Server Downtime

I’m not quite sure what the problem is with my server, sometimes it just powers itself off for no reason. It is not the board, even though the CPU isn’t supported, when I used it as a desktop, it ran for 2 weeks+ straight.

I’m thinking it is the power supply but not sure exactly what. It seems the connection for the power cable to the PSU is a bit loose, so it could be that it is just being shifted out randomly by the forces that be.

Either way, the server cannot recover itself due to the unsupported processor (E7400 on the G965 chipset). The processor works, but only at half speed, and requires one to press F1 to boot the server from the BIOS. I’ll try to get another board, but the problem is the case, its HP and as such it does not like to have a board besides theirs. The way the tray is designed prevents you from attaching a cooling device to the board when its another board.

I’ll figure something out. It is pretty stable until I start rummaging through the wires back there, so I guess if I just push it in every once in a while it won’t “pop” back out.

Anyway, all should be fine now.

Abandoned Blog

Yeah, I never blog anymore, I just don’t really have anything I can say publicly anymore. I guess I can start with an update since I deleted the last update. I have been living in Arkansas since October 2008. I came down to Benton AR and stayed at a motel for a while, and met this crazy guy at the motel and ended up becoming roommates with him, I abandoned that after realizing I was just being used for money (and for other reasons), and am now living with my girlfriend (asashimitsumi) at her Mom’s house.

I don’t know where things will go from here, I am currently on a waiting list for subsidized housing, since I am eligible for it. But that could take another year or two, so who knows what will happen by then.

Well, I guess that is all for now.

P.S. I may start tweet’ing more, so be sure to check out my Twitter, or my Facebook if you have me as a friend, since all my tweet’s update my Facebook.

True love?

What is love? What is true love? What are these feelings I really feel?
I took a few online quizzes from random sites, don’t know if they mean anything or not. One told me I am 80% (4 of 5 questions right) in true love. The other said I’m basically 60% in love, 40% infatuated.

So what is true love really?

When you just want to be with the other person?
When you would do anything for them, just to see them smile?
When you would gladly give up anything for them?
When you know the person has flaws but you love them regardless?
When you feel their pain?
When you worry at night about them if they are upset and you can’t help them?

These are just some of the feelings I have, but there are many more…

Love

How do you distinguish the difference between loving someone romantically or just loving them as a best friend? I mean, is it as simple as the desire to be in bed or is it more complicated than that?

I care deeply for her and connect with her very well, and trust her with anything. I miss her dearly when we don't talk which leads to an obsession of sorts, but I believe this is just because we connect so well and I feel I can tell her anything, and I don't have many friends like that. Therefore I always seem to yearn to talk to her the most. I know love her but in what way? I don't really think it is romantically, I enjoy making her happy, and she makes me happy, that's all. Of course, that is not to say if she were to ask me out I would say no. I really don't know this kind of feeling.

Emotions confuse me.

Update

Well, long story short, our previous place of residence wasn’t nearly as bad as this place. When we first moved in it was just the Landlord and his wife upstairs. Then, without warning, about a month later he decides half his family can move in with him. 5 adults and 1 kid, all who walk with lead feet, and the kid, undisciplined, runs around back and forth and also plays with our doors when outside.

We are working on moving yet again.

Also, I have restored Sakura Radio – www.sakuraradio.com

Moved

We moved out of the dump and things are slowly getting better. More detailed post in the future maybe ;)

I hate Apartment 5

Is this really necessary? What the hell are you doing? And WHY the hell are you doing it at 6:30am?!. Note that the video doesn't really do much justice, since he started around 6:30am, and I didn't think to start recording until 6:45am, when he was nearly done. Also it was about 4x louder IRL than in the video. There was one point where he also crashed something into that propane tank, making a HUGE "bong" sound.

Ugh. I hope we can move in May/June with the stimulus check thing.

(video missing from archive, sorry!)

Obligitory Update Q1 2008

• I sold my Nintendo Wii, since I never played it.

• I upgraded my computer to a Intell Quad-Core Q6600 @2.4ghz. I ended up with the G0 revision, so I can overclock to 3.2ghz

• I got an nVidia GeForce 8800GT

• I ended up spending about $1600 on this new computer, which I built myself.

• I saved over $100 at FYE on my birthday, by taking advantage of the Backstage Pass program. [Click to see goods]

• My Credit Card company is more worried about the payment coming from a source I’m authorized to pay from, rather than my card being stolen. (I made a bunch of micro-transactions in one day, and they locked the account. For security reasons. But not because they think the card was stolen, but because they think *I* stole the card I pay on it from. How nice.)

• Apt. 5 still annoys the hell out of me.

• I bought a 1500va UPS from my Web Host, and now I have a proper electrical ground, since it is using the Cable Coax ground.

• Still waiting for Final Fantasy XIII. And Crisis Core, and Persona 3 FES.

• I didn’t get another camcorder (and the guy who bought mine still owes me $40), but I got a new digital camera, which has auto-focus thankfully. However it’s slightly more picky about being perfectly still when taking a picture, ugh.

• I have a single on sale at Amazon.com. iTunes, Napster, and Real Rhapsody soon to follow.

Thats all for now. See you next quarter. ^.^

Obligitory Update Q4 2007

Just an update I guess, since its been a while since I posted.

• I got a Nintendo Wii.
• I got a Facebook.
• I will be finishing my album soon, and hopefully publishing it somewhere. (I am currently looking at Magnatune (Internet Record Label), and TuneCore (Service to publish on iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, ect)
• I quit smoking for about a month, then started again on a stressful day. :/
• Hikari Radio was acquired by Keiichi.net Radio EX²
• I am finally using zefie.net for something,besides just redirects (although those are still there). I also changed my email address, but you know me and "backwards compatibility", therefore all of my old ones still work.
• I sold Oblivion for PS3 on eBay, since I never played it. Then I baught Folklore for $60 and Enchanted Arms for $20. I feel the prices were reversed because Folklore bored me and I sold it on eBay, whereas I still have Enchanted Arms.
• I got a Visa Credit Card.
• My ISP still sucks ass, just 10% less since they downgraded our modem package (caps are still broken), and changed the modem's internal frequency channel (better connection)
• I got rkuchiki on YouTube back, along with all of my videos. Therefore old videos that didn't work in this LiveJournal before should now work again.
• I'm slowing learning Japanese using The Rosetta Stone.
• We (Mom and I) are having Thanksgiving dinner alone this year.
• I once again promise to try to update this more often.
• I once again will probably not update soon, since I always forget to. >.>

Sayonara.

Bandwidth

So my ISP recently made an upgrade in our area, or so they said. A week ago the internet was out a good percentage of the day, when it came back, all hell broke loose.

I have 5mbit down, 256kbit up. But this is what I get between 7am and 1am:
(speedtest img missing, thx dslreports.com)

And this is what I get between 1am and 7am (a whole 6 hours a day):
(speedtest img missing, thx dslreports.com)

As you can tell, the upstream is consistent, but the downstream is on crack.

Cable internet is a shared network. At first I had good speeds all the time. Apparently someone on the node closer to the ISP than me decided it would be funny to stream some HD pr0n or something. Anyway I don't mind the speeds at night, but I would prefer a more stable connection. Especially since I'm paying more than most, and most likely paying more than the guy on the node who is stealing my bandwidth.

They said they are aware of the issue and are working on it, but I don't know. How do you leave an entire node uncapped for a WEEK?

Update

Lets see. Where to start.

Well, I got Oblivion for my PS3. I been playing that a bunch. My Aunt and Uncle came out from Colorado to visit for a week (they went back today). We got to visit them twice. You can see pics and video from our visits here.

I played Nintendo Wii the other day, so did my Mom. Now we both want one (me moreso). Mom said as soon as we can afford one (likely Mid-August) we will hunt one down and get it.

Um, not much else to say. Still on Vista, have a triple-boot setup for Vista, OSX, and Kubuntu (which is a very retarded and buggy version of Ubuntu, btw.)

Take care :)

Update

I want to update this blog more often, since people still read it, but I don't really have anything to say. I figure posting nothing is better than posting "Nothing new today" 100 times.

Well, I linked (some of) my old screennames on my AIM account and was shocked to see how many buddy names got lost in the transition to my new name. Damn Trillian.

I also got a PSP (with 2gb MSD), and put custom firmware on it.

Otherwise, not much going on yet. Farmer's Almanac claims June should have two huge rounds of bad-ass thunderstorms, so that may be interesting. I still post storms on YouTube (or LiveVideo if its too long to fit on YouTube), so I'll post them here as well if I get any good video.

Um, *thinks*. I'm back on Vista. I was on XP for a while but it keep getting slower, and slower. At the end point it took about 2 minutes after Windows booted before it even activated the network. So I just reinstalled Vista. Now that I have 2gb ram, it doesn't suck so bad. Besides, I don't really use my computer hard-core like I used to. I play PSP and PS3 most the time now.

I caught up (almost) on bleach. I got to where it'd seem the new season started (like ep 116 or whatever) and just lost interest for the time being. I don't know.

Flag Day Parade event is June 9th, maybe I'll record and post some footage from that, I don't know.

Anyway I'm just mindlessly rambling now so I'll go. :)

RadioShack Ripoff

Update

I should post more often. Heh. Hmm, I last posted about a month ago so I'm not doing too bad, it wasn't 3 months.

Anyway yesterday XP finally died. I spent about 12 hours installing Gentoo just to get pissed off at it and grab a HP recovery disc. Apparently it was the Vista disc. Oh well, Vista isn't too bad this time around with 2gb of ram.

In other news, I got my PS2 modded, and I got a PS3.
And a Zune.

No, I'm not rich, far from it. In fact, the last hurrah, the PS3, actually set us back some, but it was my birthday, and as mom said "fuck it, you only live once".

Oh, and I didn't get the video card I was going to get in the previous post. In fact, I didn't get any video card. I don't game enough of my computer to care really. I did get the RAM though.

Um, can't think of anything else. So, see you next time I remember I have a blog, hehe.

Blah

Wow, it has been a while. I noticed my blog was a bit broken when it was a free account since the paid features were gone. All fixed now.

Anyway, this morning was a bitch. Why? Well, imagine booting your computer and getting this:


(Click for larger view)

Yeah, it wasn't fun. Sometimes I got that, sometimes I got the BSOD, and others it just rebooted without warning. But I managed to fix it completely.
It involved alot of rebooting, hair pulling, cussing, file scanning, registry hacks, tweaks, and some disk checks.

Yeah. What happened was I was having a problem with VMWare. The installer crashed midway through, then it worked the second time. So I thought nothing of it and rebooted like it asked me to. Well, that is when it started. Long story short, I had to manually hack the registry to go into restricted areas (had to give myself access) to forcefully remove the "VMNet" driver (VMWare's network device). Then I tidied up a few things and now Windows XP is as smooth as a clean install, but without having to spend 10 hours reinstalling all of my applications and games.

Also, since it has been a while since I posted, you probably haven't seen my new computer. Well, here you go:

(Click for larger view)

And here are the specs:
HP Pavilion A1710N Desktop PC (AMD Athlon Processor 4200 Plus, 1 GB RAM, 320 GB Hard Drive, SuperMulti DVD Drive, Vista Premium) (I ditched Vista and replaced it with XP)
Acer AL2051W 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor
Geforce 7300GS 256MB DDR2 Pci-e
EARTHWATTS 500 Watt ATX12V V2.0 Psu (Mine is only 430w and was the same price. FU Staples!)

Here is what I have left to get:
1gb RAM (DDR2)
PNY GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB Video Card

Well, take care :)