Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

...to victorthecook!! Have a great one!

Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

...to victorthecook!! Have a great one!

Grumbles

Last night the flower_cat's computer (a cheap Fry's Windows box, two or three years old) fell down and couldn't get up. It doesn't even put a BIOS message on the screen, though the disk spins up and the monitor shows that it has sync for a second or so before it goes back to sleep. Swapping power supplies got me to boot, but a few minutes later it was back to its old habits -- this strongly suggests a motherboard problem. There are parts of the motherboard that stay powered up; my working hypothesis is that pulling the power supply let something cool down. Could conceivably be RAM -- I'll try that this evening -- in which case it's an easy fix. (update 6:30 it's not the RAM.) Otherwise, So we're one box closer to a Microsoft-free household.

The Cat is not a heavy computer user, and she already reads email on Linux. Her other main computer activities are web browsing (in Firefox), streaming audio from filk.com (Live365), and Mahjong. Hmm. The other option, if she really wants to continue playing other Windows games, is to move the other Fry's box in from the office.

Where does the time go?

Got good takes from Joyce on "High Barratry", "TEOTWAWKI v2.0", "Little Computing Machine", and "Mushrooms". Still need to do the mixing, and I think the sync could be better in spots -- Audacity 1.3 added some additional parameters for latency correction, and I still haven't figured them out. But progress has been made.

Check out the new album cover page.

Trying yet another kernel in the fileserver. I really don't have the time to reinstall and reconfigure the damned thing.

Moved the office Windows box into the bedroom for the flower_cat to replace her dead Fry's box. It's noisier, and because she's never used it, it took me a fscking hour to get Realplayer installed and Live365 set up. Bloody Windows. Had me within seconds of bashing my brains out on the keyboard to make the pain stop. I don't have time for this.

Now I don't have a Windows machine hooked up to the color printer, so how I'm going to print sample disks for Consonance remains a mystery. Hopefully I'll be able to get my little dedicated print server going; it's been sitting around for almost a year since I bought it on sale at Fry's. I don't have time for this.