Cleaning day!

(Reposted from old blog)

It’s that time of year where the little bugs and tweaks in your computers starts to get annoying, you realize your iPod is full and you don’t listen to half the stuff on there anymore and it’s time to start cleaning out. So I broke out the stack of DVD-Rs and the portable hard drive and I’m simultaneously backing up two computers and prepping them to receive a new OS. Currently Gigan and Godzilla are copying important files on to the big hard drive in Gojira via network and sneakernet. Meanwhile I’m downloading all the latest drivers for my ThinkPad (Gigan) on the flash drive and preparing a new install DVD of XP with SP2 with nLite. I’m also going to try slipstreaming in my SATA drivers so I can avoid the voodoo dance that is installing Windows. For those not familiar the procedure is roughly as follows:

1. Switch the controller to ATA/Compatibility mode in my BIOS.
2. Install Windows XP on the computer.
3. Install Chipset drivers
4. Copy over (but don’t install) the SATA controller drivers, run installation prep script.
5. Switch the controller back to full on SATA, then when Windows boots and decides not to crash, rush to complete the installation of drivers your hard drive controller…off your hard drive…on to your hard drive. Does anyone else see why I get nervous about that?
6. Sigh of relief and install the other six bajillion things I need.

Hopefully I can just skip all of this with nLite.

Stay tuned for updates on two electronics projects up on deck to actually get built. (Yeah, I’m scared too)

New Site Underway!

(Reposted from old blog)

Well I like to pretend the three main reason I don’t keep up with updates are:

1. I have nothing to report
2. It just isn’t as convenient as it should be for something periodic
3. I’m just so gosh darned busy I never have a chance.

Well, number 3 is a load of defecation, it’s summer break and finding a job isn’t going super great. So I spend most of my days sleeping in or tinkering with various pieces of code. Numbers 1 and 2….well some of the code I’m tinkering with is HTML/CSS/JS stuff. Soon I hope to have a whole new site (maybe a new theme too) that is easier to update than this one. That will allow me the convenience of number 2 when it’s done, and the information needed for number 1 in progress. (No waste jokes please.)

So the only problem is….without number 2 do we really expect number 1 to matter? Well the blog is in fact convenient and I am in fact just lazy, here’s another attempt to make it mean something!

Todo list:

• Make new site layout with new fancy menu
• Make better content management system, simple is better. Editing actual files may have been a bit clandestine….
• Get a job to fund other projects!!
• Start those other projects

Wish me luck!