Tag Archives: Electronic Toys… er… Tools

My Hard Drives Are Good!

Hooray! The porn is safe! And so is all the music, my “personal backup” DVD collection and my other documents as well.

Before heading to the tattoo shop this morning, I slaved both of my hard drives into the Husbear’s computer. (I was trying to keep myself preoccupied in an attempt to stop thinking about the hangover I had from a night of drinking.) Both disc drives are totally accessible! All my zeros and ones are exactly where they should be, plus or minus a quantum fluctuation here and there.

Tonight I will tackle getting my email back up and running.

I left the 500GB porn drive slaved in to his computer. I’m sure he wouldn’t like to be without his porn until I can get around to building myself a new computer.

Yes… you read that correctly: I have half a Terabyte of porn. One could call it a hobby. Really I’m just attempting to archive all the great Internet porn before it gets deleted by the Religious not-Right.

Maybe I’ll soon build that home media server to back up all my bits to. And then I can stream porn all around the house!

And in honor of the drives being good, I’ll leave you with this picture…

Until next time...
Erik

Limping along

I got the home network mostly back up and running last night/this morning.

I replaced the actual phone line which was toasted by the lightning zap. Then the DSL modem and the router.

I went wireless (wireless N) this time. This way, if/when we get hit by lightning again, at least it will only take out the DSL modem and wireless router and not travel down the length of the network and take out any more computers/devices. I did put a network surge protector in-line before the DSL router. Maybe that will stop a zap or two. Maybe.

The Husbear is happy because the network wires that were traversing down the stairs aren’t any more.

I’m using the Husbear’s computer at the moment. Mine is still in pieces. I hope I didn’t lose my music and porn “collection”…. Priorities, I know.

Until next time...
Erik

Working offline…

I’ll be working offline for a while. Not by choice.

We had a storm yesterday and a bolt of lightning took a swipe at our house.

In doing so, it nailed the phones, the network, my computer, most of the surge protectors and a few other electronic devices that were blown apart–literally.

We are actually quite lucky the house (all old wood from the 1860s) didn’t burn. All the network gear was located in the back of the Master closet and some of equipment caught fire. For whatever reason, it extinguished itself before damaging anything else.

So, I’ll be blogging from my phone for a while until I get all the phone lines re-run and network replaced.

Until next time...
Erik

Ugh…

Let’s say this has been an interesting trip to Florida this year for Gay Days.

We did a little too much of the “go, go, go” stuff and we are all worn out. Next time, not so many theme parks and a lot more relaxation between events. I think we slept maybe an average of about six hours a night and were on the go all the others. I think that’s the only “bad” thing about traveling with a large group of friends—there is always something everyone wants to do.

I lost the digital camera and a few days of pictures. I’m still bummed about that. I purchased a “temporary” replacement so I could get some pictures during the days we had left. I bought the camera at a shop on International Drive. I think it “fell off the back of a truck”. And not a damn thing in the entire store had a price tag on it.

I also lost two cellphones (both the husbear’s and mine) at the same time. Luckily the cellphones were later found and returned to us. (My apologies to both Mike and Sorted for not calling—the lost cellphone incident and trying to herd a large group of people to do stuff the whole time killed my free time. I’ll email you both when I return home.)

I also didn’t visit with any of my family while I was down here. I’m sure I will hear about it later when they find out. I started thinking—and I am sure this is going to sound selfish—but they don’t make any effort to come visit me and “my” family. So why should I go out of the way to visit them every time I am down here in Central Florida? Yes I could be the “bigger man” here, but after so many years it has become a little one-sided.

Now the husbear and I are sitting at the Orlando airport waiting on our flights. Our connecting flight from Dallas to Tulsa was cancelled by the airline for “technical reasons”. Lucky we arrived at the airport early—we came early because friends who had to drop off the shared rental car had to catch an earlier flight. We had a friendly and helpful attendant find us seats on a later flight that—so far—hasn’t been cancelled. Now there is severe weather over Dallas, resulting in a delay of our first flight….

I just want to get home and sleep in my own bed.

Until next time...
Erik

Motorola Q9c timestamp issue?

I switched wireless providers this weekend from Alltel to Sprint. Mostly due to price of service and services offered for said price.

I got a Motorola Q9c. I love it, as it’s a definite upgrade from the Motorola Q I had with Alltel.

But I now have one problem with it, and to me it’s a biggie. When I am roaming (which I am out where we live) the timestamps on incoming SMS (text) messages are either off by 1 hour in the future or 2 hours in the past. This makes reading a conversation a little difficult. It’s almost as if it’s bouncing from East Coast to West Coast. And they SO don’t want me to start hacking around the registry on it. Because I will. (And I have already too).

Anyone else out there have this model phone and experiencing that problem? I’ve been able to find a few posts here and there with people experiencing similar issues but none have had a resolution yet.

Until next time...
Erik

Imagination-land

It has been such a freakingly long day today. I was “trapped” in a meeting with a vendor for seven hours. I wanted to just beat my head into the table I was sitting at. Over and over and over. And now that I’ve left, I think I still want to. Why is it that vendors want to send in the sales guys to talk to the engineers? Argh!!!

I need a diversion.

Like this.

Woof

Sometimes the picture is even sexier without any naughty bits in it…

(And no, that’s not me. I wish I had a body and fur like that…)

Until next time...
Erik