Journal MiTEG's Journal: Changes 2
So I haven't been back home in a while, about four months. Not much has changed around the house, but my room seems to have turned into a server room. Four sun blade systems, a NAS box, and a wireless router. Tough to sleep at night with all the blinking lights. The area does seem to have been hit hard by the economy. One of the places I worked in high school, Seattle's Best Coffee, closed down its only nearby location. After quitting I thought I wouldn't mind never seeing he place again, but now I kind of miss it. I probably spent in excess of 2000 hours in that place. I remember feeling grumpy that I was getting paid $8 an hour while friends got paid $15 an hour to surf the web during the dot com boom. Still, I was making bank for a high schooler- 30 hours a week at $8 an hour plus tips works out to be quite bit.
But some of it I regret. I had to work the morning after my junior prom, being there at 6:30 AM to open. That was horrible. I don't remember much of the summer of 1999, because I went out with friends until early morning nearly every night, only to have to wake up at 4:30 AM to go to work four days a week. Sleep deprivation has strange effects on memory. And the summer of 2000, the year I graduated from HS, I kept working the 30 hours at the coffee place along with a full time dot com gig. I would work 5 am to noon at the coffee place and then 12:30 to 7:00 at the dot com.
Anyway, it's kind of strange being back right now. Nobody else I know is on spring break, so I'm a bit bored (hence this rather lengthy journal entry). I'll probably take a bunch of pictures with my mom's digital camera, maybe go camping if the weather improves. It's nice to be able to read the SJ Mercury again, I really miss Gillmor's articles. The writing quality seems a bit better than the UT, even if it is owned by Knight-Ridder.
The drive was fun, I love the sound the engine makes at higher RPM. Managed to make it just under six and a half hours, despite a little traffic. I think my car is speed limited at 120 mph, but maybe it's just a limitation due to the gearing. My car doesn't have a tach, so I guess I'll never know without doing the math. The speedometer doesn't go past that anyway. I've said it before, but 152 is the greatest freeway ever. 0.75 miles total elevation change in 25 miles, banked curves and pretty scenary equals mucho driving fun at 80-90 mph.
Sun blades... (Score:1)
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I just took a look inside to see what they are *drool*. Turns out there are only two systems, one 1U and one 2U. The 1U is dual Xeon 2.8's with 2GB memory and two Seagate 10K RPM drives for a total of 100GB of space. The 2U has the same memory, dual 2.8 Xeons, and 6 Seagate 10K RP