Nathan asked what am I up to now, so I thought I'll write a little list:
Computer stuff -
Find out why all computers hate me, to the point of working enough of the time that it'll be a pain to get them fixed under warranty
Play the new computer (2.5Ghz DP G5, 2 GB, 6800 Ultra, 30" LCD@2560X1600)
Set up copies of windows server 2003 (I didn't name it)
Set up a Debian server at uni (probably install woody, very old, but should be very very solid) -
Set up user mode linux and play with it (so I can use more recent software and still have a stable machine for important stuff at the same time, I hope...)
Set up a Linux machine at home or a Windows Media Centre one, not sure what yet, in any case I'll need more space
Set up a wiki server on one of the machines + other stuff
Clear out some space from my desktop machine, how did I get 300 GB of stuff on there?!?
Install various bioinformatics programs
Write up a wish-list of things I want to have set up (Linux file server with 1TB+ RAID5 for backup and stuff, UPSs, etc...)
Setup a backup system
Non computer stuff -
Think about getting some research done
Find things to do in Singapore/Malaysia/Vietnam for when I visit those places in Jan '05.
Meet more random people (try to find more people some who are not doing accounting/finance or anything like that)
Sleeping
Social stuff
Learn how to spell (thankful that the notepad like thing in OSX has a spell checker)
Learn this grammar thing
Finish off filling up my phone's address book
I want a fileserver running (among other things) mldonkey, asterisk, web, and most importantly LDAP (since they have free imap servers now)! No windows server, no bullshit.
I also want to develop a sort of "universal filesystem...cache...thing" using webDAV, so I can treat the internet as a filesystem, and my fileserver as a "cache". BWAAHAAAHAA
I also don't understand a "media center" PC. Why on earth would you have a screen BIGGER than the one on your main PC in your house? Main PC gets the biggest screen, best sound, etc. making the media center obsolete.
Finally: I'm going to kill you, you giant mac whore.
Write up a wish-list of things I want to have set up (Linux file server with 1TB+ RAID5 for backup and stuff, UPSs, etc...)
You're wasting huge amounts of space and electricity. Burning coal for the sake of data redundancy and uptime.
Also about the how your current setup of the PC in the lounge "in a few weeks" really represents a movement to a culture that is IMHO an antithesis for what computing has come to represent. I like divx movies as much as the next guy, but if you're watching divx camera rips on a bigger screen than half life 2 or doom 3, that's like sacrilege.
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