Life of Chris

So after deleting around 3000+ spam posts from this blog, I’ve determined that spammers need to die a slow and painful death.  Sad part is I get each post in my inbox so that means each posted spam gets delete from my email.

Recently I have moved all of my systems from one place to another to another, and now I have found a suitable home.  I hope to post here more often.

I’ve gone out here to Manhattan KS to visit my sister.  Also found out that she is moving because her and her (now ex) boyfriend are breaking up after being together for a few years.   Shes moving into a trailor a little bigger then the one I live in now.  However she will be living by herself, and she’s on the outskirts of town with only 1 or 2 people living near by.  She is working at the moment and will be most of the day.

Well, I got a call from my sister after I got home from work.  I’m going to head to her place in manhattan KS to help her move,  for those of you who arn’t aware of her, she’s behind the art work for the Geeks In Technology logo:

We missed recording today due to lack of material on my part.  Oops.. just too busy.

I’m working on setting up Windows Vista RC2 for a review session on GIT next week.   As well as setting up many other OS’s for assisted troubleshooting as well. I’m installing OpenSuse 10.1, Windows 98, Windows ME, Fedora Core 5 and a few others to not only play with but also to learn.  I’m using VM technology (right now MS Virtual PC) so that I don’t have to dedicate a whole system to a single OS.

Ok, this is my first personal blog. I’ve done several blogs for my podcast network, but never one as a “Life Journal” of what I am doing on a day to day basis.

First a little about me.

I’m Chris. Founder of CyberDunks Networks Stuidos. My current projects involve Geeks In Technology and This Month at Wal-Mart as well as another one that I havn’t done anything with for a long time called Technical Support. All the info for those is located at CyberDunks.Net.

I am a Wal-Mart Associate of 7 years. I currently work overnight as a Customer Service Manager.

I live in the little town of Higginsville Missouri, I love science fiction and I have a sci-fi forum on my server as well. I am a geek. I have 3 computer systems and 1 laptop. When I am at my desk, I am always using at least 2 of them at any given time.

My system specs are:

System1: Aka Dunks-1

This is my primary system I use for gaming and recording the podcasts. I also use this with VMWare Virtual Server to test other OS’s via Virtual Machine’s. I designate one virtual machine that isn’t briged, NATted or shared for surfing potentionally unsafe websites.

• AMD Athlon XP 3200 Barton
• ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe
• 2GB Dual Channel DDR Ram
• ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9600
• Total of 940GB of Hard Drive space
• Maxtor 300GB EIDE ATA133 16Meg Cache 7200RPM
• 2x Maxtor 160GB EIDE ATA133 16Meg Cache 7200RPM JBOD
• 2x Samsung 160GB SATA II 8Meg Cache in RAID Stripped
• Soundblaster Audigy 2 Value
• Webcam (disabled at the moment)

System 2: aka Dunks-2

This machine I primarily run Skype on for my podcasts, and is my testing machine for Linux and Windows Varients.

• AMD Athlon 2100
• ChainTech Motherboard (I don’t know the model at the moment)
• 256Meg RAM
• Diamond ATI 9550 128Meg DDR
• 100GB Drive with XP Pro
• 80GB Drive with Ubunto Linux
• Soudblaster Original Live Value (not 5.1)

System3: aka Dunks-3

• AMD Duron 1.8GHZ’s
• PC Chips Micro Motherboard
• 512Meg RAM
• 80Gig Hard Drive
• ATI All in Wonder 7000 Video Card.
• On board LAN/Audio

System4: ak Laptop
Compaq Presario 900z

• AMD Mobile 1700 @ 1.2Ghz’s powered,  600Mhz’s battery
• 40GB Seagate Hard Drive (upgraded from 20)
• 640MB DDR SODIMM RAM (upgraded from 256MB)
• Integrated ATI graphics with Shared RAM
• Internal SoundMax Audio Driver (not used anymore)
• Extrenal SoundBlaster Live 24bit USB
• USB 1.1 onboard,  USB2.0 added threw PCMCIA card slot.
• I can only use either the sound card or the USB card at the same time as I only have one PCMCIA slot

If you are still with me.   I have a roomate that has a new laptop from toshiba, and he also has a tower built by myself only.  More to come, as I get time too.