Brent Stace’s Weblog

Finally the shelter had a Daschund to get, so Jenn and I, after taking her for a walk and loving her, adopted her. I’ve taken so much comp. time off of work just to get the adoption through. Apparently, there were many applicants, and we were the second ones. Her name at the shelter is baby, but we are trying to change the name to either Abby, Emma, or Emmy. She’s very well tempered and loving. She’ll also sometime roll over to you can pet her stomach. She’s three years old. Some problems with her are: lacking a little confidence, and she has some “accidents” occasionally. However, with some create training, she’ll be perfect. Everyone on the web says to do training like this…we’ll see if it works. She doesn’t dig toys that much, she just like to hang out with us and go on walks. She does like her raw-hide stick flavored chicken. You’ll find a great picture of her below.

The Friday that just passed was a pretty crappy day. First, I didn’t get my quota done at work so I had to come in during the weekend (Sat./Sun.). Second, and worst of all, my iPod was stolen. I went out to dinner for an hour and an hour after I got back, when I was packing up to leave, I discovered it was gone. I searched everywhere, home/work, and I’m pretty sure it was stolen. In the time that I was gone for dinner, the cleaning crews at the USPTO came around, so, they are prime suspects in my head, but I have no proof of course. The least I could do was report it, which is what I did today at work. Someone from USPTO security came in to get a report, then someone from Homeland Security in D.C. came in to get another report. However, I doubt I’ll see it again. It’s almost implied that I will get another iPod, however, I’m not sure when. I’m kinda waiting for the rumored full touch screen dedicated video iPod (but also hoping it’ll do music), and I’m also hoping for a 40Gb iPod. I’ll probably wait until the video iPod comes out so I’ll know what my full options are…and if the video iPod will be for me.

I’m a little late on posting this, but I’ve finally had time to write. A couple of weeks ago I got my first allowance at work. When it’s actually published and goes through quality assurance, I’ll put a link up to it so people can see it…and see MY NAME on it also:-p. So far, 1 year, 1 allowance. I expect more allowances later of course with prosecution of my other cases continuing.

Also, in talking about my server (The King), about a week after I wrote that post “The Return Of The King” I discovered The King’s problem. It’s main problem is that it’s a Rev. A Blue and White (B&W) G3 (determined this with the extremely small IDE ribbon cable). It’s inherent fault is that it, according to user reports, it shipped with a faulty IDE controller chip. Beyond that, the computer will only support drives up to 137GB or so. This isn’t an issue with my 120GB that I wanted to install, but yet another limitation. It’s really strange, the chip is all busted in that only sometimes you can write to the HD on the controller (which is explains why I couldn’t install some versions of OS X on it), and you absolutely can not read from it (which is why it wouldn’t boot from it). They say the best way to fix this is just to get a new IDE card. For me though, not wanting to shell out some more money for a new IDE card, I’m just using the 6GB stock OEM drive that miraculously works with it anyhow. I managed to put 10.4.6 on it, but that’s all there’s room for.