General Blather

After earlier bonking the wrong button to power-up the laptop, grimacing upon learning that destroys non-Windows partitions, and working to recover from it all, the system is back. more »

"Destroys laptop" is a little harsh, but it did destroy a partition on my hard drive, the one responsible for booting and running my OS, rendering it no longer useful. more »

Since I'm done building the hex-core, I decided that I could use the dual-core to host the web and mail services currently being served by a slower single-core Sempron. The dual-core nicely has twice the storage (500GB instead of 250G and four-times the… more »

The installation of the new CPU is done, and the system is up and running; posting this entry from it, as a matter of fact. more »

I know that some may be concerned that we didn't resolve the garage power issue. more »

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm having a bit of trouble with my server upgrade. I've tinkered a little bit more, and now have some additional insight. more »

Even though the server was running fine, I thought I'd twist myself up and try an in-place upgrade of the OS to the new version. Alas, as expected, it isn't going well. more »