argh, bad luck
i purchased 2 high-efficiency opteron cpus to lower the power requirements of my file server and speed it up a bit. unfortunately, arima, in their infinite knowledge, permanently installed the HSF brackets. when i was installing the new cpus, a brass threaded insert broke off inside the hsf mount’s standoff and i couldn’t get it out. so i ended up having to buy another motherboard, identical to the one i fucked up. at any rate, i managed to get a new board for $30 off ebay and it’s working now. i also snagged a nice promise sx4000 hardware raid controller and set up a couple raid-1 arrays for documents and music so that i don’t have to worry as much about disk failures. read/write speeds on the raid card are very decent, and the software provided by the manufacturer is handy and allows synchronization, building, removing arrays from the OS without needing to use the controller’s BIOS.
it’s fucking hot and how i’ve been ruining fond childhood memories
it seems like every year in NM when the temperatures start to rise, i think to myself that it’s happening earlier each year and it seems to be getting warmer each year. of course, this isn’t the case, it’s just my brain trying to play tricks on me. i think part of my problem with hot weather is that i hate it. i’d be totally happy with 30 degree temperatures year-round. hot weather does absolutely nothing for me. it’s hot, it’s uncomfortable, it’s..hot. it makes it nearly unbearable to spend any time in my computer room between the hours of 14:00-19:00 (when the sun finally gets behind the building to our west..yes, our apartment is on the west side of our building. yes, it sucks.)
i’m already feeling this way and it’s only the second week of may. i shudder to think of how i’m gonna feel in 2 months when summer is in full-swing and temperatures are in the high-90s to low 100s . yuck.
also, lately, i’ve been ruining fond childhood and early adolescent memories by revisiting movies and music that i liked at those stages of my life. i’ve ruined numerous action/martial arts films i watched with my dad over the years by revisiting them, recalling how awesome they were. unfortunately, it’s not the case and most of them are terrible. today, i ruined best of the best 2, the sequel to..best of the best. it stars brothers simon and phillip rhee and stupid eric roberts. they go to vegas to avenge the death of their friend (played by chris penn) who is killed by some german monstrosity in an underground fight.
why would i have watched it to begin with? well, my dad had enrolled the three of us (him, sister, myself) in tae kwon do lessons and so we sort of developed a taste for bad martial arts movies. best of the best (1&2 both) featured lots of tae kwon do and hap ki do stuff, so it made me feel special to watch it. or something. i happened to see it on today, so i figured i’d watch it. horrible mistake. as is the case with lots of other movies i’ve re-watched (con air, face/off, etc) it sucked. it’s an awful movie. it ruined another fond memory i had of a movie i loved as a kid.
my friend john and i talked about this earlier this week. he told me he’d watched mortal kombat recently and also told me how horrible it is. at the first mention of the title, my mind immediately went back to how much i liked it as a kid and how much i liked a lot of songs on the soundtrack (as a matter of fact, a bunch of the songs turned me on to artists i still like today..type o negative, napalm death & fear factory) and i was immediately filled with a desire to watch it again. it’s like some sort of disease, trying to destroy my childhood after-the-fact by pointing out what a tasteless idiot i was.
behold! the ghettotenna mk2!
i decided i wanted a better antenna for my bct15, so i bought a radioshack 70-176 multi-band discone antenna, some zip ties and 10 feet of 1″ pvc pipe. i cut 3′ of pipe off, assembled the antenna and stuck it on the end of the pipe, which i then zip-tied to a desk. it’s so ghetto, it’s awesome and its reception is much improved over the previous ghettotenna (mk1) which was constructed out of a radioshack vhf dipole (rabbit-ears) with a 75ohm balun with an f->bnc adapter on it, connected via rg6.
ghettotenna mk1
ghettotenna mk2
i love incompetent sysadmins
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week off
cadie and i have taken a week off. i turned 25 on monday, she turns 25 on saturday. we haven’t really done anything exciting, save going to dinner for her birthday last night with a bunch of her friends. i don’t like social situations, especially when it involves people i don’t know, but i guess it was alright. i felt like a complete and utter ghoul standing around and waiting for her and her friends to finish their ice cream. today’s my day for her to leave me alone and let me do whatever i feel like. of course, this just means playing video games the majority of the day. only 2 days left off after today and i really am feeling like i need more time off. blah.
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