Strange weather: It’s snowing again here in Fayetteville. We decided not to take a planned trip to Tulsa because of snow and ice there (who wants to get stuck in Tulsa?). So Gina and I have been staying close to home. We had some friends over last night for beer and pizza. We go back [...]
This is my first post in a while, so I’ll try to update you, gentle readers, on everything of note that’s taken place lately. It’s still uncommonly snowy and (worse) icy here in Fayetteville, but I’m finally getting used to it. Our trip to Dallas to visit Vicki was snowed out as a result of [...]
The snow has stopped but there’s still plenty of it (and plent of ice) on the ground. Getting around town in a car is fairly easy, but walking is no fun at all. We had two days off work last week due to it, which makes it hard going back today.
I practiced with Nancy [...]
Abort, Retry, Fail? I’m working on Gina’s Dell Inspiron 3500 again. Now it’s consistently booting to DOS, which is easier to work with than a blank screen, though not much easier. It has hard drive problems and the VFAT system keeps getting corrupted. I think I’ve reinstalled it three times now. Scandisk sometimes crashes while [...]
All is transitory. Despite getting Gina’s laptop to boot (and even to boot windows) it crashed again. And now I can only get to it from DOS. I managed to grab all of her important files, but some others it would be nice to have are too big to fit on a floppy. I bummed [...]
I’m amazing; there’s no denying it. Being a complete DOS idiot (and, as a Unix non-idiot, rather proud of it), I still managed to fix Gina’s laptop and am now in the process of backing up her files to my server (which, at 56K, is taking forever). Turns out the problem with her machine had [...]
As I suspected, the install from yesterday didn’t work, but the problem was a bug in the installer. So this morning I did a new install from scratch and it worked. Diskdruid did a much better job of allocating things this time. And even though it’s not perfect, we’re going to go with it. We’re [...]
Well, the server is still the main thing I’m working on. Yesterday, David installed a new hard drive and we began the install of linux on it. But after a tortuously long time installing, there were still some errors next to the old partitions. So I did it again yesterday evening, this time letting Diskdruid [...]
Sorry I’ve been away for a few days. I’ve been stressed out of my head about our dying server and the lame bookstore/computer store which has failed (again) to deliver the new hard drive we need in order to rebuild it. Tomorow, I’m going to yank a drive out of one of the new Gateways [...]
I printed out two fresh copies of the thesis [...I pause to think evil thoughts about the dog barking next door...] and emailed everyone on my committee. I’m taking a copy to Dr. Bennett tomorow. Then it’s out of my hands for a little while. I’ve even avoided re-reading the thing. After a certain point, [...]