January 2006
Monthly Archive
Posted by Cody Mays on 14 Jan 2006 1:30 am. Filed under
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Personal ,
Daily Grindage ,
Experiences.
Yes, that’s right folks. I’ve have been slacking on the job of updating this site thanks to Mr. Mini-itx. My EPIA-800 and its 1U case came two days ago and I have done nothing but work on it.
The first issue was that the SuperMicro case had a SuperMicro specific cable for the reset, on/off, power LED, and HDD LED. I said okay, no big deal, I’ll just run the wires by hand. I open up the mini-itx box, pull out the directions and low and behold, they don’t have the correct pin diagrams on them. So in other words, me and the multimeter became friends for a few hours. To make a long story short, I need to get a PCI riser and install an OS on it, and it’ll be done. I have taken plenty of pics thanks to all the time I spent on it, so hopefully the project page I add for it will do it justice.
Looks like I’m heading off to the Cincinnati Outdoors and Boat show tomorrow afternoon, so the site may not get it’s almost daily update. :/ In other news, I found out what I’m trying this summer: Polyphasic Sleep with the uberman sleep schedule.
Posted by Cody Mays on 10 Jan 2006 9:37 pm. Filed under
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Personal ,
Daily Grindage.
MSNBC reports:
Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said in an interview Tuesday that the company won’t sell or support Windows itself, but also hasn’t done anything to preclude people from loading Windows onto the machines themselves.
Along with that, the article goes on to say that Microsoft has signed a contract to develop an Intel version of Microsoft Office for the new systems. These next few years are going to be extremely interesting in the tech world. Will the Mac finally become as popular as it once was or will Microsoft still be ahead?
Along with that annoucement, Steve Jobs has released the details on the new Intel systems that are available as of today. The new laptop they released running the new Intel Duo chip looks fairly amazing. According to apple.com, the new system is up to four times the speed of the latest powerbook… You can find more information about the MacBook Pro here.
According to this articles, Microsoft has one it’s FAT patent. This could mean the end for lots of open source software. Microsoft will be wanting royalties, it’s the MS way. :(
Posted by Cody Mays on 8 Jan 2006 8:21 pm. Filed under
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FreeBSD ,
Personal ,
Daily Grindage ,
Experiences.
I accomplished __NOTHING__ today, the Bengals lost the playoffs (no surprise there), and I’ve spent the last 4 hours working on homework and I still haven’t finished some of it. It’s not getting finished either…I’m tired.
My KDE compile from yesterday finished with a compile time of 19 hours and 6 minutes. That was compiling all meta packages except for kde education. So I know have a FreeBSD desktop. :D Plans for tomorrow include getting my Hauppage WinTV Go Plus going. The drivers are in the kernel, and I’ve compiled them in…I just can’t seem to get it to work, but I need to find an antenna anyway.
*pluggage*
If anyone was wanting to get ahold of me, I hang on my home irc network, wyldryde.org. You can find me in #bfos - chatroom for the bonafide community OS, #osdev - official chatroom of osdever.net, #IllusionOS - My OS’ chatroom, #lockergnome - official chatroom of the Chris Pirillo show, #besttechie - official chatroom for besttechie.net, and #FreeBSD - the local FreeBSD channel.
Posted by Cody Mays on 8 Jan 2006 1:48 am. Filed under
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Site News ,
Web Development ,
FreeBSD ,
Personal ,
Daily Grindage.
Well, I’ve been busy today. I finished up the live search on osdever.net, started a KDE 3 FreeBSD 6.0 port compile. Which failed about 6 hours through and I had to do some manual crap to get it going again. :) The server rack page is also updated.
Later on this week, I will be creating the page for the first computer to go in the rack, a mini-itx router/firewall. :) Stay tuned…
Posted by Cody Mays on 7 Jan 2006 11:09 am. Filed under
Personal ,
Daily Grindage ,
Experiences.
I’m terribly sorry for all of the down time I have been having. Enom.com is a nasty registar. When you my domain expired, I planned on renewing over at godaddy.com, so I just let it go. Well, instead of them just deleting the domain like they should have, they renewed the thing for me, then put a $30 price tag on the freaking thing. I will have an updated post about what went on with my server rack and more later on today.
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