The Demon Werx

So Amok found an app to write Wordpress blog stuff from the G1, well not to be shown up and needing a better way to interface with the blog than the browser on the crappy phone. Well I need an awesome phone like amoks phone to even get close to his last post, but the touch is freakin awesome.

Rock on Amok!

yay this is a test post from the hospital…. we are an hour or so into the 12 hour run… family is in the room now.

Update - 11pm 12/28

10:30 pm Conner Elias was born after 1 hour of heavy pushing
10:46 pm Liam Nils was born after 6 minutes of pushing

Conner was 6lbs 6.7 ounces at 18 inches long
Liam was 5lbs 8 ounces and a very balled up 17 3/4 inches (his length is deceiving)

Mom is doing good but in tons of pain, thanks for all the prayers, gifts, support and love!

This ISP Owner is pretty cool: One ISP says RIAA must pay for piracy protection

Here are the pictures (the top one is most recent):

I am gadget freak and a geek… wonderful combination when you have an expendable budget and time to play with the toys.

I’ve had a few conversations in the last couple of days and weeks about Cell Phones and what people were looking for in their chosen handset.

Amok (did not specifically provide this exact information) - Something cool, flashy, and an upgrade from the God Forsaken 10 year old Nokia phone.

Dad (Still looking for a good handset) - A Good phone, handles email well, and most importantly is able to handle and sync contacts intelligently and from multiple contact lists.

Me - Something like a combination of the iPhone, G1, my MacBook Pro, with server like robustness, based on the Tegra chipset (for battery life and video capabilities), and Wi-Fi (call and data) capabilities.

(basically what I want doesn’t exist).

Yes,

Waiting, not so patiently at times and patiently at others… for the call that my beautiful wife is going into labor.

It hasn’t happened yet.

I need to upload pictures.

So… that title can be taken a few different ways, however its just about the >

It was interesting talking to Linksys folks, as each of them had me change the same setting to a different configuration under the premise that it will fix my problem… even though that setting had only been there for 5 minutes.

So fiddling around with the config I was able to make it so I had open NAT (opened the recommended ports on the router to the box so traffic was not impeded) and could join parties and have people join me. However, I still get bizarre latency/connectivity issues when on the box, especially in Swat (I believe swat is the most demanding variant when it comes to bandwidth and latency, 1 shot kills hurt when your lagging).

So I have a serious problem on my wireless network, Linksys has told me its a ‘Product Known Issue’ and they have firmware (1.3.09) in beta that they are going to set me up with, hopefully soon, that will fix it. Will it really fix it? I have no idea, it is a brand new device that definitely hasn’t been performing as it should. Will I most likely continue to purchase Linksys products in the future? Most likely. Will I research the product a little more? Hell yes.

What am I going to do in the interim? Well… scarily enough I am tempted to setup a second router and wireless network, sneak it as close to the box as possible and pray it works. I’ll have to see.

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So yes, after buying a brand new router that was supposed to resolve my wireless woes I have daisy chained my old weaksauce router to my new hotness router and now can play box again. Weather its on par with the speed before is still to be determined my best guess is no, I will see lag… but my box is the only device pointed at the old WRT54G. This is pretty pathetic I must say and appears to be a huge waste of money on a faulty device, thanks Linksys.

(I think I said the console name to many times so my blog got blocked at work… awesome)

Oh I wish I had bought the 600N especially after 3 calls to Linksys!

Firstly, the out of the box firmware was old and the device decided it didn’t want to talk to DNS servers anymore, no worries though, those aren’t important at all. So I lost access to Xbox live for a bit and after a firmware upgrade it worked again.

Until now, when it drops signal for my Mac and my >

I call Tech Support up and get told when trying to express a concern “I believe have more experience with Linksys products then you do”… after which I ask for another Tech and get disconnected on in the process. Lovely… I am at their mercy, I buy their product, I follow directions, I express a concern, and I get talked down too. Wow, I regret being a pain to the people I was rude too when I was in TS.

We are in the market for new Cell Phones, the wife looking at the LG Sway and I was looking at the Blackberry Storm until a friend told me about a particular NVIDIA chipset and future base for amazing phones!

Tegra is going to be freakin Amazing! Here is the page from nVIDIA mobile

These things are amazing! HDMI output, low power, killer toys… Verizon needs them NOW!!!!

I hate you!
I need to eliminate you!
Before you slay me!

So I’m trying to drink a gallon and a half of water each day, get a full nights sleep, and working on getting 20 minutes of cardio… which one do you think I struggle with the most? Probably the cardio, however the other two don’t come easy.

Thank you to those Veterans who have served the country to keep us safe and free.

I’ve been thinking a lot about a lot of stuff… mostly that I get really really angry while I am driving, it makes me do stupid stuff and as much as I would like to blame the retarded drivers on the road I will hold that back and say I need to focus on driving defensively amidst all the Offensive drivers.

I have been working way too much, 50 to almost 70 hours a few weeks ago. I will hold my opinion on that because if you know me you know I have an opinion and I’d rather let some one get it from me personally rather than from me via text. I have decided, and have known for a quite a while, that text is a weak sauce means of proper communication. Unless (!) the writer of said text goes to great lengths to fully illustrate and identify the exact needs of their audience, then text is not an ineffective means of communication. I think an awful lot and go off of my previous experience 99.999% of the time so my understanding of what you have just written is first subject to my prejudice and skepticism before I consciously can decide to formulate an opinion on it.

so… where is my rambling going?

I have identified one of my struggles: I want to leave an impression on the World right now. How do I want to do this? Well, I am feeling a draw to create something most likely web based that attracts attention from more than just people I know, family and friends. I would like to be able to put something on the World Wide Web in a way that would attract attention but more importantly possibly enrich and help people.

I mentioned a while back while reading two books about the philosophy of “Want”, I am going to be bringing two boys into this world in the (very) near future that will put me in a position where I need to sacrifice my ‘want’ because they will be in Need of everything. It’s definitely a realization that has struck me recently as I feel them kick and move their mother’s belly, they are there and they are coming here soon.

I need to shift gears attack school and work on my philosophy so that I can not only continue on a path to become a more enlightened improving person, but be able to give something to my Sons that will allow them to navigate life and its inherent struggles.

More to come, hopefully it will never stop.

-Paul

Yeah… I’m playing both… and I hate Arizona drivers.

More on all of those later (just giving the site some love).

So…

I’ve been not so quietly contemplating suspending WoW for a bit… the new expansion is out very soon, the peaceful realms are now starting to stir. They are getting busier and busier forming queues when trying to log in, I don’t see my bro-in-law often enough to do much with him…

And I’ve been rocking Halo3! 360voice

Last night I shot a hornet out of the sky and dropped it on an unsuspecting teammates head… me just saying that sounds odd, and it was merely a coincidence that the vehicle killed him. It was not merely a coincidence that he kicked me from the game because of the betrayal. One of the really really awesome things about Halo3 is you can replay the entire game after finishing up a multiplayer match. So the wife and I waded through about ~3:20 (3 minutes 20 seconds) of game play to figure out how I killed this guy. It wasn’t the fool that jumped on the tank… no it was the guy that had a bit of hornet wreckage clip his head after I shot it out of the air. Silly Bungie… but they rock.

SO Failover does kill!

~Paul

Well they have arrived - 2 cribs, 1 dresser, 1 chest, 1 washer, and 1 dryer.

I took a picture of the washer and dryer I’ve got to resize it before I put it on here, maybe I should do that now so I can put the pictures on here.

I need to take picture of the fan I installed with the furniture in the boys room… We only assembled one crib this weekend and the other is still in the box. It’s a large box with a good size crib in it. We were hoping to put a glider chair in the boys room so that we would have a place to sit while in the room, it seems that there is no theoretical room for the chair in the room with all the needed major furniture, but we’ll see what happens.

Here is a picture of the laundry room and then one of Anubis and myself while cleaning office:

It was a fun weekend… quiet is a good thing.

~Paul

Here’s a picture!

I gave in and had a lot of fun with Halo3 on Live this weekend… Haven’t opened any achievements recently, but have been rocking multiplayer a lot. I’ve been lucky and gotten Ammon to run around with me a few times too.

Tonight I plan on getting the most recently released Map content (600 points or about $8.00).

So I’ve been working on a website for the boys… it’s in progress and has a long way to go, I think I will be adding a part to the house page too with the stuff I did in the boys bedroom. I’m working on getting pictures up there too.

Here’s a link: Babies

~Paul

There are many really nifty technologies out there that make life easier on a daily basis that I have no understanding of… does this stop me from trying to dabble in them? I’ll give you a hint -> NO! I dabble with almost anything I can get my hands on and have the tools too.

SO… I’ve been working to get CentOS installed on more than just the little Compaq laptop that it is running on. My AMD3k system with the Gigabyte board is not happy, getting what appears to be BIOS errors with the Cool’n'Quiet chip setting. (32bit and 64bit installs both fail, 32bit kernel panics when trying to shutdown and 64bit just hangs with the keyboard flashing (which is odd)).

In my genius I decided to get some use out of the Frankenstein Dell Optiplex GX50 machine (it has 256mb of RAM because I ninja’d some from another box)… it still sucks in every sense of the word however. Because this thing is soooo locked down it wont boot off of a CD/DVD-Rom and only has 2 options (with some tweaking) to boot off of the Disk or Netboot.

I decided I was going to take on the rigorous Netboot. This lead to 2 hours of downtime of my entire network… surprisingly enough, turning off DHCP on my LinksysWRT54G was a bad thing… the network crumbled… and DHCP from the Laptop never worked.

More detailed carnage later.

I seriously need a change of pace or I’m going to blow a gasket…