After a couple months of being offline due to a bad power supply, my home PC is operational again, so hopefully I’ll finally get to play some Supreme Commander and whatever happens to be on GameTap. The old power supply was causing weird problems for a while until it finally got to the point where the system wouldn’t boot. Shipped the defective back to Antec and got my replacement yesterday.
I think I need a new naming scheme for 2bithacker.net though. Final Fantasy enemies is getting kindof old, and I just don’t feel like it fits anymore. I like jtn’s scheme of disasters (hindenburg, titanic, etc) and work’s scheme of elements (titanium, chlorine, and so on) but I can’t seem to think of a decent non-overused system for 2bithacker.net. Any suggestions? (Don’t suggest anything Tolkien related, that’s done to death.)
Overslept and missed the ham radio exam this morning, next one in NH is on the 30th, then there isn’t one till September.
At least I got my replacement power supply yesterday, so I can finally get my home PC up and running again, then get Quicken all up to date.
So, made it back from Ashburn yesterday. Crashed last night and slept like 14 hours. Feeling pretty much back to normal now. It was a fun trip, and I’m kindof amazed how smooth everything got installed. Looking forward to doing Chicago and Palo Alto next month.
In non-work related stuff, I’m hopefully getting my ham radio license on Saturday, just need to get down to Nashua around 9 for the exam session.
So, I’m in Ashburn, VA doing some work in our colo down here. Drove down on Sunday, took a different route to NJ than usual, using I-84 and avoiding I-95 which worked out pretty well and took I-78 out to Harrisburg, PA before turning south on Route 15 to get into VA. Not a bad drive altogether.
We got most of the work done today, just need to finish things up tomorrow and should be on our way home on Wednesday. Wish I could babble about the datacenter, but I’m not sure how much of it is covered by the NDA.
I finally got around to setting up a donation page for Hindenburg. Since we (read “me”) are paying for hosting now, we’re asking for people who use Hindenburg to help out with the hosting costs. I’m not all that worried about it, but for the past few months I’ve been paying the $90/mo out of my pocket, which is kindof annoying.
I’m pretty happy with how the bar graph turned out. I hope people keep donating enough to fill it out with some nice looking data.
Also, we’re starting to re-enable accounts that were on Hindenburg before the move, so if you had an account before and want it back, shoot me an e-mail or drop Jason a line. If you didn’t have an account before, but would like one, do the same thing, I guess.
Once again, it’s been awhile since I’ve written anything to my blag, but since Hindenburg is up and running again and I just upgraded WordPress, I suppose I should actually write something.
Work is going well, with the next couple of months looking to be pretty busy. I’ll be traveling to Virginia next week to rework our servers there. It’s the first time I’ve been to a datacenter other than Boston, so it should be pretty interesting. Sounds like I’ll also be going to Chicago and San Jose, but I don’t know the details on that quite yet.
On the home front, I’ve got a couple of projects I’ve been working on, a NanoBSD based home router using a MiniITX board I’ve had sitting around for the past couple of years, and I recently purchased an inexpensive Dell system which I plan to use as a Home Theater PC running Ubuntu. I’m planning to rig it up to pull shows off of my TiVo and automatically transcode them into formats suitable for watching from my Treo or iPod. Should be pretty neat once I get it set up and running.
I’ve also been studying to get my amateur radio license. I’ve been taking practice tests on my Treo using EggsHam and am getting to the point of only getting 2 or 3 questions wrong per test. The next testing session in the area is on June 16th, so I’m hoping to go down then, get my license, then head to the MIT Flea on the 17th and maybe find a handheld transceiver.
