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Saturday, August 27, 2005 in
Geeky.
Ok, so I’m looking for a different MP3 player, anyone know any Mac-friendly MP3 player (other than the current iPod). People keep complaining about the iPod, but everyone has given Windows-only solutions (which won’t do). So for all you people who hate the iPod, time to put your money where your mouth is. The only criteria is that I don’t want to use it like a USB mass storage device, meaning I don’t want to manual update the damn player every time (i.e. I want auto-sync that doesn’t require me to write a script).
<Insert rant about people who have a fetish with hating the iPod>
If you got a minute, here is some stupid flash quiz thing to see if you can tell a serial killer from a programming language inventor.
It’s almost 3am, and I’m suppose to get back to a “school” sleep cycle. Arrgh.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 in
Geeky.
You know how I was complaining how no one uses Jabber? Well, Google released Google Talk, which is based on Jabber. Great! It uses your GMail account, so go use it. There is an offical client (ugh, Windows only) or you can use any Jabber client (instructions). I’m ejrivas, so add me (I think you need to add @gmail.com, as with any Jabber service)!
If you couldn’t tell, I’m excited. Oh yeah, if you don’t have a GMail account, email me.
Mike pointed out that I used “so” way too often in the past few post (I edited them out for the most part) and I’m a terrible writter. I will try not to use “so” in this post.
After taking last week off from work since I felt like crap the whole week, I returned to work today and continue the “struggle” with trying to do custon Jumpstart installs of Solaris and possible trying to figure out Solaris’ in.dhcpd. Hmm, should have check beforehand, the damn install server and systems are on different switches and, probably, different subnet. I’ll have to check into that tomorrow.
Tomorrow I’ll get my school book. If any one wants to sell the books for Linear System, Electronic Devies, Digital System Design (the class, not the Capstone) and maybe Distributed Programming, would you email me?
I’ll be sure to post my schedule when I finalize it (should be by the first week of classes).
Here comes another theme change since I found I didn’t like the last one (the “edges” were too hard blah blah). Tell me what you hate and don’t like about this one. Maybe slip a complement in there too.
As with me, <Insert standard thing about being depressed and crap>.
Schools closely approaching, hoping for some good times.
So my day ended with me walking in New Brunswick at 1am, helping a woman get to Trenton via NJ Transit, whom gave me two dollars (she had no idea what the ticket machine was giving her and she didn’t want it). I bought a bottle of water with the previously mentioned two dollars, which is good, since I needed it (saved me from begging for tap water). Finally, having gotten home, I took my cold laundry out of the dryer.
I think I’m calling an early end to the week.
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Thursday, August 11, 2005 in
Geeky and Work.
The passed few days, I’ve been staying late at work trying to get the Automated (JumpStart) install thing of Solaris working, since I don’t feel like baby sitting an install of Solaris. It’s an okay experience for the most part, but I have to say Solaris’ dhcpd (aka in.dhcpd) has got to be the most confusing thing I’ve ever seen. Your need three programs to configure the damn thing and you have three choices for a storage backend (plain old files, NIS+ or some binary format). I got to admit thought, the manuals are claiming a butt load of client (try doing that with ISC’s dhcp and hand editing files) with dhcp and it has some Java GUI managment thing (which I refuse to use).
Bah, another day of work tomorrow then the weekend.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2005 in
Geeky and Work.
I think I’ve been unoffically named the Solaris guru at work. For some reason, it seem people can’t adapt to Solaris at work (I’m talking about the students) and people tend to get me to do anything that has to do with Solaris. I don’t mind it, it basically means I do most of the installs and people come to me when they get confused with Solaris-specific questions.
Today, I had to figure out how to do net installs since we are trying to make our build farm not suck and use some Netras that were sitting in the rank (they don’t have CD drives). Fairly easy if you RTFM, althought having to setup a Solaris install specifically for the net install stuff took some time (Solaris always takes long to install… and oh… the patching). Oh, and installing via serial console sucks.
I need to write up a thing on how to actually do the installs tomorrow.
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