pretty terrible this morning #
  • 0118 999 881 999 119 7253 #
  • instituted emergency taco protocol #12 #
  • in regards to FB beeing wonky today: just remember how much you paid for it… #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-15

Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 in Twitter Updates
  • is tired, and disappointed that the weather has improved #
  • Let's see if my shipment can get here before Friday: http://ping.fm/dNEdK #
  • tomorrow looks to be a nice day for driving…I hope… #
  • is watching Cars with his sweetsie pie #
  • is not really happy about the road conditions currently, tomorrow will be better…I think #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-08

Posted on Monday, February 8, 2010 in Twitter Updates
  • would like to go back to bed, thank you. #
  • built a thermometer out of an Arduino, a 16×2 LCD, and a DS18S20 digital temp sensor. Nerdy? Absolutely. #
  • hmmm, it seems dining services has changed lids on their sodas. I should twitter about this. #
  • for now it is time to go to campus…and stuff… #
  • I really do hate CentOS. But, it seems to be the only OS that will nicely do the job for this app. Dangit. #
  • is thinking about going to BWW for lunch. And walking, because its a nice day. #
  • is up early, and may go to breakfast #
  • really should do some cleaning #
  • has just about everything he needs for tomorrow, except a new antenna. #
  • is there some sort of sporting event today? #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-01

Posted on Monday, February 1, 2010 in Twitter Updates
  • is heading for work, because NDSU apparently thinks conditions are good enough, although FPS, WF, and MHD cancelled #
  • Papa Johns ROCKS! Only pizza place nearby that is crazy enough to weather the storm. #
  • is not bored and has plenty to do at work. #
  • Oh goody, a woot-off. If only it could be paired with starting late at NDSU…but no…. #
  • has been wicked busy. Dangit. #
  • doesn't like cooking on an electric range anymore. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-25

Posted on Monday, January 25, 2010 in Twitter Updates
  • Perkins, then the trip home. #
  • has returned. NAPTIME #
  • has a new pizza to get: pep, ham, onion, tomato, green pepper #
  • this cherry coke needs a straw… #
  • has been really busy. Now for bed. #
  • time to head for campus. If I have to. #
  • is weather-emergency ready. #
  • is DANGEROUSLY low on chili powder….crap… #
  • is actually kind of bored this morning. #
  • Queens are down by 7. Good stuff. #
  • Queens scored, dangit. #
  • Vikings LOSE! #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-18

Posted on Monday, January 18, 2010 in Twitter Updates
  • meh first day of classes for this semester. Meh, I say. #
  • why on Earth does a story about Hoeven's moustache come up before the Haiti Earthquake??? #
  • is digesting the Olive Garden. #
  • is in his first class of the day. And is hungry. Fiddlesticks. #
  • apparently I missed this one. http://xkcd.com/327/ #
  • just bought a new toy: Zotac MAG-HD-ND01 #
  • Einstein, my first big PC turned server, has died. Motherboard failure or overheated proc. #
  • 1 class, little bit of work, packing, and a drive to Mpls. Oooo boy. #
  • has arrived in Mpls. #
  • dinner hath been ordered…and I want it NOW! #
  • I always tell them, I like toast. #

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RIP Einstein (2003-2010)

Posted on Thursday, January 14, 2010 in Nerdy, Personal

Einstein in his final days

Einstein, my first desktop PC turned home server in the corner, has passed on to the great /dev/null in the sky.

When I first bought him, back in 2003, he was but a refurbished Dell Dimension 2350, with a mere 128MB of RAM. It was the fruit of a summer working for my parents. He arrived while I was at work, and I begged to go home and set him up to play with the then fun new features of Windows XP. That Christmas, I got my first real video game, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, along with a 256MB memory upgrade. Einstein could be called a gaming machine. We had great fun playing with the new Windows Movie Maker 2.0, too.

Einstein soon outgrew his integrated video adapter. I had been browsing the local computer stores for a PCI graphics card, for Einstein only had PCI, no AGP. I found a nice GeForce FX 5200 at OfficeMax for a reasonable price. I added it, and suddenly I could run games at 1024×768! It seriously brought Einstein up to current standards for the time.

Original Dimension 2350

Original Dimension 2350

The next great improvement was a new 120GB IDE HD and a 512MB stick of RAM, making the two slots add to 768MB, around 2006. It vastly improved storage over the 30GB stock HD that came with him. Now I  could have all my games installed at once without swapping back and forth between the big ones. And, everything was much zippier.

When I purchased Galileo in 2007, Einstein started to move to a server role. He didn’t play nice with the video card anymore, which I’ve now found to be defective. I installed Ubuntu Server edition, and Einstein had new life. It was my first home server experience. I installed VMWare Server and ran some virtual machines. I also installed TeamSpeak 2, and ran a voice chat server while in games.

In his last year, he has been my NAS/Print/Remote access server, as well as a TeamSpeak 2 and TS3 server that just sat in the corner and never bothered anyone. He had solid uptime, was quiet (comparatively), and never made a fuss about updates or errors. In his final days I was contemplating reinstalling the OS, but it was so rock solid that I didn’t see the urgency. He’s in a better place now.

I’ve already began working on ghostofeinstein, a virtual machine to take over the duties that Einstein has left behind.

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