Brent’s Thoughts

Original thread from my old forums

A fellow worker asked me what I was doing for valentines this year. to which I replied probably nothing after buying the house our bank balance went down substancially.
I realized that brent and I have fallen into a pattern of just glossing over the holidays. I know it is easier than trying to think of something special and romantic to do, but is it possible that maybe these holidays are here because you are supposed to go to alittle extra effort at least once a year? maybe the extra effort you try to invest pays off in the long term??? what do you guys think? is anyone else out there in a relationship where you typically do nothing special over the holidays? do you think that it is important to do something or no?

Original thread from my old forums

Thats right I got DSL again. Yay!!!

It is a little slower this time because I am farther away from the CO and they had to drop the speed down, but it is still pretty decent and ALWAYS ON. Ahhh… that was the key piece right there.

I also picked up another Linksys WRT54G this time the S model (WR54GS) which has their afterburner technology. I installed the latest Sveasoft firmware on it and my older one and then linked the two of them together using the WDS function. Effectively, building a wireless link from my computer room to the living room for the Xbox. That way I didn’t have to drill any holes in the floor or anything like that.

It also gave me a chance to play with that functionality a bit and to see how well it worked. Pretty easy really, and I could so see building a mesh network out of them and blanketing the whole subdivision with broadband. At $70 a shot it wouldn’t be too expensive of a project if you had a little bit of funding for it. Since, you can use the firmware to boost the signal strength too, it might be possible to really cover the area with a signifcantly fewer number of APs too. I have no doubt that my two are probably blanketing the houses all around me right now and I don’t even have the signal boost turned up.

I did get lucky in that I had $50 worth of reward money from purchases at Best Buy that was going to expire, so for the most part I got mine free. That is a pretty decent system BTW. I mean if you buy with a DiscoverCard there then you get a 1% cash back bonus and then BB gives you a percentage of what you buy back as reward points, so you can siphon some more off there (as long as you use them before they expire).

I am also looking into maybe switching to some type of streamcasting thing. I don’t have much more info than that right now, but I will try to give you some more here soon.

Joe has passed away. I will be heading to Indiana tomorrow for the funeral and stuff. I don’t have a lot to say about it right now. I just thought the people that are reading this and know who he is would want to know.