Some pictures of my freshwater planted aquarium today. Still some algae growth, but going away slowly…
This is a picture of my new water cooled HTPC. It’s more than just an HTPC, it’s also my primary gaming box. It sports an Intel DX38BT motherboard, Intel Q6600 quad-core CPU, 2GB DDR3 memory, Crossfire ATI Radeon 3870 configuration and 2 160GB hard drives in a stripe for some speed. Also has a DVD-RW drive and soon a Blu-Ray burner, as well. Running Windows Vista Home Premium.
So… maybe someone will laugh and call me an idiot, but for about a day or so I couldn’t figure out how to PXE boot FreeBSD 6.x. I wanted to do this without having a FreeBSD install (in fact, I wanted to do it from my Macbook Pro) which made is particularly interesting.
I had purchased a Soekris Net4826 to replace my dead Apple Airport Extreme access point (sure, a new Airport was cheaper, but the Soekris is just soooo much more fun). I kind of knew what I would do, I would download either m0n0wall or pfSense, burn it to the on board compact flash, and go about my daily life. This is my second Soekris box; I already own a Soekris Net4801 which I use for my primary internet gateway.
This is the beginnings of my Network Attached Storage (NAS) Project. I had this idea for a few years, but the money for it went to other things. The main purpose of this box is to provide access to my media (movies, music, etc) along with documents and such to any computer in the house. The idea is to use FreeNAS for this box, but I have found FreeNAS is somewhat lacking, so I need to hack up some of it’s code to be a little more versatile (don’t worry, changes will be submitted back to the project).
Received in email, thought I would put it up here…
This is unbelievable! Never underestimate the power of makeup!
Asked about what he could do about “inner-city kids partaking in violence” at the MTV/MySpace Forum yesterday, Democratic candidate John Edwards offered an apocalyptic prediction for young black males:
“We cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two.”
I’m not an SNL fan lately… last several years, but this is the funniest thing they have had in a long ass time.
Fred Thompson, the actor and former Tennessee senator who is expected to announce next month he is running for president, flew to London on Monday to meet Margaret Thatcher and deliver a foreign policy speech, his advisers tell The Politico.
Thompson’s advisers aim to use the London events to bolster his foreign policy credentials and elevate him above the increasingly contentious fray of the GOP race.
Full Story at Politico.com
Some interesting articles and commentaries out today that I want to share. First, some evidence that maybe the numbers being reported by the alarmists aren’t adding up because their data doesn’t match their conclusions. Then there is another commentary about how the NOAA weather stations may be inaccurately reporting artificially increased temperatures. Finally, some notes by our Most Glorious Leader, the United Nations Secretary General. Read the rest of this entry »
So, the old site was written by me back in 2002-2003 timeframe. Basically, it was outdated and I never finished the code. I wanted to rewrite it, but got lazy (earlier in the process this time), so…. I was looking around and decided to install Wordpress. Although there have been some minor security issues with it, hopefully I’ll be able to keep on top of it.
Anyway, I’ll be adding some plugins, maybe write some of my own, and do various things like that. So if the site is suddenly unavailable, you know why.