Just a few pics of the new place. Would post more but, fucking dialup.
Here’s a photo from the front:
And here’s a photo of my computer setup. Dual screens for the win, soon to be triple:
I am so sick of dialup…
It been a bit long since I posted so I thought I’d just give a quick run through of the past two months.
Two months ago I got made redundant, so the first thing I did was cut a mohawk as in the last entry. Since then its pretty much been a big holiday. I’ve applied for a few jobs. Had an interview at Woosh for 3rd/4th level System Engineer but unfortunately my networking experience wasn’t up to it. That would have been a sweet job. Applied for a 1st level support position at AUT supporting students and staff, but they haven’t contacted me back on them so I’m still looking.
Here’s what I’ve been up to:
Fail.
Played it for about 5 minutes and quit.
You could liken it to Most Wanted. Except with crappy car control, crappy graphics, dumbass police AI, and no difficulty level. It is made for n00bs.
What the fuck are you up to EA?! You fucking butchered this series from Carbon, maybe even earlier.
EA sucks ass.
Edit: OK, I actually gave this a decent go and although its really “arcadey” its not too bad. The car models are good, the cop AI is not so bad. But the graphics are a little choppy.
So cruising round the net my workmate found this.
An MR2 for sale in germany with all the gauges and console replaced with LCD screen hooked up to a carputer and every sensor imaginable. Crazy.
Fuck I hate Sharepoint. We use it at work. It’s supposed to be a document library and intranet portal.
Such simple things like creating a custom list are screwed!
For instance, when you want to create a column in a list, you can’t call it “Type” or “Name” because that column is already in use. I am guessing by Sharepoints table for each list. You think, if Microsoft was so “innovative” they would have called their columns something “sps_name” or “sps_type”.
Another thing that is just insanely stupid, is when creating a document library, you can’t call any of the folders in there “Forms” because “Forms” is already in the folder as a hidden item as it contains all the ASP pages that control the views for that document library. Once again, you think they could have called the folder “sps_forms” or something. Who’s going to name their folder “sps_forms”?
Looks like Sharepoint is another product that has just been bashed out without no thought whatsoever into what the customers needs are, and no ingenuity.
Fucking right on Microsoft… you fucking douchebags….
The other night I was playing round with my PC, and I plugged my 320gb in but the computer wouldn’t turn on. It just made a zoom sound and then died. Somewhere in the PSU. And I had to turn it off at the PSU, and then turn it back on, and then try to turn it on again before it would make the noise again.
I was like wtf? So I looked at the connection and somehow the plug from the Molex–>SATA had gotten “un-keyed” and managed to get itself plugged in the wrong way. So I was shooting 12v up the 5v and 5 volt up the 12v. Needless to say the drive don’t go.
But I tried plugging it into my portable molex PSU, a little powerpack with a 240 in and comes out in a 12v/5v molex and it didn’t turn off – not that advanced. However some little voltage regulators on the hard drive’s logic board got very hot very quickly! So I quickly turned that off.
So guess what I will have to do is buy another 320gb, swap the logic boards, grab the data off it, swap the boards back and biff it 
Waste of $190 (a couple months ago).
So my parents bought me a new screen for my 21st. 19″ Philips 190B7B LCD screen. It so awesome, only one USB on it though. Had to get my PC working before I could use it, found my RAM has died… theres a 512mb stick down the drain. Luckily had another one in the cupboard but I think it is faulty too.
Anyway, the screen is awesome booted, up Fedora, changed the res to 1280×1024 and it looks beautiful. You really need an LCD for linux (well, gnome anyway) cos the title bars and stuff are a bit chunky. Beryl and Emerald look beautiful! Its incredible how nice this screen is.
The one thing I don’t like about it is that it doesn’t raise as high as I’d like it to but its OK. Still have both my 17″ CRT’s sitting on the desk, the screen is just on one of my servers (a converted D510). Other than that that its wicked, I can watch a movie, surf trademe, and something else at the same time. Kickass!
How cool would it be to be able run a program from your main computer, but have the window for it come up on say, your laptop while you’re sitting on your bed? Thats what I do.
My main problem is that I can’t get internet on my laptop at home. I’m on dialup and my external modem only connects by serial, which my laptop doesn’t have. Problem.
Solution. I can ssh into my main box which has the modem, connect it to the net and run firefox and it will open it on my laptop screen, using the network. This is a built in feature of X, the display manager for linux.
This HOWTO assumes the following:
Here’s how ya do it:
When you run a program it will open with all the settings from your main box. Unfortunately it won’t work with 3D games but there are a few things it could be useful for e.g.:
. Of course it will be running of your profile so he won’t get done for porn if you do this at work… you will.
There is one draw back though, all sound will run on the main box.