Monthly Archives December 2003

First Christmas
We had our first Christmas today! From left to right: Jonathan, Noelle, Sarah, Bethany, and myself.
In other news Bob asked me about my handspring so I decided to try a soft reset and it works! Guess I won’t have to buy a new one after all! I’ll make this one last [...]

Nvidia GeForce FX 5200
Thanks for the video card killer! Everything is so smooth now… now we can play some real games at our LAN parties.

Pigeons faster than net
Waitomo Adventures uses pigeons to transfer data…and they carry it faster than the internet. Story here. Unfortunatly packets can be lost during the falcons’ nesting season.

Hung in there awhile
My Handspring Delux Visor seems to have lost its ability to hotsync rendering it useless. Its about 3.5 years old. …it’s so sad to part with one of these. They’re incredibly useful, from downloading email to read later, taking notes, passing notes in class via IR, and generating OTP [...]

Bad day to wash clothes
In a strange occurance of unrelated coincidences both our washer and dryer stopped working today.

Setting up the RedHat 9 mirror
After 4 hours of downloading rsync suddenly aborted:

write failed on os/i386/SRPMS/xemacs-21.4.12-6.src.rpm : Success
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(244)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (97979 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165)
[root@silly rsync]#
[root@silly rsync]#
[root@silly rsync]#
[root@silly rsync]# df -h /mirror
Filesystem [...]

Only the best of the Sysadmins know like the back of their hand the OS: FreeBSD.

This tough year’s end draw’s nigh. After the 11th lets let it finish with a bang!
Defiant, I want you sniping; Killer, you’re on the Negev; Chief, lets take them out. After the 11th I am free until next year! Lets have ourselves a big LAN-party!
Christmas is coming!