Provisional pub

[murlough23]

Vlad!, here's a bit of humor that only you will understand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzEr7KYyX-Q

NP: "Still Love?", Fono

[Vlad!]

Haha. Three or four years from now when the IPv4 address space is exhausted and we finally switch to IPv6 (or, more likely, go with an ISP-level NAT "solution"), this song will be very apropos.

[danny316]

The Internet Archive has two tracks I'd pub if I could. Clarence Ashley, a famous old-time Appalachian banjo player, has a few recordings that are in the public domain now and I've been digging them. Most notably, he wrote the original arrangement of "Coo Coo Bird", which some phorumers might recognize from Hem's update of it, and he has an arrangement of "The House Carpenter" that's less of a watershed moment but most likely an influence on Nickel Creek's arrangement (NC's is slower and more show-offy, but the tune and structure are very similar). He has professional-quality recordings of these songs that were made in the 60's and can be found on CD now too, but these date from 1929-1931 and in the case of "Coo Coo Bird", it's definitely the earliest recording of this arrangement. 

Those two and two less exciting cuts can be found at http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator:%22Clarence%20Ashley%22

[Vlad!]

For any poor soul who still actually cares, here's the latest on the Pub hardware, a report that I am going to rename "how the universe has screwed Vlad! lately":

I got the router up and working, completely. This makes me very happy, both because it's a nifty solution and scratches the geek itch and because it's now no longer all over my floor. So I moved on to the "easy" part: building the fileserver.

After meticulously assembling everything, the box wouldn't start. At all. So I less-meticulously tore it apart again, to find that somehow, those goofballs on the Internet shipped me a motherboard without a BIOS chip in it. Seriously, how does that even happen? And of course, I bought this motherboard several months ago, so I'm sure that the retailer will shrug and say "talk to the manufacturer" and the manufacturer will shrug and say "we sure didn't ship a motherboard without a BIOS chip", and then I'll end up buying another one (number of computer systems under assembly: two. Number of faulty motherboards: two. So far. Both of them MSI boards. I have been using Microstar International motherboards since 1998, but I guess as time goes on they've gotten crappier.).

I even had my computer-building mojo going this weekend

As always, I will provide updates regularly as things happen when I bloody well feel like it.

[Vlad!]

Mur, I sent that video you posted to one of my friends who's into networking.

9:54 PM <Nathan> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzEr7KYyX-Q
10:00 PM <Chris> Who the fuck says routers like "rooters"?

A valid question.

[murlough23]

Yeah. The funny thing is that I say "rowter" when referring to the device, but when referring to a highway, I say "Root 66", not "Rowt 66".

[Vlad!]

I say rowt for both. I also say that when using the word as it was originally intended ("let's go by a different route").

[murlough23]

I say rowt for both. I also say that when using the word as it was originally intended ("let's go by a different route").

From a songwriting perspective, "rooters" does rhyme with "computers" (though I don't think that was used in the song). The original "American Pie" also has the line "the day the music died", so having that "ooh" sound in there makes it sound closer to the original wording, which is always a bonus when parodying a song.

Though it also enables the word to be confused with the news service Reuters.

[schilleriana]

oh, is Reuters pronounced rooters? I've never heard anybody say it but have always pronounced it in my head as royters (the German way).

I say rowt and rowter. in the past I've gotten confused over the word Roto-Rooter so I called it Rotor-Rooter-Router. now I am tempted to be even more annoying and call it Reuters' Rotor-Rooter-Router.

[murlough23]

oh, is Reuters pronounced rooters?

It might not be. You're talking to the guy who, for years, pronounced "melee" as "MELL-ee" instead of "MAY-lay". I didn't find out until someone corrected me when I used the word in Boggle.

NP: "Watch Us Explode (Justify)", The Polyphonic Spree

[Vlad!]

It's 'royters'.

I think poor pronunciation is a hallmark of someone who learned English mostly from reading (it's also a hallmark of foreign people and idiots, so it can be hard to make a definite call). I learned to read at a really early age, so the majority of my vocabulary came from the printed page. I would sound the words out, but since I didn't know the words then I pronounced them any which way I bloody well pleased and figured their meaning out through context. Most of the other people I know who share my awkward pronunciation problems tell me that they too learned much of their vocabulary through reading rather than conversation.

I would start a new thread for this discussion, but since I plan on closing this thread anyway and starting a new one once the "new" Pub is ready then it doesn't much matter.

[murlough23]

On the other hand, if you learned English mostly from speaking, your spelling abilities will probably suck.

NP: "Come Find Me", Bethany Dillon

[Vlad!]

Two points that I promise are true (but I acknowledge may be difficult to believe):
1) I am actively working on getting the Pub up and running. I actually spent much of last weekend on it.
2) I am now on my third RMA return. This is for a completely different component than the first two (the case and the motherboard, for those keeping score at home). I'm actually lucky that this thing (the memory) was under warranty still, since I had started buying components for this way back in August before I graduated.

I'm trying hard to ignore the fact that the amount I've paid for shipping returns back to the manufacturers has undoubtedly completely invalidated any savings I would otherwise have gotten from building the system myself -_-.

I had hoped to have a working system before I leave for two weeks for Christmas and my brother's wedding, but it looks like that's not going to happen. I will definitely keep pounding away on this once the new RAM arrives, but if another component dies then the thing might end up being punted off the back porch

[murlough23]

I had hoped to have a working system before I leave for two weeks for Christmas and my brother's wedding, but it looks like that's not going to happen. I will definitely keep pounding away on this once the new RAM arrives, but if another component dies then the thing might end up being punted off the back porch

My suggestion if that happens: Put this project on the back burner. I mean literally.

[danny316]

I recently uploaded a playlist to YouSendIt for another music board's "Valentines/sexiness" challenge. It occured to me earlier today that this group would like these too, since all of these artists have come up here at some point. THESE SONGS ARE ONLY LIVE THROUGH THIS SUNDAY. Here are the songs and the info involved:
Tift Merritt<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=unfoundbloom-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> - I Am Your Tambourine (Tambourine, 2004)
I'm generally the type of prude that won't listen to much that's more sexually explicit than Chuck Berry's classic stuff. I also don't bother with much of anything that has silly dancefloor "shake it" shouts in it. Tift Merritt is a brilliant songwriter, though, and she managed to write the perfect metaphor to go with that obnoxious "shake it" cliche. You can read every line of the lyrics - it all fits in perfectly as a masterfully-written double-entendre. If the gorgeous retro-sexiness wasn't enough, Robert Randolph himself stops by to end things with a great slide guitar solo.

Over the Rhine<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=unfoundbloom-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> - Conjectures of A Guilty Bystander (Eve, 1994)
I'm not sure quite what this song is supposed to be about. All I know is what comes to mind when Karin coos, "I-I get to be guilty". Also, note the blues-rock! It's been a while since OtR sounded like this. If you have any clue what's really going on lyrically in this song, let me know. By the way, Amazon actually DOES have this album available in spite of it being an out-of-print collector's item - so you can actually buy this one now.

Stephen<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=unfoundbloom-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> and the Colberts - Charlene (I'm Right Behind You) (recorded off of TV)
"I think of you and I dream of you when I'm taking pictures of you, I think of you when I'm in a blimp looking down from up above you." There's not much more that I can say about this one.

The Prayer Chain<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=unfoundbloom-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> - Bendy Line (Mercury, 1995)
Yeah, Christian noise rock with lyrics that are entirely about foreplay. You just thought that that didn't really exist. It's a whole genre, baby.

[Vlad!]

There have been rumblings on the phorums about the pub, so I figure that at the risk of becoming one of Those Guys who talks about How Cool this Thing will be in the Indefinite (but Soon, I Promise) Future and then Never Actually Does It, I will give another update.

Basically, the hardware all seems to be working. As you know, the router (charon) is working quite well now. The fileserver (ark[1]) is now also working, and has in fact been running 7 days straight without dying. However, when I map a samba share from my desktop (woofie) to ark, explorer craps out. This only happens on woofie, which happens to be running 64-bit windows, making me wonder if this is an issue specific to 64-bit windows. My work laptop (boringly named nathanb-lxp) can map a share just fine, and so can a Win2k VM I created (minion2k).

The original plan was in two stages. Stage 1 was to set charon, ark, and woofie up, run the server software on woofie, and host the files on charon. Stage 2 was to build a new desktop computer (yet unnamed), convert woofie into a full-time server, and then go from there.

I asked around in two different places without results. I think the computer gods just plain don't like me.

The problem is that Stage 1 is looking like a no-go, and Stage 2 can't proceed until Intel gets around to releasing their quad-core Yorkfield processors, which were originally scheduled for January but were delayed until March. Note that when woofie gets converted into a server she will be running Linux, so the 64-bit Windows awkwardness should go away.

I know you guys want to get your file sharing on, and I want to set up a file storage and web serving solution that works. Just be patient, and think about how awesome it will be in like 2010 once I finally get everything set up and working

[1] Which I should have named benoni; see Genesis 35:18

[murlough23]

There have been rumblings on the phorums about the pub, so I figure that at the risk of becoming one of Those Guys who talks about How Cool this Thing will be in the Indefinite (but Soon, I Promise) Future and then Never Actually Does It, I will give another update.

I said I missed it, but I didn't intend for that to imply any impatience or pressure. Sorry.

[schilleriana]

the computer gods just don't like Woofie's foil crown, that's all.

[Vlad!]

I said I missed it, but I didn't intend for that to imply any impatience or pressure. Sorry.

No, on the contrary: I appreciate your patience. I just posted to let you and others know that I'm still devoting thought/effort to it, even if the progress isn't apparent.

the computer gods just don't like Woofie's foil crown, that's all.

Hm, possibly. But the computer gods are going to have to get over it.