Cornell University meters network use and charges for ‘Extreme’ Amounts

These are the days of our lives.

Well, we moved in, and I eventually got the cable modem working, and even ran Cat5 to the other end of the apartment so the boys could have internet access too. We had this LinkCyst Cable/DSL “router” lying around and since morimoto (our file server) went wonky in the move I decided to use the LinkCyst until we could get morimoto patched up and acting as a firewall.

Morimoto is pretty fucked, but I have managed to get it “up” enough to copy data off of it. The problem with this is that there is about 100G of data on there and I have to scrounge up the space to back all that data up before I nuke the machine and start over again (I want to remove the SCSI drives, a processor, and some muffin fans out of the machine in an effort to make it quieter since it will be living in the living room). Anyway, this is going to take a bit of doing.

Rory and Adam were complaining about how slow the cable modem was, and after some debugging we discovered that the LinkCyst (latest firmware and everything) was decreasing our transfer rates by 2 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE (150K/s down to 3K/s). The decision was made to replace the piece of shit with another standalone “router/firewall”. So today I went down to MicroCenter and picked up an SMC 8-port jobber with a print server which seems to be doing the trick nicely.

Sorry i’ve been so transparent lately, I have been dealing with the mountain of unpacking required by the move. I am starting to feel more comfortable in this place as boxes start to disappear and shelves begin to fill. I still have a ways to go, though. My hands are covered with nicks and cuts from various incidents associated with the move. In better news, the move has really fixed up my sleep schedule. I am getting tired around midnight or 1pm now, and waking up around 8 or 9am, which is more in line with most of the humans out there. This will probably be short-lived, however. :)

Tonight I am meeting up with Corinna for dinner and then we are going to see if the Boardgames Meetup is worth a damn. We would give the trivia night at Elephant & Castle again, but tonight is the start of their tournament of champions. After our absymal performance last week we are certainly not qualified for that.

Yesterday was the big move. Rory and I left for his parents at 8am to pick up his fathers pickup. We got back to boston at 10:30 and adam already had the minivan and his car loaded with the first load, so we headed over to pick up the keys and sign the leases. Once that was done we brought the first load upstairs and headed back to 265. When we got there Corinna and Matt had arrived and Laura was awake and ready to go. With the totally awesome help of those guys the move went much smoother than I could have imagined. Corinna even helped set up my room when I was trekking back to 265 for another truckload of stuff. She rules.

The weather held out fine and we went out for dinner afterwards. Adam and Helen did their own thing, and the other 5 of us went out. Rory, Adam, and I sprung for the others for their help… After dinner Corinna, Rory, Matt, and I headed over Steve Bower’s for a party. A bunch of current/former Rochester peeps were in town for the party. Corinna could only stay for a few hours (enough to play a group game of Cranium) but the rest of us stayed until like 5am…. I’m really tired today, as I only had 5 hrs of sleep today.

I’m about to meet up with the SNFC to see Gerry. More later.

Sorry for the terse answers, but our DSL was turned off today so I am posting this from the Hiptop.

1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, non-fiction, poetry, etc.)? Novels, with non-fiction coming in a close second
2. What is your favorite novel? “Neuromancer” by William Gibson
3. Do you have a favorite poem? (Share it!) No, I don’t
4. What is one thing you’ve always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read? “Godel, Escher, Bach”
5. What are you currently reading? “Virtual Light” by William Gibson

Here is the contents of the mix cd I made for Corinna the other day:

1. Talking Heads - Heaven
2. Susanne Vega - In Liverpool
3. Squarepusher - Anstromm-Feck 4
4. The Magnetic Fields - The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
5. Faith No More - Everything’s Ruined
6. Deee-Lite - Good Beat
7. Elastica - Car Song
8. Doubting Thomas - Father Don’t Cry
9. Fantomas - The Godfather
10. Meat Beat Manifesto - Nuclear Bomb
11. Grand Buffet - You’re On Fire
12. David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things
13. Chris Connelly & William Tucker - July
14. Mr. Bungle - None of Them Knew They Were Robots
15. Lovage - Book of the Month
16. PJ Harvey - Yuri-G
17. The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out
18. Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place out in the Country

Finished up with mostof the packing today… My room is about 95% packed (and most of the stuff left over is stuff I need to get by and will just toss in my duffle bag when I am ready to leave), and I just finished up the pantry and kitchen to about 95% as well. I figure I will leave the rest of the kitchen (most notably: the fridge) to my roommates, since I think I have been a swell guy doing the rest of the kitchen myself. :)

Tomorrow I am supposed to meet up with Rose in the morning/afternoon, but I’m not quite sure what the plan is yet… I’m sure we will figure it out soon enough, though.

Not only did I pack most of the kitchen stuff today, but I also made a DVD of “Heat Vision and Jack”. Granted, the video quality is no better than that of the MPEG files I sourced it from, but it is nice to just be able to pop it into the DVD player whenever I want to get a laugh.

The lovely but apparently-not-so-talented Sean and the lovely but apparently-not-so-talented Corinna teamed up tonight for Trivia Night over at the Elephant and Castle. We were gang raped, and it still hurts to sit. I have never sucked so badly at trivia, even when drunk as hell playing Drinking Trivial Pursuit. I blame it on Corinna… She shouldn’t have listened to me when I talked her out of answering “Tears for Fears”.

I know it… I’m in VH-1’s demographic anymore, but every once in a while I watch MTV to see what the whipper snappers are listening to these days… I’m often disappointed.

That said, New Found Glory is good for one thing: Paying Troma to direct their video, therefore helping future FUMN’s. But, that doesn’t mean I want to hear their god-awful music… Hopefully Lloyd Kaufman was able to wear earplugs while directing the video. I would rather be dragged behind Roseanne’s SUV by my genitals than have to hear that Morrissey-looking-douchebag sing another note.