The blog of Michael Rice

1/19/2007

The end of week 1

Filed under: Fedora, Linux, Nintendo, Wii, freebsd, life — errr @ 8:52 pm

Im still alive, and I still have a job. This job is really sweet. We use a lot of FreeBSD at work. We do use a little bit of linux, and I managed to get though a whole week using Fedora for my desktop. Im looking forward to a project I have been handed. I have to complete a pretty large router setup. It will all be run on some form of FreeBSD. Its a very challenging project that will test my abilities very well.I setup a wiki at work using media wiki. Its going to be for internal use only but will be used to document the router I am building, as well as most other aspects of my job and any one elses job who cares to document how to preform their job. I really like the people I work with, they are very sharp and I will be able to learn a whole lot from them.

This week has been really cold here in San Antonio. We had a hard freeze a couple days in a row and lots of places lost power (thankfully not me). I have found an H-E-B on just about every street corner. From my apartment there is like 2 in what I consider to be walking distance… I have looked around while I have been out driving around lost for other stores that we had in Odessa but I have not found anything other than WalMart. I guess H-E-B has run everyone else out of town… I really like the people I have met so far, although I havent met anyone out side of work… I pretty much stay home and play nintendo wii most of the time anyway. I joined a gym called anytime fitness. They are a 24hr gym. I like this because sometimes when I cant sleep the thing that will make me tired is tossing around some heavy weights or running a mile or so on the cross trainer. Im missing my little girl April very much and I wish she were able to be here…

3/14/2005

ahhhh spring break

Filed under: General, apache, freebsd, life, qmail, unix — site admin @ 11:37 pm

Its sure nice to be on spring break this week. I have needed the break from school. You might have noticed the site being down for a week or more and wondered why. Well I have been busy setting up a FreeBSD 5.3 web server and I will start setting up the email service on it soon using QMail Rocks.

We have been busy trying to clean up our shop in the back yard. We have a 20×40 shop out back that makes a great workshop but we started filling it with stuff that we wanted to sell in a yard sale almost 5 years ago and have never had the sale. It sat out there so long it got ruined and so we have been cleaning it out. I get to haul off a trailer load of broken recliners and other trash off to the dump in the morning, it should be loads of fun; we just have to get out there before it heats up….if you know what I mean.