Randy Glenn is possibly RoHS Compliant, but only by exemption.
Actually, it’s a C3 and it’s rather small, so it’s cool and light… but still amazingly kick-ass. I mean, 12 cm x 12 cm! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of… yeah, like no one saw that coming.
First car I get, one of these is going in for moozik and nav – no question.
(More banally useless crap coming later in the evening – first, some cleaning)
I’ve updated my calendar with the details of the event I’m attending at a hotel in London this weekend. Only a sh…edload more work to get done before then:
Kind of a busy week, eh?
I don’t know why I keep trying to make Mandrake Linux work – it never really has for me, and I doubt it ever will.
Things that went wrong this time:
Hey, Mandrake: It’s called APT. It works with RPM now. Use it, and stop forcing your half-assed shit on unsuspecting users.
On top of that, the “Change printer options”-type thing does nothing for my printer
Yes, I know I’m using a pre-release, but this is a Release Candidate, not an Alpha build.
So I finally replaced the battery on my old Stinkpad. So far, so good – battery meter still reads 98% and it’s been away from outlet for nearly 3 minutes now. This is gonna rock – previously, it would have been as low as 80% by now.
This, of course, means that I can use my computer completely cordlessly when in the student centre now – between the Wifi and a decent battery, I could conceivably sit at a table in the middle of nowhere and get Productive Work done.
Or, at least, get some Weebl and Bob in.
5 minutes gone and only down by 2%. Stressier tests to follow, but… damn, this rocks! Even 2 minutes per % would put me at over 3 hours per charge! And I haven’t even shut down the hard drive yet!
Of course, now that this problem has been resolved, I have to correct the minor issue of my PCS phone only getting about 6 hours standby and a minute of talk time before complaining of low battery. Placed a bid on a new battery – twice the capacity of the old one – on eBay (my first ever bid!) so I’ll know if I won it tomorrow, noonish.
Nearly 10 minutes out and only down 4%! YESSSS!!!!
… so little time
I mean, so much bloggably good stuff has happened even today, yet by the time I get to a computer, I forget it, or have waaaaay too much stuff to work on.
Le sigh. Per’aps tomorrow…
I’m now thinking that going with the good old-fashioned IBM Model M keyboard isn’t the best idea when doing late-night hacking in the same house as your parents – the damned thing is nearly as loud as a typewriter.
It seems Total Recall really was as cheesy as I remembered it being. Funny that.
Staring at the green NIC led in a red-illuminated, so-blue-it’s-black computer case through the case window in the side – in a darkened room at 6am, no less – is nothing short of mesmerizing. Especially when trying to transfer copious amounts of semirandom bit patterns from peers in Places Unknown.
Fuck – MUSS is down again.
Gee, I have to be up in 15 minutes, and got ~2hr sleep around 8pm. I’m not going to be overly personable today… time to find the slides for commerce, Notebookify them, and get ready for Day 3 of The Most Hellish Year Yet.
As I type this, I’m hooked up at McMaster on a wireless network. Yay! It wasn’t working yesterday at CLUBSFEST (in all caps because you have to shout when you’re there), but it seems all hunky-dory now.
I’ve also recieved word of a wireless network in my beloved ITB, so I’ll need to figure out how to get my MAC address added to that one. Too bad I don’t have any classes in that building this term.
Classes begin in an hour – in an hour it all becomes all to real. I’m not sure I’m ready for third year to start – it seems like second year barely just ended, and I’m scared rather shitless. But, as Ty said, we’re all in the same boat, so the curve will be a big help.
Only an hour to go… better test WiFi under XP to see if it works there. Until later, later.
Visit this to see how my schedule works out this term.
Term 1: This is a perfectly acceptable schedule – no monstrously early classes, off fairly early most days, and that 6.5 hour gap on Wednesday might be useful. Now, all that remains is to do is to check it against available transit options… and to take the damned courses, of course.
Term 2: This royally sucks