…we should all be glad that Richard Reid wasn’t the “underwear bomber.”

Gacked from everyone and their siblings…

Original list is attributed to Phobos Entertainment.

1. Star Wars Directed by George Lucas
2. Metropolis Directed by Fritz Lang
3. Forbidden Planet Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers Directed by Don Siegel
5. The Fly Directed by David Cronenberg
6. The Thing Directed by Howard Hawkes & Christian Nyby
7. The Thing Directed by John Carpenter
8. The Empire Strikes Back Directed by Irvin Kershner
9. The Matrix Directed by Andy & Larry Wachowski
10. Godzilla Directed by Inshiro Honda
11. The Time Machine Directed by George Pal
12. War of the Worlds Directed by Byron Haskin
13. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan Directed by Nicholas Meyer
14. Planet of the Apes Directed by Franklin J Schaffner
15. The Andromeda Strain Directed by Robert Wise
16. This Island Earth Directed by Joseph M. Newman
17. Them! Directed by Gordon Douglas
18. Five Million Years to Earth Directed by Roy Ward Baker
19. 2001: A Space Odyssey Directed by Stanley Kubrick
20. Terminator Directed by James Cameron
21. Blade Runner Directed by Ridley Scott
22. Altered States Directed by Ken Russell
23. Things to Come Directed by William Cameron Menzies
24. Alien Directed by Ridley Scott
25. Aliens Directed by James Cameron
26. The Day the Earth Stood Still Directed by Robert Wise
27. The Incredible Shrinking Man Directed by Jack Arnold
28. The Day After Directed by Nicholas Meyer
29. Barbarella Directed by Roger Vadim
30. A Clockwork Orange Directed by Stanley Kubrick
31. Sleeper Directed by Woody Allen
32. Zardoz Directed by John Boorman
33. Logan’s Run Directed by Michael Anderson
34. Close Encounters of the Third Kind Directed by Stephen Spielberg
35. Tron Directed by Steven Lisberger
36. 1984 Directed by Michael Radford
37. Akira Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo
38. Total Recall Directed by Paul Verhoeven
39. Independence Day Directed by Roland Emmerich
40. Galaxy Quest Directed by Dean Parisot
41. Fantastic Planet Directed by Rene Laloux
42. Earth vs. The Flying Saucers Directed by Fred F. Sears
43. The Rocky Horror Picture Show Directed by Jim Sharman
44. Bride of Frankenstien Directed by James Whale
45. Plan Nine From Outer Space Directed by Edward Wood
46. The Crawling Eye Directed by Quentin Lawrence
47. Dr. Strangelove Directed by Stanley Kubrick
48. Road Warrior Directed by George Miller
49. When Worlds Collide Directed by Rudolph Mate
50. Strange Days Directed by Kathryn Bigelow

Saw this and figured ICON!

LJ Interests meme results

1. book of daniel:
   I think it was one iof the best shows on TV in a long time. Well written with believable characters and great dialogue.
2. crow:
   My fraternity – Alpha Chi Rho – the crows.
3. efrat:
   The town in Israel my brother, sister-in-law, and nephews live in
4. ipaq:
   Dont use mine anymore – not since I got a smart phone. Everything I need in a smaller form factor.
5. law:
   Still fascinates me.
6. music:
   A big part of my life with a diversity of interests – clasical, jazz, swing, classic rock, etc.
7. peter gabriel:
   One of my all timee favorite artists. Especially his work with Genesis and early solo stuff.
8. rockland:
   The county of New York I grew up in.
9. spooge:
   Sorry – that one you either know / get or you dont.
10. tony barrand:
    Along with John Roberts one of the most clever and funny musicians around.

Enter your LJ user name, and 10 interests will be selected from your  interest list.

So, I have an old system… its a P2 with 256MB of RAM. It basically sits on the network and percolates and acts as a file server. It also runs some newsgroup monitoring software but nothing processor intensive. The problem is, over the past year or so, explorer.exe has been grabbing the CPU at 100% and I have to kill task on three or four tasks to get the pc back. I have re-imaged it multiple times with multiple OSes, flashed the BIOS, etc. No love. So, I decided enough was enough, I would go ahead and build a fairly inexpensive system to replace it. It has a DVD Rom and two IDE hard drives I can reuse. Bearing in mind that economy was the primary goal, this is what I have ordered:

Case
XION II XON-103 got good reviews and is on special. The problem is the 450 watt power supply only has 4 connectors. So, I have also ordered a power supply. This one has excellent reviews, and although slightly less wattage has sufficient connectors.

CPU
Like I said, this is going to be a simple file server with no real need for processing power, so I went with an AMD Semperon. Anandtech used this one in their entry level buyers guide so I feel pretty good about it.

System Board
I originally looked at the one Anandtech used in their buyers guide, but NewEgg had a combo deal with the new model up, so I have gone with a BIOSTAR TForce6100.

Memory
Well, I looked at the recommended and the reviews and what I know about reputations, and decided on 1×1GB of Corsair Value Select.

Hard Drive
Yes, I am planning to reuse the current IDE drives I have (a 20GB for OS and 250GB for data), but I decided to supplement it with a Western Digital 250GB SATA drive. First, cause well… more storage is always good and second because I have never played with SATA before.

Cables
Yes, this thing is going to have 4 fans in it (2 in the power supply and 2 in the case), but I still opted to go with round cables for better air flow. Nothing fancy – No LEDs in them or anything. Just 2 round SATA cables, 2 round three plug IDE cables, and a round floppy cable.

Yeah, a floppy – New Egg was throwing one in with the case at no charge so why not. Of course, they are bundling a beige floppy with a black case…. and I may not even install it.

Any thoughts?

It was a simple plan… get to dealership by 8:15 catch the shuttle to work and get a lift back to the dealership after lunch from a co-worker. After all, it was only an oil change and an inspection. What could possibly go wrong?

Foolish mortal.

I arrive at the dealership at 8:15. No sweat. The shuttle leaves at 8:30 – plenty of time.

I go inside the service area and walk over to C, who I have been dealing with since I bought the car.

C: Hello, Mr A! What are we doing for you today?
N: Heya C! Just an oil change and inspection
C: OK, did you want to wait for it?
N: How long will it take?
C: We’ll have you out in an hour
N: Great! I’ll wait.

I go inside and sit down at one of the tables they have and bring up my laptop. Hmmm… no wireless… Ah! the SSID changed since last time. No problem, fix that and bam! network connection… at least so it would appear… but in fact there is no IP address. Release/Renew multiple times. Nothing. Bring up Ethereal – yup, DHCP Discover…silence…DHCP Discover…silence… rinse & repeat

OK, no big deal… work on some off line stuff. 9:30 comes and goes. Quarter to 10 I go over to find out whats up…

C: You’re still here?!?!
N: Yeah….
C: I thought you were done and gone
N: Ummm, no….

C goes off to find out what happened and well somehow somewhere the ball got dropped and my car wound up at the back of the queue. I get moved to the front and put on expedite and 1/2 hour later I have my car and I’m on my way. And they ate the cost of the oil change.

Of course I lost half a day of productive time and had to dial in to a TC on my cell phone from the dealership… but its all good.

Tagged by &

I am listing the 5 most effective things to bribe me with. If you get tagged, your mission is to do the same, then tag 5 or more people. The assumption stands that lots & lots of money is always a good bribe.

(1) Cute blond skater boys…
(2) Open Airline tickets
(3) Resses Peanut Butter Cups
(4) Lobster. On the beach. In Maine.
(5) London Broil

Tagging:

Some people have way way too much time on their hands…

Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.