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- Semester 1 2007
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- Semester 2 2008
- eBusiness Assignment 1
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Project BGC
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Other Life Related Stuff
- MCSE Exam 1 (70-270)
- MCSE Study (Exam 2 70-290) booked: 2008-07-09
- Get Degree (1 class remaining)
- Earn more money (thankyou 1xNew Job + 2xPromotions)
- Have kids
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| Legend - To do - In
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  Remember that server I was talking about?.... | 
Posted - 3/16/2006 2:16:46 AM | Well, the Server with the mysteriously degrading array seems to be down on its knees begging me for forgiveness. It has only taken about a month and far too much overtime to sort it out.
So I just replaced the motherboard on it (Dual Xeons annoy me with their 8 screws under the heatsinks... why can't I remove the board with the CPU's/Heatsinks still attached is beyond me!)
So after all this we have replaced:
Motherboard, SCSI Card + ECC RAM, Backplane, SCSI Drives, and a SCSI cable...
Finally things are on the up and up! The SCSI Array build process was twice as fast as before, so obviously something went better (perhaps it was getting Intel Certified ECC RAM for the SRCU32 SCSI RAID controller that made the difference)  .
Now... to Ghost from the Temporary SATA installation back to the RAID 5.
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| Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| Some Peace at Long Last! | |
Posted - 3/15/2006 5:08:23 PM | Well, after loafing off us for over a year, my brother-in-law finally moved out. He is moving over to the US to live with his Uncle and go to Uni over there, which has finally given us back that other bedroom. Now, to turn that into an office so I can start studying/working in there ;)
I would really recommend to anybody who is planning on having family move in and live with them: get the ground rules laid down before they step a foot through the door, or else they will treat the place worse than if it were their own, and they will treat you doubly bad. Respect for anothers property just seems to go flying out the window after they start to feel like they own the place.
Another thing... Try to recommend that either they SAVE their money, or they pay board. I got sick and tired of the fact that he was working about 12 hours a day 6 days a week, then going out buying electronic gear. I wouldn't have minded so much if he had used ONLY his gear and not ours, and BROKEN our gear in the process of using it. Includes DVD/Mp3 Player w/ Microphone (for Karaoke) and CD Player/Clock Radio.
And if you think I haven't got more to bitch about... HYGENE! OMG, the place stinks! His bathroom has more scum in it than the rest of the city from what I can gather. And he doesn't flush the fecking toilet, which I notice after the odor starts to penetrate other rooms :/
Finally his dog has gone too, which I am probably a little more sad to see leave. Habibi is a fairly good guard dog, but suffers from an inability to stfu when told, and also seems to think he is the boss of us all and snaps and generally misbehaves constantly. Not to mention that he tries to eat any guests we have over, including my father-in-law. He is simply an untrained mutt, so I really wonder how he is going to cope over in the US.
I think that is enough of a rant for today, so now that it is off my chest, I can look forward to cleaning up the two bedrooms (Mother-in-laws and Brother-in-laws boxes to be removed and placed in the ceiling). A general clean of bathrooms, bedrooms, hallways, etc.. not to mention clearing the garden of all that dog mess.
Ah the joys of owning your own home...
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| Assignment 1! | |
Posted - 3/12/2006 4:20:41 PM | So, last post (only a couple of days ago I know) was informing you all/myself that I was reenrolling at uni. Well, I have just completed Assignment 1 for STA2300 (Statistics/Data Analysis). Now, this assignment is due at the end of this week. THANKS A LOT USQ! To be fair though, this will be the second week of the semester, though I wasn't enrolled until Thursday last week. That is what you get for enrolling last minute and being dicked around by University Administration.
One problem for the Assignment was that I was doing it last night I was also suffering from perhaps the worst migrane ever, which inhibited my ability to think effectively. Fortunately the Assignment was a fairly easy one to do as it was more about making students read the handbook than actually do anything course related. One thing I have to pick about is that one question was "What is the title of the first message on the Discussion Group". Well, I read the book backwards, forwards, upside down, inside out etc. The answer wasn't in there (not that I expected it to be) but any mention to a Discussion Group, or how to access this was completely absent. I wouldn't normally mind about things like this except that the Assignment states that all answers can be gleaned from the book (or are linked to from the book)
After a quick google search I found the first clue, managed to log in to the appropriate area, and managed to access the Discussion Group. I was in the mind to post up an abusive message, but that probably wouldn't assist with my studies at all.
Ah, the fun of University. I can hardly believe I ever considered going back to the shit-hole.
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| Glutton for punishment | |
Posted - 3/8/2006 5:06:10 PM | So if it wasn't already apparent that I am far too busy for my own good, I have gone and put myself right into it even more: I have enrolled back at university with a goal to finishing the degree I started 6 years ago.
If it weren't already enough that I work full time and am studying for my MCSE's, I am now going to have to study full time (fortunately I am an external student so I just have to complete assessment in my own time) as well as I have on my plate the game demo that I have been working on.
So when it comes down to it I have been more than a little stretched, and something is going to have to give. It will more than likely have to be the Game Demo (again) that is put to the back of the pile until I can conjure up some extra time. *sigh*. Here we go again!
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| Oh my... Overtime is a killer.. | |
Posted - 3/6/2006 8:58:08 PM | I have been working pretty hard over the last couple of weeks on a Server that seems to have had a spike take down every component in it. The server still runs but I am unable to create RAID arrays in any way shape or form. I am still awaiting a replacement motherboard, but this has been far more trouble than I had anticipated. I have put in a fair bit of overtime including nights, mornings and saturdays to get something resembling the server together - and KEEP it together.
On the other hand I managed to get some time to myself yesterday and the day before. I managed to get some OpenAL with Ogg sample code up and running (after a fairly nasty problem with my alut.lib). So I now am looking at crossfading ogg streams now that I can mix them myself.
And thank god for being able to use two different ogg streams simultaneously! Thanks for NOTHING SDL_mixer.
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