After my update mania last week things have slowed down again I re-read the post about DC and Jen was right – it is a bit over the top – but at the time I was pissed off. The trip was fun in the end – the way those kind of trips usually are but, like most travelling they are always better in retrospect and with a bit of perspective and distance.
I’ve gone update mad today. Julia’s page is now updated too with some new pictures. It’s been far too long since I updated it and she’s growing pretty fast. Also, hopefully we’ll have some TV footage to add to the site soon, since she got her first job doing an Ad for Calpol!
Her web page, which is only a few days younger than she is, is here.
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The pics from Washington and Spain are up on Comerford.cc so enjoy. Things are slowly returning to normal and I think I’m getting over the jet lag – slowly.
Tonight methinks junk food, wine and TV are the order of the day. Bring it on!!
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Well, finally got home from DC, be prepared for a bit of a rant. What a trip! – first of all the conference I am going to gets cancelled – an hour after I land in Dulles. Next, we get hit by Hurricane Isabel. Finally on the way home to Dublin via London (no direct flights) we have to make an emergency landing in – wait for it – Dublin because someone on the plane had a “Cerebral Event”.
Well, got back from Puerto Banus on Saturday – I believe I stayed awake the whole day, watched football and the like and helped my mother make dinner…….unfortunately I remember none of that because I was too tired having had just 2 hours sleep before we drove to the airport.
Puerto Banus was brilliant – hopefully we can go back next year to one of the houses nearer the port so Jen won’t have to drive everywhere, and of course the plan is for a crowd of us to go over there instead of Portugal.
I left the Shuttle machines running SETI while I was away to judge the performance of the Linux machine now that I have Gentoo running on it. The first signs are encouraging – it now is cranking units out faster than the Windows machine.
This is what you would expect since I unlocked the Athlon XP in the Linux machine using a wee kit from High Speed PC and I have it running at a higher clock speed.
God, the last day in work is always horrible – trying to remember all those little things that you need to do before you leave (and usually forgeting at least one that you get screamed at for when you get back). All the while all you want is to get to the pool, get a beer in your hand and get a tan —–
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One of my Shuttle SN41G2’s is running Windows XP, the other was running Redhat 9. I wasn’t too impressed with the performance of the linux box when running Seti since it generally underperformed when compared to the linux machine by around 20 minutes per unit (10%).
So I got a Gentoo CD and installed that. I have to say that the install was nowhere near as complicated as I thought it would be, which was a pleasant surprise.
Having recently obtained a G4 cube on E-Bay I set about upgrading it. After all a G4-450 and 256 MB of RAM with just 20GB of Hard drive space really doesn’t cut it these days. So I toddled over to Other World Computing and bought myself a nice 1.2Ghz G4 upgrade.
Then I added a 120 GB hard disk (Maxtor) which was perfect because the cube won’t address anything much bigger and also threw in a respectable 1.
Well, found this site in a nested comment over at Slashdot. Certainly makes blogging easy…. and seeing how I’ve been meaning to code one into my own domain (www.comerford.cc) for about 6 months, now I can take the easy way out —–
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