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I've actually done a fair amount of writing today, working on the next installment of How I Work. Comes from having my car in the shop and nothing else I had to do.
Major (150,000 mile) service and two tires came to a little over $700, which was actually less than the $1000 I'd been expecting. As long as the annual cost of keeping the thing going is less than the payments on a replacement, I figure I'm ahead. The loaner was a nice little white Honda Civic.
And last night I finally fixed the network speed problem with my file server, which had been slow ever since I upgraded it from RedHat 6.2 to 7.3. Seems the stupid installer picked the wrong driver for an old DEC Tulip card. The genuine DEC chips need
Major (150,000 mile) service and two tires came to a little over $700, which was actually less than the $1000 I'd been expecting. As long as the annual cost of keeping the thing going is less than the payments on a replacement, I figure I'm ahead. The loaner was a nice little white Honda Civic.
And last night I finally fixed the network speed problem with my file server, which had been slow ever since I upgraded it from RedHat 6.2 to 7.3. Seems the stupid installer picked the wrong driver for an old DEC Tulip card. The genuine DEC chips need
tulip_old, not tulip.