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February 3rd, 2009

06:56 am - Life, serve-you.net, and everything else It would seem a few months have passed since my last substantive post, so here we are again…. Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at Dan's Worthless Blog. Please leave any comments there. Tags: general, hardware, home, muzik, technology, work

August 23rd, 2007

11:45 pm If you couldn't tell, I pretty much gave up on LJ nearly 2 years ago. I still read my friends list fairly often, but I really don't like posting here anymore. That said, I do feel like I need a place to write every now and then, that doesn't feel so lame. So dallendoug inspired me to get off my ass, and redo my old blog. It's not quite done being setup, but I did manage to import all my old LJ posts in to it (no comments though). Take a look if you like, or don't. I don't care. I've got it set so you have to register if you want to comment, PITA, but gotta block the spammers however we can, ya know? http://www.cyberjunx.com

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October 24th, 2005

09:39 am - Untitled testy test test

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October 20th, 2005

11:52 am So as most of you know, I lost my mom to brain cancer several years ago. Steph lost her mom to breast cancer. Every year (most natably in October), we try to do what we can to support finding a cure. When STV was doing well with memberships, we'd donate the entire months proceeds, and even match it. Some years, we can afford to do more than others. I just found this cool site. 3M is donating .50 (up to $100,000) to City of Hope for each post-it filled out. It costs you nothing, and requires no personal info. I urge you all to go write a note, and tell everyone you know to do the same. Current Mood: thoughtful

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October 5th, 2005

06:43 am - Dine for America I'm not one for sappy ass "I love America" bullshit, but I do like to help out those in need when/how I can. Tonight, thousands of restaurants around the country will be participating in Dine for America. They will donate all (or a percentage in some) proceeds to the American Red Cross Katrina/Rita relief funds. Go to their site and find a participating restaurant near you. You know you were gonna go out to eat anyway.

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September 22nd, 2005

04:25 pm - New Teef So last night I was flossing my teeth, and I got to one next to my 2 temporary crowns. You aren't supposed to floss them, but I always have (I've had temporary crowns on 2 teeth for the past 2 months). I'm just careful not to put too much pressure. Anyhow, I put the floss in and start to gently clean, and POP!, crown falls on my tougue! FUCK! I say. So this morning I call my dentist, and tell her what's up. I'm not supposed to go in for my permanent porcelean crowns until Oct. 2. She tells me that my crowns arrived from the lab yesterday so I'm in luck. Would I like to come in today to get them put in? HELL YES I WOULD! So I drop everything at work, and drive up to the dentist. She pops out the remaining temporary crown, and starts my polishing. About an hour later, I had two new teef! I've had about half a tooth on each of them for easily 2 years now. It is so nice to actually have full teef there now. Aside from the slight pain I'm starting to feel from the needle going into my socket, and the packing of the two crowns next to one another. So I'm pretty much "done" at the dentist. I still want to get some more cosmetic stuff done, but no hurry on that. My dentist put me on a 3 month cleaning schedule, since my mouth is still a warzone, and I seem to get more buildup than most. Current Mood: relieved Current Music: Gary Numan - We Take Mystery (to Bed)

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September 15th, 2005

10:13 am - . . . So ummm... yeah. I don't really know why I haven't updated this thing in a while. I never have been good at it. Any how. Things have been going pretty good. I've been busy with work, side projects, and life in general. punquin and I just got back from a short trip to Vegas. It was a nice getaway, and we got to meet up with some friends there. Unfortunately 2 of our other friends who were supposed to meet us there had to cancel at the last minute. So I'm just gonna have to bug the shit outta them to come visit us here in VA ;) I finally got a new cell phone with a camera, so I setup a moblog on textamerica. Not much there yet, and I need to customize it a bit, but it serves it's purpose. Wow, this got pretty long ( click click ) Current Mood: blah

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February 17th, 2005

09:00 pm - been a while... So I haven't posted in a while. Been hella busy at work lately. I've been in Boston since Sunday for Linuxworld. It was cool, but I don't think I'd even go for the whole week again. A couple of days would be good. Unfortunately, it seems I know too much, cuz most of the conferences/seminars I sat in on were old news. I guess that's not really a bad thing though, is it? I forgot how great Boston is. I love this city. The architecture is fantastic. The people are mostly cool. I wouldn't mind having a house up here, though I wouldn't wanna live here in the winter. It's pretty fuckin cold. As usual, I walked entirely too much this week. The only time I've used any other form of transportation I've used was the cab I took to the hotel from the train station. I walked about 10 miles the other day around the city, after walking around the expo all day. Today I walked another 5 or so to/from the aquarium, and all around it. It was fun, but I wish Steph was here to see it. It's too bad, cuz there's no reason she couldn't have come, since she's hardly working this week with the office being remodled. Other than the trip, not much has been goin on. I'm still waiting on my body kit for my car. They called me today to tell me that infiniti hasn't even started shipping the parts out. That's what I get for getting a car barely off the assembly line right? I decided that we needed a real vacation, so I booked us a trip to Cancun next month for our anniversary. We'll be staying in the same hotel we stayed at for our honeymoon. It will be nice to just relax for a week. Been a long time since we took a real vacation. How you all doin? Current Mood: happy

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December 9th, 2004

07:37 am - Dimebag Darrell Dead? http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/09/nightclub.shooting/index.html Although there is no definitive report, it appears that he is dead. I am speechless. Current Mood: sad

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October 26th, 2004

08:40 am Why do people who don't know me, feel the need to knock on my office door, and ask me where someone else in another office is? That's like going to your friends house, knocking on their door and getting no answer, so you go to the house next door and ask them if they know where your friend is..... How you doin? Current Mood: bitchy

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September 16th, 2004

07:53 am - Ramble on... Been a while since I updated this thing, so I thought I'd say hi. Not a whole lot has been happening as of late. Work has been cool. I am basically the resident linux ninja now, which is both good and bad. Obviously it's good because I am needed. It's also bad, because I am needed. Luckily we don't deal with production equipment much, so most of our machines are not critical. The only times I have pressure to get stuff done ASAP, is when someone is trying to do a demo (which has kept me here 12 hours one day, and 15 another day). I don't really mind though, cuz I enjoy what I do. punquin & I went to Philly last weekend as a mini vacation. It was nice to spend more than a few hours there for once, and actually get to see the city. As usual, we walked A LOT. We have a problem using transportation on trips, and always end up walking miles and miles everyday. We took a tour on The Big Bus which was cool. It takes you all over town to the major attractions, with a guide who tells you about everything along the way. You can get on and off wherever you want throughout the day. It made it a lot easier to visit all the places we wanted to go in a single day. We stopped at the art museum, and the zoo. Both were cool, but overpriced in my opinion. I guess I'm just spoiled from living in the DC area. We stayed at an awesome hotel called sofitel. They are really big in Europe. There service was fantastic, and the hotel was beautiful. Other than that, time is just flying by at an unbelievable pace. We finally bought some bikes, and have been trying to get out as much as possible. As soon as I get a rack for the car, we'll start hitting the trails in the fall. I have been trying to make time to hang out with friends, but it's been really hard to get together. I have zero interest in going out to clubs these days, which seems to be the same old meeting place. I think I need to have a party or something, to get everyone together. Current Mood: working

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August 5th, 2004

05:22 pm I've been working at my new job for a week now, and It's been pretty cool. I have finally gotten most of my shit setup, and I'm just waiting on a couple of little things to get done. I've spent most of this week setting up a PXE kickstart server for our labs. One of my ongoing projects is upgrading (reinstalling) an asston of legacy RH servers, as well as migrating others. So this was the first thing I wanted to get done, as it will save me lots of man hours. People pretty much leave me alone and let me work, so It's a nice change. I have some summer hire sitting in my office right now, but hopefully she'll be leaving soon, and I'll have the entire office to myself. I don't like having to turn lights on, and keep my music low for other people. At least she's nice, and doesn't bother me. I've been working about 7-4 all week, and It's been working well for me. I'd like to go in a little earlier, but so far it hasn't really happened. It's been nice to actually see Steph everyday, and having a full weekend together is awesome. We're gonna buy some bikes soon, so we can go riding a lot in the fall. And if all goes as planned, we're gonna take a weekend trip down to OBX around the end of the month or early next month. I'm starting to ramble my random thoughts again, so I think it's time to end this. How is everyone else?

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July 26th, 2004

10:51 am - ( ! ) So I found out late on Friday, that there was a mixup in HR as to when I was starting. Originally they were told the 29th, but on my offer letter I said the 26th. So they weren't ready for me to start yet. I might start tomorrow or Weds, but maybe not till Thurs. Which is completely fine by me, as I have plenty of other shit to do to in the meantime. This weekend, I caught up on some sleep Saturday, but then completely lost it again Saturday night. I hopefully made up for it today, and will be on track for a "normal" schedule this week. I finished building all the new furnature with the exception of a shelf that I need to get more anchors for today. I also need to swap out Steph's two shelves with the new one's. There are still a ton of books on the floor in here, but they should be put away fairly soon. I have to move all of my shit from the old drawers into the new one's, and that will pretty much be it. The new furnature looks awesome, and it really makes the room look bigger even though it takes up more real estate. Yesterday I helped some friends move to their new apt. It went a lot quicker than we all expected, but I'm definately a bit sore from going up and down 3 flights of stairs about 100 times. The cool thing is that they moved right around the corner from my new job, and Steph works around the corner as well, so hopefully we'l all get to hang out a lot more. Today, I am going to pick up some shit from ho depot, and try to finish up in the office. Hope you all had a great weekend.

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July 23rd, 2004

12:51 pm - Random Thoughts Last night was my last night at work. I didn't do much work, nor did I stay all night. I got my shit all packed up, and left at about 3:30am. I'll be starting my new gig on Monday, so I actually have a full weekend to get shit done. I slept about 4 hours this morning, so I shouldn't have much trouble sleeping at night tonight. My goal today, is to get my desk built and my old one out of here. I've gotten pretty much all of Steph's stuff done, so everything else is waiting for my side of the office. The new furnature really looks nice too, so I'm looking forward to getting rid of my old non functional desk. The only thing I'm going to miss is the amount of storage space this desk has, considering it is basically a full dresser (chest of 6 drawers) and 2 night stands. I have so much computer shit stacked up in these drawers. I don't really know where I'm gonna put it. I've already sold some of it off, but I should really auction off some of it. Anyhow, enough of my ramblings... How you doin?

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July 10th, 2004

09:51 pm - Out with the old... So for the past month or so, I have been actively pursuing a new job. I love Rackspace, and they have been good to me, but I felt it was time for me to move on and put my talents to better use. I had been contacted by a few people about potential jobs, and my resume is all over the place. A couple of weeks ago, a recruiter contacted me about a Linux sysadmin position that I might be interested in. I gave them a call thinking that they were gonna offer me some windoze admin job with a little unix/linux. Instead, it turned out to be damn near exactly what I was looking for. We finally got an interview setup for yesterday afternoon, so I went in on my few hours of sleep for the week, and had a nice long 2 hour interview with some of the other admins, and the director. They were all awesome, and I wanted to stay and talk with them even longer. They told me they were in a hurry to fill the position, and would decide soon. I got home from work at about 8:30 this morning, and they called me at about 10:00 and said congratulations! I received and faxed back my offer, and sent off my resignation letter this morning. I am beyond ecstatic! I have been extremely stressed out at work over the past couple months. The hours were really beginning to tear into my time with punquin. So I will finally be back on a "normal" schedule, get an ass-ton more money, and do what I'm actually good at. I can't wait to start! Current Mood: ecstatic Current Music: The LOUD jet engine of a computer next to me.

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November 14th, 2003

11:22 am - Happy birfday Moooose! Alright,.. I woulda never remembered if other people in my list hadn't already said it, but it's the thought that counts right? Current Mood: busy Current Music: New Order - Confusion

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November 2nd, 2003

06:35 am - testing123 is this bitch on?

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October 1st, 2003

12:45 pm - All telcos are ass fuckz! So last night was brutal. Sales got a bug up their asses cuz it was end of the month and they hadn't sold shit all month, so they made up for it in 12 hours. I had 30 servers waiting for me when I got to work last night. By the time I left at almost 10 this morning, there were only 4 left. My team kickz ass! So I came home, ate a bagel, and started working on some shit before I go to bed, and all of the sudden the interweb went *p00f*! I knew immediately that the cock bitez at BTN shut off my T1 early! Fuckerz! I was not fully prepared to switch over to the new network yet, so I had to make some quick changes to the new firewall, and got the important machines back online. I still have a shitload of rulez to add to the firewall, but I'm too fuckin tired, and there is really nothing important here anymore except my monitoring machine, a name server (which I now have a secondary offsite), and the mail server. So now I'm gonna crash. Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Loud ass Volcano 7 in my desktop

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September 19th, 2003

03:15 am - Unplugged Well the inevitable happened. We lost power at around 11:00pm EST. My UPS' at home lasted about 45 minutes, then went down with all the servers. The majority of VA is without power right now, and it's not expected to be back anytime soon. We've been running on generators here since about 11:00pm. My datacenter engineer says that under our current load, we should be able to go at least a week without refueling our generators. That's pretty fuckin impressive if you ask me. Now if I could figure out a way to run a long ass extention cord the couple of miles to my house ;) Wanna see just how bad it is? Check out these links. http://www.dom.com/news/outage_map.jsp http://www.dom.com/news/outage_sos.jsp Current Mood: indifferent Current Music: The four huge ass generators

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September 15th, 2003

05:10 am It's been a good weekend. Friday night before I went to work, I decided to get a new server for stvlive & the rest of our personal sites. I had been in contact with someone who wanted to get rid of his server he was leasing at a company called cyberwurx. They have an excellent reputation, and the price he got on the server was fantastic. So I accepted the offer at about 7:30pm. He wrote me back, and told me he passed my info on to cyberwurx to get the ball rolling. I expected not to hear from them until Monday. I got an email from them about 10 minutes later telling me that they would go ahead and rekick the server for me right away, and gave me the info I needed to register with them. So I sign up, get all my login info for their support stuff, and go shower. When I came back down, there was an email saying my server was online, and giving me my IP's and passwords. So I got started configuring stuff Friday night at work. Saturday afternoon we woke up, and went out to dinner with Kevin & his wife. It's always nice to go out with friends. We don't get to enough After dinner we came back, and I got back to work on the new server. By about 3:00am I had everything up and running on the server, and decided to do a final rsync of the data, and switch the DNS over. Everything works great, except a couple of minor things I need to work out. Sunday afternoon we woke up, and drove to Columbia to have dinner with Steph's family. It's been a few months since we all went out, so it was really nice to see them. Food was good too! Been working on some fine tuning of things since we got back (minus a dunkin donuts run at about 3:00am). Now I'm doin some updates on my desktop, and goin to bed. Current Mood: productive Current Music: Pink Floyd - Us And Them

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