Some people start out stories with "hold my beer"... for me they start with "So I went to Fry's..."..

My fileserver at home has been giving me trouble with its RAID card.. card locking up.  Rather than trying to repair the really old card I opted for replacing the fileserver system since I'd been planning on it for a while anyway.  I went to Fry's planning to spend around 400 for a cheap little system.  I spent a bit more.  Heh.  I bought a new game system and now the game systen will become the fileserver.

JADZIA
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9GB RAM (1066)
i7-920 (2.6Ghz, quad-core)
750GB SATA drive
Nvidia video card 896 MB
750w Power supply
Couple of externally accessible SATA ports for new drives

With 9GB of RAM I'll be able to run WoW and a couple of VMs at the same time.  Whee. :)  Going to name the new one Jadzia (as in Dax, from DS9).  The fileserver will still be Willow.  Willow is always my fileserver.  It was running Vista but I torched it and put on Windows 7.  for the fileserver system I'll probably do Ubuntu 9.04, though I've considered maybe XenServer or Hyper-V and then running the fileserver functionality as a virtual machine.

WTF... seems like I was just getting home from work.  Ugh.  Must go get horizontal now. *thud*  Weekend in three more work shifts.

We have a new mascot at work courtesy of James...  the F-Bomb (video mildly NSFW).  We laughed like loons all night throwing this around. Yes, we're demented.

"its a Unix system. i know this". best line in the movie.

Losing a game of DEFCON 147 to -25 because I was too wrapped up in the movie WarGames to properly deploy my stuff is fail. Heh.  For those not into DEFCON its a nuclear war sim that looks kind of like the graphics in the movie WarGames.

http://xkcd.com/597/

I'm sure this one from XKCD would be me.

Now, bed.  Work in 11.5 hours.

Where did my weekend go?

reading at the moment waiting for a concert to start. still warm outside.

Went out with a lovely friend for awhile. now im at Starbucks getting some hot chocolate before heading to infomart to nap before work.

So yeah... called Time Warner support today to see if I could get them to clear up a Dallas to Dallas by way of CALIFORNIA routing issue.  Yeah, that turned out about as useful as I expected it would be.  Eh, isn't really a big problem.. just kind of an annoyance getting to my colo box.  I guess even IP packets wanna get some California sun (check out hops 6 and 7):

( Traceroute of silliness )