Category: Activities

That’s not good

My laptop was on when I pushed it aside to watch a TV show. I picked it up after the show, and it made that “bong” noise that it makes when it’s booting. And then 3 seconds later it made it again. And continued to make it as odd intervals, for about 20 more times before it eventually booted.

I’m backing everything up right now. I’m also checking out the prices for new Powerbooks.

You must be smarter than this stick to be on the Internet

Seen on a mailing list for Linux users:


I am trying to unsubcribe this email ... becuase I want to resubscribe
under and another.
I cannot find what email address to send it to....
Does someone know it off hand?
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A friend of mine once said “If your VCR is flashing 12:00, you probably shouldn’t be running Linux.”

I am the Master and Commander of my television watching

I really love our new Humax TiVo with the built in DVD burner. Especially since it’s on the TV that gets HBO.

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The only thing I don’t like about it are those sucky “peanut” remotes that all TiVos except the Sony SVR-2000s have – the button placement sucks, and it’s too easy to pick it up the wrong way wrong and point the wrong end at the TiVo.
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Last update on the hard disk problem (I hope)

Ok, hopefully last but hopefully not least:

  • I took the disk that was failing (call it “A”) and the disk that normally lives in a USB external drive case (call it “B”) and put them in my Windows box and booted with Knoppix, and copied all the files over.
  • I put “B” into my Linux server, and it’s working perfectly. Unfortunately a few hundred songs on my mp3 collection are stuck in /mp3s/lost+found because of various Reiserfs problems along the way.
  • I put “A” into the external USB drive case, and IT WORKS PERFECTLY.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to read the ID3 equivalent information on AAC (m4a) files, so I can restore all the files in /mp3s/lost+found to where they belong.

I’ve extended an offer to Alan Cox to ship my “A” drive to a kernel developer if any of them want to see what’s going wrong there, since as I’ve said before the drive passed WDC’s diagnostics, works fine in the 2.4 kernel, and fails in the 2.6 kernel no matter which machine, cable, motherboard chipset or IDE controller I try it on. He hasn’t responded yet.

Eerily accurate


Are you Addicted to the Internet?

78%

Hardcore Junkie (61% – 80%)
While you do get a bit of sleep every night and sometimes leave the house, you spend as much time as you can online. You usually have a browser, chat clients, server consoles, and your email on auto check open at all times. Phone? What’s that? You plan your social events by contacting your friends online. Just be careful you don’t get a repetitive wrist injury…



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