Monthly Archives: September 2008

Page views, broken down into operating systems.

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Edwin
Hi Mom.

Hi Mom.

Whoever is using Windows 98 or Server 2003, we need to talk. For serious.

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FreeNAS Update

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Edwin

So you know what’s awesome? Refreshing the page while writing a post, so you have to do it all over again. Thanks, NoScript.

Anyway, AS I WAS SAYING BEFORE IT GOT DELETED, it pays to do all your research before taking on a project. I forged ahead with my FreeNAS server with a few assumptions based on other things I had read about the technology.

The first assumption: you can add disks to a RAID after it’s been built. I knew you could replace disks, but adding one changes the total RAID size, which breaks the RAID. I’m pretty sure you can do this with other tools, but I guess the one FreeNAS uses is not able to do this.

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A post at last or reason #1024 why I hate telcos but love prime numbers

Posted on September 14, 2008 by Joel

Some readers of the Sector may have noticed the lack of contributions by certain members of the community. For the last month I have been suffering the worst of nerd horrors. I have been without internet since August 12th. That’s right, over 30 days of phone calls, missed appointments and bureaucratic red tape and I still have not secured an internet connection. Furthermore, my neighbors finally passworded their home network (their ssid is a lovingly unique ‘linksys’) a week and a half into my ordeal. I’m currently writing this post from the not quite comfort of my friendly neighborhood library after a cross town hike and having spent several hours attempting to wade through rss feeds reaching back several weeks. On the bright side, I’ve finally made some headway and Its looking like my journey should be resolved this week.

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Nerd Screening Room: Where the Senses Go to Die

Posted on September 14, 2008 by Sam

One of my passions is home theater. I love DVDs, large televisions, and surround sound. One of my lifelong dreams is to put together a kick ass system that gives me massive head trauma and blows up my house. I can’t say I’m an expert home theater tech, but I know more than the rest of these noobs on Sector 930.

The Room

Since we’re all nerds here, I won’t bother with aesthetics. Although an authentic theater look would be cool, it’s not a priority. The main thing here is make the room dark. Ideally, the room doesn’t have windows. If it does, get a thick black curtain and nail that bastard to the wall. All this darkness shouldn’t be much of a problem for most nerds, as it is their natural habitat.

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You know you're a nerd when:

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Edwin
  • You get kind of excited when you realize your new power supply only has one SATA power connector because it means a trip Microcenter.
  • You then scrounge in boxes looking for adapters, and are able to find two.
  • You have a friend close enough to you that you can drive to his house because you forgot to write the OS on the CF card before taking apart your PC.
  • You’ve ever wondered how many times you’ve installed Windows.
  • You have a spreadsheet with your IP addressing and naming scheme for your home network.
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