Normal (Apr 30 2009)

We're officially three weeks away from the 10th anniversary celebration - I think Dave just put the official announcement of such on the front page. Jeff and I are bashing out all the details we can beforehand. I guess I will finally learn how to use powerpoint (at least the openoffice version).

So there were some splitters stuck after the outage so we ran out of work to send Tuesday night, but that got kicked back in line Wednesday morning. I wasn't involved with the outage and didn't notice until everything was better - I was taking the day off entertaining visiting family (which also explains the spotty nature of these current tech news items - sorry).

There are still lingering problems trying to record data at Arecibo. We sent them a new SATA card, which worked, but even though the part # was the same of the old card the connectors were different (I instead of L). Jeez. So we sent them the right cables. Now the drivers won't load - the system recognizes the card, but not the drive. What a headache.

Oh yeah. This is the last tech news item for the month, so after much anticipation (not) the thread title theme this month is revealed: names of cats I lived with throughout my life, some adored, some not so much. By far the best kitty ever was Normal (he and his littermates had Geek Love references as names). Our current cats (i.e. still alive and/or hanging around our house) are Olga (Alexei's sister) and Fner (Fnerina's feral half brother). Too bad our dog Laszlo - a purebred Doberman we recently rescued as an adult from the pound - still requires much effort in the ways of socialization, including reducing his desire to hunt down and eat smaller animals. We're working on it.

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

We're officially three weeks away from the 10th anniversary celebration - I think Dave just put the official announcement of such on the front page. Jeff and I are bashing out all the details we can beforehand. I guess I will finally learn how to use powerpoint (at least the openoffice version).

Maybe Misfit could make one...he won the design contest
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Too bad our dog Laszlo - a purebred Doberman we recently rescued as an adult from the pound - still requires much effort in the ways of socialization, including reducing his desire to hunt down and eat smaller animals. We're working on it.

Great zpm, teach the dog to associate rabbits with treats. He'll be bringing all the rabbits he can catch expecting you to give him treats for them.

:)

Many kudos to whomever gave up their sleep to babysit the system.


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All the links on the HOME page seem okay -- with a few exceptions. When I try to download, I get a link broken response. Is the link really broken, or the site down? ...