I hate it when I do that...

2007-08-29 09:17 pm
mdlbear: (grrr)

Spent all morning, some of the afternoon, and a couple of hours this evening trying to figure out why my inkjet printer wasn't printing. The fact that xpdf also wasn't working suggested that the problem was a missing font, but after I installed a batch of fonts, changed the fonts on the labels, re-installed the drivers, and rebooted a couple of times I began to get suspicious. And then there was the fact that it wasn't printing a test page, which clearly didn't depend on what secondary fonts were installed.

Turned out the root filesystem was full. Including /tmp, of course. A simple apt-get clean got back 2.1GB. Dumb bear.

I have shipping labels now.

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Oops!

2007-06-04 08:26 pm
mdlbear: (grrr)

Remember my clever hack with the fan and the gaffer's tape, a couple of posts downwhen from here? Just to refresh your memory, I'd written:

It's a good thing the fan worked out -- the alternative would have been deciding whether to spend $30 for a new fan and heatsink, or about three times that for a new CPU and motherboard. Which is a purchase I really don't need to be making right now.

As it turns out, gaffer's tape doesn't hold when it gets warm. There was a distinct smell of burnt plastic when I went to see why I couldn't ssh to the box...

It boots, with the old fan and a 20-minute or so cooldown. But still...

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  • Music: Echo's Children - Oops!
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