Happy new year / this and that
I suppose I haven’t posted in a while, so here goes. First off happy new year to everyone! Dunno about you but my partying ethic hasn’t quite died down yet.
This is just one of those times where I feel like there’s so much code to be written that I don’t have time for anything else. I’ve started a contracted NSIS project, necessitating a boot-up of the ol’ never-used copy of Vista on Nighthawk and for when that doesn’t work my collection of VMware VMs with every imaginable version of Windows. Let’s not forget that I have to get an alpha of Enano 1.1 out by the end of the month – that means finishing localization. Do wish me luck, I’ll need every ounce of it that I can get.
In the mean time, my printer looks like it’s gonna end up in the backyard beneath a little plate saying “Here lies \\nighthawk\deskjet722c, 1997-2008.” OK, so I don’t hate the environment that much. It’ll probably just sit in the basement until spring comes around and I can get it up to the recycling center. I’m looking for another inkjet printer that’s compatible with Fedora and doesn’t have scanning or copying features (not needed). The current candidate is the HP DeskJet 6980, but if anyone has recommendations, post away!
What else? Oh yeah, I got myself another box to tinker with. A guy down the street gave me an old Dell OptiPlex GX150 about 4 months ago; only a couple of weeks ago did I get around to bartering some RAM out of a coworker. In a related note, Tiny Tux, the legendary $4 server that protected my network for 2 years, has found a new home as a Fedora Core 4 server. It was a pretty even trade when you think about it – my coworker ended up with a decent Linux server, and I got the final piece of mine, 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I’m looking for another stick with the same size and clock speed so I can get a decent Linux distro on there and get Xombie (named for her current OS, Xubuntu, and the fact that I raised her completely from the dead) into production use.
Anybody remember Lapdawg? The old Acer TravelMate 230 that served me for almost 3 years? Sadly, she suffered a failure of the power port a couple of months ago. The battery died too fast for me to make any real backups. After trying for several hours to solder some wiring to the motherboard to get enough juice to the thing I finally saw some success, only to get a lovely wisp of smoke as soon as I turned on the juice. It was pretty obvious that there was no point in not gutting her, so I threw out the mobo and other proprietary components and saved the DVD-ROM drive, PS/2 touchpad (which later failed and was thrown out), hard disk, RAM, and LCD screen. I plan to sell off all but the hard disk, which Neal has claimed so he can save RoadWarrior.
Christmas saw the arrival of a beautiful new fake-leather chair and the usual assortment of gift cards (Chipotlé, yay!) and snacks. (The now-empty box for said snacks can be seen on the floor in the chair picture.) I, of course, overloaded on Chex Mix and lebküchen, the latter being sort of a family thing. It’s funny because I’m the only one left in the family that still likes it and isn’t allergic to it.
I think that’s about it for now. *looks at watch* *yawns* 