The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Impressions of .NET

| October 7, 2005

Okay, so you folks know that I've been doing a variety of things with MS's .NET Framework in the past couple months, right? This includes an end user application (Done on Mono with the GTK# toolkit, actually) done as a hobby, and a bunch of Web type stuff done for work. Here are my impressions [...]

Another SR4 update

| October 7, 2005

Liz is away, so I've been reading a lot. Oh, and RAID 5 performance is seriously hindered when operating in degraded mode. Remember how it wasn't working and I had to change the drive? Well, I had been noticing that it was quite slow, and now it's wicked fast again. Woohoo! Tomorrow I get to [...]

The Awakened World

| October 6, 2005

Okay, back to my synopsis of SR4 (been busy, sue me). Oh, and I may be posting some condensed char sheets at some point. – Spells are still cast at a certain force, you just don't need to worry about it when buying/learning spells. – The force at which you cast the spell caps the [...]

Revelations

| October 3, 2005

Using Windows is a religious experience…. … … because it's a miracle when anything works.

Serenity and Supernatural

| October 2, 2005

Serenity was excellent. I shall refrain from serious discussion until next Monday, giving everyone a chance to see it and not have any spoilers. I finally watched the Supernatural episode that was TiVo-ed like 2 weeks ago (the Wendigo one). I don't see what the big deal is. The acting was half-rate, the whole thing [...]

RAID Update

| October 2, 2005

Swapped the drive around, and aside from the fact that the controller now thinks it's logical disk 1 (probably because there was a spare outside the array when I first booted it): Oct 1 23:18:45 yt kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi0: AEN: INFO: Rebuild started: Unit #1. Oct 2 00:22:27 yt kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi0: AEN: INFO: Rebuild [...]

Hooray for RAID

| October 1, 2005

This could also be titled “I need to review my logfiles more frequently”. So, I'm doing some electrical work in my office, which requires a reboot of my machines (because I'm cutting power to them, and beeping UPS's piss me off). As the core server is coming up, and I see that drive 0 is [...]