Muckhead's Chronicle

New Computie

All I want for Christmas is a New Computie.

Well not really, but for those of you who are looking, here is an advertisement once run by the RAND computer company. Look like they had the future in mind.

Hehe

Backup Solution

Well, after all my woes with Norton Ghost, I decided to go out and purchase a DVD writer. Picked up a LG MultiDrive which seems to do everything I need, I can now make critical backups of all my DVD's as well. Bonus!

More Problems

More grief, I reloaded( actually still re-installing and restoring data), and I have myself a shinny new XP install, but Norton Ghost still won't work.

Any Hints would be greatly appreciated?

Here's what happened the other day:

I was Cloning a partition with Ghost, and left the room (apparently that is crucial), I come back and it has completed but there is a message about not being able to reboot. It gave a couple of different choices to try and re-initialize the boot partition. I choose to go with a unhidden partition. Then my drive letters all changed once it did finally reboot. Ever since that Ghost won't do anything but load the main screen, as soon as you do anything, click options for instance, it gives a General Exception.

I need to either get that fixed or find a new application that will clone or copy partitions.

What The Hell?

What the hell is going on here, I think this person needs to order the "Video Professor" computer course. Either that or they misunderstood "how much does your laptop weigh"?

I Had to share this one…

Upgrade Time

OK, I need some advice. I am thinking about upgrading my AMD XP 1700+ to something a little more powerful. I went to A-Power Online and I noticed many different AMD processors now.
There is the XP, The XP Barton, what would you guys buy?

Link'D

I took Bear's lead and picked myself up a DLink DI-704P router for only $19.99 (after the mail in rebate of course). I haven’t removed my FireCard as of yet though, even though I have had a few issues of late with it. I now have a few boxes wired for the net (nothing new for most of you out there, you might even say "only a few boxes").

Nothing much happening here, other than coding, I was going to go golfing this morning but it was pissing out when I got up. I still have a shitload of work to do anyway, even when the code is done will be doing docs. Oh well such is life, gotta take the bad with the good, the sour with the sweet, the... I better get back at it.

Tired of Waiting

Does anyone have a detailed fix that I can perform myself to take care of the GG Blade bug that prevents me from accessing Iambe . This is usually part of my daily routine:

• Fire up Box
  
• Check Mail
  
• Check Blogs for recent entries
  
• Check UseNet for new music
  

Since the bug is low on NetMaster’s priorities I thought maybe someone out there knows of how I can modify something more permanent than daily modifying the spoof file for the firewall and restarting. So if anyone has this knowledge and the time to share it feel free, not that logging into the device and reconfiguring the firewall and restarting it has become REAL annoying or anything, just a PITA.

Continued Bad Harware Mojo

My bad hardware mojo continues to plague me. I mentioned the other day( Working Golfing Upgrading), that I upgraded a friends machine, well I decided to trade drives as mentioned, well the next day when I went to try the 8GB in my machine it wouldn't take a format. It gets to 47% and just sits there, for hours.

Well to make a long story short, I manages to get it working with a quick format only, there obviously is some bad sectors on the drive. I now have 2 - 12BG drives in my system, and the friend I upgraded has a 20BG and a 40BG drive. We are all happy, but I lost a few days die to dicking around with hardware. Bad Hardware Mojo Continues

Had to Share This One

Thanks for all the input on the site, I think I am going to leave it as is (other than a few small colour tweaks) , for the time being. It is not that hard after all to change a few things and end up with a totally different looking site.

I was doing a bit of surfing this morning while I ate breaky, and just had to share this pic I call Barbeque Boxen . I have seen a few cooked boxes in my line of work, but never a box used to cook.

Also an update on the scanner ( Bspudd was asking the other day), you know, the one I had that silly contest for? Well turns out Bear's scanner went on the blink so he ended up taking it for legitimate use. I will have to dig up some other peice of hardware to run over with the Bronco then. 8)

Good Hardware Mojo

Went and exchanged the KVM Switch for one made by IO Gear. The manager of LD all but guaranteed that this would be the one that worked (not that I am going to go out on a limb and believe or anything).

Hooked it up and viola` the lag, she is gone. Tested it out with a quick game or two of UT3 of course. I think my best bet in the future is not to buy the suggested product that a certain LD employee suggests, unless of curse I would like to put my head up my ass as well. Maybe I would see life differently, of course I would have to keep my fly undone and it would be a one eyed perspective.

OK I am going to back off from making this a bash LD entry, or should I? I have bought many things from them and I must say that the return policy is what saves my ass every time. I think that is why I go back, if something breaks you just take it back. If something doesn't perform that great, you just take it back. The only problem with this is the price of gas. It costs money and time to make all those trips back and forth. I guess that's my only real bitch, and of course the one employee that works there now with his head up his ass.

Laaaag

Does anyone out there know of a good KVM Switch? I bought an active switch from London Drugs for $69 and it works, and there is now ghosting on the video, but I am getting mouse and keyboard lag. Like when you highlight some items by holding the ctrl key down and select with the mouse. Plus UT 3 is VERY ANOYING!

Let me know if anyone has a suggestion, and if possible WHERE it can be purchased from.

Still having problems getting to userfriendly

I am still having problems getting to userfriendly. I set the changes as directed by NetMaster to use the default list of IP ranges in [Security] [Setup] [Filter Networks] [Advanced] in the CSMv2 tool. This works fine, I can get to userfiriendly no prob.

Or

If I log into my GG Blade and go to /etc/fw/ and vi the spoof file removing the 69.0.0.0/8 range manually, then restart the firewall. This works great too.

However either method doesn't produce and solution once shut down my system. On reboot I must go in and perform this all over again. I even tried copying the spoof file into /2/etc/fw/ . but this doesn't work either.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Most of you don't shut down their system as often as I do I know.

Cheat Post

I don't really know where this would rank in the posting hierarchy, I am basically posting what I wrote yesterday but was unable to post, along with today's stuff. Let me explain:

My 19" NEC has been acting up over the last week (it is 6 years old), you will be working away and then "Shwink" you have a lovely screen that is only 1/4 of an inch high across the middle of the screen. Called a buddy of mine to ask him about it and he indicated to me that it might be fixable, but don't count on it, the part might be too much to bother. So, I was in the middle of updating my chronicle, almost 24 hours later and I now own a new ViewSonic G90f 19" flat screen. Sure I would have rather gone with a LCD screen but fact is, money is rather tight. This monitor is nothing to shake a stick at though, pretty sweet if you ask me. The good thing is I can now post yesterday's and today's stuff.

To add to my recent problems I had a little incident with my glasses, which are now being sent away for repair (with any luck they might be covered on warranty). Presently i am waiting for the third thing to happen, as things usually follow the age old pattern of coming in threes with me.

Will keep those reading apprised.