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OM corrects a major personal oversight...
....This evening, I unretired an old pizzabox system to serve one
purpose and one purpose alone: a home game server. A system set aside and dedicated to hosting Unreal Tournament maps, skins and other distractions for yours truly when I actually have time to be amused by such things. As with most of my systems, I tend to give them Astronaut names that fit their personalities: Glenn - The Living Room Media Center - AKA, the TV Shepard - My Bedside Box. Provides news and entertainment, but also happens to be where I have to deal with spam. Grissom - Identical to Shepard, but the second system built. Has a missing side panel. Carpenter - Has a flaky video card that refuses to switch video modes on occasion Schirra - My business notebook. Purely business. Slayton - Has a video capture card that refuses to work if more than 99MB of RAM is loaded. Also has a faulty MB thermostat that shuts the entire system down even if it's turned off in BIOS, *unless* the video capture card is working. Fibrulations, natch. Cooper - My overloaded music server, more drives than the P/S knows what to do with, but still keeps on running. ....However, after looking at systems one thru seven, I realized I'd used up the Original Seven astros for system names. The three main servers - KSC, JSC and Gagarin - as well as the dual monitor box - Conrad - and the DVD burner box - Bean - also took up good names. So, while puzzling out which of the Next Nine to honor, I thought about how flaky this old box was, and how, while it could run fine as a UT server, it could never actually play the game worth a ****. And then it hit me. So, about five minutes ago, the Original 7 were joined by the unofficial 8th Astronaut. Yup. I just named a game server after Jose Jimenez. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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