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 do the partitions automatically. That seemed to work well, so I started reinstalling some things. But this morning we discovered that linux was addressing less than half of the hard drive space on our two drives (a 20 gig primary and a 30 gig secondary). After much reading and tweaking, I didn’t find an easy way to extend those partitions. So I did another install from scratch (what is this, three?). I left it churning along when I left work today. But the slow pace suggests to me that there’s still something funny with the primary drive (the secondary is the new one).
I’d love to go up there and tinker with it. But I’m going to save that for tomorow.
On the much more fun side, I jammed with Nancy tonight. Their current bassist was also there, so we played in tandem through most of the set, so I could pick up some of the things he’s doing. I really don’t know why more bands don’t have two bassists. We really weren’t getting in each other’s way and it added a lot to the sound. Since Eric goes for a P-Bass tone and I stick with more a Jazz Bass sound, the tones compliamented each other nicely. And since I was playing the six string, I could drop down for the low C’s and D’s (I really don’t know how I lived for so long without that low D. I love the sound of that). I was happy to find that my Yorkville amp (a 400B 1×15 combo) projected the low notes very nicely. Maybe my Carvin bass is just a better match for that amp. The active pickups seen to fit nicely with it’s very clean, modern, SWR-ish sound.
Still making progress on Rorty’s book. Trying to score a copy of Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which I think I’ll read next. I’d also like to try something by Hume. I read “On Miracles” years ago and liked it a great deal. Maybe I’ll give the Inquiry a shot. I’m trying to broaden my horizons a bit. Now that I’m getting a better grip on Rorty, I’d like to read more of the books that lead him to the positions he now endorses. Of course, I’ve already got a copy of James’s Pragmatism, so mabye I’ll stick with that, but Kuhn is definately going on the list.