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Month: April 2002

  • St. George’s Day Work Schedule

    In between dealing with the usual assortment of network space issues, printer problems and other nonsense, I get to place the rebuilt West Conference Room computer back into its Smartboard enclosure. I also get to spend an hour or so in a conference call with the rest of Entercom’s erstwhile IT/IS team. Mind you, half these folks are engineers first and computer techs second. I’ll probably compile more stuff on Zero while I have the “mic mute” button toggled. I don’t have anything of value to contribute, as I’m well ahead of the standard Entercom computering curve.

    No false modesty, it’s just that Entercom Portland is unusual (Hah!) in having a dedicated IS staffer. That would be me, for those of you following along at home.

  • Current Music is back

    Just to prove that I know what I’m doing when it comes to building a working Linux rig from scratch, the Current Music information has returned to this page. As before, it is fed from Zero’s copy of XMMS and her Apache+PHP webserver.

    Damn, I love this geek stuff. Damn, I’m good.

  • Another Not-really-worthless Page

    Discarding the simple elegance of her previous design, Celina (a.k.a. Mononoke of #KNRK fame) has put up a new page, and this time there are words and pictures! Oh, and she makes lots of nice comments about yours truly. How can I not link to her after reading her page, hmm?

    (Update: Thanks to peach-pit for pointing out that I’m a dork. All that typing and no link to the page in question. Duh.)
    Celina’s Page

  • Three day weekend, of sorts

    I took Friday off from work to visit OMSI with my son Alexander’s 4th grade class. We got to see the “Brain” exhibit, which was only mildly interesting; we watched a live broadcast from the KOIN 6 meteorology studio; we played in the turbine room a lot. Note to self: family membership at OMSI.

    Saturday was spent at home with the kids. Sunday was spent at home with the wife and kids. Great quantities of Heroes IV was played by all. Considerable quantities of 4×4 Evolution was played by some.

    We had pizza for dinner on Saturday night, while I prepared my infamous shells-and-cheese dish for dinner last night. Wendi insisted on doing the cheese layering, however. Since she wanted to so badly, I let her use the food processor to grate the cheese as well. That thing’s noisy, but effective.

    And now you have the weekend update. I’m sorry it’s not as funny as that seen on Saturday Night Live, but them’s the breaks.

  • Status Update: Zero’s Transformation

    As of this writing, Zero is now a Linux From Scratch rig. All she can do at the moment is run XFree86 4.2.0, watch TV on her spanking new Radeon All-in-Wonder (but no sound as yet, need a mixer) and accept email directed to my username at zero.kgon.com.

    Next up: Install GNOME from sources, install Evolution from sources, get SSH, SNMP and Apache+PHP working, install some truetype fonts, get cd ripping and burning to work, and perform various other small install processes that need doing along the way. Hell, I might even put KDE3 onto this thing. All of this not necessarily done in the order stated here.

  • Features on hiatus

    While I’m in the process of turning Zero into a full-fledged Linux From Scratch rig, I’ve disabled any features here that rely on that machine. The random-email and current-music widgets both lived there, and will return just as soon as Zero is back to a fully operational state.

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