I was able to get the gaming machine up today using the onboard video but now the OS says my hal.dll file is corrupt or missing. Great! and I think somebody snaked my OS cd. Looking at the bios it looks like my serial ata hard drive that the OS is on is just not being detected. It will find it when I am in the bios and tell it to looks for it but then it doesn't remeber it when I quit and save.
egrep has recruited a few more people to setting up servers on Deathcon. Now if only Deathcon had a server that would run some games. I can play Open Arena on the Dell computer but it's not as visually appealing as it would be on the gaming machine.
I would link to things in this post but I am typing it in notepad so I don't feel like it. Maybe I will add some links later when the gaming machine is up again.
DOH! Another motherboard bites the dust. The main gaming machine here at the DOH! Network is toast. I am not in the mood to build a new one either. I hate having to take all the parts out and transfer them to another board and put it all back together. I guess it's better than having to reformat but I would much rather be doing something else like maybe playing the Rio Edition edition of Angry Birds. One good thing about the computer being down is it's really quiet in the office without that tornado of a fan blowing on the CPU.
My bachelor pad is for sale. For under $300,000 this 3 bedroom 1.75 bathroom home with a pool can be yours. The front room is perfect for 14 player LANs. New windows and carpeting and newer roof. What a steal.
I survived another round of layoffs at work. It will be interesting to see what happens over the next couple of weeks because my team of 8 is now a team of 2 but there was only one producer who didn't really have that much going on cut. I'm guessing that's why he got cut. But anyway I have less people but the same amount of work coming in. I keep hearing 'the next four weeks will be rough' but nobody is telling me what's going to happen in four weeks. I have heard rumors of everything being outsourced so we'll have to wait and see.
egrep is talking about getting the Deathcon game servers going again. His current two servers won't run anything though so it will require building another server. We'll see how soon he can get that going.
Agile training is complete. There's no better feeling than finishing a class with a bunch of people that are way more advanced than you. I get to go back to leading my team that make me look like I am really smart.
I did figure out that using the radio.com app for Android I can stream KROQ's flashback station to my phone and broadcast it through the car bluetooth yesterday. That was pretty cool. Until it had to start buffering half way through the second song and then never came back. That's the bad part about being in the car and jumping between cell towers.
Also started working on an HTML5 video player. Disney's D23 site is not iPad friendly so I was poking around in their code and because their videos are progressive mp4s, it's possible to use the same clips in a video tag to make the site iPad friendly. You can follow my progress on by clicking here. I don't own or have regular access to an iPad though so my progress is really slow.