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The LAN was pretty cool (more on that later... maybe... I will say that the Wii Photo Channel is absolutely hilarious with a basement full of sleep-deprived /b/tards...). I now have very little hair on my head (it is cold... i could feel the rain yesterday).
So now that I have made my decision (it was really decision1, which, in turn, made decision0 (call me dumb, call me hopeless) a whole lot easier to make), I am mostly going to try to just float through the summer, trying to earn as much money as possible and just generally have as much fun as possible (we shall see how well both of those go, though).
Din is up and running using Brian's old hardware. The new stuff should be here tomorrow or so. It was in Baldwin Park, California on Friday, when the order was placed, and is now in Louisville, Kentucky (where it has been sitting since I last checked Saturday). Why is it that I always seem to order things from Newegg just before the weekend? Had a little bit of trouble getting X to start again, just had to download and install the nvidia drivers, which was kind of tricky thanks to a few of the Debian repositories not being enabled. I got that working, so now the graphical display runs a LOT smoother than it used to, thanks to Brian's old GeForce FX 5200 (like it will ever be needed, anyway, headless and what-not). Everything that I need works, but it sure would be nice to get the thing out of dependency hell. Apparently I have the front harddrive light connector flipped around. Din is also now equipped with a second ethernet card AND a shitty sound blaster that... I do not ever remember Brian using. I just need to find my old TV card and I could install MythTV on this thing.
I open the theatre in two and a half hours. I think the LAN Party kind of fixed my sleeping schedule: I got up on my own at six-twenty.
My head is fuzzy.
Breakfast time.
Need to do:
- Find camera
- Find camera charger
- Charge said camera with said camera charger (or, at least, bring charger to LAN Party just in case)
- Withdraw cash from bank
- Buy 12 pack of pop
- Pack up computers
- Pay Andrew $10
- Set up computers
- Have fun, goddamnit.
Oh, and get my head shaved.
My day started at about two or three in the afternoon. I got up for... some reason. I do not know. I dicked around on the computer for a bit before showering and picking up David. We stopped off at Andrew's really quickly, where Brian already had his computer for some pre-LAN+no-more-school fun. Talked with Brian about computer stuff and placed an order on Newegg for a pretty decent combo. Din will yet live, thanks to Brian's old hardware (though the MicroATX board that Brian will be getting would be GREAT for Din). Took Brian to the MST building for his robotics (?) banquet, then came home, ate dinner (cheesy hot dogs!), and got to work a minute early (whoo!).
Work was... slow. I forgot to see how many tickets we sold, but it was... dead. Dead, as in, we probably did only four or five thousand people. I guess the next big weekend will be Harry Potter weekend. Possibly Die Hard... maybe.
Because it was slow, I mostly dicked around with Christian all night. It was fun. Got off around two-thirty... I brought my mp3 player, but I really should have brought my DS. There's still a few GBA and DS games I need to finish...
Came home, got three e-mails saying that my newegg.com order existed, that my card was charged, and that the order was shipped. Estimated time of arrival: Wednesday.
Had a... good conversation with Linda. Generally there is not much said between us... But not tonight (this morning, ergh). It was cool. She, um, has seen the pictures of me with the goldfish in my mouth... :oops:
The LAN is in a mere seven hours... and I cannot go to sleep. I was dead tired about three hours into my shift (odd, because I had only woken up six hours before), but now... I am wide awake. Meh. Just drink a lot of Bawls, maybe grab some Cocaine (an energy drink, I swear to god. Kevin had some before work sometime last week... He was... energetic, to say the least), to stay up for the LAN. Apparently the Sunoco at Mound and 19 sells 'em.
My mp3 player has the oddest radio tuner. It gets great signal just a few feet from the ceiling fan (coming from the hallway; and a real ceiling fan, as in.. in the ceiling, pulls air in from the windows and up through the attic) and then just a few more steps and it is static. Great in front of the fridge. Horrible in front of the bathroom sink. Pretty good by the big tree in the backyard. Not so great near the clothes-line pole just a few feet from the tree.
I am extremely excited about the LAN... nervous about becoming bald... excited about Din... and pretty content with giving up. I believe that I need to make one more final effort, to see if I really should give up, but... I am slowly finding happy again. And giving up will help. Moving on, I believe it is called (I wonder who will take this what way).
89X has so many freaking forty-minute "x-blocks" at night / in the morning. It is pretty nice.
Deal
I am currently in talks with Brian about upgrading his machine and giving me his old stuff so that I can rebuild Din.
In the meantime, I will probably be working a bit more on Quake III mapping or something.
“New” box
When I went to pick up David from Dad's house today, I decided I would steal the 500mhz box (David's old computer) that was sitting there. I doubt he even noticed, it was sitting in the corner next to the K6-2 looking all sad and what not.
I forgot how slow the thing was. Somebody decided to put Windows XP on it at some point... oops. It is now runing the latest stable release of Debian and will become a file server next semester. I now have a use for my Playstation's old 120GB harddrive (the computer only had a 4GB drive in it!).
My plan is to eventually fashion the thing a makeshift case that is easier to hide away than its current case (granted, AndrAIa's case is just a tad bigger all around). Only problem I forsee is that the ethernet adapter is a PCI card rather than being on the motherboard itself. There goes the slim factor that I was hoping for.
Legos.
Installing Debian went well, used the netinstall disc. Doing things in Gnome was painful. I am sure there are graphics drivers somewhere out there for an onboard SiS 750 (?) graphics chip, but this thing is going to be headless most (all) of the time. All it needs is some sweet (X over-) SSH lovin'.
For some reason, whenever I edit /etc/motd and reboot, Debian replaces it with the default. I never had that problem under Ubuntu...
I got Samba up and running. Took a few hours to get it to accept Windows clients as guests, but now it is all done. There is a folder for people to dump things into and a folder for people to steal things out of. I figure that I deserve something in return for sharing a bunch of shit, so all I ask is that people drop things in the dump folder every now and then. It is fair.
I christened the box "Din," after the fire goddess from the Zelda series of video games, despite the fact that I think of the box more as a male... (It only seems fair, really. Andy is female, Din is her counterpart. Or they are lesbians. I like that idea too.)
I need to get another harddrive to stick in the thing, I am going to run out of space fast if I put everything on it that I would like to share. I wonder how cheap a half-terebyte harddrive is these days...
Din is also running an HTTP server and FTP server. You know, for when you are not on the same network but may still need something. This will be fun. I enjoy playing with this machine. Installing Hamachi on this thing would be a good idea too. Maybe a command-line torrent program, even! Azureus runs command-line. Hmm...
Sometimes I wonder if I get too excited about computers. Then I get distracted trying to figure something out (like finding out that http://din points to /var/www on the actual box).
Grr. Sleep is required. Playing with computers until three-fifty (easily twelve hours of my day) does not make work at eleven-fifteen easy.
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