Brent’s Thoughts

Tired of rebooting into your different operating systems and having to wait while it boots and loads all your programs? Well that is why we need my new BIOS to become a standard.
BIOS’es are no longer limited to the small size that they were before. Now they contain pictures and some even contain code to connect to the Internet and �check for updates� or whatever. All of that seems like it is a waste and that space would be better used with my system. BIOS’es that understand the hard drives that are connected to them and a filesystem (probably fat32) on them. Therefore at a BIOS level your OS’es can be suspended out to disk. What this allows is a near instantanious switch between running OS to running OS. Hit a command key sequence and you are dropped to a menu, select the OS you want and the memory is swapped out and the OS is instantly there.

Windows XP has something of this feature with its suspend-resume features, but that requires code on their part, and doesn’t allow for a system for all OSes. This would be done instead at a hardware/BIOS level. The OS should never even know it was suspended out

One of the biggest drawbacks of wireless networking is that it is a shared medium. That is an obvious flaw of the medium. It is impossible to transmit two streams of data on the same radio frequency. So a 11mb wireless switch can only achieve 11mb total. Where a 10 mb switch can achieve near 10mb per client. So that a 10mb switch can actually be faster than a 11mb wireless access point if you have more than one client.

What we need is a way to switch the data across the airwaves, but like I have said it is impossible to do that. So we need a new solution. Here is mine.

What if you set the access points to different channels? Build the hardware to support multiple channels so that you can reduce the clients on any specific channel. You design the hardware to interconnect with each other so that you can chain the access points together. You then designate one of the access points as the coordinator. When a client moves into range it connects and negotiates with the access point coordinator. The coordinator then tells the client what channels it has operating and what channel it would like the client to move to. The coordinator then passes the client off to whatever slave access point it designated and listens for more clients. It also keeps track of what access points still have clients and how much bandwidth they are using. This is to keep from sending a new client to an already loaded access point or do send more clients to a light traffic access point if a client is using a lot of bandwidth.

Unfortunately, bouncing clients around from channel to channel will cause a loss of connectivity momentarily, so you cannot balance a loaded access point out if another one has lost all of its clients, without interrupting any communications that might be ongoing.

Of course this is mildly different if it is possible to pack all of this into one chassis. There might also be some issues with the frequencies being too close together, but I think that can be worked around as well.

I got a call from Frank Miles last night and we talked for about a hour and a half about various things.

He is still working at IBM in North Carolina and has recently purchased a house around there. According to him the house is a duplex and he is planning on renting out one half of it to help with the house payments and all.

Said he was thinking about going back to school, possibly for a Masters in computer science. He seemed pretty excited about that possibility.

The phone conversations is probably one of the longest I have ever had save with maybe Maxx and this one was cut short by the battery in my cell phone starting to crap out. Of course he has free long distance with his cell like I do so he should have called me at my home phone.

Frank is kinda a Brent-Journal loser, especially since he is supposed to be a tech person, so I don’t know if you will see him on here or not. You’ll know it is him by his trademark

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Elvis smilicon.

This weekend I headed up to Indiana and attended my cousin’s wedding. It was a great time and I am extremely glad that I was there for it.

The wedding itself was pretty short. I think less than 20 minutes. I recorded the whole thing and still had a pretty good amount of tape left, so it must have not been that long. Shelly looked really pretty throughout the whole thing. No major mess ups or anything like that.

After the wedding one of my other cousins who I hadn’t seen in about 10 years hung around. This was pretty suprising since there had been some bad blood between his dad and my mom (brother and sister). He said that really had nothing to do with him and he was going to do what he wanted. When we were kids him, Shelly and I spent a lot of time together as we were close to the same age. When we were together I always remember us having a great time, so it was kinda sad to think of all the time we had missed being apart.

I spent some time with his kids, who are extremely cute and pretty and then at the reception I spent most of the night talking with him and cutting up. Toward the end of the reception Shelly got done with her Bridely duties and all three of us got to spent some time talking. Me and Bobby tapped out the last of the keg in what ended up being a contest with the Hotel staff on how many more beers were in the keg. By then the party was winding down and since we had already sent his wife, my mom, my grandma, my girlfriend, my sister, his daughters and who knows who else out shopping and they had came back, we decided to call it a night.

Luckly, I think him and his wife are planning a trip down here to the farm sometime in the future and it sounds like they are trying to work with my other Aunt and Uncle (Shelly’s mom and dad) so that they come down at the same time. God I hope so.

It is impossible to capture the fun of the night and condense it down to words here, so I will leave it at saying, that I had one of the most fun times that I can remember in the last few years.

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=434778

I cannot believe this. Instead of taking their time to actually make a decent fsking movie, instead they are spending the time trying to figure out how the Lemmings avoided the bad ones. These people really should be leashed and made to pay for this stupidity.

Original thread from my old forums

Well here soon (in like 3 hours) it will be my 24th Birthday. It is interesting to me that this birthday was almost here and I didn’t even realize it. Thinking back to when I was a kid birthdays were something of a huge even it seemed. I was always lucky enough to have my Birthday in the middle of the summer so I had plenty of time to think about it. It seemed like I did too. At least a week before each birthday was spent thinking about it and waiting for it.

Of course presents were a bigger deal then too.

Well I guess this year I did get a fairly big (pun intended) present in Pico, but things just seem to be a little more subdued toward birthdays now. It isn’t really a bad thing, it isn’t really a good thing, just an interesting one.

Original thread from my old forum

I spent Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway watching the Brickyard 400. It was a good time with the family. We took Pauline and it was cool to see her eyes light up over some of the stuff. I don’t think she got into it really that much, but that is a hard track to really get into the race at since you can only see parts of the race.

I think I am going to try to get her to go to a short track sometime in the near future so that maybe she might be a little more interested in it, since racing seems to be such a part of my blood.

I’ll try to post some video clips from the race. Dad got one of Earnhart Jr’s pit stop up close and I got one of another one of his from a little different angle. I’ll get those up soon I hope.