I disappeared for a couple days, if anyone noticed. Just needed some time to myself, my car needs a new engine and that’s going to run me $1000 and I’m without it for another week. Not exactly the best news. So between that and just other crap surrounding me, I just up and left for a couple days.
I potentially have a job offer though, with a local IT consulting firm. That would be pretty sweet if I landed a spot there.
I swapped the PCs in my house giving me the 1.6ghz in my room and put the 1ghz in the basement. Kept the cases in the same spot though, which means I had to swap mobo’s and other parts. My tower was so dusty because of the fact the heatsink is HUGE and was propped up right against the power supply, offering no air flow at all. Cleaned it out though, and the box is so much quieter now. Also the heatsink on this mobo is a lot smaller, so there’s more airflow. I fell asleep last night barely hearing the fans, it was refreshing. Also, this mobo has DDR RAM, which makes it go MUCH faster. I installed Xubuntu Feisty and this thing flies. The beta runs pretty well, haven’t come across any problems aside from the usual compositing errors with the NVidia driver, their method of enabling the binary driver is still a bit buggy. I had it working for a bit, I rebooted, and it stopped working causing X to crash. Back to the nv driver I go, at least until a new version of Envy is released or Ubuntu fixes the problem. I think it has to do with the newer kernel revisions not working with the NVidia driver, but I could be mistaken. I’m no kernel developer.
So the basement PC needs a fresh copy of XP installed on it, I’ll get around to that today. I don’t think it’ll take much of a performance hit in the sense of watching movies and playing the few games I have down there, hell it only had 256mb of RAM before, and it was playing x264 and DVD movies without a hitch. That’s all I’m worried about.
Playing around on the new server for sows. Not exactly an easy task, but I’m doing the best I can configuring everything the way it needs to be done. It’d be easier if I was physically there to do this, but with it being in Sweden and me being in New York is a bit of an issue. Ah well. Just another day at the office, I suppose. Reminds me, I need to get that Counter-Strike server up and running for Carlo… ugh. One more thing added to the list.
Oh right, it’s Saturday, and I’m not at work! I switched around my hours at work so now I have weekends off completely. I’m loving this. I haven’t had a weekend off in such a long time… it’s great. now I can get more stuff done. And with that… back to my multiple console sessions I go.