Archive for January, 2012
Phone Ponderings
by Sethen on Jan.30, 2012, under Ramblings
I’ve been sitting here for an hour researching what I want for a new phone. I’d really been looking at the Droid 4 that comes out this week, but I’ve dug a bit deeper. The only pro it really has for me is the full keyboard. The Droid RAZR MAXX looks like a much nicer phone. No keyboard, but the screen is bigger, its a better screen (AMOLED instead of TFT), and its got a much more impressive battery. I think I’m gonna go for the RAZR. I had one of the original RAZR phones, I had THE original Droid, and now I’ll have their offspring.
Scientific Progress Goes Boink
by Sethen on Jan.30, 2012, under ITE
I had a very productive day at work today. I upgraded my workstation from a Pentium 4 HT to an Intel Core2Duo. Let me tell you, the change is AMAZING! My VirtualBox of Windows is actually responsive now. You don’t click and wait, you click and something happens!! Everything is just snappier. I even did a clean install of Ubuntu 11.10 instead of the upgrade I had before, so the system is even running better. Not to mention its 64bit now
Sick Day
by Sethen on Jan.26, 2012, under Daily Recap
Stayed home sick today… was up all last night having dizzy spells
Every time i opened my eyes the room was spinning. just layed in bed for hours.
Felt like crap this morning, felt like crap all day. slept a few hours, watched tv, still feel like crap.
Guess i’m just gonna go to bed… hope i feel better in the morning.
The TRC Forums are alive!
by Sethen on Jan.23, 2012, under TRC
I have triumphed over the TRC Forums. They are new, improved, and working! As a consolation prize, we also have a shiny new photo album! Well, it looks the same, but its upgraded, and so far it seems to be working much better!
Productive Sunday
by Sethen on Jan.23, 2012, under Daily Recap
Today was pretty damned productive. I successfully upgraded the TRC Forums, modified the TRC Admin logins, AND got the Photo Album upgraded and linked to the forums (better than it was before) without a hitch! I call that a pretty productive day.
All I have to do now is get the categories, boards, and usergroups setup in the new forums, and we’ll be good to go. I think I’m going to try and keep this productive roll going and work on my backlog of TRC stuff all this week. Look for more updates! And if I can get in touch with one of my partners in crime, we might see some progress on the big redesign/overhaul of TRC thats been in the planning for months now!
But now, I’m off to bed. I’m excited for work tomorrow. I get to play with a Mac Mini!
Success
by Sethen on Jan.22, 2012, under TRC
Just wanted to update everyone on how I’m doing. I got the Admin logins working off the new forums. I still have a long way to go though. The forums are locked down, so don’t even try registering for a new account yet. It’ll be a few more days. I still have some tweeks, updates, and bugs to work out.
On a side note, I also need to do something with the TRC Photo Album. Its logins were synced with the old forums, but luckily, I should be able to sync them the same way with the new forums. Ran into one downside though: the photo album is several versions outdated. I need to work on upgrading it first, then attaching it. For the time being, I’ve simply locked down the photo album. Everything is still there, but logins are messed up right now, and I don’t want anything worse to happen to it.
There will be a big announcement on the TRC Homepage when everything is back up and running. For now, keep watching here for more updates!
Stumbling block
by Sethen on Jan.22, 2012, under TRC
Things were going to well. It seems I have the admin logins all working great, but my method for making them work on the TRN domain no longer seems to work. I’ve spent an hour trying to figure it out. I need it to set a cookie on the other domain, which requires it to trigger a script remotely. It doesn’t wanna let me on the new forums
Something I gotta work around… or disable. Ugh.
Break time. I need to step away from all this for awhile. My head is spinning with php code.
For my next trick
by Sethen on Jan.22, 2012, under TRC
I’ve got a base install of the new forums installed. Don’t bother trying to check it out or make an account, its all locked down for now. Still got alot of work to do.
I moved the old forums to try and preserve them, maybe get some content out of them, but I guess they were in worse shape than we thought. I moved them to a different location, and they broke entirely. I can’t seem to get them to do anything now, and honestly I don’t think its worth it. We’re going to start completely fresh.
More to come….






















