Thursday, October 29, 2009
"Brick"
I was playing around the O!Play the last couple of days and thought I had figured out some clever things and...whatever. As it turns out I don't know as much as I thought...I...do...because the thing is in a reboot loop right now. And there's no disaster recovery option built-in so far as I can tell. Which is a shame. I found a couple options online already but none have thus far worked for me. Seems like a fairly basic feature to think about. Fixing the thing when a firmware update goes bad or whatever. But this wasn't a priority for Asus apparently. So perhaps I'll return it.
Seems I let some time pass between entries. I'll try to remember some stuff from this week.
On I think Tuesday I went up to Tahoe and applied for a position at a ski resort. A position that appears to be permanent. They even have employee housing provided. Not sure if I would utilize it but it's there.
I was the first one to interview for this IT position and the guy seemed fairly impressed with me. He gave me a "waiting list ticket" and I was instructed to call the number listed on it if I had not been contacted within two weeks. So that is what I'll do. I hope I am contacted though.
Of course I am also supposed to hear about the results from another interview I had nearly two weeks ago. I was supposed to hear today actually but I heard nothing. So I'll hopefully hear tomorrow. And if not assume I did not get it. Which I am pretty much assuming now. But hey not only two leads but two leads on permanent jobs that sounds like a pretty good month. So at least I'm semi-optimistic I'll eventually get something. Maybe not soon but eventually.
On Monday I did spend some time with my niece-the-two-year-old. She seems to be a little bit more of a person every time I see her. Really she acts a lot like a typical two-year-old but it's still a kick to interact with her.
Yesterday I didn't much besides messing with my O!play. Note the lack of rebooting the O!Play yesterday. That's when the trouble started today. I was trying to write a guide about the steps to take to mount a portion of the file system to a thumb drive so more software could be safely installed. Apparently I didn't do enough research and as Zap Branigan would say no backsies .
Today a friend of mine came over to hang out for a few hours. It seems he was layed off from his work or at least significantly cut-back-upon. And for whatever reason his wife doesn't want him home during the day thus tipping off the kids. Which seems kind of strange or childish or something to me but I didn't actually offer any commentary on the matter as it really isn't my business.
We messed with the craziness of the O!Play and watched some episodes of the beloved series SPACED via my media server.
My hub idea hasn't really taken any more root since last I talked. It was kind of revolving around the whole web server-on-the-oplay idea. But since that never got done none of the other steps ever came up either. Perhaps I'll just do the preparance (that's a word?) on the laptop and then load it on the real web host when it seems ready. That probably makes more sense doesn't it?
Also I have a soar throat. I hope I'm not getting sick. I mean my media player is kind of broken. That's going to kind of suck being in bed for I-don't-know-how-long with nothing to play. Except with my other media extender. There's that.
I'm probably missing stuff but I think I'll stop now. I'm apparently fading fast.
¶ 10:53 PM I was playing around the O!Play the last couple of days and thought I had figured out some clever things and...whatever. As it turns out I don't know as much as I thought...I...do...because the thing is in a reboot loop right now. And there's no disaster recovery option built-in so far as I can tell. Which is a shame. I found a couple options online already but none have thus far worked for me. Seems like a fairly basic feature to think about. Fixing the thing when a firmware update goes bad or whatever. But this wasn't a priority for Asus apparently. So perhaps I'll return it.
Seems I let some time pass between entries. I'll try to remember some stuff from this week.
On I think Tuesday I went up to Tahoe and applied for a position at a ski resort. A position that appears to be permanent. They even have employee housing provided. Not sure if I would utilize it but it's there.
I was the first one to interview for this IT position and the guy seemed fairly impressed with me. He gave me a "waiting list ticket" and I was instructed to call the number listed on it if I had not been contacted within two weeks. So that is what I'll do. I hope I am contacted though.
Of course I am also supposed to hear about the results from another interview I had nearly two weeks ago. I was supposed to hear today actually but I heard nothing. So I'll hopefully hear tomorrow. And if not assume I did not get it. Which I am pretty much assuming now. But hey not only two leads but two leads on permanent jobs that sounds like a pretty good month. So at least I'm semi-optimistic I'll eventually get something. Maybe not soon but eventually.
On Monday I did spend some time with my niece-the-two-year-old. She seems to be a little bit more of a person every time I see her. Really she acts a lot like a typical two-year-old but it's still a kick to interact with her.
Yesterday I didn't much besides messing with my O!play. Note the lack of rebooting the O!Play yesterday. That's when the trouble started today. I was trying to write a guide about the steps to take to mount a portion of the file system to a thumb drive so more software could be safely installed. Apparently I didn't do enough research and as Zap Branigan would say no backsies .
Today a friend of mine came over to hang out for a few hours. It seems he was layed off from his work or at least significantly cut-back-upon. And for whatever reason his wife doesn't want him home during the day thus tipping off the kids. Which seems kind of strange or childish or something to me but I didn't actually offer any commentary on the matter as it really isn't my business.
We messed with the craziness of the O!Play and watched some episodes of the beloved series SPACED via my media server.
My hub idea hasn't really taken any more root since last I talked. It was kind of revolving around the whole web server-on-the-oplay idea. But since that never got done none of the other steps ever came up either. Perhaps I'll just do the preparance (that's a word?) on the laptop and then load it on the real web host when it seems ready. That probably makes more sense doesn't it?
Also I have a soar throat. I hope I'm not getting sick. I mean my media player is kind of broken. That's going to kind of suck being in bed for I-don't-know-how-long with nothing to play. Except with my other media extender. There's that.
I'm probably missing stuff but I think I'll stop now. I'm apparently fading fast.
