Remind me not to attempt brain surgery this week. I ended up remounting the Windows drive into the chassis, and booting there for the financial management software. Hard mounted to metal, so it's noisy as hell. But it got the job done, and I was able to boot back into hellboy shortly thereafter. It was opening the chassis to pop in the drive that revealed the missing screwdriver. Hmmm.
Continue reading...Time for the last walk of the evening for Lexi. Up the street we go ... and a couple of nights a week, we actually go up the street, rather than use the sidewalk, because some neighbors can't help but block the way. I've even spoken to them about it, to no avail. Either they can't remember that I asked, or they're malevolent. Grrr. I really *want* to tip that stuff all over their lawn in response, but I'm too bloody nice to do that. They do the same thing, only more sprawled out, with bags of lawn clippings. Sigh.
Continue reading...Steve Jobs was an insanely great dude. He pushed his people and his company to innovate and create in ways that would not have been possible without him. Rest in Peace.
Continue reading...Some of the folks I know are really disappointed that today's announcement was only for an iPhone 4S + some new iPods and release dates for those and for iOS 5. I pointed out that if all the features and guts of the new phone were in a angular new skin (like some of the "leaked" photos showed) with a bit more screen resolution and it were called an iPhone 5, they'd be drooling. There was general acknowledgement of this, yet and still, "it's just an iPhone 4S, argh!" There's no pleasing some people. Of course, it doesn't please me…
Continue reading...At work, there happened to be a Seagate BlackArmor 220 NAS device floating around uncommitted. I suggested that I might bring it home and test it a bit. That happened. The primary driver for looking into this kind of appliance is that I'm currently running a mid-tower Linux box all the time ... and only personally using it rarely. It does, however, also function as the house DNS server, the home SMB server, and the backup central host. It fires off scripts to connect to remote systems (like the virtual host for this place) and pull down backups, too. That…
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