RawCode

http://www.hurricanelivenet.com/aftermath.wmv

I cannot belive the destruction…

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Well I finally got around to painting the garage floor. Took awhile to prep the floor because I have a leaky car, but applying the epoxy went smoothly. I used Rust-Oleum EPOXYShield Garage Floor Coating

Once you have a nicely prepped floor, this stuff is hard to mess up. We used a 3in brush to trim, and a nice roller for the major areas. We masked off the areas with 3M painters tape which worked really well. Once you mix the stuff you are supposed to wait 30 minutes. Then you can start trimming the sides. You are supposed to wait 15 minutes after the trimming starts to start with the roller, but I totally forgot about that and just started rollering once my gf cleared a section.

Now you are supposed to do it in 4×4 sections, but we did it in three foot strips. As long as you can reach far enough to get good coverage with the chips you will be fine. The chips help ALOT to cover any little bits of dirt/small mistakes you make in the painting process. They cover up small cracks and other little blemishes in the concrete.

I guess as long as you prepare the concrete well before applying the epoxy, it is HARD to mess up.

Before:

After:

More pics here if you are interested

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Well I passed my CCDA exam. I got 888/1000 with 825 being the required score to pass. I didn’t do to bad at all. By the end of the exam I was pretty sure that I failed. I just awnsered as best as I could for each question. Since it is an exam about network design, I was constantly trying to figure out what I would choose versus what Cisco would choose. (Since they are different sometimes) I am just happy I got it out of the way.

Now onto other books to devour and absorb. (Most likely VoIP) Thanks to all that gave me support and encouragement.

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We lost our ferret Peanut today. Not due to his insulanoma like my previous post. Instead it appears that he developed Adrenal Disease which crated a blockage in his intestinal tract. This led to a huge build up of gas/food and a lot of pain. I have never heard a ferret whimper like a hurt dog before.. It was absolutely dreadful listening to Peanut being in pain. The vet said it was time to be rather realistic that both of the diseases are fatal without complications. I watched as he was sedated, and within a few minutes the two shots to pass him on. My girlfriend held him as he left us. Today is a sad day for both of us.

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After troubleshooting slow speeds issues on my new 6800GT I finally figured iut out. No not drivers, nor did I configure anything wrong… I forgot to plug in the frigging power cable. I was wonderthing why my new 6800GT was running rather slow. And it is because I forgot to frigging plug it in. (Not that it matters as I do not have a PCIe power plug anyways… ) And so instead of paying through the nose for four inches of power cable to connect it. I am thinking about buying a new PSU. More specifically, the Antec NeoPower due to it’s modular cabling system. It is a dang nice PSU!

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He is out of the Critical Care Unit and into progressive care. All because he had a pacemaker installed.

recap:
He went in to the hospital for the first time back in May to have surgery on his intestine. That went ok, and he was recovering pretty good. He started vomiting, and he developed a heart murmur from the surgery. They shocked him once with the paddles to see if it would reset his heartbeat and it only worked for about 15 minutes. While he recovered from that, he was still vomiting and aspirated a little bit each time. This lead to him have breathing difficulties, and eventually ended up on a respirator and sedated. (He dealt with three bouts of pneumonia over the four months due to the aspirating of the vomit.) While he was sedated, they found out that the stitches on the intestine were seeping and this was the cause of the vomiting. They went back in and patched him up properly. They slowly started weaning him off the sedatives, so he started to wake up somewhat and the doctors said he could hear us and to talk to him. He would respond somewhat under the weight of all that sedative. Eventually when he was not sedated anymore, he deintbated himself. (Pulled out the breathing tube.) Crazy old guy…

He eventually had a trac put in and he was on a respirator for awhile. He had a huge issue with fluid in his lungs because of the pneumonia and they gave him various medicines to try and help that. Eventually, his left lung was fine, but his right lung still had fluid. They operated twice on his right lung to try and fix the fluid but to no avail. He was still having heart issues, so they finally suggested that he gets a pacemaker.

The day after the pacemaker was in place, xrays showed all the fluid in his lung was gone. And ever since that pacemaker, he was been taking HUGE leaps and bounds in recovery. He is no longer on a machine, and he is getting physical therapy twice a day. His mind is a little fuzzy about everything, but what do you expect when you have been sedated for four months. He talks like a crazy man now, and eats everything put before him. It is great to actually be able to talk to him again.

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http://www.ledmuseum.org/

Pretty amature looking site, but has a great wealth of content for those of us that are convinced that LEDs are the future.

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Or do I have no life?

/cry

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I recently heard a song on KRUA called “Cray Crazy” That’s right, Cray crazy. It has lines like:

“your in need of software upgrades to upload that jpeg file”

“pixilated picture of me throwing monitors”

A few lines from a recent review:

“With dense cyber-babble, Subtitle builds his lexicon from the ground up, and while a few weak MCs get served and a couple sketchy corners held down, gun-talk, crime-thought, and materialistic tropes are largely absent. Instead, we get human holograms, quarter inch jacks, hydrofoil travel, pixilated portraits, Gigapets, software upgrades, .jpeg files, schematics, optic cables, firewalls, motherboards, and C++. When Sub talks about being “out to rip charts apart” on “Con-Contrived (I’m Not)”, we assume he means wiring diagrams, not Billboard. Threats of violence appear as musical, not physical warnings (“Give me an 8-bit machine, I’ll take out your whole crew”), and Sub seems more worried about getting nerve-gassed on the train (getting paranoid over the squelchy bass of “Subtalk”) than getting carjacked on the Ave.”

It sure has my attention, I ordered it off of amazon for 5.99.

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I have been debating if I should buy now or wait and see what ATI has up it’s sleeve in the next generation chipset. R5xx. The mid and low end cards are due in Spedtemer/October, and from the specs they look interesting.

RV530

* 600MHz Core Clock
* 1400MHz Memory Clock
* 512MB Maximum Memory for “XT”
* 256MB Maximum Memory for “Pro”
* 128-bit Memory
* 12 Pipelines
* Maximum 16×32MB 1.4ns GDDR3

RV515

* 450MHz Core Clock
* 800MHz Memory Clock
* 256MB Maximum Memory Support
* 128-bit Memory
* 4 Pipelines
* Maximum 16×16MB 2.5ns GDDR2

It is anyone’s guess however to how they will perform in real world stuff. Right now I am running off the IGP of my motherboard which is the ATI x200. (Which isn’t terribly exciting.) It works ok in Dawn of War with mid range settings and the ever graphical Zoo tycoon. So even a $50 Nvidia Turbocache or ATI Hypermemory cards. (Both of which kill my ati 8500 sadly )

So yeah, the great debate rages on.

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