I’ve been working like a crazy man lately. Work is usual nutzo for September. At home, I’ve been working on the church website. I’m redoing it with Joomla to give other people the ability to contribute more easily.
I’ve been doing a few video editing things too and will be doing some more in the not too distant future. So, I finally ordered another drive for my system … a 320GB Seagate. From what I’ve read it should perform very well though may run a bit on the warm side. Oh well. It will allow me to keep my video projects on a separate disk from my apps and OS. This is generally a good thing.
Back on the work front, I now know what three “tasks” (= projects) I’ll be involved in this fall: “Footprints” (I’m project lead on this one), desktop operating systems (yeah, like we’re likely to get rid of anything) and CMS implementation (for campus website). There’s also a bit of shuffling going on … I now have an interim manager above me who happens to be a former faculty member. Should be interesting. Of course, this also means we needed to create an office for her, so there’s been a lot of re-arranging going on. One of the staff from Information Systems in North Hall is also moving to our side of the street, so we’re feeling even more like sardines than we were.
Home computer projects I’d like to do:
computer projects involving $$ (that I don’t have):
home-improvement projects:
Is the 320Gb Seagate the 7200.10 model? I have 2 of those drives in my main machine’s RAID. They are very fast and extremely quiet. They do run a little hot, but nothing compared to the 10,0000 RPM SATA drives. Unless you are sticking it in a case with no airflow in a hot room, there is nothing to be concerned about.
I lucked out in my new apartment. Right behind the TV is a vent that goes into a walk-in closet. I just removed the vent and ran the wires through. You can’t hear my media center at all through the wall, I was able to put louder fans in the system since I am not sharing the room with it. It also works out great because I was able to put my Xbox360 in there. Those things sound like an airplane taking off.