CyberNode's Domain

It's been a while since I've updated this site. This will change soon.

Currently in my life, I lost my job and seeking IT work.

Hello everyone and welcome to 2010!

It's been a while since my last update, so I thought I would post an update.
The past six months have been fairly busy. I was let go from my job in September, but was asked to come back to help the room catch up on behind tickets. Seems that while I was gone, the cue jumped from 600 tickets to around the 800 ticket range. We've been struggling to catch back up ever since.

On the positive side, I was extended twice now to the end of January. They will re-evaluate then for another extension. Since I've been back, and they brought in 2 more techs for new PC builds, we have dropped to around 680 calls. If we keep this up, they won't need me after April (if they keep extending me).

Also, during the last post, I performed round 1 of going through and disposing of known faulty, useless electronic and computer parts. I'm currently contemplating just throwing all the old stuff away as I haven't touched them in a long time and some of the units (notebly my VCR from the USAF)are broken and only being kept for sentimental reasons.

I have also evaluted Linux. Although it's come a long, long way since I last tested it (earlier in the decade). It has a ways to go to grab and hold me. Performance is part. Polishness is another. Currently, on the same hardware, XP still performs better than Linux Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. Second, I still can't walk into a Best Buy, or other computer store, and buy software, take it home and install and it just work. XP still wins here too. For the free/opensource games and software that are on both platforms XP still seems to have more options and a little better performance. Example of this? Tux Paint. On XP I can just lauch the configurator, set it to full screen and go. There's a configuration program for Linux, but I can find now way to save the configuration for full screen so I am just limited to a windowed version. Also, without Wine, XP has a few games that aren't available on both platforms whereas it's not the same with Linux going the other way. Again, examples would be: Starport GE, any boxed software, etc. So for the time being, I will keep an eye on Linux and maybe someday it will be polished enough. I can say that if I were just surfing the net, reading mail or listening/watching media, it's ready now. Oh and before I forget, one of my main gripes is the lag time in Adobe Flash and games like Farmville. Fix that 1 problem and 50% of my complaints evaporate.

I don't know when my next post will be, but I hope it's quicker than this last one. I have a lot of cleanup and declutter I'm currently working on and hope to report back that it's all done. I have even been thinking about posting at the conclusion of each section instead of waiting until it's all done.

Here's hoping you have a blessed 2010 and may all your goals be fullfilled.

-T

Tremendously homesick for friends and family in Northern Kentucky.
I miss you!

I know it's been a while since my last post. I am hoping that things at work will slow down enough to post a decent entry on something worthwhile. So hang in there.

I haven't been online much past couple days. I have been attempting to configure what was supposed to be Carrie's upgraded computer (Presario 7940). I have given up. I loaded XP at least 10 times and after changing the video card, I can at least log into it. The problem still remains that the only IP addresses it can find are for the Road Runner DNS servers.

When I click on what is suppposed to be IE6.0, I get a setup box like I had gone through the menu in IE and selected "Preferences". Tried the Automatic update features, still didn't work. Before giving up, I took out everything except the processor, memory, hard drive and CD-Rom. Still nothing worked or loaded right.

So, for now, I will be putting her old system back together again. Would have been nice to have upgraded her from a 266 Celeron to a AMD Athlon 600. I think I have enough components to play around with on free time, but she's been without her system for 3 days under the understanding it should have only taken a few hours.