updates
Games.
(previously) I gave up on Oblivion, for some reason it just didn't gel with me. I gave up on Spore; it got to be tedious surprisingly fast. I find that I don't have much time to play on the Xbox 360, and I haven't really solved network connectivity to the living room, so I have started Fable II, Wanted, and Force Unleashed, but haven't gotten very far in any of them. Contrariwise, I've played all the way through Mirror's Edge twice now, the second time to get the achievement for never shooting anyone (and on Hard difficulty - jeramey inspired me to try by doing it himself).
I've finished Mass Effect 2, and Trine, and started messing around in Portal again since it was free on Steam recently. I've also played a bit of Alien Swarm, since it too is available for free on Steam. I also have Saboteur, Dawn of War II, and Dragon Age: Origins that I may yet get to in some serious fashion.
hooray privacy
(previously) I've gotten SyncML working between my iPhone and eGroupWare, tested the calendar sharing between users, and overall I'm pretty happy. I've got most of the ease of use of storing all this stuff in the cloud (I had to set it up, which isn't ease of use, and I have to manage backups and restores), but I'm actually in control. I also finally stopped self-signing certificates, going with a free option for widely-accepted certificate, so I can access all of my mail / address book / calendar stuff securely.
I can trace the address book on my iPhone 3G all the way back to a Palm III I had in '99, and I've suffered a few times to dead batteries, dropped electronics, and the like. Given my near-complete inability to remember any of this stuff, knowing it's synchronized and spread out all over the damned place is a bit of a reassurance.
Incidentally, if any of you would like an account on my machine to mess around with eGroupWare and its phone/desktop/web synchronization options, let me know; I'd be happy to help anyone else move away from a Googled life. My only complaint right now is that either eGW or Thunderbird Lightning had a regression, and I can't currently access my calendar with it.
more geek
I've got a new server I'm setting up, destined for the data center. It's nowhere near the 24-core, 32GB RAM monsters I deal with at work, but it's a lot beefier than my current server: the old machine is a Dell PowerEdge 1550, featuring two 1GHz Pentium IIIs, 2GB of RAM, and about 290GB of storage (a 9GB Ultra160 boot drive, and four 72GB Ultra160 data drives split between internal bays and an old Sun 1U unit). The new system - and I got OpenBSD 4.8-beta installed tonight - is a PowerEdge 1850, with two dual-core 2.8GHz Xeons, 4GB of RAM, and about 290GB of storage on two internal 146GB Ultra320 drives.
(previously) I gave up on Oblivion, for some reason it just didn't gel with me. I gave up on Spore; it got to be tedious surprisingly fast. I find that I don't have much time to play on the Xbox 360, and I haven't really solved network connectivity to the living room, so I have started Fable II, Wanted, and Force Unleashed, but haven't gotten very far in any of them. Contrariwise, I've played all the way through Mirror's Edge twice now, the second time to get the achievement for never shooting anyone (and on Hard difficulty - jeramey inspired me to try by doing it himself).
I've finished Mass Effect 2, and Trine, and started messing around in Portal again since it was free on Steam recently. I've also played a bit of Alien Swarm, since it too is available for free on Steam. I also have Saboteur, Dawn of War II, and Dragon Age: Origins that I may yet get to in some serious fashion.
hooray privacy
(previously) I've gotten SyncML working between my iPhone and eGroupWare, tested the calendar sharing between users, and overall I'm pretty happy. I've got most of the ease of use of storing all this stuff in the cloud (I had to set it up, which isn't ease of use, and I have to manage backups and restores), but I'm actually in control. I also finally stopped self-signing certificates, going with a free option for widely-accepted certificate, so I can access all of my mail / address book / calendar stuff securely.
I can trace the address book on my iPhone 3G all the way back to a Palm III I had in '99, and I've suffered a few times to dead batteries, dropped electronics, and the like. Given my near-complete inability to remember any of this stuff, knowing it's synchronized and spread out all over the damned place is a bit of a reassurance.
Incidentally, if any of you would like an account on my machine to mess around with eGroupWare and its phone/desktop/web synchronization options, let me know; I'd be happy to help anyone else move away from a Googled life. My only complaint right now is that either eGW or Thunderbird Lightning had a regression, and I can't currently access my calendar with it.
more geek
I've got a new server I'm setting up, destined for the data center. It's nowhere near the 24-core, 32GB RAM monsters I deal with at work, but it's a lot beefier than my current server: the old machine is a Dell PowerEdge 1550, featuring two 1GHz Pentium IIIs, 2GB of RAM, and about 290GB of storage (a 9GB Ultra160 boot drive, and four 72GB Ultra160 data drives split between internal bays and an old Sun 1U unit). The new system - and I got OpenBSD 4.8-beta installed tonight - is a PowerEdge 1850, with two dual-core 2.8GHz Xeons, 4GB of RAM, and about 290GB of storage on two internal 146GB Ultra320 drives.