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stormdogA chance to chat with a friend this morning has left me feeling so much less nervous and anxious, and not just about having slept through my alarm this morning and run around like crazy to even manage to get to work just an hour late. Thank you!
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moryssa out with her computer last night. I bumped it from 128MB of RAM to 384MB; that should make things a little more zippy for her. Gave her a CTX monitor I had sitting in the basement too. Hopefully those will keep her going for a while as I try to put together a decent laptop for her.
Going down to Fry's today withposicat where we're going to meet up with tybis for a pizza buffet dinner. Probably just as well then that I didn't manage to throw together anything for lunch today. I'm just going to work right on through the day since I was late anyway.
I'm bringing back an external hard drive enclosure whose packaging lied about being able to support SATA. In fact, I bet that's why it was a returned item in the first place. My mate has graciously offered to drop it off on her way home from work since I completely forgot to take it out of her car last night. After all of that, Posi and I are going back to his place, probably to watch more of heroes, and then I'm crashing there for the night. That will give me a less than ten minute drive to work in the morning, the which will probably lead me to grumble about moving closer to work and/or finding a new job for the rest of the week.
Once I have an enclosure that will support a SATA drive, I'm going to hook it up to my server, Alphawolf, in preparation for a major rebuild. I'm going to remove the IDE drive with the system partition that I've piggy-backed on the CD-ROM IDE channel channel entirely, repartition the five SCSI drive on it into a completely new arrangement, and reinstall 2003 server onto the SCSI drives. Then, I'm going to put things Perl and other backend software for my webserver (not to mention the webserver itself) and my email server onto a three or four drive RAID-5 array on the SCSI hardware. Then I'm going to put all of my reasonably static data that Alphawolf acts as a file server for, like MP3s, utility programs, movies, and other ephemera onto the hard drive in the external enclosure. Then I'll finally have some room free on the thing.
I've also got a little bitty Deskpro EN (just like the one that Posi has for his MythTV box) that I've loaded up with 384MB [can you tell that I've got stupid numbers of 128MB DIMMs lying around?] to use as a test server for eGroupware. I'm probably going to put Debian Linux on it. That means I'm going to have to figure out how to use Linux too; I think my vacation is going to be a busy one! But with eGroupware up and going, I'll be able to set up things like a web accesible front end to my IMAP4 mail server, web accessible shared calender functionality, and many, many more nifty things. Thanks CJ for introducing me to it!
As I've told a couple people, even though we didn't decorate for Halloween specifically, we did have an entire shelf full of dead things in the living room. We moved the bookshelf that's been annoying to a much better place in the living room and loaded it down with LPs, 78s, and half a shelf of CED video discs. On the top of the shelf, I'm now displaying my circa 1910 radioptican, which is a sort of picture-postcard projector. I'm a sucker for obsolete media. I just have to figure out where to put my reel to reel deck now. I'm sure I can find a place if I work hard enough. I'm also going to have to remember to check with my grandfather this Thanksgiving; he was talking about being willing to buy me a nice turntable that will play '78s if I'm willing to put all of his records into a digital format. It's not that he doesn't know how to do it himself- he's got a Mac-based computer lab for video editing that puts mine to shame- but he doesn't have time to sit through all of them, wher as I would really like to go through his jazz and blues and listen to what he's got.
Speaking of home entertainment hardware, my nice Sherwood 12-band per channel equalizer seems to have developed a problem while I was cleaning it out. The left audio channel on the primary input doesn't work, which means that I'm short one input. I can't connect my tape deck or 8-track player to it now. I looked at the circuitry but I can't see anything wrong with it, and I don't know if I could figure out enough component level repair to make it work again, though I suppose I could give it a try. Maybe I'll take it to the stereo repair place I pass by on the way to work every day and see what they think.
I cleaned out and washed the cat box so that it's primary users will, hopefully, be more inclined to employ it instead of deciding that things like the bottom of the curtain on the stair window, or the corner of the living room under the table with the candles on it are more appropriate. Not that we've had much trouble since the carpet cleaning, but it can't hurt. I've also moved their food onto the kitchen counter instead of leaving it next to the litter box in the bathroom; I read that some cats don't like to eat and excrete in the same area. Guess I can't blame them.
Time is just flying today. I am getting hungry though! Can't wait for pizza buffet. I don't think I've had that since the times when I used to go the Pizza Hut in Kenosha at lunch with my dad. (That was my high-school graduation present! *smiles*) Just two more hours to go.
I helped
moryssa out with her computer last night. I bumped it from 128MB of RAM to 384MB; that should make things a little more zippy for her. Gave her a CTX monitor I had sitting in the basement too. Hopefully those will keep her going for a while as I try to put together a decent laptop for her. Going down to Fry's today with
posicat where we're going to meet up with tybis for a pizza buffet dinner. Probably just as well then that I didn't manage to throw together anything for lunch today. I'm just going to work right on through the day since I was late anyway.I'm bringing back an external hard drive enclosure whose packaging lied about being able to support SATA. In fact, I bet that's why it was a returned item in the first place. My mate has graciously offered to drop it off on her way home from work since I completely forgot to take it out of her car last night. After all of that, Posi and I are going back to his place, probably to watch more of heroes, and then I'm crashing there for the night. That will give me a less than ten minute drive to work in the morning, the which will probably lead me to grumble about moving closer to work and/or finding a new job for the rest of the week.
Once I have an enclosure that will support a SATA drive, I'm going to hook it up to my server, Alphawolf, in preparation for a major rebuild. I'm going to remove the IDE drive with the system partition that I've piggy-backed on the CD-ROM IDE channel channel entirely, repartition the five SCSI drive on it into a completely new arrangement, and reinstall 2003 server onto the SCSI drives. Then, I'm going to put things Perl and other backend software for my webserver (not to mention the webserver itself) and my email server onto a three or four drive RAID-5 array on the SCSI hardware. Then I'm going to put all of my reasonably static data that Alphawolf acts as a file server for, like MP3s, utility programs, movies, and other ephemera onto the hard drive in the external enclosure. Then I'll finally have some room free on the thing.
I've also got a little bitty Deskpro EN (just like the one that Posi has for his MythTV box) that I've loaded up with 384MB [can you tell that I've got stupid numbers of 128MB DIMMs lying around?] to use as a test server for eGroupware. I'm probably going to put Debian Linux on it. That means I'm going to have to figure out how to use Linux too; I think my vacation is going to be a busy one! But with eGroupware up and going, I'll be able to set up things like a web accesible front end to my IMAP4 mail server, web accessible shared calender functionality, and many, many more nifty things. Thanks CJ for introducing me to it!
As I've told a couple people, even though we didn't decorate for Halloween specifically, we did have an entire shelf full of dead things in the living room. We moved the bookshelf that's been annoying to a much better place in the living room and loaded it down with LPs, 78s, and half a shelf of CED video discs. On the top of the shelf, I'm now displaying my circa 1910 radioptican, which is a sort of picture-postcard projector. I'm a sucker for obsolete media. I just have to figure out where to put my reel to reel deck now. I'm sure I can find a place if I work hard enough. I'm also going to have to remember to check with my grandfather this Thanksgiving; he was talking about being willing to buy me a nice turntable that will play '78s if I'm willing to put all of his records into a digital format. It's not that he doesn't know how to do it himself- he's got a Mac-based computer lab for video editing that puts mine to shame- but he doesn't have time to sit through all of them, wher as I would really like to go through his jazz and blues and listen to what he's got.
Speaking of home entertainment hardware, my nice Sherwood 12-band per channel equalizer seems to have developed a problem while I was cleaning it out. The left audio channel on the primary input doesn't work, which means that I'm short one input. I can't connect my tape deck or 8-track player to it now. I looked at the circuitry but I can't see anything wrong with it, and I don't know if I could figure out enough component level repair to make it work again, though I suppose I could give it a try. Maybe I'll take it to the stereo repair place I pass by on the way to work every day and see what they think.
I cleaned out and washed the cat box so that it's primary users will, hopefully, be more inclined to employ it instead of deciding that things like the bottom of the curtain on the stair window, or the corner of the living room under the table with the candles on it are more appropriate. Not that we've had much trouble since the carpet cleaning, but it can't hurt. I've also moved their food onto the kitchen counter instead of leaving it next to the litter box in the bathroom; I read that some cats don't like to eat and excrete in the same area. Guess I can't blame them.
Time is just flying today. I am getting hungry though! Can't wait for pizza buffet. I don't think I've had that since the times when I used to go the Pizza Hut in Kenosha at lunch with my dad. (That was my high-school graduation present! *smiles*) Just two more hours to go.
