| | So what was going to be a depressing entry about how the glorious .tw made me fat (I was expecting 75kg/15%), turns out to be... less focused about weight gain. Of note: I left for Taiwan at around 70/11%, I weighed in upon return to Duke at 70/12%.
Certain aspects that I suppress at Duke glowed brilliantly over break, and third parties would have difficulty comprehending how the "racing playboy who thinks he has two livers and nine lives" can share the same spirit as the "condescending nerd who cuddles with computers." So somehow I must shift over to the more conservative spectrum before my workload increases, and I wisely spent the past Saturday playing with robots. For the good portion of the night, I was sitting in a chair, listening to classical music whilst reading the New York Times. If only I was in my study chamber with a tea set by my side.
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My initial days at Duke were not so relaxing, as I experienced a mild hardware failure on my desktop; the beast would power on for a fraction of a second and then halt, not to be powered on until I cycled power through the PSU. I suspected an errant PSU or front panel connectors, and I took apart the computer entirely, which made me regret that I had not purchased a top-tier Lian Li case. Difficulties with dismantling the computer aside, I realized that the handy dandy connectors for the front panel temperature display were shorted out. Not needing them, I electrical taped the ends and called it a day. Mission accomplished.
Then I decided to enable my onboard sound in an ambitious pseudo-audiophile move. Then, in an unrelated manner, my music player quod libet refused to advance to the next song. Then many expletives later, I created the asound.conf file that set the default card for pcm and ctl and managed to fix up QL.
I believe my computer just owned me. After QL was fixed, all of the audio sounded "damped" even though I had healthy gain levels on all controls. Then in the middle of my typing, the Internet refused to work, citing DNS problems. I enabled DHCP for a bit, but then it complained about "unknown host: dhcp" but resolved everything just fine. After a switch to static IP, the computer seems to work. Making me paranoid here.
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Redesign.
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| | Posted 1/14/2008 8:01 PM - 83 views
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