Friday's Back!

Woo! It's sort of been a while but I finally had to suck it up and realize I don't have the resources/ability to diagnose my own computer hardware. So I bundled up all of Friday's guts and took her over to Frontier. I made them promise to be nice and they were awesome.

Turns out it was only the PS/2 controller that was hooped. Basically, everything I did with a keyboard was fucked. Otherwise, she's fine! Well, this is a little bit odd because I don't have a USB keyboard. I need a usb keyboard to play around before the OS loads (e.g. if I want to load windows instead of linux, for example). Not a big deal really.

They did, however, tie up all of Friday's cords and also installed a rehostat (sp?) for the power supply fan. Hella sweet.

So now I'm just putting her through a "nice emerge sync ; nice emerge -u world" to see how she behaves. So far, so good :D

Now it's April

How time flies when you're busy as a mad mother and don't give a crap about much other the a couple of shits and giggles here and there.

*anyhow*

I've started using this Cacti tool for showing pretty colours. It's cool. It shows different colours depending on stuff like network traffic, CPU load, etc. I like colours. So far only Dante has a login to check it out but I'd probably hand out an account to anyone interested in looking at it here. Pretty colours...

Okay, back to school for me. Later, chums.

It's, Uh, March?

It's March. Almost April. Haven't posted. I hate everything. Almost have school done. Cisco CCNA coming up. Haven't got anything working on the side (what side?). Just tooting my horn for a minute before I go to class.

No Noose is Good Noose

Whee! Flibble drool *splech* Rar!

Heh I've been looking at the sys admin docs on the Gentoo site and there's a ton of absolutely awesome HOWTO type docs published there. There's stuff on setting up Kerberos, LDAP, on hardening, and all sorts of good stuff.

I gots to get some of that shiznat going. I just haven't had time to push ahead on side-side-side projects (e.g. anything on top of work, school, and CCNA). Well, maybe not the time, but my brain is definately too mushy for anything more. I've been spending my free time drooling in front of the Playstation... *splonk* Or drinking most of a bottle of scotch when I thought I had "only" drank half of it :P

Dead Again

Well, I've been without Friday the last week or two. Stupid suck. When she boots she complains that she can't find the keyboard. This is just fucking lame. I'm going to end up sending both mainboards back to ASUS in the hopes then when then come back, one or both of them will be working. This is just total bullshit.

That and the stupid unionists were on strike Monday which puts me out a class. It's a part-time course so that's never going to be made up. Since the content is largely online, we don't really miss too much thankfully. Stupid administration. Stupid union. I hate them so many!

Friday's Back and Better Then Ever

Finally got that CPU fan sorted out today. Got everything mounted and slapped back in the case. Fired 'er up and Friday's smokin' hot now. All the good things from before plus the RAM is now dual channel and she has a nice DVD writer.

I've really missed having a wicked box at home. Everything runs fast, runs smooth, and it's tight as a rock. And now the case does rattle from the CPU fan. So good, ah!

It's Not a 939!

I lied. I got a Asus k7v880pro. I didn't step up the CPU. Sadly, I got the wrong stupid CPU fan so the one I got doesn't have the correct mounting bracket for the socket 462. I will work on a 754, 939 or 474 (or whatever the one for the P4 systems is called). See, I ordered the Zalman CNPS 7000 AlCu but I should have ordered the Zalman CNPS 7000B AlCu. See? Not really? Yeah, well, that was the problem. I paid close attention right up until I placed my order and ended up with the wrong heatsink/fan. Netlink did exchange it for me, but I have to wait a couple days for the 7000B to come in from the warehouse. Until then, still no computer. Bastards!