Computing

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2004-01-24 16:22:00

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2004-01-24 16:22:00
First ever strategy LAN-party meet.
Participants: Myself, Steve Baehr, and Jeff Yesensky.
18:00: …Steve’s computer had no ethernet card. Put in ethernet card. Steve’s computer wants Win98 cd for files. Download one file at a time from internet and transfer it via floppy to Steve’s computer then hit next to see what next file is…repeat many many times.
20:30: Windows 98 is evil. Get another computer from Jeff’s house and grab pizza on the way.
21:00: eat pizza
21:20: begin Starcraft deathmatch. Starcraft was a bast. The game lasted until after midnight.
01:00: begin Total Annihilation deathmatch. Game lasted until 4 in the morning.
04:30:Try Descent II. Doesn’t run under Windows XP too well so we abort and play Urban Terror.
06:00: Time for breakfast!
08:00: Fall asleep
12:30: Wakeup and Eat lunch.

2003-12-13 10:45:00

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2003-12-13 10:45:00
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.

2003-12-10 08:01:00

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2003-12-10 08:01:00

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 responses. Maybe this [dead link removed] will be its replacement.

2003-12-05 16:24:00

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2003-12-05 16:24:00
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            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1             6.0G  5.9G     0 100% /mirror

6 GB? …need bigger HD.

2003-12-02 22:13:00

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2003-12-02 22:13:00
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!

2003-11-28 13:24:00

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2003-11-28 13:24:00
From the Your-Tax-Dollars-Wasted-Dept.
It looks like LA County Officials have banned the term, “Master/Slave” from use in computer hard drives and video equipment.

Under orders from the affirmative action office, county departments have surveyed about 1,000 pieces of equipment and taped over “master/slave” and put “primary/secondary” on the equipment, officials said.

This is just great news! For more information read the artical at the L.A. Daily News [dead link, no web archive].