Done last week (20140112 Su - 18 Sa)

[mdlbear]

Not a whole lot going on last week. I installed a new main drive on nova; it's still not fully configured because I'm lazy, but at least it's running. And able to boot. Because I'd installed a SATA card, which I discovered that my motherboard wouldn't boot from. :P Ended up putting the optical drive on it.

I don't seem to post much, if anything, on work days. This says something about work/life balance. Or work/internet balance, which may or may not be the same thing.

Loads of links.

0112 Su
  * up 10am; W=208.8; d,... n
  * ok, weird.  Nova won't boot, but the mirror looks ok.  Doing a full install on the new
    drive.  Plan is to pull home and vv off the mirror, stash its /etc, then do an install
    into its root partition so that it will be fully bootable.  No real point in mirroring
    the root partition, so I won't do that anymore.
  : Apparently the problem is that the Debian rescue disk simply can't cope with being on
    /dev/sda -> no, it's that it won't boot from the add-on sata card.
  & ... and after several failed attempts to repartition the drive, success.  (Hint:  when
    it says the kernel is still using the old partition table, believe it.)  Also, unmount
    the old partitions before deleting them.

0113 Mo
  * up 6:30; W=208.0; d, n
  * Ubuntu 12.04's network manager sucks.  And there's something weird about RE's
    networks; probably the DNS setup.  If any.
  @ naamah_darling | Victory Conditions
  @ Concert report: RELEASE THE CELLO | Emerald Forest Filk Society

0114 Tu
  * up 6:30; W=207.8; d, n
  * went out for supplies, since I'd neglected to get them last night.
  * Naomi's birthday party -- Emmy made fondue.  Next time we need more forks and at least
    two pots, one at each end of the table.

0115 We
  * up 6:30; W=206.8; d, n
  % I'm trying going off loratadine for a while, this whole week if possible, in hopes of
    stopping the bleeding in my nose.  Seems to be helping, though of course I was very
    congested this morning.

0116 Th
  * up 6:40ish; W=209.4; d, n
  @ America Can Code Act | making noise
  @ Booth babes are bad for business - Boing Boing
  @ The only way for retail to survive is to increase pay and decrease inventory 
  @ isolani - Javascript: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs
    Endangered species of the Web: the Link | Christian Heilmann (LWN)
  @ Introducing Valentina, free fashion design software (Libre Graphics World) [LWN]
  : Both Naomi and Colleen reject the idea of keeping a household calendar on Google;
    prefer paper.  Well, I tried.

0117 Fr
  * up 6:15; W=209.4; d, n
  @ URLs vs. URIs: Differences and Examples
  @ Linux: The clear choice for security - TechRepublic 
    insights.ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/UK-Gov-Report-Summary.pdf 
    End User Devices Security and Configuration Guidance - GOV.UK 
  @ Buying music online is a bad deal - and that's why I mourn HMV and its ilk 
  @ Ball Lightning — Looking Up — Medium +Allegra Sloman
  @ 'Like driving a Ferrari at 20mph': Why one region ditched Microsoft Office for
    LibreOffice | ZDNet 
  @ Welcome to the Laptop Machine | PM Technology Blog
  @ Climate change: Another study shows they don’t publish actual papers. (ysabetwordsmith)
  % ouch!  Mostly R shoulder

0118 Sa
  * up 8:30ish; W=208.8; d, n; shower
  @ Blind Lemming Chiffon: The Box | Indiegogo contributed
  * Costco with Colleen.  She was positive that she'd never been there, but finally
    remembered.  About $125/minute :P
  * make bare git repo on nova for Secret, to make it easier to sync laptop.

Comments

[amaebi]

One hopes the two balances aren't identical, but I don't have much fear. :D

[solarbird]

Computer Stop sells a reasonably good SATA-PATA two-way interface; presents as whichever is needed on each side, so you can use PATA drives on SATA machines and vice-versa, and it will appear to the motherboard as whatever the motherboard expects. That's how we got newmoon back up and running as quickly as we did once its motherboard failed.

[mdlbear]

I have one of those somewhere, too. Unfortunately, my little mini-ITX board has no IDE slots, and only two SATA.

[solarbird]

ah, damn. oh well, at least it's going. ^_^