Archive for October, 2024
Monster Machine is Done!
0Finished building her last Friday!
Time to build a new monster machine!
0Time to build a brand new monster machine…my old machine is 6th gen and won’t support Win11…I guess it’s about time. I am looking forward to running some local LLM’s on that 4080 Super!
Steve Garvey #6
0Ran into Mr. Garvey the Dodger Icon in front of the Omni Hotel in San Diego, CA back in July. He was in front of the hotel putting his luggage into his trunk at the valet station. Later I found out that the reason he was in town was for a pre-game event at Petco Park (SD Padres Home Stadium, right next to the Omni) in which they gathered the members of the last Padres Teams that made it to the World Series (1984 and 1998). Garvey was on the 1984 Padres Team after he left the Dodgers toward the end of his baseball career.
Anyway, myself and my co-workers were inside the hotel lobby and they pointed him out to me as he was loading his luggage into the trunk of his car outside.
I quickly went outside and approached him. I asked if we could have a picture and he was nice and gracious and we grabbed a picture together. He even helped me to compose the shot better! Nice guy and great to meet this L.A. Dodger Icon in person…..after all, I have been a Dodger fan all my life.
P.S. – He is also running for US Senator this year for the State of California..
Spark Plugs at an antique shop??
0Found this pack of 8 spark plugs randomly at an antique mall that we go to. They are legit Motorcraft plugs new in the package from the late 80’s and fit my 70 Mustang perfectly. Only cost me 10 bucks. If I were to buy the equivalent in the regular auto parts store today it would be over 50 bucks!
Always keep your eyes open, you never know what you will find… I love the old Trak Auto price tag still on there…I got them for 9.95 and Trak Auto wanted 10.32 back in the late 80’s! LOL
History – Boy am I gettin’ old!
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Back when I first started in this industry ~30 years ago, I started as a guy who built PC’s. I troubleshot the whole stack. I was responsible for the hardware, OS, networking and applications that ran on the machines that I built. It didn’t matter if they were acting as a “server” or as a “desktop”. They were all just PC’s to me, with various hardware configurations and OS’s.
I knew the whole stack. I also learned about assembly language and C/C++ because that allowed me to be better at my job at that time. I used the “Alta Vista” search engine on a regular basis. There was no google. There was no yahoo. Apple was in the dumps. My first internet access was with Earthlink via the good ole winsock. Before that I was dialing BBS’s on my 9600 baud modem.
I remember installing one of the first distros of linux back in ’98/’99 using rawwrite to write a custom boot floppy in order to install it. I remember recompling the kernel to add additional hardware support as well as various other tuning that you could only do in the kernel.
I worked with DOS and Win 3.1 on a regular basis. Autoexec.bat and config.sys were my best friends. I worked with Novell 3.12, then 4.0, then 4.10, then 4.11 then 5.x. Yes, I was proud when I earned my Novell CNE 4.x cert. This, of course included Novell NDS which predated Microsoft’s AD by several years.
One day, I was handed a blue box that said “Cisco” on it because I was deemed to be the “hardware” guy and nobody else wanted to deal with it. That turned out to be a huge opportunity for me. That began my career as a “Network Engineer”…
“Imprecise complaints that are impossible to address”
0This is what the enemy presents to you to take down your soul…the enemy wants you in turmoil that is not possible to resolve. You get focused on that “turmoil” and you slowly decompose your soul and sell it off bit by small bit to the devil until you are unable to think for yourself or even understand right versus wrong. “Truth” is then destroyed, and evil is in power.
I have said this before, many times, but the famous micro-quote of many a “celebrity” on TV/media is “my truth” or “your truth”. These statements are objectively false and purely relativistic. There is only The Truth and lies, that is it. Either you believe in lies or you believe in Truth, there is no “my truth” or “your truth”.