mdlbear | I can haz uptime? (Reply)

So far the fileserver has been up a little over 3.5 days. That's less of a sample than I'd like, but if it stays up through Wednesday I'll probably have to take it as an indication that it's finished with intermittant crashes. Grumf. The last thing I need to be wasting my time on, between now and when I leave for Conflikt Thursday morning, is putting together a new server.

The contingency plan, if Nova does crash, is to move its drive over to my current workstation, Harmony. It's a little old, but it's been very reliable so far, and nobody's likely to be using it while I'm gone.

In other news, the chaoswolf seems to be turning into a genuine geek-girl. I got her a KVM switch yesterday; her Windows box (which is USB-only, no PS2 ports) was having serious keyboard problems, but she figured out that she could hang a USB keyboard on the Windows box and use the PS2 for actuating the switch and talking to the Linux box, which seems perfectly happy with it. I'm guessing it's some kind of power problem. I'm particularly proud of her for figuring it out herself.

The Wolfling has also been having fun playing with Photoshop; she's taking a class in it this quarter, but she's already at the point where she can figure out how to do things she hasn't been taught yet. More than anything else, this is what distinguishes a geek from a non-geek.

Proud bear.