The Latest
Music: The All-American Rejects, not a new band, but I had only listened to Swing, Swing and Move Along. I have been playing two of their albums for the past 2 days, The All-American Rejects and Move Along. Both albums are great and I highly recommend them to anyone who has liked any of their stuff.
Work: I have a phone interview with a company in Charlottesville about helping on a Joomla project. I’m excited about that, Joomla is good stuff and I wanted to get deeper into the code of the CMS, this way I get paid too. I won’t discuss details of the project, what little I know, but it looks promising.
Computer: I have to reformat my Desktop and Laptop this week, my laptop has been a test bed for the past couple weeks and its getting messy and my desktop is around 6 months since the last time which is longer than I like to go so it is a big mess as well. Firefox is pissing me off big time, it has been crashing on me a lot lately, but I cannot do without it. I am running v2.0.0.2 and it is crashing less, but it just annoying as shit when it does crash.
I have been trying to decide my course of action regarding my machines. I am going to be moving to Core Duo sometime in the future, possibly AMD if they come out with something insane before I buy. I have a lot of choices to make because I would like to move to Linux more, but I need Windows, and I do not want to have as many machines as I need laying around. I will need my Laptop, Desktop, Linux Desktop, and a Dev Server. I would really like it if there was a way to have multiple operating systems running at the same time in the root of the hardware like the ESX server by VMWare, if I understand it correctly. Then you could have the controller change the video between the two. Maybe it is already possible I really don’t know (hint hint, this is where you readers come in). I need multiple systems running at the same time, but do not want the hassle of all the hardware. I have been looking into a 12U rackmount enclosure because there is a 3U case I absolutely love and would be perfect and I could go with a 1U for the development box and a 2U for the Linux box. That leaves me with 6 more U’s to play with, and I plan on getting a 2U or 3U drawer for the enclosure. I could possible even go with 2 x 2U drawers and put my laptop in one.
Another thought is to use the Core Duo as a server, put 4gb of RAM in it and use Thin Clients. There is a thin client I found a while back that mounts in the wall like a electrical outlet, it has a plug for your VGA, Mouse, USB, Keyboard, Network, and Sound, very very cool. In California we used thin clients in the office and they weren’t bad.
Pissed: I just found out that the email I setup for the new site using GoDaddy’s email account is not working. I could not send the email to Godaddy and when I called and told them I could not forward it they told me to forward it. I cannot setup DNS because I do not have access to the primary on the servers my hosting is on. The thing that makes me more mad is that this means I had to ask Josh to do it for me and I asked about 3 times with no action taken. While I appreciate that he gives me free hosting, after a while of having my messages not being read it really begins to show a lack of interest in speaking with me. There have been a large number of messages that he has not read and everyday he becomes more like Matt did in the end. I now have to go change shit to get something to work.
