Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-25
- 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! #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-18
- 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. #
Powered by Twitter Tools
RIP Einstein (2003-2010)
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 1024x768! It seriously brought Einstein up to current standards for the time.
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.
A test, from Drivel
Good Morning!
I've been setting up new and exciting things on my Linux laptop. All to get ready for another wonderful semester of learning. Well, not really. I'm mostly procrastinating on other things, like cleaning my kitchen. I've now set up Drivel, a product that allows you to post to a wordpress blog, such as this one, from Linux. It means that I don't have to log in to the site every time I want to post. However, if you want pretty pictures, I have to go in and put them in after the fact. Mildly annoying, but worth not having to log in for a simple post.
So what do I have on tap for this semester? Why, many fun and exciting classes! I have Assembly programming, Random Processes, Technical Writing (yes, another English class) and Senior Design 1 (meaning I'm getting close to graduating). I hope they all go well. I spent nearly $340 on books, only 3 of them, and I'm hoping that it isn't a rough semester.
Well, that's all for now. Time to tackle the kitchen, I suppose.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-11
- knows he's a nerd when the bites out of his hamburger makes him think of a Star Trek ship. Ferengi to be precise #
- NOW HAS POSTIT NOTES AT WORK! #
- always takes Conan responsibly. #
- good morning, Interwebz, hopefully my packages get here today, and I get some stuff on SparkFun FREE DAY! #
- got nothing from Free Day. And I blame the script kiddies. #
- Been a long day. Got a new TB HD, watched some Top Gear, and some nifty chips (LM3916's) #
- who needs cable when you have TWiT Live @ CES to watch? #TWiT http://live.twit.tv #
- will knock four times. #
Powered by Twitter Tools
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-04
- hmm, Internet, should I buy Burnout: Paradise? #
- Vikings FTL. Tis a good evening. #
- is playing with the puppy. #
- has completed playing with the puppy. #
- has to go get blood drawn this morning. Goody. #
- has a New Year's Resolution of 1920x1080. #
- alright FedEx, let's try not to suck today. Both pkgs are on trucks, but only one will be delivered. Does that seem odd to anyone else? #
- has been messing with the Arduino all day. Not much with the PICAXE, but it requires a RadioShack run. #
- was that the primary buffer panel? #
- awesome: http://bit.ly/5jz3ko #
Powered by Twitter Tools
About Me
Greetings! I'm an IT professional that decided to purchase his own domain name and website. Isn't that what everyone does?
Leukemia Fund Donation
- I love Dropbox because Syncs homework to all my machines. http://t.co/jXkDITuZ
- I will not throw up today. There I said it.
- @DIRECTVService HD Feed, still doing it now. Seems to affect music more than voice.
- @directv Any reason channel 231 is having audio issues? All my other chans are fine.
- Just hanging out. (@ Sanford Hospital) http://t.co/w74fWte7
- I spent a couple of hours at a house fire tonite. Now to rest up for a long day tomorrow.
- Curling up in front of @RedZoneChannel and ready for some football!
- @Simply_A_Muse_D Was it you that knew the owner of Dickey's BBQ?
- @Simply_A_Muse_D sorry I was helping Nancy. And yes, this was sent from the iPad.
- @Simply_A_Muse_D got back on Friday. Was very warm, very busy, and I'm glad to be home!