One Day Left Until Londonvasion 2008

Date: July 19, 2008
Time: at 7:26 am
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Londonvasion 2008

With less than 24 hours until Londonvasion 2008, the one and only phpBB conference, the 28 team members who will be attending are holding a private meeting (as seen in the picture above).

For more information and lots of discussion as well as more photos, see the discussion topic on phpBB.com

March 2008 Desktop Wallpaper

Date: March 26, 2008
Time: at 6:35 pm
Posted in: in blogging, general, wallpaper
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The Old Farm by *nauHs. Get it here.

The Old Farm by *nauHs

What is my computer?

Date: August 21, 2007
Time: at 2:25 am
Posted in: in general, hardware
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Several people have asked me on what computer I’m running Windows Vista. I’m actually running Vista on 2 of my own machines, both my laptop and my desktop; but my desktop has become my primary machine.

One particular person asked which type of computer I use. For my laptop, I have a Toshiba Satellite P105-S6084:

Intel Core Duo T2300 @ 1.66Ghz
2GB DDR2 800 RAM
160GB HDD

My desktop, however, is a custom built machine with the following specs:

ASUS Striker Extreme Motherboard
Intel Core 2 E6300 @ 1.86Ghz
2GB Crucial DDR2 800 RAM
Foxconn nVIDIA 8800GTS 640MB GPU
Creative SB Audigy 4 7.1 Surround Card
2×500GB Western Digital SATA 3.0Gb/s
1×250GB Maxtor ATA HDD
ASUS SATA DVD+-/RW Drive

UPDATE:

I recently upgraded my desktop quite extensively thanks to a bundled Intel package I got through working at Best Buy for a ridiculously low price (ie, 75% off). My new system specs are as follows:

ASUS Striker Extreme Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 @ 2.66Ghz Each core
4GB Crucial DDR2 1066 RAM
2x BFG Tech nVIDIA 8800GT 512MB GPUs in SLi
Creative SB Audigy 4 7.1 Surround Card
2×500GB Western Digital SATA 3.0Gb/s
1×250GB Maxtor SATA 3.0Gb/s
ASUS SATA DVD+-/RW Drive
Windows Vista Home Premium x64 (64-bit)

And if you’re really interested, here’s a photo of the inners of my desktop:
(Click here to enlarge) - 4.52MB @ 10.1MP

This is my actual workspace. Pardon the photo being out of focus, my camera’s lens wasn’t behaving:
(Click here to enlarge) - 3.87MB @ 10.1MP

I converted my old components to a dedicated server with the following specs:

Intel DG33TL Motherboard
Intel Core 2 E6300 CPU @ 1.86 Ghz Each core
4GB Crucial DDR2 800 RAM
Foxconn nVIDIA 8800GTS 640MB GPU
2x 250GB Western Digital SATA 3.0Gb/s running in RAID 1
Pioneer DVD+-/RW Drive
Windows Server 2008 Standard RC1 x64 (64-bit)

The “Ask Me” Questions

Date: August 5, 2007
Time: at 10:09 pm
Posted in: in blogging, general
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As many of you know, I have an avenue on my site which allows you to submit questions to me, pertaining to technology, and have them answered. I have gotten quite a few, and answered almost all of them.

But some of the ones I get are either downright annoying and stupid, or outright hilarious. Heck, most of them relate to phpBB questions (which I don’t answer under any circumstances).

So here’s just a few of the questions I’ve received, starting with the most recent:

Titled “geography”

Where is india located?

Titled “haha”

ur funny and I haha’d

What the…???

Titled “phpBB”

OMG HELP ME IM BEING HACKED HE GOT MY PASSWRD

Hey, you, with the stuck caps lock button: I’m in ur base stealing ur IQ.

This guy thought I could help him with his physics questions:

Titled “physics”

Hey can you help me with my physics?

A baseball (m=0.15kg) is thrown with a speed of 30 meters per second at angle of 32 degrees above the horizontal. Neglect air resistance.

1) What is its momentum at the maximum height?
2) What is its momentum just before it strikes the ground?

wuts the answer?? Please its due tomorrow

What do I look like? A physics major? Well, I kind of am as a Computer/Electrical Engineering major, but regardless, I actually laughed at that one.

What is it about technology questions that people don’t understand? Hey, I’m all for the intellectual question that doesn’t relate to technology every now and then, and I’d be glad to deviate from technology, but why can’t they be real about it?

We’ll never know…

AdamReyher.com Redesigned

Date: August 3, 2007
Time: at 9:24 pm
Posted in: in blogging, general
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Welcome to the new http://www.adamreyher.com. I got tired of dealing with my old CMS and migrated the site to Wordpress 2.2, and in the process, redesigned the site from scratch.

I hope it’s a bit easier to navigate and find content. And remember, if you have a question relating to technology, be sure to Ask Me! and I’ll be sure to answer … it may even become an article post.

Of course, any comments or suggestions pertaining to the new site are always welcomed.

The madness begins again

Date: August 28, 2006
Time: at 2:36 pm
Posted in: in general, phpbb
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I finally finished the new site. WELCOME! Though, I never reached the goal I set out to accomplish, which was to pretty much create my own custom CMS from scratch. Much to even my own surprise, I got it a bit more than halfway finished and it was shaping up pretty well.

But then Mr. Murphy decided to pay a few visits to me. My work schedule jumped from 20 hours per week to over 38. While this was in the summer and I wasn’t taking any classes, I still had the rest of my schedule filled up with activities. Needless to say, I had literally no free time on my hands anymore.

At this point, I’m back to a 20 hour/wk work schedule, but the fall semester has once again come back. I’m not taking a full term, so I do actually have free time, but for the time being, I just gave up on the project. It was consuming too much of my time and I wanted free time away from the computer for a change. And I wanted to actually get back to doing a good amount of phpBB support work.

So I have given up on that endeavor for the time being. I still have the source code and all of the documentation I wrote for it (mainly for myself since I tend to for get things 5 minutes after I code them). I learned a lot, got a ton more experience, and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. But it just wasn’t practical.

That brings me to Drupal, which is the new CMS for the site. Honestly, the coding scheme and technique is a piece of crap and definately not my style, but it certainly gets the job done. And it’s relatively easy to customize once you figure your way around the code a bit, which proved to be a difficult task to say the least.

Regardless, I’ll definately be posting much more often. Hopefully at least 3-4 times per week. I have a lot more to say now than I ever did before.

It’ll be fun.

Oh, and update your RSS feeds to the new URL:
http://www.adamreyher.com/rss.xml