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I have been accepted to the NAB's Technology Apprenticeship Program!

I'm fiddling with a generator - not mine, don't worry - that won't run. When I spray starting fluid into the air intake, it runs just fine for as long as the starting fluid lasts (a couple of seconds). That would lead me to believe that it's a fuel issue, but my friend who's also fiddling with the generator says that when he "opens the valve", gas flows into the carb. I'm not entirely certain what he means by "the valve", unless he means the petcock. We tried to start it yesterday with some ancient gas - it started once, then died and wouldn't fire up again. My friend drained all the gas out and put fresh gas in, and it still won't start.

My gut is still telling me that it's a fuel problem, but if gas is getting into the carb, that's not the case, is it?

And so I present the problem to the VURD. The floor is open to suggestions.

ETA: The generator is a Coleman model 1850.

ETA 2: I want to make it clear that if this generator fails to start, neither my friend nor myself will be without electricity.

So I recently purchased a pair of 1.5 TB hard drives to serve as storage for my backup server. Shortly thereafter, the 1 TB hard drive in my personal machine started warning of imminent failure. I replaced it with one of the 1.5 TB drives and sent the failing drive off for warranty replacement. I got the drive back recently. Should I sell the 1 TB drive and buy another 1.5, or should I replace the 1.5 I'm currently using with the 1 TB drive and put the 1.5 back into the backup server? Note that the 1.5 TB drives in the backup server are configured as RAID 0 (mirrored).

Ganked from polyanarch
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Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn-offs.
Day Eight: Three turn-ons.
Day Nine: Two images that describe your life right now, and why.
Day Ten: One confession.


Day Nine: Nine things about yourself

1) I really want facial hair. That's why I'm growing a goatee right now.
2) I'm self-conscious about my facial hair, because I'm afraid it looks like crap.
3) For a long time, I only owned one pair of shoes: a pair of combat boots
4) There's a coloring-book outline of the girl in Manet's A Bar at the Folies Bergeres on the wall at SMUUCh. Attached is a speech balloon that says "Bonjour! Fellowship Time volunteers are oolala! Merci!". The text annoys me to no end.
5) I have zero time for new relationships. Yet, in the back of my mind, I'm always evaluating the possibility.
6) I am often annoyed by how much I drive. I feel like I should take the bus more places. I really need to get a bicycle.
7) I love weird places. Hole-in-the-wall restaurants, flea markets, the Cowtown Mallroom - any place like that.
8) I like the idea of thrifting more than the practice of thrifting.
9) When I get really angry, I hit things. Always things, though - never people, plants, or animals. I don't think it's right, but at least it doesn't hurt anything living.

In the continuing saga of trying to get my machine up to 8G of RAM, I have obtained a matched quartet of 2GB DIMMs from OCZ. Note that I originally purchased 4G of RAM made by this manufacturer from Micro Center last year, and then another 4G from this manufacturer a month or two ago. I sent off those two 4G sets and got one 8G set back. Except that when I boot my machine with the 8G of RAM into memtest86+, I get a whole bunch of errors. This also happens when I have 6G in. But at 4G, memtest86+ reports no errors, regardless of which DIMMs I put into which slot. I've got a 430 W power supply. Do I have a bad motherboard, or is something else going on?

ETA: Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR, memory is 4 OCZ Technology Gold 2G DIMMs, part # OCZ2G8004GK

After our Little Red Riding-Hood themed ritual (and no, I'm not making that up)

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