Older blog entries for miah (starting at number 6)

wow.

I had a very fun day yesterday. I had a small bbq with a few friends in celebration of my upcoming birthday (its tomorrow). I turn 24. I grilled up some burgers, some garden burgers, and some morningstar chicken patties. Yum. We also had tater tots, lots of snack type stuff, and of course a great Carvel Ice Cream cake. It was alot of fun, but I didnt realize that 3 of my friends were highly allergic to cats and well.. I have 4 cats.

To top the evening off, we watched Adult Swim. I'm glad they picked up 'The Oblongs'. Sealab 2021 is still great, Harvey Birdman is very strange..

As far as Sunrise Linux is going, things are well. I've updated a few more initscripts, and have been urging more people to download the alpha and push some bug reports our way. One of our developers is working on a new look for the website, so we're pretty excited about that too. The new logo is awesome.

The bad things that happened.. The battery in my laptop has decided to stop working. This is not good, I do alot of work with my laptop and now I'm tied to a power outlet. If anybody knows a way to fix Sony Vaio Li-ION batterys, please send me info, or if you know someplace that sells them cheap..

Ugh, finacial issues again.. Money is the one thing I constantly stress about since losing my last well paying job. Right now I'm working part time for Brigham and Womens Hospital, in Boston. I work in the NRIMS lab (National Resource for Imaging Mass Spectrometry). Its a very fun job, doing alot of SysAdmin type stuff, and other fun creative things. Unfortunately, I only work 4-10hours a week. Going from a 65k+ salary position to a 10k hourly position is a very difficult thing, especially when you live in Boston and everything costs way more than it should.

So, the beginning of this month we sent in a payment for my car loan. Days went by and the bank called me asking where my payment was, we checked the bank and sure enough, the check hadn't been cashed yet. After having the bank call me 5 times asking where the money was, and letting me know my car was going to get repo'd, I paid a chunk with the "check by phone" service. We figured that the check was on its way back to us since it had been 3 weeks since we sent it out and hadn't got there yet. Our luck couldn't have that happen though, the check was deposited yesterday by my bank. So instead of one $350 payment this month, we made 2. (my payment is alot lower than that, but we had late fee's and such). My car loan is definately up to date now, but now we're $350 short. We're likely going to have to borrow money from family again.. Not fun..

If anybody knows of a company in the Boston area looking to hire a Linux geek, please send them my way. I have a copy of my resume on www.sunrise-linux.com.

ok.

Didn't have a whole lot of motivation going tonight.. But I did get some stuff done. I upgraded iptables, as well as added manpages for iptables-{save,restore}, and added the initscripts.

I'm also glad to hear that our new kernel.spec is almost done. This is going to be a complete re-write and should hopefully make things alot better.

I've also managed to get a few more people interested in the distro. Hopefully they'll get a chance to submit some bug-reports or contribute in some way.

W00, finally home, got my chores done, and about to finish dinner off. Gonna finally get to work on the initscript issues I've been meaning to finish off.

My girlfriend Cathy got me some Neon Genesis Evangelion reprint cels, about 15 of them, they're really nice. I need to get more frames now so I can put my cel collection on the wall.. I've also got a bunch of Lain cels that need to be framed and wall mounted..

Damn.. I was too busy yesterday with actual work related stuff that I had no time to work on my project at all. The sad part is I only worked 2 hours yesterday, and then was at a dinner party my boss threw for about 4hours. Owell, it was alot of fun.

Today should go by fairly quick and I can get to work on some project stuff tonight. Need to work out some initscript issues in the distro.

Well, I released a alpha version of the distro this weekend. We've fixed alot of bugs, and things are alot better than the previous alpha. Though we still have a few problems, I'm fixing them quickly.

We really need to find more people willing to test the distro though, since we havnt really made much of a public announcement for it we only have a small group of people helping. We also really need to get to work on the website, and documentation.

I also really need to find a full time job, or another part time.. I need to get out of debt and start saving up money. If anybody who reads this knows of anything in boston, please let me know. A copy of my resume can be found on my website.

Ahhhh.. with much pain, I've got the distro back in a stable state. I'm planning on making a release of the first Beta of the distro at Pumpcon.

I've still got to fix alot stuff, and need to do more testing, but as we already have a small number of people running it without any stability issues.

I'm hoping to find somebody that wants to help us out with the website.. we definately need to get moving on that soon.