time and tide
May. 3rd, 2003 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intjonathanI think I go shopping mostly for the exercise. I can never find anything that fits me, looks acceptable, and is less than $70, all at the same time. Either I have no fashion sense or I'm the only one with it. This is an ongoing problem that came to a head today when I, after finding the post office closed and the ATM broken, decided to make my trip "worthwhile" by going to the mall and picking up a sweatshirt, something I've been meaning to do for a while. Well due to Alderwood's current state of Federal Disaster Area (insane amount of construction), there was no parking. Due to the weather's state of Warm & Cloudy, it was busy. Due to the calendar's state of May, there were maybe 20 sweatshirts in the entire mall.
Needless to say, the trip was by and large a failure, except for giving me the opportunity to walk 3 miles.
MCS in 30. I gotta get gas on the way, I should be leaving.
from the geek-angst dept.
After much testing, trial and error (mostly error), I've reached the unfortunate conclusion that my motherboard will not boot reliably from drives attached to my AHA-2940 controller. This is very unfortunate as I have spent many weeks trying to free that card for use in my system, and as it turn out I can't even use it. This is where I start regretting buying such a cheap motherboard (not that there haven't been many other times....). I had visions of rolling into 60man lan with 2 15K drives on a fast controller and playing a whole round of CS before everyone else finished booting their machines, but it seems that was not a dream meant to come true.
So now in addition to my persistent, frantic searching for someone who will trade a 50GB IDE drive for a very nice SCSI RAID controller, I have to start pricing out motherboards and ram. Yuck. All this for a geek with no money to spend and a lot of gear he can't sell. Arr, being leet can be so difficult sometimes. It's not an obsession, it's just that I have all this nice hardware that I think should be used. Actually using it seems to be the hard part.
The good news is that the P3 is very happy in jake's old case, though I was disappointed with the performance of the Dell/Adaptec raid controller I switched it to. It's no worse off than it was, but I had hoped for some improvement over the old one. And thankfully all my testing with the 2940 did not cause any catostrophic damage (that I can tell, yet).
Needless to say, the trip was by and large a failure, except for giving me the opportunity to walk 3 miles.
MCS in 30. I gotta get gas on the way, I should be leaving.
from the geek-angst dept.
After much testing, trial and error (mostly error), I've reached the unfortunate conclusion that my motherboard will not boot reliably from drives attached to my AHA-2940 controller. This is very unfortunate as I have spent many weeks trying to free that card for use in my system, and as it turn out I can't even use it. This is where I start regretting buying such a cheap motherboard (not that there haven't been many other times....). I had visions of rolling into 60man lan with 2 15K drives on a fast controller and playing a whole round of CS before everyone else finished booting their machines, but it seems that was not a dream meant to come true.
So now in addition to my persistent, frantic searching for someone who will trade a 50GB IDE drive for a very nice SCSI RAID controller, I have to start pricing out motherboards and ram. Yuck. All this for a geek with no money to spend and a lot of gear he can't sell. Arr, being leet can be so difficult sometimes. It's not an obsession, it's just that I have all this nice hardware that I think should be used. Actually using it seems to be the hard part.
The good news is that the P3 is very happy in jake's old case, though I was disappointed with the performance of the Dell/Adaptec raid controller I switched it to. It's no worse off than it was, but I had hoped for some improvement over the old one. And thankfully all my testing with the 2940 did not cause any catostrophic damage (that I can tell, yet).
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Date: 2003-05-04 12:17 am (UTC)but i suppose exercise is the one single good use for the mall? ;)
have fun tonight!
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Date: 2003-05-12 11:24 pm (UTC)^_^
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Date: 2003-05-13 09:04 am (UTC)