Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
Quicken Brokerage – News Center: Suspicious Items Found on 2 Southwest Air Planes
Ok, I want everybody who reads this to repeat after me:
I swear, upon my life and whatever faith I might have, that if I’m on a commercial airliner and somebody tries to hijack it, I will do everything within my power, to the point of death, to stop the hijacker. That’s it – either the hijacker ends up dead or I do. No half measures.
Thank you.
After yesterday’s fun with the hard drives, I figured it was probably a heat problem, so I unplugged the two other drives and left them to cool down overnight. I put them in this afternoon, and the 80Gb hdc drive worked fine. But the 40Gb hdb drive didn’t.
Continue reading “It’s not getting any better”
Computers hate me. There’s no other possible explanation.
I’m currently in a combination of upgrade hell and the worst deja-vu ever.
Continue reading “Fucking Computers”
As I posted earlier, I upgraded my computer yesterday. It was NOT fun. Now that the hard parts are mostly (I hope) over, I thought I’d rant about it.
Continue reading “Upgrading is not fun”
I’ve been putting off upgrading my home machine from RedHat 7.3 for years, it seems. RedHat is making noises about end-of-lifing 7.3, so I knew if I wanted the latest security patches, I was going to have to upgrade soon. This weekend was it.
What a royal pain.
I’ll probably post later about the joys and sorrows of upgrading, but for now let me just say that if I could have postponed it another year, I would have.
This post will also serve as a test to make sure I’ve finally got all the bits re-installed. Thank you CPAN.