General Blather

It seems I've got a lot more data on the old server than I thought. Nearly everything has been copied over to the interim storage, and much of that has been re-moved to the final (for now) server. more »

It's probably time to revamp the whole SOHO office. Power was out this morning, and seemed (by stalled clock on oven) to have been out for about five hours before we noticed. Sharpest UPS I would have wouldn't last that long. Nonetheless, it wasn't back… more »

There was just a bit of a thunderstorm last night. Twice as we were laying down for bed the lights flickered off and back on for a second or two; long enough for the smoke detectors to warn they'd lost power and spook the dogs. I cringed thinking of the… more »

I guess more technically I made a DNS change that had unintended consequences. more »

I'm going to try an in-place distribution upgrade on my main desktop, the hex-core. Sometimes (usually) this works great, but occasionally it wonks up. Like my laptop, I've got a smaller partition (64G for root, and separate partition (32G for swap, but… more »

The latest Ubuntu was released over the weekend; version 10.10 (for the 10th month of 2010), named Maverick Meerkat. I downloaded both the 64-bit and 32-bit desktop editions, and put the 64-bit on a USB drive (so much faster than optical disk). I… more »

The way it stands now, the Minnesota Twins are the second-ranked American League division winner, just one game behind the tied-for-first New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays with just three games left to play in the season. It's possible for the Twins… more »