May 21, 2009

AT&T still sucks 9 months after cancelling.

So I got a call from a company called West Asset Management the other day- they’re a collection company. AT&T apparently sent us to collections. WHY, you ask? Because we had the audacity to cancel their service. Let me take you back to the beginning: – Had AT&T Phone + DSL at apartment – Moved to House – AT&T botched the DSL install, then canceled my contract and told me I had to sign a new one if I wanted DSL or pay 50% more for the monthly program.

May 17, 2009

Clearing Clogs

I don’t wanna spend much time on this post because I’m in the groove for editing my book and still have to write two reviews for Literary Escapism. Gutter Clog Stupid birds built a nest in my downspout underneath the screen and wire grate that’s supposed to keep them out. managed to get it open, cleaned and happy before it rained friday night. Basement Clog When jackie runs the washer, the basement drain backs up.

April 26, 2009

Jaunty out of the box.

As some of you know, I enjoy using Kubuntu on my desktop- I have been for the past two years. I’ve been using KDE since it was at 2.1, which was a lifetime ago (note- I remember how awesome 2.2 was in comparison). This past week the newest version of [K]ubuntu (9.04- Jaunty Jackalope) was released. Normally I wait a month or two before I try a new release of Kubuntu, but the previous release was so disappointing I decided to skip it.

April 24, 2009

About damn time.

and more importantly, So after… how many years? I finally have a real grill again. It gets up to 400 in under 2 minutes and cooks reaaally good. Scorecard: [X] Steak [X] Brats [X] Burgers [X] Bacon [X] Corn on the Cob [ ] BBQ Chicken Plus whatever else I can think of. muahahah

March 30, 2009

The Mixed Blessing of System Failure

ok, so here’s the scoop. I was planning on switching unicron over to CentOS from Ubuntu, but during the prep process, I must have bumped a sata cable on my raid array- the result was me rebooting, rebuilding the drive and shaking it off as a fluke. A day later, that drive and another failed, which is bad news on a 4 disk raid5 array- usually it means everything is lost.

March 26, 2009

ripping one

With the freakout of my raid array and the rebuilding of my server, it’s about that time of year where I re-rip all of my audio CDs. Since I don’t think mp3c was ever updated since the last rip (and subsequent mangling of a few titles), I’ll be investigating some of these new rippers: burn – Command line Data-CD, Audio-CD, ISO-CD, Copy-CD writing tool crip – terminal-based ripper/encoder/tagger tool cwcdr – Chez Wam CD Ripper

March 25, 2009

frak.

well, I guess sdd got jealous of sdc and decided to blow out as well- either that or my sata controller died. other way, BAD.

March 24, 2009

home sick

So, I’m home sick again. Fourth time this year I’ve been sick. Cold, flu, cold, Bronchitis. Awesome. Will I get to rest today? No, of course not. My server (Unicron) has been up and running for 2 years now- I got the parts right after Ian was born. I set up a nice software raid array at the time that’s served me well. I’d never set up a raid array like this before, so I wasn’t really sure how to monitor it.

March 12, 2009

new plugin test.

So I’m testing a nifty new wordpress plugin… check this out: I wonder if it’ll work? update: no, no it will not.

February 27, 2009

sick again

Sick again for the second time in a month- no puking, I just feel like crap and have a sore throat. Jackie, Ian and I were all sick- and today was Ian’s birthday :/