Technology

This time the ufies main hard drive went. Wee….. it blew out sometime friday, when it dropped off the face of the earth. I didn’t think that much of it at the time, as I was busy and it’s done that before. I left a message for the guys at the colo a while later, […]

I discovered something profound last night. If Windows doesn’t want to be installed on your system, BE HAPPY! Don’t push it to be somewhere it doesn’t want to be.Last night started out with a simple goal. Nuke the Windows XP partition on my dual boot Linux box (my main workstation), re-install Windows, and get to

Fred got me a sweet new hard drive for the UFies.org box a while back, and I finally got around to installing it. For once the install went perfectly. Everything worked the first time, 0 problems, hell, I didn’t even need to keep the cover off for the first boot, and that never happens. After

Well, I’m sorry to say it, but the weekened mostly really sucked. Started out with being sick Friday (some weird freak 36 hour cold thing (I feel much better now though, thanks for asking)) and it really didn’t get any better. My goals for this weekend were threefold. Sleep in and relax. Work on my

No dreams today…. I did have one, but it was something boring about trying to protect myself from gouls or something, so I won’t bother trying to remember. Remember how I mentioned the new stereo? Well, the faceplate jammed for no reason. It’s been kinda shakey, sometimes not rotating down like it should when you

Ok, a night of rest was good! It was later than I thought (11:45) but I still felt much better when I got up in the morning. So where was I. Oh yea, looking forward to fixing more bugs and putting some new functionality into my stuff today. There’s a lobster dinner thing that Silv

Finally home. Nice to make it here today, instead of tomorrow. Of course, tomorrow would be today if it were today. Things that suck right now: deadlines, performance review coming up, more deadlines, not enough bodies, not enough knowledge, and other stuff. Not sure why I was stressing about a performance review the other day.

Well, back to 2.2.18. I had a few crashes and freezes and kernel panics with the setup described below, so I’m at 2.2.18, with the UltraDMA IDE and Reiserfs patchs applied. Seems cool, I can finally play quake again! The main thing that sucks is that the version of Reiserfs differed between 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-test*

Well, it’s been a while, and some non-interesting stuff has gone on in the last 10 days or so, but I’ll tell you anyway. The new desk is working well… for the first time in a while I feel comfortable working here. Or playing for that matter. The playing part has been helped along by

Many random things on my mind tonight. It’s amazing what a 13 hour workday will do for you 🙂 Someone from UCFV (my old school) is visiting work [archive.org link] to do some sort of alumni story about grads and/or teachers from UCFV who work at work. Apparently like, 4 people have taught there and