Whistle tips? And Frank thought the straight pipes on my Silverado were bad. Stupidest. thing. evar.

Dell migrates from Sun to Dell servers running Linux (link from Critch by way of Rick). Speaking of Critch, he’s got a 5-head setup on his office workstation, which I somewhat envy.

Windows XP refused to boot on macduff today. It would blue screen during boot with all sorts of arcane errors. Mandrake booted fine, as always. I’ve never had a Windows install on that box that worked respectfully, so I’m in the process now of switching hardware. After verifying the integrity of the RAM, I replaced the SoundBlaster Live! card with an Audigy MP3+, replaced the ATI Rage128 Pro (32MB) video card with an ATI Radeon 7000 (64MB), and rearranged the order of the drives in the hard disk array. I’m moving all my media from the 3-40GB IBM drives to the 120GB WD, and letting one of the IBMs take over from the WD as system disk. I may put XP and Linux on separate disks, but either way, this afternoon has been spent switching hardware around, and tonight looks like it will be spent installing operating systems and software. Fun times ahoy, but I’m resigned to cromwell as my primary PC until I restore some functionality to the big box.

Yesterday saw FedEx delivering my new Clie and UPS dropping off the 40GB laptop HDD and a much-needed book [IP Addressing and Subnetting, Including IPv6] from B&N.

The Clie works great; I guess I no longer have an excuse to remain unorganized. Furthermore, the laptop drive install went without a hitch, and by 19:00 I had Windows XP and all my software reinstalled and configured to my liking. Now back to configuring all this new network hardware for the office — we should be running in Lawrenceburg on Tuesday, but its going to require a long working weekend to make it happen.

The new battery in the 4Runner is working flawlessly. That seemed to be the source of most of my electrical problems. Common sense would tell you to start troubleshooting with the most obvious point of failure, so maybe my lesson was learned there. I should have things all wired up so I can easily hook the laptop in (thanks to S-Video out on the Dell) and play audio/video through the 4Runner. Now that I’ve got a big 40GB drive to fill with media, I’ll have to test it out in the near future.

Network Solutions is giving me fits of fury trying to get a domain name with out-dated registration information transferred to new DNS servers and updated with proper contact information. Click “more” for all the boring details…

It seems there are 22 days remaining during which people shall spend endless sums of money in the hope of getting an equivalent gift in return. Kind of seems pointless, eh? I’m such a scrooge this year. This is the last full week of classes, then finals the week following.

I’m moving back to Pulaski after this semester finishes. Alex is transferring up to Freed-Hardeman, and I think I’ll go to Martin for the spring term. In other news…

EFF Analysis of the USA Patriot Act.

Time-wasting Flash trinket of the week: Horse Harmony

Personality Disorder Test
My results:
Paranoid: Moderate
Schizoid: High
Schizotypal: Moderate
Antisocial: High
Borderline: Moderate
Histrionic: Low
Narcissistic: High
Avoidant: High
Dependent: Low
Obsessive-Compulsive: Moderate

Well, after taking two years off after high school, I’m going to Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in Murfreesboro, TN. I moved here 3 August. It is just about an hour away from Pulaski. I guess I’ll major in C.I.S. (Computer Information Systems). I’m still working for iGiles – they’re letting me telecommute mostly, which is great.

I now have a blog. This means I am now caught up with the rest of the world, or so the media would have me believe. I’m using Personal Weblog which is in PHP/MySQL, my combination of choice for web apps.

Maybe now I’ll have incentive to update this site every now and then. Or not.