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<< August 10, 2003 >>
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this was a busy weekend.

much of (late) friday and saturday were spent working on simcity with phik and joe. we are scoffing at their implementation of online play, and enduring our own hack where we manually update the different cities in our region. it is going pretty well, i guess.

joey and phik didn't play today (which is a good thing, really, since if they did, i don't think they'd ever be able to tolerate playing again) while i begain construction of the assbarn expressway. you can see some of it - it starts off in financial springs, and meanders through neverwinter heights - but it will be a grand day when it connects to americatown via loolix beach next weekend. i hope the sims actually start using it by then.

this morning, instead of the usual refreshing realization that my latest nightmare is not reality, i was woken up by an angry rain. i did not know that rain could fall that hard; i thought there was some sort of terminal velocity thing keeping rain from killing people.

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Geraldo, you sexy, sexy man!

CHEERS to mozilla.org, for (finally) shipping gtk2/xft-enabled firebird and thunderbird snaps!

JEERS to maxtor, silicon image, asus, and nvidia for putting out products that don't work at all!

ok, that's not entirely true, since shaver says his drives work (somewhat). but i still have no success getting them to work, and i don't have and desire to really find out which of the n vendors is at fault (isn't that why i got a mac?) i will humor myself by calling maxtor tomorrow, but otherwise plan to RMA those drives tomorrow. hitachi/ibm, why did i leave your soft, loving arms?

this might actually be a good turn of events, as i've realized that i don't have any data on milano that is worth running on a raid1 setup. especially since i need winxp server or something to get windows to do it in software on the windows side.

so i figure i should just set up linux sw raid underneath lustre for stuff i actually care about, except that the lustre box is a bit... slow. which brings me to my...

LIST OF COMPUTERS THAT I PLAN ON PURCHASING WITH MY 20 MILLION XIMIAN/NOVELL DOLLARS:

  1. A POWER MACINTOSH G5. YUM.
  2. AN SMP OPTERON WORKSTATION.
  3. SOME SORT OF CENTRINO BASED LAPTOP, SO I CAN DO LUSTRE WORK MORE EASILY AT CHARLIE'S.
  4. A SHUTTLE BOX TO RELIEVE SERENDIPITY OF ITS FILE SERVING DUTIES, WHERE IT CAN GO BACK IN ITS OLD CAUSE AND ROUTE OUR PACKETS INSTEAD OF THE BOX WITH THE LOOSE HEATSINK. WHAT CAN I SAY? THEY ARE CUTE LITTLE BOXES.
  5. <INSERT OBLIGATORY WIFE-FINDING JOKE HERE>

hmm i meant to go to sleep an hour ago.

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