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Today was a severely and serenely eventful day. I actually had to search for Lt. Cmdr. Data's quote- I thought it was from the movie "Insurrection," but it was actually from "Star Trek: The Next Generation season 1 episode 3, in which Tasha Yar sexually assaults Data.
I'l bet ya never thought of it that way!
Anyway, in recognition of the contribution that Star Trek has made to what passes for a geek "community" (I used quotation marks because the naturee of the geek comunity often reminds me more of Sandra Bullock in "The Net" rather than an actual community), I have for the tme being named our "fully-functional" PC's that have found their home in our secret underground lair. PC #1 is named LANDRU, and PC #2 is named VEE-JER, of course. These are definitely Nimoy, and not Shatner, PC's. Captain Kirk just has a way of hosing things up... well, when he's directing the movie, at least.
So anyway, two (relatively) new PC's have been added to the network. One is an XP machine; the other is a 7 box. There is a third which will eventually be a Linux box (we think). All are HP boxes- top one is a DC7600 (Win7, 1TB HDD, 4GB), under it is the "new" DC7800 (Win XP, 500GB HDD, 4GB), and the one to the right (with the K&N decal) is an XW4200 workstation (OS TBD- probably Ubuntu and some iteration(s) of Windows; I don't remember what HDD is in there, 4GB) The display is a Gateway FPD 1730, which has been around for some time. Very highy rated when it was young, it still gets the job done. Tying the PC's together is a Trendnet 2 port TK-209K KVM. I bought the KVM (keyboard/video/mouse switch- electronic) a year or so ago, but never got around to installing it. Lava Lamp® is on top of the PC stack, but not in the picture. Lastly, in the upper right of the photo there's an A-10 Warthog, most likely keeping Soviet-era T72's at bay.
Now that there are a plethora of PC's to use, I may be able to finally get back to more development work on the database, and start doing some programming, although #2 son noticed that both PC's were online, and reminded me thst this IS the Secret Underground Lair, and he might need to install Steam on one (or 3-4 PC's- there's another one waiting in the wings... another KVM might be warranted) of them. I'm starting to think maybe we can do some experimentation with 64-bit systems- probably on the workstation.
Right now the database is very music focused. As I write this, I have Windows Media Player running, and I have the entire thing sorted by number of plays, most to least. Tonight's featured cutoff date is Dec 5, 2012- any song that has a Last Played Date that falls on or before that date gets played. Right now, Barry Manilow is crooning "This One's For You". Tonight was the first time I think I truly realized how much a part of the 70's music scene Barry was.
Okay, hard data. Between the last time I took a count (12.04.12) and the most recent count (01.14.13), the number of tables remained constant at eleven, and 161 records were added. Somewhat impressive, especially since I'm very definitely not the swiftest on the keyboard, but that only comes out to a .2961% increase.
Lastly, I started a temp day assignment this past Monday. It's an association, non-profit, which is a first for me. I'm helping to put together year end reports, and so far it's been a blast. The culture of this organization is fairly mind-blowing: it is not top-down management and directives (at least, it isn't in the area I'm in), and my input is valued and sought after, not only because they're fairly good, but because I'm an outsider looking in with a fresh set of eyes.
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