Brent’s Thoughts

Continuing with my tradition of posting really important things with mundane titles, I figure Maxx will love this one.

That is right, Pauline and I went to the doctor today for the start of appointments for our first child. She had taken several over the counter pregnancy tests about a month ago and passed them, but we were still a little cautious that it might not be. She took one at the doctor today and passed it without even studying so we are calling it official.

They marked her as 10 weeks into the pregnancy and that her due date is set for June 24th right now. Apparently, it is a 40 week process. All of that was based on a little fuzzy remembering and no tests, so I don’t know how accurate it can be considered. Since she is supposedly 10 weeks in, they scheduled an appointment next week to see if they could find a heartbeat. I am a little worried that they aren’t going to be able to find one, because I am not really sure that she is really 10 weeks along, but they are the people that do this all the time so I am going to stick with their judgement.

We don’t know if it is a boy or a girl yet, but I am officially opening the doors for name suggestions.

And no maxx I have already tried Maxx and Christopher, and I don’t think either are going to get by the mother’s power of veto.

Well that is about all that I know right now. They took blood for lab work and such, but obviously none of that is back yet, so I can’t really tell you any of the results of that.

Well maxx has finally decided to call it quits on his webhosting company. That means I had to spend some time looking for a new host. I had already looked at Dreamhost.com a few times so I picked up an account with them. Everything works great and while I mourn the loss of my free hosting with maxx the change will allow a few things to happen around here that I have been putting off.

The system that Dreamhost provides is great and even with the low level hosting plan that I took, I have all the features that I had on maxx’s servers, including shell access. I moved my blog by just using mysqldump on maxx’s machine and then running the resulting sql file on my new account on Dreamhost after I scp’ed it to the machine. Worked great.

If you would like to sign up with them and help me out a little you can do it with this link: Dreamhost.com

I also had to move Coachpowell.com over there too.

I wondered how long it would take republican voters to finally get tired of the asshats in office. I opened my favorite sites today and it looks like it was a good day in that area among my friends.

Caution Maxx’s langauge can get rough.
Open Letter
Old Glory

It is nice to know that at least my friends aren’t blind to the wasteful practices of these corporate pigs in office. I don’t know if more of America is starting to see that they are manipulated in Election Years or not. I hope so. We as a people need more people writing stuff like that this. More people that feel they are republicans, but also feel that these “republicans” in office aren’t.

A two party political system sucks (IMO), but it is what we have, so we need to see people from both sides work to make sure that the people in office at least reflect the things that they say their party is supposed to. Both parties seem to have gotten away from that in the last few years and they need to see some fallout from that.

I really wish there were more third parties out there to run so that people would feel they were a valid party and vote some of them into office. I think anything that would shock these greedy greedy money grubbers in office into thinking they might lose their jobs if they don’t try a little harder to do what we want would be a great thing.

I pulled a dump of the old forums off of maxx’s server and dumped it into a database on one of my servers at work. I spent a little time pulling some of the posts out of it and putting them into this method of blogging. Unfortunately, there was really no way to pull the comments too, so on most of the ones that actually had comments I have just posted a link at the top to the old thread.

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It seems lately that I haven’t been doing a whole lot with the computers that I have at home. Lamar and I were talking about this some and I realized, that unlike when I was in college or right after, that I didn’t really have a lot of projects running that I could be thinking about.
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Man it seems like we are bleeding cash right now. I came home this last weekend after going to Indiana with Mom and the big screen tv had died. It was time for it to happen. The thing was like 20 years old and had been through three moves, but still it was unexpected. It wouldn’t be such big deal except for the car and all.
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Upgraded my blog to Wordpress 2.0, most of the changes are in the interface I use to post, so I don’t think everyone will see a difference.

I did change to the builtin spam filtering, so maxx might actually be able to post without me having to approve it everytime. Why don’t you try that out buddy?

Look what Pauline found in a copy machine at WKU. Notice the name and date on it?

There are a couple things that are sad here. One they are using Maxx’s test for a study sheet and two, the teacher hasn’t changed their test since 1998?

Wow. Some of Maxx still lingers on the hill.

We have been working on a pretty neat little project, here in Edtown.

Using a pretty high powered desktop machine, we have been working on a custom setup to stream Educational “Free to everyone” TV stations over our network. Right now to stream 4 channels it looks like it is going to take a P4 3.4Ghz 2mb Cache. That is transcoding and streaming them all, all the time.

On the other end, to decode one channel at a time, it looks like it is going to take a PII 233mhz. Both machines will be running Linux and running VideoLan-Client to do this. VLC is pretty cool. You can do a whole lotta stuff with it. There are apparently colleges that are streaming DVDs across their network and stuff with it.

I also setup a yam server. No maxx not just because I wanted to be like you. Since we run a proxy server and all our machines have to route through it, it was making it a real PITA to get the packages for my machines. YUM really doesn’t seem to like going through authenticating proxies so I just decided to cut out that step and move all the packages in house.

I am having a really odd error on that though were some of my repositories keep looking in “RPMS.$repo/Fedora/RPMS/” instead of just looking in “RPMS.$repo” for the packages. maxx you having any of that?

I got some howtos up about setting the VideoLan Streaming machine and a howto on how to setup the frontend clients too

I took a little time today and setup my Digital picture frame to pull pictures off of my gallery every night and add them to the loop of images that it is showing.

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