There is apparently no such thing as an easy upgrade. This weekend’s project was to upgrade my server from RedHat 9 to Fedora Core 3. That’s not supposed to be difficult. But of course with my luck with computers, it was more than just difficult, it’s been a long and frustrating experience, and it’s nowhere near over.
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Category: Activities
I hate dynamic IP
My ip changed again. This is happening more and more often, and it’s starting to piss me off. The only way to get a static IP from my ISP (RoadRunner) is to sign up as a business customer, which costs about 3 times as much with no other change in service level.
Wish me luck…
Ok, I’ve got my Fedora Core 3 CDs and I’ve studied my blog entries from the last time I did an upgrade, and I’ve made a checklist of everything that I can remember that I do with the box. It looks like this weekend is upgrade time.
Ok, 1, 2, 3, “By all means, Paul, fuck with the hard drives”
Software patents are evil, and I have one!
United States Patent: 6,812,994
6 named inventors. My boss, his boss, the head of the whole department, the guy from Corporate Design and Usability who we had to fight with over the gui design, the other coder who did the main shell of the gui, and me, the guy who did all the fun stuff – database design and implementation, custom widgets, support programs, etc.
I feel both proud and unclean.
From the “Better to be down here wishing you were up there” department…
I was supposed to fly to Ottawa this weekend. I had my favourite plane booked and everything.
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