Goodbye 2008
As the year winds down I figured it would be a good time to make a new blog post. I have been rather lax about posting here, spending most of my time on Facebook instead.
In a few days I will be starting my new job as a Senior Sysadmin for Facilities IT at Princeton University. I'm looking forward to the change in scenery. I leave behind a lot of friends and good memories at my last job. Despite Matt saying that I am now banned from New York I'm sure they'll see me again. Besides, if they ban me than New Jersey needs to ban all the bennies coming down from Staten Island during the summer.
My plans for launching the redesigned NJPB site in time for 1/1/09 probably won't come to fruition thanks to some distractions today. It was worth it, though.
In any event, here's to a great 2009!
5 Year Anniversary
Yesterday was my 5 year wedding anniversary.
We decided to keep it pretty low-key. We went out to dinner at the Lambertville Station, where, incidentally we ate for our 3 year anniversary. The food was good - perhaps not worth the 1.5 hour drive each way, but good none the less.
The highlight of the evening was getting their "100 Year Flight of Port." Basically, it's four 1.5oz glasses of 10 year, 20 year, 30 year, and 40 year port. Now, I'm not a huge fan of port, but it was definitely interesting to drink a wine that is older than you are.
Next week I am off from work on vacation. Hopefully I will be able to blog a little bit more. There's a lot of things that I've been meaning to write on here.
Going Green
Since "green" is in, I've decided to do my part.
1. My AppleTV has turned out to be a disappointment. Even with XBMC loaded, I couldn't get my nfs shares mounted. Unplugged.
2. Since my AppleTV is unplugged, there's less of a compelling reason to keep my home "server" up all the time. All it does is export a 1TB usb drive via NFS and run an irc session in screen every great while. I can easily plug the usb drive into my Mac when I want to access that data. Unplugged.
Okay, lets plug the drive into the Mac. Shit, OSX doesn't support ext3 partitions. Oh well, there's a userland filesystem driver last updated in 2006 that I can load. This will work grea... oh, my Mac locked up when I tried to mount it. Well, I guess I can just pull the 500gb or so worth of data off, move it somewhere else (some combination of my 80gb USB drive, my 250gb USB drive, my 120gb laptop drive, and who knows, maybe even the 4GB SSD in my eee.)
Currently I have my 80GB drive and my 1TB drive mounted in Windows XP in VMware with XP kernel level drivers for ext3 working nicely, and transferring data. This may qualify as one of the most hooptie ways I've ever had to do anything.
I am sure I'll lose something important.
Oh, and I take the bus to work now instead of driving. That makes me green with nausea.