Brent’s Thoughts

Well I have been working on the new format for this beast. It was getting to be too big of a page to expect people to load all the time. This method also allows me to limit the access to different sections and such a little better. Work continues on in the normal fashion. It has actually been kinda slow and I am without a project to mess with as well. I have also offerred to speak at the January Linux meeting. I am unsure if it will be a big turn out or not, but at this point I no longer care. I plan to talk about what I want and the people that show up will get an earful of information that I think will help them out later in life. Lately the club is stagnating (I think), but I now understand that that is just the way it is going to have to be. No one has applied for the Webmaster position that Aaron left open with his resignation, and I know of no one that is clamoring for the VP position. The archive section is only about 4+ monthes behind and the page is falling into a bigger state of decay. On a plus side zuhli will be taking over the lead role as server admin and he thinks that there are some interesting possibilities for the assistant position. Developement on the servers also seems to have stopped, it isn’t really anyones fault I guess it is just that Frank put effort into his position as Admin for the Astronomy Lab (which was a paying position) and the non-paying stuff sometimes took a backseat. I guess I just expected him to put the same energy into the servers that I did, but I now realize that I put more effort into it then most would have because I didn’t really give much of a damn about school so that left a large amount of time for the Biodepartment and WKU-Linux.

On another interesting note, I put in an application for a Linux/Unix admin to a Biology department for another college. I am hoping that maybe I will get a shot at it due to having to worked for another Biology department. I am not sure if it will work out, but it would be cool if it did. It isn’t that I mind my job at AFNI, as a matter of fact if it was just our call center and there was no headquarters with people talking down to us and blocking us I think I would actually enjoy it, but the constant effects of having other people tear up stuff and refuse to fix it or even care make the job a little annoying.

I have been playing the expansion pack for Mechwarrior 4 lately and I am wondering if I could develop BattleTech system based upon it. There are a few issues with the multiplayer system that they have for it, but I wonder if it would be possible to modify it to work the way I want it to. I have even dug up some of the old Battletech books out of the bookshelf and started rereading them. I have such streaks in my life were I am really interested in something.

This was the first weekend in probably 6-8 weeks were I have not had something going on. I spent most of the weekend chilling at the house in my PJs working on Diablo. He is tweaked out now. I started out at the bottom and worked my way up to the top. Had to flash the bios on the Dragon board, flashed my modem, and my video card all up to the latest bios. With that done I then preceeded to setup SAMBA, HTTP, Rsync, and Accelerated X on the Linux side. I next booted into Windows and updated all the drivers for the video and everything. Mechwarrior 4 smokes now!!! Got the new expansion pack for it and I have been playing the shit out of it this weekend. Got back into linux and setup some stuff with the media side of things. Ripped a couple CDs and burnt one. Working on getting the Dxr3 board that I have working so that I can watch my DVDs and stuff without using windows. Tried to setup that up, but somehow it screwed my Font server and X wouldn’t run. I couldn’t get it to come back up so I tar’ed the /etc and /root directories up and sent them to another machine and rebuilt it again. Dumped the tar back and had the same machine again. I have completely accomplished my attempt to use Linux for everything. Well everything except for playing games. I had a moment of weakness and almost wiped W2k from my machine and put 98 on it so that I really wouldn’t use it for anything else, but I fought back and rationalized it by saying that I used W2k at work so I needed to keep it on here.
On another side of the coin of life (and one of the sides I don’t mention much) I am somewhat worried about Pauline and I. Friday I told Frank and Ethan that I would take them out to dinner. That ended up costing me quite a bit as Frank inivted Rob, not that I didn’t want Rob to go but I had planned on paying and for the second time Frank threw Rob into that. Also Jeremiah decided he wanted to go as well so I paid for his too. But anyway back to what I was actually writing about… So I told Pauline about that and ask her if she would wait till about 8:30 or so and I would come pick her up and we could come back over here and spend some time together. She said that she was going to go to Morgantown. I didn’t have a problem with that. I ask her if she was going to be coming back over here on Saturday because I thought we could go out shopping and stuff. She veto’ed that idea saying that she was going to spend time with her dad. So I called this morning to see if she wanted to go out with me because I needed to pick up some shirts. I found out that she went to Louisville with some guy to see one of her friends. Not sure how it is that I feel about that, but I am sure that it isn’t happy. Lately I have become paraniod about her and the possibility of her cheating on me. I am not sure why, but the feeling persists anyway. Maybe that isn’t the best thing to say into such a public forum, but I try to keep this as an open journal so I guess I need to. Pauline puts a lot into sun signs and Zodiac in relation to how people act. While I don’t put as much into it I do think that people often times act in manners that could be explained by that, wither it is because of it or just because they do. Regardless one of the things that just about everything I have ever read about Leo signed people is that they like to be the only one in their mates life. In this sense I am truely like that and it drives me nuts to think of even the remotest possiblity that she might be seeing someone else.