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This server provides hosting for various projects under development. When these projects cross over into useful web applications, they are listed under the Hosted Domains or Web Applications menus. The purpose is to provide a live development environment for myself and others that request access. I also use it as my personal soapbox.

Google launched their Chrome Browser today, including a comic explaining why they bothered to build it. After using it for a few hours it's noticeably faster than both IE and FireFox, but doesn't render as pretty as Safari which it supposedly shares front end rendering with via Web Kit. The cool icon alone warrants a download, and the simple interface will keep you coming back for more.

Apparently the ride in Mary Todd's Lincoln to see Tropic Thunder was enough to excite Excelcier into a state of pure energy. The Gnome Cam caught him just before the transformation was complete. Now you have someone to blame if your computer randomly starts playing Rush. I just hope this means he can fix my Wii sensor bar faster.

After my initial upgrade yielded extra hardware, the motherboard hand-me-down upgrades were eventually applied to my media center and now my main server. The obvious reason for the round of upgrades is because I'm obsessive compulsive and love torturing myself with multiple operating system reloads. While that was the primary reason, the slow photo thumbnail generation on Cougarfest.com was another one that seems to have been solved (it just happened to be the same reason for my last upgrade as well). While I would have been tickled pink with a 64-bit server, I'm stuck with a 32-bit flavor until a 64-bit ODBC driver for Microsoft Access becomes available, or I join 1996 and upgrayyed all my Access DBs to SQL.

Old System			New System
Processor:	Athlon XP 3200+ (2.19Ghz)		Processor:	Opteron 180 X2 (2.41Ghz)
Memory:	1024 MB		Memory:	3072 MB
Mainboard:	nForce2 Ultra 400		Mainboard:	nForce4 MCP

A conquest lease deal ending this month that pays for 2 months of your existing lease prompted Lisa to strike on a new 2009 Lincoln MKZ. I repeated many times what you're already thinking, but she was determined to get the MKZ instead of the more practical (and almost half-price) Fusion, which is essentially the same car. I even broke the payments down into happy faced Lisas and frowney faced Lisas, but she chose the frowney faced higher payment every time. Defeated by the princess complex yet again, I accepted her fate and promptly delved into her Sync system. After pairing her phone and programming her garage door opener, I allowed her to leave the dealer lot under the condition that I could connect her iPod once I got home. The transitive property now allows me to say I own a Lincoln, without the hassle of having to pay for it.

The one major complaint I have about the Wii is it's short 11' sensor bar wire. It works great for people using their Wiis next to their TV, but not when the Wii is 40' away from where you're projecting it. There are plenty of wireless bars available, but they require batteries and a button push every time you want to use it. I also found a 6' extension cable but wasn't in the mood to buy 5 of them. That left modifying it, and after reading this thread I was pretty confident I could do it. Reality soon kicked in when the comment about the thin wires turned out to be an understatement. I would have no reservations about calling these wires thinner than human hairs. Why this cable had to be so cheaply made I'll never know, but my attempts at connecting it to a length of speaker wire was a horrendous failure. A wireless solution was quickly implemented, with the original sensor bar now trash unless I can sucker Excelcier into attempting the connections. The wireless one also beeps like a microwave once the timer is about to run out, so I plan on trashing it next during my attempt to cut the speaker wire.

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9/5/2008 11:09:17 AM
Server Name:	Proton
Oper System:	Win2k3 Ent Srv
CPU:	Opteron 180      2.41Ghz
Bandwidth:	512Kb/s
Power:	Utility Power
Total Memory:	3.00Gb
- Used:	1.03Gb 34%
- Free:	1.97Gb 65%
Main Storage:	101.79Gb
- Used:	71.75Gb 70%
- Free:	30.04Gb 29%