Archive for February, 2002

Friday, February 22nd, 2002

Moving

Okay, as some people have already noticed through the comments on previous posts, there is some talk of me moving. Currently, the only definite thing is that I will be moving. Not 100% sure where yet, nor 100% sure when (“soon”).

Andrea and I have an application in for a place in Manchester, but so far [...]

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Thursday, February 21st, 2002

Guess who’s locked out?

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If you guessed me, you’re right! Derrick was kind enough to lock the door
with the dead-bolt, to which I have not a key. He was also thoughtful enough
to turn off his cell phone and go to sleep. I found this all out when I tried
to go home this evening and found myself in the [...]

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Wednesday, February 20th, 2002

Messed up state

Commonwealth actually, which is an indication of just how messed up it is. Anyway, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is threatening to seize my bank accounts, garnish my wages, filing a tax lien, assigning my case to a collection agency, and/or intercepting my federal or state tax refund.
Why?
Because they decided I owed $0.94 more money to [...]

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Sunday, February 17th, 2002

Just an update, nothing more.

Not much to report on. Since my last update it’s pretty much been life as usual. At work I built up a file server for SimPro. It’s a FreeBSD box running Samba, and I got it to do all the nifty file sharing and print sharing stuff. And it’s even an NT domain controller. I’m [...]

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Monday, February 11th, 2002

New Network

Last weekend was the big network redo for Valvcon/SimPro/IronCastle. It ended up going pretty smoothly. Friday night I worked on upgrading all the servers and routers to FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE, which went pretty well. On Saturday I messed up one of the 4.5 upgrades by over-writing the sendmail.cf with a standard one, when we needed one [...]

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Wednesday, February 6th, 2002

Idea

With the network rework coming up this weekends, I wonder if Dave would let me put my old computer on one of the server nets so I could have a server all my own…. Hmm…

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Tuesday, February 5th, 2002

Broken Motherboard

Okay, my doomed motherboard is now on it’s way back to mwave.com, where it will be tested. Assuming it fails for them like it failed for me, I should have a new board within a few days. yay!
In other news, I opened a NetFlix account today. It’s got a lot of anime and stuff that’s [...]

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