The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey July 22, 2012

SuperDuper! to the rescue!

Today, I changed the password on my Mac Air, Agog. I then cooked dinner, and watched a couple of episodes of Poirot. I came upstairs ... and I don't remember the password I set. It was a good one. I have backups a couple of different ways, but neither of them seemed to be immediately accessible to me. In order to recover from the Time Machine backups, I need WiFi configured *and* I need to mount the volume that has that sparse image on it. That path seemed blocked to me. But there's a better way! I make periodic backups…

Brian Bilbrey July 20, 2012

Potatoes

Did I mention the potatoes? Here I some I dug up, cleaned, and ate (some of ) last night: Red potatoes from our garden

Brian Bilbrey July 16, 2012

From the Garden

Last week, a couple of tomatoes, a few potatoes, and these butternut squash: Yesterday I made first salsa. Five tomatoes, one each habañero, jalapeño, and cerrano pepper, and some cilantro from the garden. A small onion, and half a clove of garlic. Yummy, but a full 2.75 on my 3 point scale of salsa. I could not finish a measly three cups of salsa - I stopped when I noticed that my lips, cheeks, and tongue were all numb with the heat. Yummy, but too darn hot. It was four hours before that wore off... Today, from the garden: Tomatoes,…

Brian Bilbrey July 15, 2012

Mob Rule

Yikes: http://culturewars.com/CultureWars/Archives/Fidelity_archives/parricide.html So much for a happy celebration of Bastille Day (yesterday). The things people do to each other... Sigh. It's on teh Internets, so it must be true! Alas, not much in the way of references there, so for me, for now, a grain of salt. But I think I want to know more, in a way that doesn't really want to know that sort of thing at all. Compared to that account, the worst doings in Iraq and Afghanistan are the work of a few isolated children. * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units…

Brian Bilbrey July 11, 2012

The Dortmunder

I've decided to name the newest Linux system in the house Dortmunder. It amuses me greatly to name this bitty Raspberry Pi system after a spaceship the size of a small city. This one, however, isn't captained by Andy Umberger, even though he is a friend of a friend. I've deployed Dortmunder in the "wiring closet", running headless and hopefully trouble-free for a long, long time. Dortmunder deployed