Nerding out on a Friday

Ok, ok, ok... right now I am in front of the computer rather than getting social on my last Friday before the big trip east. Lame?? Yeah.... but I have a lot of stuff to do, and little time to do it in.

Essentially everything hinges on getting the Indian plumbing fixture catalog done before the end of the weekend, and there's about 300 images left to be placed, one way or another. That should take much of the weekend.

However, in a positive turn, I was ultimately able to procure the Dell Pentium 4 desktop machine that Dan Schned's brother had replaced with a shiny new Apple iBook G4. (There are a lot of Apple converts among the Schneds lately.)

This will cost me some money, however, as the cash is ultimately for Dan's new Apple laptop he's trying to get on Saturday. This Dell will cost me $80 to $100, depending on how reliable the hardware turns out to be. I already had to yank out the busted CD-RW drive because it was made by some horrible Taiwanese manufacturer called "Lite-On It Corp." However, another drive that I swapped in worked all right.

The aim of this flurry of technical activity is to get a new web server set up. After having installed Gentoo Linux on a crappy Pentium 2 borrowed from my upstairs neighbor Eric, I've decided that Gentoo is damn sweet, and the best thing to set up a good server on.

Now that we have a Pentium 4 @ 1.6 GHz, the Plot Can Advance.

But in truth, I can't spend all weekend fiddling with this machine, no matter how appealing to my geek tendencies it might be. Instead the everlasting plumbing catalog must be finished.

However, I might spend a good chunk of Saturday helping Nick Petersen move to his new digs in Minneapolis, on Huron Avenue by Interstate 94. BEATS THE HELL OUT OF WOODBURY, THAT'S FER SHERRR!

Posted by HongPong at August 21, 2004 01:47 AM
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