eric’s extremeboredom

I spent at least 5 hours today trying to get a wireless network working for someone with no success. The original issue was they had a computer at the opposite end of the house than the AP and wanted to be able to use it on their new broadband. The AP was an ACTIONTEC DSL/Router/Access [...]

So I finally decided to make use of this $50 gift certificate for amazon.com I got, and picked two things to order. The total ended up being $0.42 thanks to a suprise $0.80 discount I got for searching A9.com one time. Just so nobody questions my integrity, the only reason I placed an order from [...]

I’ve decided to create a new section on here for World News, where I can rant about the mess Bush has left the country in, as well as anything else going on in the world. One note, I’ve updated my post regarding the possiblity of a draft with some new information reflecting recent press, so [...]

Well, for us at least. Today I finally got rid of the very last SCO OpenUNIX system at work, and boy are we happy. After actually having used one of SCO’s products I can safely say that all the shit they get from, well, the entire IT community at this point is completly justified – [...]

…well, I guess I still wouldn’t have enough money to purchase a license, but that’s beside the point. So after I accidentally stepped on the one extension cord that everyone’s computer was plugged into at my LAN party the other night the Windows XP installation inside vmware that I do all my Meshwork development in [...]

In the GotMono IRC channel someone mentioned that the RSS feed in BlogX (An asp.net blogging application) doesn’t work in mono, so I set out to fix it… I found several problems with the code, as well as several questionable coding practices. Concatinating a “/” and another string instead of using Path.Combine (Windows and Linux [...]

Made a quick website for Hotwire. Check it out. I need a logo, if you have talent contact me! :)

I finally put up the photo gallery. I’m using Gallery2, which is pretty nice. It’s currently got photos I took from the 4th of july fireworks show the other day, I’ll try to consistantly add more photos to it. For the slow among us, you click the link up top labled “Photos” to go there.

So I finally rented The Fifth Element and watched it. Awesome movie, I highly recomend it. I’m not sure if I can recomend renting it from blockbuster however. I didn’t know anything about the movie when I rented it other than the fact everyone I know highly recomended it. While in the car on the [...]

I got my LCD today, one day ahead of what FedEx’s site said. It rocks, big screen, small frame, very bright, NO dead pixels, no ghosting in UT2004. I’m very happy with it :). Now just what to do with these two 17″ CRTs…..