$%@!#$%@#$% IBM!

[kallistii]

Well, IBM used to make pretty decent servers. But their rack-mount dual Xeon servers suck the galactic muffins!

Friday IBM came into our NOC to replace the motherboards...and now our development machine is worse than flakey...it is now down and out! Thank the Gods we didn't let them touch the production machine!!!!

My home server/super workstation will soon have a brain...or two... I finally ordered a pair of Athlon 2600+ CPUs. According to what I have read, it is easy to overclock them, even with the stock heat sink/fan combo, and take them from 2.133 GHz to 2.3 GHz and beyond. I'll be quite happy to get them to 2.3 GHz, for both Religious reasons, and since that would mean I have the equiv of two Athlon XP 3000+ CPUs! And with Linux's SMP I will have a truly kick-ass machine! But that is good, since it will be my recording workstation for doing music on. And it will have lots of disk space for non-linear mixing and maybe even video editing.

I may turn my older Athlon system into a PVR by simply picking up a mega large HD...I don't really need the view one while recording the other...I have a hard enough time trying to remember when my fav programs are, so this beast can just go off and record them for me, and when I get around to it, watch them. I'll also use it to store episodes I miss using BitTorrent.

I haven't decided what to do about digitizing my CD and record collection...there is a heck of a lot of it, but I don't want to store it in lossy MP3 format...Flac looks good, but I need to find a good flac -> mp3 converter, so I can create music CD-ROMS to play in the car...i've got one of those Radio/CD decks that will play MP3 CD-Rs. Means less swapping of CDs on long trips.

My day was filled with trying to get our load set up and running on an old server, which we did, and then we bashed some bugs, and are generally a lot futher along than we though we would be, based upon having lost a server. And in the evening, I went over to my boss's house, and we watched Peter Gabriel's Secret World DVD (with 5.1 sound!). An amazing experience! Maybe in a couple of weeks, we will do the Growing UP DVD.

Next weekend, my company has it's users' meeting, and I have to be there part of it, but I hope to get away early on Saturday, drive 4 hours to get to GaFilk....and between now and then, I need to restring my beloved Ovation 12-string....I haven't been able to find my fav strings, the Dean Markley electric 12-string set...so the ones I have will not totally be to my liking. :-( At least I have the beastie down here now! I missed it...It's been my musical companion for about 20 years now.

Well, it's getting late, and I should crash soon...good night all!

Comments

[ravenlaughing.livejournal.com]

Welll, the end parts were in English.... LOL

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

Ah...yes...sorry for geeking out...

Maybe I should balance it by posting the article I co-wrote with a anthropologist friend of mine about why Indo-European works as a lingustic model, but not as a cultural model...and how diffusion is a better explaination as to the similarity in concepts from Europe, through the Middle East, and out to the Far East....

ttyl

[ravenlaughing.livejournal.com]

Frighteningly, I really did understand your geek mode there. And the article sounds fascinating! Is he basically postulating that the dispersion of IE languages created too many cultures to use the big IE umbrella?

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

No, if things started from a cental source, and spread as the IE cultural theory goes, the myths should have changed even more than they did. But since they had related languages, memes were able to travel and take hold in these diverse cultures due to trade, not a common cultural heritage. These varied people didn't spring from a common origin, but from diverse origins. Giving them all a common origin was the aim of the racist colonial cultures, since they didn't want to admit that India could have had a higher/longer culture than England did, they had to create a common origin so that they were on at least the same footing as the Indian culture. I mean it is pretty stupid to say that Greece had a culture that is closer to the Norse than to the Egyptians simply because they spoke an Indo-European tounge! Just look at how they practiced their religions...Greeks and Egyptians built massive temples and temple complexes to their Gods, while the Norse practiced in a way that was closer to shamanic.

When Isaac first put ADF together, IE culture was still considered gospel, but these days, it is considered flawed science, on the level of Magaret Mead's "Coming of Age in Samoa", but without as good a rebuttal which Derek Freeman provided to Mead's work.

ttyl