Well it's a fine how-do-you-do; my other memory stick died! For those keeping track, that's the second of two 1GB OCZ sticks dying. At least, I think it's the memory that's gone bad -- I suppose it's entirely possible that the motherboard sockets are gone, which would be quite the pain. On top of the cost of replacing the motherboard, there's the installation process. So yeah, I'm really hoping it's the sticks themselves that have gone. Strange, it's so quiet in my apartment when the computer is off. Is this how it must've been, back in the 19, uh, 1910s? I remember as a kid disappointed when in a house that didn't have a computer or TV.

The reason for rebooting my computer, for indeed it was otherwise working fine before I turned it off, was that I'd been fiddling with the webserver and needed to update my HOSTS file. Yes, fiddling with the webserver because I'm getting familiar with MVC and in particular, Symfony, a PHP MVC framework. Inspired, you might say, as I've been learning about MVC at work. That and jQuery, a nifty JavaScript library. Oh I am learning a lot, reminding me of my university days when faced with reading textbooks and scanning articles; mindnumbing stuff. Maybe my brain just gets full? Whatever it is, I get tired at work, head-droopingly tired. Thankfully I have started doing some real, productive work which keeps me awake through stress ie. concern that I didn't actually learn anything and just slept a lot.

Looking at real estate listings is a lot like on-line dating -- you flip through descriptions and pictures, musing what'd be like to live there/date them. After you've seen a few places (met a few faces), you get an idea of what to expect based on the profiles. And so you act less often, growing tired and not feeling the need to see what they would really be like. Oh sure, you believe that there's one out there for you, and so you keep looking but the day after day of mediocre or unsuitable (or simply totally out of my league) matches does drain one's will, leaving one to compare them with the ones that got away.

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2010/01/24 growli It's not "common" as in pedestrian. It's "common" because we all share this malediction of an affliction, from high-born to low.
2009/12/10 dangerman in sgh wow! congrats on your new place!
2009/12/10 Kyle Lahnakoski Whatever's use of the word "efficiency" really means danger! I want to protecting myself from more than one point of failure. Rebuilding a terabyte will take all day, and during that time a failure will be catastrophic. Yes, I am paranoid.
2009/12/10 whatever Raid 6 is completely useless in a home environment. Raid 6 provides double disk protection by doing pairity calculations on both horizontal and diagonal directions, and requires 2 extra drives for pairity. If you have a drive distribution that's larger than 8 drives, then raid 6 makes sense as a larger grouping has an exponentially greater possibility for failure. if you really wanted to maximize your efficiency then use zfs on a solaris system, connected to a storage array with raid 4 or raid dp. that will allow instant snapshots, and protect against any single failures.
2009/12/10 Hwan Sure! I had actually given thought to getting a Drobo, but I've heard a lot of mixed reviews about those things. I just like it because I don't need to learn much.
2009/12/10 Kyle Lahnakoski You got to get yourself hardware raid6! I have a drive failure at least every year, and it has saved me many times. I also have a separate machine for nightly backup. I am developing a peer2peer, fully encrypted, raided, backup. This way I, and others, do not have to resort to complicated and expensive setups just to get reliable backup. It will be ready in the spring. Want to be a guinea pig?
2002/01/24 Hwan Oh. Your. God. http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/16/gerbil-shirt/
2009/11/10 Growli That blog post reminded me of Coop work term reports: Technical and tedious, but something to be proud of nonetheless.
2009/09/29 Hwan I was outbid. But I also didn't go over my self-imposed limit. I am content to have been in the running, apparently being very close. I may have more news tomorrow. Time for Civ3, now.
2009/09/23 girl You have this love/hate relationship with alcohol. Have you examined where the desire to drink comes from? Perhaps from the lack of anchovy pizzas in your life? :)