Unfortunately, I don’t have screenshots… so you all will have to bear through a technical review, unless someone wants to be a “tester” so I can capture images or ask you to do so. If you all are wondering what I am doing up late… Had a bad nightmare and I am a little amped from it. Keep a watch here, cause I will post it as soon as I can hammer it out.
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Happy Easter and Explanations of Site Tweaks.
First of all, I would like to wish all of my readers a happy Easter Sunday. If it’s pleasant, go outside and bask in the sunshine! If it’s miserable and hazy, well… get creative! I know I may not be doing anything today but home training my abs and trying to eat and water up here, save if friends invite me out to do anything. My body is seriously dying from needing more nutrition and sleep, so I may have to carefully watch my intake rather than nit-pick and calorie count. I will still keep tabs on calories, as that is a vital part to my success and would be great reference to me.
For the regular readers of my site, you all may have noticed 2 things… The first being the Snap site previews. Snap is a nice way for me to give you all a preview of the site I am talking about in my post. If it seems to make your loading slower, let me know and I’ll gladly remove it. I just thought it’d be good for the few times that you may want to mouse over no-safe-for-work material rather than view the full blown content. For those who like commenting, I have added Gravatar settings, so that if you have a Gravatar account, your universal avatar icon will show in my blog. Need a good example? Check out my post about returning to working out and Schpenke’s icon here. Gravatars are free so if you do feel that you want a way for people to associate with you, get signed up and you’ll see your results here and any other Gravatar enabled sites.
Stay safe and well everyone! I am about to do my gut-buster sets.
Late night filler post… An Apology
My loyal readers… I am sorry for lacking the great content on the site lately. I have been in a rather poor state of health and it’s been hindering my ability to generate articles for the site. My mind has been wracked with trying to find dealers for my roadster’s parts to do the 60,000 mile maintenance, FAFSA troubles and their need for my family’s income, and work related burn-out. I know for a fact that I will hopefully do 60,000 mile service soon… After that… I will be taking a journey back to Commerce to do finalized logistics and status about my housing application.
I have my IV course coming April and ending late May. Hopefully, it will not be too late to apply to a hospital and go hardcore there and shift my cubicle work into 16 – 20 hours part time. My rationale is to go absolutely fucking nuts with 40+ hours at the hospital to rake up cash, save it off and use my cubicle pay to just pay essentials. I rather miss working with injectable medicine, but when you’re bum out of luck… any job is a blessing. The hospital work could also help me repay family at a vastly high pace to get me out of debt with them, something I could really use… Or hell… a few months of paid car insurance or car notes!
In my personal life, there is one plan I have… Just I need a rather large capital to fund one part of it. I hope I can go through with part one… because if I can, it may just ease my heart. I know that after the 60,000 mile maintenance, expect some posts about me loading up on supplement powders and a very welcomed return to my fitness logs. I may try to track my progress a little more scientifically as well as add in more precise details for those who want to replicate my results. This piece is one I know I need to get done, because it means the most to me. I would like to be in shape again and even better than my supposed prime from back when I was 19.
Expect the following to come…
- Picture post of Devil’s 60,000 mile maintenance procedure
- R4DS Card purchase for my DS and a review (potential)
- Going on a much deserved vacation, hopefully in the works
- Return of my fitness posts with supercharged addition of power supplements
Keep your RSS readers updated and watch for the new content! Thanks to you all who have been supportive of me in my time of sickness.
You’ve Got SPAM!
I have finally found time to set-up an account to get site related reader mail or inquiries about my site. The information is in my info tab of the site, but for those too lazy to even do that… feel free to drop me a more private message to info@zeroxr.com.
Notice Something..? ;-)
I figured that some people would love to see what I am up to… so I decided to add my Twitter applet to give my readers an idea of what I am up to. It’s updatable via real time and I should link it to my phone for those who want to know if an idea has struck me while I am on the go. I hope that some of you get a kick out of it.
Under the Knife – Suzaku’s Upgrade Teaser
So my computer’s steroid injection came in at 6:07pm… I am fucking stoked… Time to rip my machine to pieces to install! I’ll post with results!
Teaser Update: The install literally took me 2 minutes and on rebooting… the BIOS had a comical message “It appears you have increased memory” More benchmarks later and all after my gig!
Second Update: I am a bit exhausted from my side gig and the paid dinner from it… so if you folks can sweat out another day… then well… Check the blog after 5:30pm! Promise!
A Distro Testing Teaser…
Click the above thumbnail for the original!
Notice something? I am running VirtualBox inside of my Ubuntu install to try playing around and testing it. Some distributions run great for me with only allocating 128mb of RAM, but it can be a tad straining on my machine with only being loaded up with 512mb of RAM. After the new RAM install and Suzaku toting 2GB, that should change things where I can run more distributions without taxing the main system. Hopefully, this should allow me to capture better images of the distributions I hope to try out and test.
Professor Farnesworth: “He’s good alright, but he’s no Clem Johnson! And Johnson played back in the days before steroid injections were mandatory!”
So I was curious about RAM upgrades for my machine… I figured I’d hit up Crucial Memory to check my specifications and ran into a deal that I simply could not say no to. They had two sticks of DDR2 PC2-42oo 1GB RAM for $39.99. I figured “Let’s not get too excited… check Newegg” and no surprise they had the same deal but with better shipping options. For me, I am not going to lie… I love instant gratification when it comes to tech toys or upgrades. I tried ShopLocal to try to bargain hunt… but the local retailers were asking ridiculous $60.99 prices for just one stick of 1GB of RAM! The rational part of me said “Why the hell not go with Newegg? With their great shipping, it could be here as soon as Tuesday!” I am no brand whore, but to have Crucial Memory in my system will be hot. I got into playing with VirtualBox last night, so the RAM should help me test distributions within the comfort of Ubuntu.
The new RAM should be like injecting steroids into my laptop… I can’t even begin to tell you the excitement. I do plan to document my exploits though. Keep a watch for an image post soon!
A Boring but Possibly Productive Weekend
Well… with most of my plans in shambles, it gives me time to try to get some important things done for the site and as well as generate fresh new content. Here’s a run-down of what all is to come possibly with the following days and even into next month:
- My book review of Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson
- My evaluation of Puppy Linux 3.01 – Seamonkey
- (Possible) Evaluation of Damn Small Linux
- Introspective on the semantics of “best friends”
- Notes and “diary” of doing a charity laptop project (Negotiations in the works)
- Devil’s Physical: The 60,000 Mile Maintenance Event
- Picking up a Callpod Dragon Extreme Bluetooth headset to evaluate and review
- Funny adventures with my cousin Sol’s return to Dallas for Spring Break
- Tips for the poor college student avoiding debt
- The return of my retuned workout logs
It looks like a lot, but that should be my next set of things to post, rant, vent, and discuss until I get my hands on the consumer release of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 communicator. Apparently some sources strewn about the web from XDA Developers’ forums have made claim that the processor for the XPERIA X1 is a Qualcomm MSM7200a with a smaller die print and powered at 525mhz. The small footprint means potentially a power efficient processor, but higher power means it’ll be able to really show off. There are rumors about Windows Mobile 6.5 being debuted when the X1 hits retail shelves and possibly HTC releasing their ODM version of the X1 branded with their own name… It’s a damn shame that the device won’t come out sooner, because I’d love to really have some fun with a new phone.
“Damn it feels good to be a gangsta” by Geto Boys
Any of you who have seen the great movie “Office Space” know this song. It’s when Peter gets promoted and just acts like an all around badass with his new found powers. He even goes as far as undoing the static laced doorknob to avoid the pain of being shocked. Tonight, I raised the bar with my cell phone knowledge and data mining to a new level. The song above represents how I feel after my game of cat and mouse. It’s locked in the next entry due to reasons beyond my control. If you want the code, just contact me on AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, e-mail, IRC or phone/text me.