Archive for April, 2003
Tuesday, April 29th, 2003
Woohoo! LAN Party!
Last weekend was the spring LAN party of the Fists of Ra clan. Once again it was help up in Lewiston, ME, however this time it was in a rended meeting hall instead of a leaky, freezing warehouse. I had a great time, much CounterStrike was played, and a lot of WarCraft 3. Someone brought [...]
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Monday, April 21st, 2003
Easter Weekend
Not really into Easter much as a holiday anymore, so this weekend wasn’t all that different from any other weekend. Friday night was the first meeting of the new D&D group. It was decided that we’ll be playing using the AD&D 2nd Edition rules, and that I’ll be the DM. This will be my first [...]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2003
And on and on and on
Time for a general status update, I guess. Work has been going pretty well, though the installation we did Monday somehow messed up the existing control system. It’s in a water pumping station for a housing community, our stuff was just supposed to monitor when the pumps were running and stuff, however it caused the [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2003
Bebop and I-Opener
Woohoo! Cowboy Bebop was pretty damn cool. Ended up going down the Harvard Square with Tim and Dan. We got there pretty early, so we hit the garage mall, I bought a couple of Discworld maps at Pandemonium, and the Final Fantasy VII OST from Tokyo Kid. After that, we just wandered around a [...]
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Sunday, April 6th, 2003
Computers and Bebop
Couple of computer related things going on, first of which being that I found out that my RAM is bad in Vincent, my main PC. Apparently the only thing that’s actually breaking on it is installing Gentoo, everything else runs fine. I ran memtest86 on it, and it discovered a bunch of bad bits hanging [...]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2003
Up North, Again
Had to go up to Goodrich Falls today. This is the first time in at least a month that I’ve had to go up there. Their SimLink-RS had gotten it’s power cut, and didn’t want to boot up anymore. On the way up I stopped at a Radio Shack to buy a small portable television [...]
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2003
Laptop Reformat
Kicking around the idea of reformatting my laptop, taking WinXP Home and FreeBSD off of it and just running Gentoo. I figure in the process I’ll reinstall Gentoo, and this time use an encrypted root filesystem. Basically this means that everything on the laptop will be encrypted. “Why?” you might be asking. Firstly, because I [...]
