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Just some stuff I talk about.
Information Technology Degrees Valid Today?
02 days ago
by Paul Nus
in Technology
I’ve been toying with the idea of heading back to school every now and then to get my Bachelor’s Degree in computer science. It wasn’t too long ago that I finished up my Associates Degree and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. But I have to ask, is it worth it today? Does it hold the same worth as it did 10 years ago? I don’t believe so.
Roulette Strategy?
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Roulette is pretty much the only game I can play at a casino where I don’t feel like I am getting totally jobbed (haven’t invested time in learning craps yet). I’m not an idiot, I know that casinos are designed to take my money. The reason I play is to sit down with a group of people and have spirited banter about how good or bad the wheel has treated us and maybe come out with a few extra bucks. However, it’s during these play sessions, you can find some people with interesting betting strategies.
My Next Phone: Nexus 4G
07 months ago
by Paul Nus
in Technology
What can I say, cell phones are one of my guilty pleasures in life. I enjoy the new technology so much that I own 5 cell phone lines for just my wife and I. While that may sound crazy, I can assure you that I do not use more than one cell phone. The rest of my phones have been sold off to pay for the contract commitment. But hey, I was able to own the newest technology until I got tired of it and maybe even make a few bucks by selling it on Ebay.
Well Played Andrea, Well Played Indeed
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*tears of joy running down my cheeks, holding up wad of cash*
I would like to take this moment to thank God for giving me the ability to win some money. I would like to thank baby Jesus for saving me from my gambling sin. I would like to thank the tourney director, you know who you are! You have helped make a dream of mine a reality. Last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank my husband, I hope you know who you are. When I thought I didn’t have a shot, you never stopped believing in me. Well, there was that one afternoon during the third round when you thought I didn’t have a chance in hell. Then when you realized I was indeed still alive, you put a smile back on your face as you saw the potential dollar signs. Thank-you also to my fans (when you wish you were a winner like me, I like to be positive and say you are a fan and not envious.) Drive home safe!
Melvin & Lilly
0I know most people don’t care to see pictures of other peoples kids or pets. But, Im going to post this anyway. 
Gameservers.com & BigBrotherBot & FTPtail
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Yes, Big Brother Bot can work remotely to do server administration for gaming servers. I actually purchased a Rackspace Cloud server and setup my own instance of linux to manage all of our games. But thats not what this blog post is about. I want to very briefly discuss an issue I had with setting up B3 with our Call of Duty 2 server using FTPtail.
Steam & COD2
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I love Call of Duty 2. I love it so much, that I purchased it on Steam for $19.99 to replace my old collection of CD’s that I normally use in the event I need to reinstall it. I figure its worth the 20 bucks to have a digital copy. No problem right?
Call Of Duty Black Oops
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I’m thinking I should have named my blog “Grind My Gears” after the Family Guy episode after all the bitching I’ve been doing here. With that said, I want to blog just a bit about one of the best selling games of all time: Call of Duty Black Ops. For all the “fun” this game is, it has many shortcomings that make me wonder why its so popular. More on that in a bit.
Openfire On 64bit Fedora 14
011 months ago
I’ve setup Openfire servers on many occasions for testing and other production purposes without a hitch. However, I had the pleasure of running into a little snag with an Openfire jabber server today. I don’t normally work with 64bit machines but thats what I was given from our network team.
- Openfire download and install? Check.
- MySQL download install? Check.
- Start Openfire? Fail.
Openfire has been pretty solid anytime I tried to install it. So, after checking a few forum posts I cam across this gem.
Hyper-V & Fedora 14 Network
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Our company has a few Fedora 14 boxes hosted out on a 3rd party solution. These boxes typically host some web service for a variety of products. However, to save some cash we decided to host testing environments locally on some virtual servers.
We ran into a roadblock when performing the install with regards to the network. Our first hiccup was the fact that we did not user legacy drivers and couldn’t find our network card. A simple google query would have resolved that problem. Our network administrator forgot that we had to do that for our Ubuntu install as well (we don’t do much linux here).