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Sep. 23rd, 2006 02:14 amLots of playtime with the raccoon-girl has been happening. This makes for a happy doggy.
Computer stuff is happening too! I put some time into Puppy tonight, swapping the bad 40GB hard drive for a slightly more modest but functional 20GB unit. (I'm going to have plenty of hard drive platters to use as chest and back decoration for the armor I'm going to construct.) That done, I installed a nifty little ISA to PCMCIA adapter that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
posicat gave me. There's an ISA card that two ribbon cables connect in to. The other end of the cables connect to a 5ΒΌ form factor box that provides two front-of-case PCMCIA slots. I dropped an Orinoco Silver wireless card into one of said slots and it's working like a charm! In fact, even as I type, I am uncompressing 15GB of SNES ROMs on Eeyore and extracting them to Puppy over the wireless network. I'm pleased. Yeah, it takes about six or seven hours for the decompression plus file transfer, even at 54Mb/s, but I can live with that. I also tested out the connection by playing a few songs on the stereo downstairs while I worked. Then, since Andrea was reading on the couch next to the computer, while I was upstairs I called up Puppy's screen via VNC, opened up notepad, and wrote a huge "I love you!" message on the screen from my other computer. I think she was amused.
I just completed a long overdue shut-down and cleaning of my server. I have another RIMM that I was going to install, but the server only accepts them in pairs, so for the moment I'm stuck with a RIMM that I can't use. I'm sure I'll get my hands on a matching one eventually. I removed both 120mm fans, the processor, all the expansion cards, and the daughter board with the memory on it, cleaning them all thoroughly with a toothbrush. I then turned the fan in the computer room window around to blow out the surprisingly thick cloud of dust that was hanging in the air. Wow; I didn't know it was that bad in there.
Having my brother's computer out of here and Puppy off my desk too finally gives me some room for other projects. Maybe I'll get around to setting backups up on the big server, Thunderdog, sometime soon. I think first, though, I'm going to set up Demon Tools on my laptop and make myself a few disc images of things like The Bard's Tale. Booting from my personal installation of Windows on my work laptop leaves me without a physical CD-ROM drive, but who needs one when you have a perfectly serviceable virtual one and plenty of room for disc images?
I haven't been putting much personal stuff here lately. I should. Hopefully I will soon. Until then, I hope I'm not boring you all too much. Oh, how's this: I found this page years ago, but rereading all the stuff there makes me wistful, and slightly depressed, that I'm not smart enough to have gone to MIT....
And lastly, but not leastly, it would appear that the new subtitle I came up with for my journal on the way home from work today may well be the only one of it's kind. A Google search failed to turn up any matches for the phrase. In a sadly dorky sort of way, this is satisfying. I got there first.
Computer stuff is happening too! I put some time into Puppy tonight, swapping the bad 40GB hard drive for a slightly more modest but functional 20GB unit. (I'm going to have plenty of hard drive platters to use as chest and back decoration for the armor I'm going to construct.) That done, I installed a nifty little ISA to PCMCIA adapter that
posicat gave me. There's an ISA card that two ribbon cables connect in to. The other end of the cables connect to a 5ΒΌ form factor box that provides two front-of-case PCMCIA slots. I dropped an Orinoco Silver wireless card into one of said slots and it's working like a charm! In fact, even as I type, I am uncompressing 15GB of SNES ROMs on Eeyore and extracting them to Puppy over the wireless network. I'm pleased. Yeah, it takes about six or seven hours for the decompression plus file transfer, even at 54Mb/s, but I can live with that. I also tested out the connection by playing a few songs on the stereo downstairs while I worked. Then, since Andrea was reading on the couch next to the computer, while I was upstairs I called up Puppy's screen via VNC, opened up notepad, and wrote a huge "I love you!" message on the screen from my other computer. I think she was amused.I just completed a long overdue shut-down and cleaning of my server. I have another RIMM that I was going to install, but the server only accepts them in pairs, so for the moment I'm stuck with a RIMM that I can't use. I'm sure I'll get my hands on a matching one eventually. I removed both 120mm fans, the processor, all the expansion cards, and the daughter board with the memory on it, cleaning them all thoroughly with a toothbrush. I then turned the fan in the computer room window around to blow out the surprisingly thick cloud of dust that was hanging in the air. Wow; I didn't know it was that bad in there.
Having my brother's computer out of here and Puppy off my desk too finally gives me some room for other projects. Maybe I'll get around to setting backups up on the big server, Thunderdog, sometime soon. I think first, though, I'm going to set up Demon Tools on my laptop and make myself a few disc images of things like The Bard's Tale. Booting from my personal installation of Windows on my work laptop leaves me without a physical CD-ROM drive, but who needs one when you have a perfectly serviceable virtual one and plenty of room for disc images?
I haven't been putting much personal stuff here lately. I should. Hopefully I will soon. Until then, I hope I'm not boring you all too much. Oh, how's this: I found this page years ago, but rereading all the stuff there makes me wistful, and slightly depressed, that I'm not smart enough to have gone to MIT....
And lastly, but not leastly, it would appear that the new subtitle I came up with for my journal on the way home from work today may well be the only one of it's kind. A Google search failed to turn up any matches for the phrase. In a sadly dorky sort of way, this is satisfying. I got there first.
