Friday, 16th of February, 2001
I went to what used to be The Evergreen Project, now I guess Schwartz and Associates, and helped out with some stuff, and also helped take out some trash. I took home 4 Pentium 90 boxes they aren't using anymore. That makes 17 computers in my room now. I think I'll set one on Mom's desk, and Dad is talking about having a workstation just for plotting, and I might run some Linux tests on one, so we'll see. In the mean time, I completely boarded up the top bunk of my bed so I can store these there for now.
So now let me power them up and check out what these kids have under the hood... Woah, the first one is a P166 with 32MB RAM! Nice! 600MB Hard drive, not bad. It seems Ran had installed FreeBSD on it. Nice. Computer #2 is a dissapointment, P75 with Trident video. I guess that averages out fine, specs are otherwise the same as the first machine, with no OS on it. Computer #3 is what I was told it is, for once, a P90. NT Workstation 4.0 is on it, and there's this weird Venus 6000 video card in it. Computer #4 is again a P90, with a 1.2GB HDD. Cool. The case seems nice too, heavy and well-built. Thumb-screw, nice, easy to open, it appers there is a Cirrus Logic video card in it. Red Hat 5.2 is loaded on it.
I also acquired some components, like a couple SCSI CD-ROMS (16X Teac and 24X Panasonic), a TwinTurbo video card, tons of old SIMMS and DRAM, and one thing I actually need - CD-ROM audio cables!
Thursday, 15th of February, 2001
Wow, TDK is treating me pretty well, I got my warranty replacement for those 80-minute CD-Rs, and now I have 25 74-minute CD-Rs in those nice slim-jewel cases. If nothing else, those jewel cases are nice. so I'm happy now. The 74-minutes are excellent, they have passed every single one of my CD-R tests so far, including anti-skip in my portable and speed on an ancient 1X caddy-loading CD-ROM. Much improvement over the 80-minute.
Wednesday, 14th of February, 2001
Tuesday, 13th of February, 2001
Woah, there was an e-mail bomb threat at the Jr. High today, and it was "scheduled" for 1:30. They had all the students rounded up in the gym from 11:00 to 1:30 while dogs sniffed the entire building. That is crazy.
Monday, 12th of February, 2001
Only the states of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Texas and Tennessee were different, where over 89.3 percent of the final words were: "Hold my beer and watch this!"
Sunday, 11th of February, 2001
Natalie-Angel found some cool Angel webpages! The Collection of Angel Thoughts and Quotes is so relatable, I love it! And there's a whole series of pages at Angel Quotes.