Good Morning frederic, thanks for the reply. Your resume' will be suffecient
Fair enough. The electrical socket thing at 3 I already shared
from pre-teens to mid teens, I enjoyed electronic kits, ranging from simple things that blink LED's with 555 timers, all the way to assembing my own Timex Sinclair 1000, you know, Z80, 1K of ram, membrane keyboard. Then a Hero 1. Christmas every year was full of electronic gizmos, usually unassembled. Around the age 10, i got into model trains, and while my layout was simple, by mid-teens my Commodore 64 controlled most aspects of the layout. Train speeds, multiple trains, RR crossing gates with little servos, house and building lighting (I'd turn them on at night when the "sun" went down), and even made a homemade high frequency AC power supply to inject on top of the variable DC track voltage, so the trains could run anywhere from slow to fast, and the lighting inside the passenger cars would stay on full bright.
When I got my first electric bass at age 14 or so, it didn't work electronically. I soldered, modified the very simple electronics, and after a lot of experimenting I had a nice sound from this used cheap thing. My first "amp" was a 12" speaker out of one of those massive wooden record players that are a piece of furniture, and a 20W tube amp with a small tube pre-amp I made. It was good at the time, but not impressive. Eventually I saved for a Peavey TKO65. Took a while, I was poor.
I worked at radioshack for 4 years, 2 in HS and 2 in college. The last year I managed a store.
I've done an awful lot of car wiring, three trucks bumper to bumper, six cars I restored, two kit cars, and one homemade car, though the latter was the absolute bare minimum. Lights, ignition, gauges, thats it. Race only.
After 2 years of college, I started an electrical contracting business, and when the unions came to town I got out of it quickly, and ended up at a Microage Computer Store in outside sales, mostly servers, netware. These were the days of IBM Microchannel and Compaq EISA and they weren't friendly. After a few years of blowing quota out the door, I got bored with it and moved into consulting, thanks to a customer of mine who wanted to place me at a client to make "network security recommendations". So, I got paid money, to sit in meetings, and tell them they are clueless wonders, then make recommendations on how to fix it. I didn't actually have to "do" anything per se. That was my entrance into the corporate world.
From there I got into wall street, managing staff, data centers, equipment and all the hassles contained within, from smaller shops of 10-12 IT folks all the way to 300 people with three geographically diverse data centers. Moved out of there into a NYC hospital, designed their wide area campus network (4gb between buildings, redundant 10/100 switches to each floor of each building, 100mb to the desktop). When my 1 year contract ended, I got renewed for 6 months to design a way of running hospital applications which required NT4.0, using whatever they had as desktops. Sadly, anything from 286 to pentium 120's. Definately not NT4.0 compatible. So, we built an experimental Citrix server, ran NT4.0 look and feel on that, and converted a few test workstations to be citrix clients. Amazingly, it worked. Turned out that it was significantly cheaper to build 20 massive Citrix servers, than to convert something like 6000 pentium 120 or worse desktops. All this rolled back into their Netware database servers, and Citrix/NT4.0 authenticated to the Netware NDS security tree. We were the first to do this, according to Netware and Citrix.
Citrix is essentially what became Microsoft Terminal, due to licensing and lawsuit settlement.
After some additional bouncing around, I'm now at a very large telephone company managing pre-sales engineers that design hosting, collocation, managed network and Mobility systems for larger clients. Its fun to be on this side of the desk again, rather than the operations, 80hr workweek, constant ulcer side of said desk.
Somewhere between all of the above, I owned two pro recording studios, one alone and one with a partner, both never turned out to fulfill my dreams. I believe its because I built and owned them, and didn't manage them full time. I was an absentee owner most of the time due to everything else I had going on.
Also raced funny cars on and off for a 8-9 year spread, mostly with random sponsers.
And people ask my why, at age 36, I'm dead friggen tired all the time.
Now I've taken all these things, and boxed them up carefully. No longer racing, but very slowly building my second "from scratch" car, still in the parts collection phase, which parallels the engine building phase. Going slow, spreading the costs out, yada yada.
Recording I have scaled way back, and simply remodeling my home studio. I was going to have commercial space if you recall before you moved, I was having trouble with building titles. Believe it or not thats still unresolved. But eventually it will be and I'll either get my money back via the title company's insurance, or I'll own the building officially. Then, once I psychologically recover from this torture, I'll have Sayers come out, draw some neat plans, and project manage the thing until its done. I'm going to let him stress out over perfection, and I'll just stop in once a week and smile
If this works out, I'm quitting my current job, retiring, and going to be a full time recording studio owner. If it doesn't work out, I'll find another building down the road and try it again, not a big deal.
Anyway, electricity, electronics, computers and cars are my interests. Anything else I'm an absolute dunce. Doesn't mean I don't try, just means I have a larger opportunity of screwing it up or getting injured. For example, I cannot make a birdhouse (out of wood) if my life depended on it. Out of aluminum, absolutely
I should start a business making aluminum high-tech birdhouses with LED lighting. Anyone want to invest, inquire within. No guarrentees for ROI.
think I'll check into this. Sounds interesting. Since I'm thinking Nuendo anyway. It goes on to say that the use of multiple computers has brought about a need for noise control of computers. OK. Thats it. I have another question.
Please do, I've not heard of this device yet. I've been behind on my random internet surfing for "presents".
How can I lengthen the distance from my computer monitor/keyboard/mouse/ about 25'? I have heard of extenders but damn from what I see they are expensive and resolution is a consideration. But I'm no techy so maybe theres something else I can do? I want to house my rackmount computers/servers or
There are two ways. YOu can use
blackbox.com devices so you can extend mouse, keyboard and video over cat 5 cabling. THis works, but the higher the resolution, the more it looks terrible.
What *I* do is install PCanywhere (for windows) or "RealVnc" for linux, and remotely manage the server from where ever I am. Trust me, I don't walk into the basement much to do anything to my servers. I even reboot them remotely.
if you want to get super fancy, and you've purchased Compaq or Dell, both companies make "Remote Insight" boards, which has a cat5 ethernet connection and a battery. When you power off the server, the board stays live. This means, using your browser, hit the IP address of this fancy board, and you can see what's on the monitor screen, move the mouse, etc. As if you are there. In fact, this works so well, you can watch the memory counting in the bios through your browser
Since you probably don't want to buy fancy boards for your compaq or dell servers (or choose another brand of server where the boards won't work), PCanywhere is a great option for windows, and VNC is a good option for linux. Gives you an X console no matter what version of linux you're running, and no matter what you are running on the desktop thats remotely viewing. Windows, Linux, OS/2, whatever. Works well.
controlroom but its so far away from the console, I don't know if this can be done.
Anyway, thanks frederic.
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Put the servers somewhere else so you don't have to listen to them. My little server farm in the basement makes a huge racket. I'm very pleased its far away from my studio.
