My package is the 15Mbps Download 2Mbps Upload…and I am currently experiencing speeds of up to 2000Kb/s download, 200Kb/s upload.

Whew, it’s amazing.

I’ve been playing Day of Defeat: Source and other various HL mods.  Also i’ve been eagerly awaiting Fortress Forever (http://www.fortress-forever.com/).  Also, i’ve set up my own dedicated server box in my bedroom running FreeBSD 6.1 — Currently running an FTP server.  My music collection is also growing fast.

In short: life is good with Fiber.
See if it is available in your area:

http://www.verizon.com/fios

 I promise to make a post as soon as I get FiOS installed.

Found this page that has a nice list of Firefox plugins: http://willlangford.com/geekpages/firefox/

Plugins I have found useful are:

1) The IE Tab Plugin: Allows you to embed Internet Explorer into your Firefox tabs. You may ask, why I would want to use IE? Well, I shall answer: There is only one time I need to use IE, and it is at work to access my time sheets. For some reason the time sheet page isn’t compatible with Firefox yet. ONLY TIME!

2) GMail Notifier: VERY small and inconspicuous notifier tells me when I have new mail.

3) Adblock: As a dialup user, the ability to block ads inside webpages serves me a lot.

Verizon Fiber Optics can’t come soon enough!

I put together some nifty info cheat sheets to help me navigate through Solaris — hopefully I won't need them for long though.

Last week my boss helped me set up my own Sun Enterprise 250 server in the downstairs test-bed so I could practice all my stuff on it.  I've got Reflection X shell installed on my PC so I can work from my cube upstairs.  The E250 isn't the newest or greatest, but at least i've got the whole machine to myself to practice on

Anyway, this ain't the most exciting stuff, but hey — can't beat getting paid to learn  

I was walking through Target the other day, and while browsing the electronics section I saw The Godfather for PC! I looked through the strategy guide they had and some other stuff, and I almost bought the game, but I havn't even finished HL2 single player yet, so I figured i'd wait to see the reviews…etc.

Well the reviews are out, and at gamespot it gets an 8.1 out of 10, which is pretty good, but not REALLY good.  Here's the good and bad from Gamespot:

The Good: The game makes great use of the film license; plenty of challenging, multitiered missions to keep you busy; fun combat and interrogation system; you can explore a great-looking, expansive map of 1940s new york, with no load times; good music.

The Bad: Heavily recycled character and vehicle models, as well as building interiors; occasionally glitchy and stupid artificial intelligence; unstable frame rate.

Obviously, i'm not going to post the entire review here, but you can check it out for youself here.

You can be sure this is a game I will be getting in the near future!  (After I finish HL2, of course)

Started as an intern at ARINC in Annapolis, MD.  (I talked about my interview about a month ago).

So basically i'm working in Technology Support & Services, and i'll be putting together Sun servers, installing/maintaining Solaris, and other misc. activities.

I don't know alot about the Sun platform yet, so it will be a learning experience.

Pretty cool though…i'm an 18 year old college student, and i've got my own cube, PC, and phone number.  I feel special

I'll be part time till summer, then full time   Pretty good money too

Anyway, i'm off to Virginia beach for the weekend! Cya next week  

 Anyway, this new beauty goes like this:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+

1GB DDR400 Corsair RAM

HSI Radeon X1600PRO PCI-E Graphics Card

Western Digital 250GB HDD

NEC DVD-RW

ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 Mobo

Fortron 450W Pwr Sup.

Cooler Master Centurion 5 Case

 Been playing HL2 recently. Runs smooth as anything!  Lovin' it.

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