Don’t Fold Your Mascot!
Posted on January 25, 2005
k, I agree with Nathan. Networking is a huge misnomer. There’s nothing about it that works the first time. Ever. Computers in general, for that matter. Last weekend, my server had 2 hard drives, a CD-RW, a floppy drive, and an 802.11b wireless card. Now it has 3 hard drives, a CD-RW, and an 802.11g wireless card. Of course the new hard drive might be a bad unit and the wireless card is sketchy. *sigh* My sister also now has my dad’s old computer and she had the 11b wireless card from my server, but that of course didn’t work. She couldn’t get more than 1Mbps when the card is only 15 feet from my router. So my dad ended up buying another 11g card and putting that in her computer and now she gets 54Mbps. No idea why. We also spent a good 45 minutes finally getting around to securing our wireless network. We’ve been seeing several other networks around lately (skippy and manitou, who are you?) so we figured it was finally time to lock ours down. Good stuff.
I acquired some good things to watch this week. I finally got a copy of L?on and watched that. Good stuff. I’d been wanting to see it for a long time and it definitely delivered. Much more so than the two previous anticipated movies I watched. Those would be none other than Heat and Lawrence of Arabia, believe it or not. They were good, but way too drawn out and I got a little bored watching them. Blasphemy, I know. L?on held my attention the whole time. It was funny to see a young Natalie Portman, too. She actually had a rather good performance and was probably better than the work she’s done in Star Wars.
I finally got the Enzo. I started playing Project Gotham 2 again a couple weeks ago and after getting back to where I was on my brother’s Xbox (that’s my main gripe about the Xbox outside of its enormosity; you can save stuff directly to the system, which is nice, but to take your game anywhere else, you gotta drop another $30 to buy a memory card), I made it all the way up to the Ultimate series. Ferrari Enzos, Porsche Carrera GTs, Pagani Zondas, Ford GTs, and more make for some exciting races. I had quite the battle with two Koenigsegg CCs last night. Of course, at the time, I mistook them for Carerra GTs. Hey, they’re similar, and at 200mph, what the other car looks like doesn’t so much matter as where it is. Playing the game again has also made me realize what a sweet soundtrack the game has. Off the top of my head, there’s tracks by TRUSTcompany, The Used, and Earshot in the game. And there’s several other tracks that are good that I don’t know what they are. Playing PGR2 while waiting for Forza (which has been pushed back to April 
) has been a perfectly enjoyable experience and I’m quite tempted to go buy PGR1 and play that as well. My brother’s played it at a friend’s house and said they two games are almost identical outside of tracks and probably cars. Fine by me.
So I finally got around to cleaning up my laptop. I formatted the OS/program partition the other night and reinstalled Windows. I then cleaned up my storage drive by deleting a few things that I never used and copied stuff that I didn’t want to delete over to my desktop, and then defragged the drive. So now I’ve got a nice, clean Windows install, and a zippy (as zippy as 4200rpm can be, anyway) storage drive again. Is good.
No major updates to the site to comment on this time, hehe. We’ll see what I can come up with to do now. Although I really should let planetsuper just coast and work on content for it so I can work up the design for the Ideas site that Chris and I are planning.
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