Computing

2002-09-16 17:41:00
I started my new job as …hmmm I’m not sur ewhat my title is. I’m a webmaster of some sort working in network services. They gave me a Sun Solaris workstation. After installing Solaris 8 on it I am dissapointed. Just to get an SSH CLIENT installed (which comes standard with most flavors of Unix and is a simple 1MB download for Windows and Macintosh) I had to download a openssl, openssh, gcc, libgcc, prmdg, and a 70MB OS patch collection! I worked on it for 8 hours and it was still installing the OS patches when I left work.  

I’ll wait on forming my final opinion until I get it working. But right now, Solaris doesn’t even compare to Linux or BSD.

Yesterday we had our biggest LAN Party ever. With 8 computers on the network. Meredith setup his Linux box as Q3 server and the 5 of us logged in for a Quake III Deathmatch. Meredith whooped us all hands down. After a Pizza break Jeff and I teamed up against Jason, Meredith, and Steven for the tightest Urban Terror team Deathmatch.  
(just a sidenote, Jeff and I beat the other team almost every round despite being outnumbered)

2002-09-14 14:39:00
Most mismatched computer ever owned:
My AMD K6-2 at one time had Windows, Linux, and BeOS installed (plus emulators for other OSes). All running off a partitioned Macintosh hard drive. Now the computer is the server for this website running FreeBSD UNIX.

2002-09-13 01:47:00
What a day. This morning (actually yesterday morning..the 12th) I had Jury Duty.

After working the rest of the day at Tri-Pacific Plumbing i came home to find my keyboard wasn’t working…i think it is the actualy PS/2 port on the motherboard. So i bought a nice Macintosh keyboard…

Jeff and Steven had a LAN party…but Stevens computer had to many bytes so he took it to me…this picture taken a few minutes ago shows Steven overemphasizing his gratitude. Can you see what he gave me?

Now it is time to sleep. Thank you God for the wonderful day!

2002-08-28 16:16:00
July in Review

Geeks night out

Finances.

Replace Motherboard

Travel to the end

On the left picture…there is something odd…here, take a look at this larger version and look closely.  Snickers bar to the first one who spots it. Update: You’re too late! Juliet Davis wins the Snickers bar.

Meredith’s family in the game of Life. Guess which one is Meredith? Guess which ones are his kids? Guess which one is Cherise?

2002-07-02 18:30:00
so i was sitting here thinking that’s funny, nobody has sent me a message or come online. Then i noticed i forgot to log on to AIM. 

2002-06-27 22:13:00
my Biola friends are beginning to find the akx website and are coming to haunt me. 

2002-06-07 07:52:00
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we’ve finished building it. 

2002-05-11 23:39:00
Meredith and I had a blast at his house last night and this morning. From cooking, talking about life, and playing games…

 People who play games are more likely to succeed in life.

2002-04-13 18:00:00
I wrote an invoice program. Designing the database to avoid redundancy was difficult at first. The system tracks all my falconhosting members, and payments.