Brent’s Thoughts

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Brent’s Thoughts — the old blog, 2001 onward. Mostly tech, skepticism, and family.

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XBOX Games!!!

So I recently got a few Xbox games and I thought I would take some time to give you guys a quick review of them. WWE2: Wow terrible. Not much else to say. Might be fun in a multi-player enviroment, but playing it by myself…

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250G hard drive for Diablo

I picked up a 250G hard drive for Diablo to store some of my "backups" and stuff on. Unfortunately, apparently there is a real issue with 137+G IDE Hard drives in Linux. It is something that is being worked out though. For right now I…

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I need Network Traffic Graphing

No not MRTG, I got that, but I want something better. All my switches are SNMP aware and all of them are setup to use it. I have MRTG monitoring them and it draws me a pretty little graph and stuff. That is great for…

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Parents house nearing completion

Original thread from my old forums Well my parents new house is pretty much completed. All that is left is for some appliances to be put into place and for some touch up paint work to be done. As a result it was time for…

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Enhanced BIOS

Tired of rebooting into your different operating systems and having to wait while it boots and loads all your programs? Well that is why we need my new BIOS to become a standard. BIOS'es are no longer limited to the small size that they were…

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Switched Wireless Network

One of the biggest drawbacks of wireless networking is that it is a shared medium. That is an obvious flaw of the medium. It is impossible to transmit two streams of data on the same radio frequency. So a 11mb wireless switch can only achieve…

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Talked with Frank last night

I got a call from Frank Miles last night and we talked for about a hour and a half about various things. He is still working at IBM in North Carolina and has recently purchased a house around there. According to him the house is…

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Shelly's Wedding

This weekend I headed up to Indiana and attended my cousin's wedding. It was a great time and I am extremely glad that I was there for it. The wedding itself was pretty short. I think less than 20 minutes. I recorded the whole thing…

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Talk about passing the buck

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=434778 I cannot believe this. Instead of taking their time to actually make a decent fsking movie, instead they are spending the time trying to figure out how the Lemmings avoided the bad ones. These people really should be leashed and made to pay for…

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B-Day

Original thread from my old forums Well here soon (in like 3 hours) it will be my 24th Birthday. It is interesting to me that this birthday was almost here and I didn't even realize it. Thinking back to when I was a kid birthdays…