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Obituary

ROBERT H. LYNCH, 86 LOVING HUSBAND, FATHER AND GRANDFATHER ROCKFORD – Robert H. Lynch, 86, died Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center, after a courageous battle with cancer. Born March 2, 1923, in Rockford, the son of Harold and Opal (Quandt) Lynch. Graduate of Rockford High School, Class of 1940. Bob served in the U.S. Navy, from 1940 to 1946, on the USS Purvis and USS Badger. On July 17, 1944, he was united in marriage to Rose Margaret Dorsey in Rockford. Bob was a tool and die maker by trade. He and Rose owned and operated Lynch’s Bony Lake Resort in Barnes, Wis., until their retirement in 1987. They moved back to Rockford and became members of St. Bridget Catholic Church, and Bob took time to enjoy his many home improvement projects. Survivors include loving wife of 64 years, Rose; sons, Stephen (Catherine) of Hayward, Wis., Michael (Linda) of Rockford, Raymond of Waukegan, Patrick of Wesby, Wis., and Rob (Kelly) of Fargo, N.D.; daughter, Cheryl (Gary) Regan of Mendota Heights, Minn.; 10 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; sisters, Alice Pinney and Joyce Kennedy; and many other relatives and friends. Predeceased by parents; and brothers, Donald and Roger. Funeral Mass at 10 a.m. Friday, June 12, in St. Bridget Catholic Church (600 Clifford Ave., Loves Park). Interment in Calvary Catholic Cemetery. Visitation from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 11, in Fitzgerald Funeral Home, Riverside Chapel, 3910 N. Rockton Ave., with a rosary service recited at 7 p.m. Visitation also from 9 to 9:45 a.m. Friday in the church. In lieu of flowers, memorials to the family for a fund to be established at a later date. Extend online condolences at: www.fitzgeraldfh.com.

For updated information, visit http://www.caringbridge.com/visit/boblynch

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New Apartment

Alright, I know it’s been a long time since I’ve posted, but I have a good reason. I’ve now moved into a new apartment. It is a luxurious 1-bedroom unit located in North Fargo. It’s pretty close to campus, and is a convenient distance to walk to work. I have posted some pictures on Picasa. I’m hoping to put them up here soon.

As far as the site design goes, I’m going to redo it soon. I’m not really happy with the new template, but I wanted a change from the old one. I may just have to give up and write a new one from scratch. That’ll be a weekend project when I have a free weekend. Lately I’ve been shopping for supplies or getting food. Or cleaning. Cleaning is good.

Also, in total nerd form, I do have a fully functional corporate network running at my apartment, complete with DNS (fully qualified) and an Active Directory domain. I am hosting Teamspeak and Jabber chat, and have local network storage on two different servers.

Yes, nerdy.

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Spammed

stupidaimspamAlright, I hate spam as much as the next person. But AIM spam? Honestly. After I posted the WootOff entry, I instantly got a message from some random person on AIM telling me that my mother gave them swine flu. I never respond to these (I’ve gotten a couple before) and always block the user afterward.

Anyone else had an interesting spam experience? Leave a note about it in the comments!

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Fargo Marathon

My brother ran in the Fargo Marathon this morning, in the 5K run. I took some cool video of the start of the full marathon, as well as the start of the 5K run. Enjoy!

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This is the 5K start.

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SlapChop

I found this in one of the gadget blogs. It’s freaking hilarious.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRyj5cHIQA[/youtube]

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On Vista 64-Bit…

You are allowed to shed a tear. I have switched over to Windows Vista Business 64-bit on my personal full-time use desktop. Many of you probably know that I hate Vista. I still do. The ONLY reason I switched over, is for the 64-bit compatibility. For those of you who don’t know what the heck 64-bit is, here’s a quick explaination.

In the modern computing world, there are two different classes of operating systems. For the longest time, 32-bit was the only type of operating system available. 32-bit refers to how memory is addressed inside the computer, and how CPU instructions can access memory. A technical limitation of most 32-bit operating systems (Any Windows before XP, most Vista installs that come on store-bought computers) is a 3.25 GB memory limit. Even if you pump a computer full of 16 GB of memory, it will only see up to 3.25 GB. 64-bit, in contrast, allows for a much higher memory limit (on the order of 2 TB I think). I have 4 GB in my desktop, and now with Vista 64-bit, I can use all 4 GB, and add more (4 more GB went on sale last week, and made me think more about the switch).

So the question arises: why not use Windows XP 64-bit? Well, I did consider it. Drivers were available for most of my products, but not all of them. Also, Windows XP 64-bit is buggy, and was one of Microsoft’s first 64-bit operating systems. Usually Microsoft’s first try at something has a lot of problems, and is lacking in a lot of things. Vista 64-bit is a little more polished, and I’m finding that Vista is being supported by more and more things.

I have not COMPLETELY switched, though. I will be running Ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop (full time, no extra Windows partition). It does have a Windows VM for some products I use at work that are Windows only. I have also retained my XP Pro installation on this desktop so that if Vista just pisses me off too much, I can switch back for some relief. So far I haven’t run into any incompatability (out and out things not working), but I just don’t like the way Vista has reorganized everything. The jump from Win 98 to Win XP was major, but simple. Very few things were moved around, everything still had the same look and feel. The control panel names were the same for the most part. Vista was terrible to switch to. Add/Remove programs (begins with A, top of the list) has been replaced with Programs and Features (begins with P, some place deep in the list). It’s little things like that that annoy me with Vista.

Alright, enough ranting. I just can’t wait for Windows 7. I call it “Vista that doesn’t suck so bad”. RC comes out May 5th to the public, out now for TechNet and MSDN subscribers.

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New Apartment

If you haven’t heard the news, or don’t stalk me as much as you’d like to, I finally got an apartment for the summer. I didn’t do the best job searching as I could have. I kinda went with the first one I saw. But it is obnoxiously close to campus, just one block away. It’s a 1-bedroom, on the third floor of a nice building. They just replaced all the windows, and fixed up the hallways so that it looks quite nice. The ceilings are sloped, but I can live with that.

I hope to post more this weekend. It’s been a rough week, with a speech due tomorrow, a test yesterday, and a full complement of homework.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-12

  • Now let’s see if I can resume college….nope I don’t think the button works anymore. #
  • has rounded out by feeling physically, socially, and mentally like crap. Goodie. #
  • is pissed off that NDSU doesn’t give one of their cultural diversity/global perspective credits to SOC 110. #
  • gets to see Anna soon. Just have to get through this day… #
  • got Woot! lites. And will be going to MPLS soon. #
  • is putting serious thought to just going to mpls early #
  • is SIR DOCTOR OF TARDIS! #
  • also had a very good day. And now will be going to bed soon. #
  • was really looking forward to a good apt hunt. And apparently I just fail at that. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-05

  • should go to sleep. And post messages more often. #
  • is heading for campus soon. Back at it I suppose. #
  • that was terribly depressing. Dining services isn’t really in full operation. Subpar dinner #
  • thinks that looked like the primary buffer panel. It did seem to resemble the primary buffer panel. #
  • is not ready for school again, cause it’s gonna be tough. Two weeks lost is not a good thing. #
  • has an EPIC amount of zip ties. #

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HTML Business Cards

I’m a nerd. If you haven’t figured that out yet, then you should probably get your glasses checked. Being a nerd, I decided that my business cards needed to reflect my nerdiness. Hence, now my new business cards are in HTML-ese. Even more nerdy, I put a web address on my cards that takes you to a site all about me.

bcfront-updatedThis site has a list of the sites I have worked on or for, and a list of the technologies I’m familiar with. Also, my resume is available there. So, if you want to hire me, give me a call, send me a message, or leave a comment in this post. I could use the income.

BTW: The URL for the site will be http://bc.andrewrlynch.com, but until that gets up, the temporarly location is here.

UPDATE: Yes, I know, my original post of my card didn’t have the <li> closed. I have corrected it, as you can see. I have to admit, I don’t use <li> that often, and was under the impression that you didn’t have to close it. Though, that might be from an old, old version of HTML.