Don't Shut Down MCE
Well, I had a few days downtime on Zach (Shuttle + XP MCE 2005) for the last couple of days. Culprit: chronically faulty fan controller. These Shuttle’s have a nice, adjustable-voltage fan controller. The problem is that mine occasionally quits and I have to move the plug over to the other controller. Then that controller quits and only the other one works for a few months.
I only have three data points to work with here, so I can’t be sure why this is happening. It makes me want to trade up to an LGA775 socket, 16-lane PCI-X graphics beast with a bigger HDD, but that would encroach upon my Intel-based iMac budget for next year.
Not that doing both wouldn’t be that bad. It would just be hard to justify.
I got a job offer today to go back to Port Arthur (a bit more windblown than when I was there last summer, thanks to Katrina). And, heck, they sweetened the deal financially quite a bit to make it even better. I haven’t made my final decision (I was originally hoping to be working in the downtown office this summer), but I would say the likelihood is pretty high I will take this one.
My fan is puttering along at a few hundred RPM. We should be fine until Christmas. groan
By the way, MCE goes nuts when it’s down for a while. Something about a 100 channel database to crosslink and schedule. Meh.
I really want to work on that Bible study wiki I have up there on the menu, but it doesn’t ever seem to happen. Maybe later!
Things are overall quite good. I can’t complain. In fact, I won’t complain. This is the result of a settlement I have reached with myself. Especially with this job offer; there just isn’t any justification to gripe. If some of the work seems pointless, just be glad it’s being paid for by the Great State of Oklahoma.
By the way, if you ever see some of this, you might want to pick it up. Yes, that is $6 for a bottle. Yes, it is that good. Yes, they said to put beer in a champagne glass.
The bottle is corked, for goodness sakes. I have the bottle on my dresser to prove it.
Well, better go. Until the weekend.