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Post Holiday FunDecember 28th 2000
Well, I survived another fun $holiday. No major injuries, no major depression. Actually had a fairly good time all in all. Now I'm bored at work. Actually I'm at home on lunch, but when I go back I'll be bored at work again. No management = no crisises...so life is good (and dull). Saw Dracula 2000 last night. Well, it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Lots of fun making bad comments at the screen. Don't expect Bram Stroker...it's more like Dracula '79 with less plot and more intresting camera work. But it was worth the price of the ticket. Not a whole lot else happening...between recovery from xmas and general insanity and getting ready for the New Year not much is going on :)

Yet More Debian FooDecember 28th 2000
Well, I lied...I do have a bit more news. Been playing with Debian on Nogitsune. Got it running rather well. As a SuSE station it had an average of a 3-4 day uptime, so far under Debian it's running at 2 weeks. Still no X setup, I need to sit down and unlearn all the SuSE programs for setting up X, and do it from scratch. Then get XFree86 4.0 running...once I get that bit of nonsense down pat, I'll probably switch Kitsune to Debian as well. I really LIKE apt-get. But we'll see, right now I'm sticking to SuSE. It's not broken, so I don't have a burning urge to change it.

BrainbenchDecember 28th 2000
Ok, really...last bit of news. ;) I recently discovered Brainbench, an online test site. Been having fun with tests. If you want to see what I'm 'certified' in, check it out Here. The tests are fairly challenging, with a small fetish for truely bizarre situations involving boot disks. (My SuSE cert test had 6 questions on how to setup boot disks, which is unfair since half my linux boxen don't even have floppy drives.) As you can see, I'm really not a Windoze user anymore (score of 2.45) or good at Networking concepts (which kinda bugs me, since I'm actually better than the scores say...but I don't know much beyond ethernet and ATM). Well, if nothing else I feel better about my geekyness.

Holiday UpdateDecember 24th 2000
Happy $holiday or bah humbug, whichever you prefer. Just a quick holiday update. I'm offically sick of the holidays. Actually, I've been sick of them since October...when the xmas music started. Now that's fscking annoying. Oh well, it's almost over. I got my shopping done by yesterday, the horror the horror. Ok, enough with the horror, on the geek end, I've got Debian running on Nogitsune. Not running well, took me a while to get apt-get running...but it's running now *happy dance* And in the Screenshot of the day you can see a apt-get session running on Nogitsune, while I do the rest of my thing on Kitsune. Life is good. That's all for now, more when I'm more awake, and less shellshocked due to the holidays.

Happy BdayDecember 23rd 2000
Just a quick note to wish Amythest a happy bday. Go ahead, email her...tell her she still looks cute. *grin*

It's Cold Down HereDecember 12th 2000
No, hell did not just freeze over...no matter what the temp says outside. Just because I'm posting more than once a month ;) Well, as you may have guessed...Texas is now fairly frozen. Yea ice ! Well, it got me to go home early, and get paid for it. Woohoo.

Nogitsune & KitsuneDecember 12th 2000
Well, I finally got off my butt and installed Debian on Nogitsune. Still playing with it, haven't gotten any of the cool features like apt-get running, but I'm working on it...a little bit at a time. I would have done more today...but I spent most of the time after work playing with desktops and logs and stuff on Kitsune. Actually got some things cleaned up, like mail for example. Got my inboxes seperated from the saved mail folders. so things are a little easier to browse. The fun of Pine. Also played with the /etc/syslog.conf on Kitsune and Vulpes to get it to log cron's into their own logfile. Nothing major geekwise, but seeing that I did it easily does my ego a world of good. Also playing with transparent aterms again, and finally switched from my green text color. Not sure why, but it looks cool to use generic white for a while. Go check out the screenshot. Borderless aterms are cool IMHO. All in all pretty good. I need to tinker more with it, but for now it works. :)

Work, Seti@Home and other stuffDecember 5th 2000
Just a quick note, work has had me hopping the last few days. The fun of MRTG. Well at least I finally got access to our Sun box, and spent a good part of the day working up how the backups from our Linux MRTG would get moved to the Sun box. (I need to come up with a name for the MRTG box, just calling it mrtg or the IP address is dull.) After figuring out my usual tricks (NFS and SMB) wouldnt work, I had fun figuring out how to move a file via ftp without manually logging in. THe fact I'm having to work with RedHat 6.2 isn't helping. The default ftp client sucks rocks. But ncFTP does the trick nicely. A little shell scripting (which I had no clue how to do until a few weeks ago) and we have backups. Real, stable backups, not just me stashing .tar.gz files on my workstation. Very cool. Plus I can play on the Sun box now. Of course, my Solaris experence is limited, and I'm rather lost. Oh well. Speaking of my workstation, I need to convince my boss to let me install Linux. This does require me to get our SNMP (Simple Network Monitoring Protocol) program working under Linux, it's a Windows app. Hmm, wonder if Wine will do the trick. Oh yeah, I also have to get the wireless NIC the box has working as well. We'll see.

On to Seti@home. So far I've processed about 2024 sets of data. which is more than 99.3% of the people who do this. And within Team UserFriendly I'm rank 34. Not too bad. I've spent 3 2/3 years of computer time working on this, and slowly getting up in the ranks of geeks. Maybe someday I'll find ET. Or 7 of 9 ;)

That's been my week in a nutshell, well that and a few concept projects, like setting up the Old News page to be like this one. That's going to take a while. That and I want to add a TV tuner card to Kitsune, so I can watch TV under linux. That would be useful, then I'd probably never leave the office. Other than that, not much. We'll see what tomorrow brings.