Friday, October 16, 2009
"Rain"
It was kind of a weird week weather-wise. We've had nothing but perfectly beautiful days of no clouds and between 70 and 80 degrees for a couple weeks. Then it clouded up, got extremely windy, knocked the power out, rained and poured amazingly heavily and just kind of...stopped. The whole weather sequence lasting roughly 36 hours. Now that it has passed we're right back to 80 degrees with no clouds. It was kind of strange in that way. Or something.
One thing of note, I did finally have a new window installed in my car. Hopefully it won't be broken into again. My faux-window was actually amazingly water resistant (not water proof) for what it was. What it was was a peice of trash bag taped over the hole with transparent packer's tape as tight as possible then a second layer of trash bag with again a layer of packer's tape. And the tape covered the entire window, not just enough to hold the bag onto the car. If I ever need to know this agian for some reason I think I'll have a pretty good idea of how to do it effectively. I was actually glad I had a black car for once since I was using a black trash bag. Still ghetto looking but at least "stealthed" ghetto. Doesn't matter now, I got a new Window.
In other notes of news, or whatever, I have recieved my MCSE books. I think I already mentioned that. And that whole week alone at my mom's house didn't do anything apparently I hardly made any progress at all in the PHP/MySQL or the MCSE books.
I think I've mentioned that I bought an Asus O!Play. And I played with a little. Tried playing some super-high-quality MP4s and whatever and that's about it. Until yesterday that is.
That's when I somehow stumbled upon a review mentioning that the unit comes with a telnet deamon and not only that but there's a root user with no password already existing. I then found some articles on installed a program that allows for easy install of some packages form a package repository. I've already had some fun with that trying to see if I could get the packages for a PXE boot setup. I don't think the unit has enough storage space for it all though. I was also going to set up an Apache/MySQL thing on it. Or at least one of the two. Maybe if I figured out how to install packages to a thumb drive sticking out of one of the USB ports.
I got so obsessed with it I stayed in a very bad sitting position for an extended period of time. I was stiff but fine when I finally went to bed and I was fine this morning when I woke up. But about 10am or so I just got this incredible pain in both of my sides, like my ribs were bruised or I pulled a muscle. So I took some aleve and laid down for a little while and the pain stopped. Very strange thing the way that happened.
¶ 11:36 PM It was kind of a weird week weather-wise. We've had nothing but perfectly beautiful days of no clouds and between 70 and 80 degrees for a couple weeks. Then it clouded up, got extremely windy, knocked the power out, rained and poured amazingly heavily and just kind of...stopped. The whole weather sequence lasting roughly 36 hours. Now that it has passed we're right back to 80 degrees with no clouds. It was kind of strange in that way. Or something.
One thing of note, I did finally have a new window installed in my car. Hopefully it won't be broken into again. My faux-window was actually amazingly water resistant (not water proof) for what it was. What it was was a peice of trash bag taped over the hole with transparent packer's tape as tight as possible then a second layer of trash bag with again a layer of packer's tape. And the tape covered the entire window, not just enough to hold the bag onto the car. If I ever need to know this agian for some reason I think I'll have a pretty good idea of how to do it effectively. I was actually glad I had a black car for once since I was using a black trash bag. Still ghetto looking but at least "stealthed" ghetto. Doesn't matter now, I got a new Window.
In other notes of news, or whatever, I have recieved my MCSE books. I think I already mentioned that. And that whole week alone at my mom's house didn't do anything apparently I hardly made any progress at all in the PHP/MySQL or the MCSE books.
I think I've mentioned that I bought an Asus O!Play. And I played with a little. Tried playing some super-high-quality MP4s and whatever and that's about it. Until yesterday that is.
That's when I somehow stumbled upon a review mentioning that the unit comes with a telnet deamon and not only that but there's a root user with no password already existing. I then found some articles on installed a program that allows for easy install of some packages form a package repository. I've already had some fun with that trying to see if I could get the packages for a PXE boot setup. I don't think the unit has enough storage space for it all though. I was also going to set up an Apache/MySQL thing on it. Or at least one of the two. Maybe if I figured out how to install packages to a thumb drive sticking out of one of the USB ports.
I got so obsessed with it I stayed in a very bad sitting position for an extended period of time. I was stiff but fine when I finally went to bed and I was fine this morning when I woke up. But about 10am or so I just got this incredible pain in both of my sides, like my ribs were bruised or I pulled a muscle. So I took some aleve and laid down for a little while and the pain stopped. Very strange thing the way that happened.
