Making some progress

[mdlbear]

Joyce had to reschedule our practice session, so I've been catching up on a few other things, like making sure that all my lyrics pages link to the corresponding PDF, OGG, and MP3 files (if they exist, of course). (Making sure they get rebuilt when new oggs or mp3s get added is left as an exercise for another day.) I do have a tentative setlist, though.

Next thing I'm planning to do this evening is upgrade my main internal fileserver (nova) from Debian Sarge (the current stable release) to Etch (testing, and soon to be stable). I've done this on several systems by now and so far it's gone pretty smoothly. Email might get disrupted for a while, but hopefully not too long. (update about an hour and a half for the upgrade, as it turns out.)

The major accomplishment at work was getting the touchscreen on my old Linux tablet PC working in Etch. We have two of them -- they were originally made by Element Computing (now defunct) and shipped with a hacked-up Xandros installed. The software was distinctly flaky, and I was never able to find a version of Linux that worked well until a couple of weeks ago. I finally figured out the proper incantation for the touchscreen, which turns out to use the "fpit" (Fujitsu) driver. It was called something different in XFree86.

Tomorrow's task will be making the touchscreen continue to work when it's rotated into portrait position, set up an auto-login for the account we're running the demos in, and then duplicate the whole thing on the other machine. And then try to get the built-in wireless card working. Should be... um... interesting. Yeah, that's the word.

Comments

[ohiblather.livejournal.com]

I'm excited about hearing your concert!!!

And I just saw Beckett's photos of you. WOW, there are some really great shots there.

[mdlbear]

"Great shots" is putting it mildly.

Hopefully we'll have some time to go off in a corner and swap songs sometime. And our house is going to be full of filkers for at least the Wednesday and Thursday before the con -- you'd be more than welcome.

[ohiblather.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much (!) but Jeff & I have already booked our flights; we're arriving on the Friday. I'm sure there will be lots of time to hang out; Consonance is a purposely low-key convention for me. I have ZERO commitments. :-)