This wouldn't have happened with Gainsborough or one of those proper painters.
Monday, December 08
And The Not So Good
Ah, yes. I'd forgotten how much fun it is trying to install Linux on the latest hardware.
So far, Fedora (which is equivalent to Red Hat 10) doesn't recognise my IDE RAID controller, my gigabit ethernet, or my video card. Gigabyte (who made the motherboard) have a driver available for the RAID controller. All I need is to put it on a floppy and... This new machine doesn't have a floppy drive.
So I'm downloading Mandrake 9.2 now. Which will take about... 10 hours.
See you all tomorrow, then.
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I wish I understood only half of that...but at least I can figure out that most of it's bad (the picture in the next post helped with that)...
Posted by: Susie at Monday, December 08 2003 12:31 PM (0+cMc)
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I should do a little mood-meter thingy that shows different Pixys depending on how badly my computers are screwed up each day.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, December 08 2003 12:46 PM (jtW2s)
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Mandrake? Don't do it! It's French. The first time some script kiddie attempts to break into your system it will surrender.
BTW, why haven't you picked a small USB drive (128Meg is probably more than enough). They're fairly cheap here in the States and work perfectly for transferring files when the network is not available. I also left out the floppy when I bought a new server, but I can always fall back on my
Laks Watch.
Posted by: Rossz at Monday, December 08 2003 03:56 PM (43SjN)
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Also downloading Gentoo now :)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, December 08 2003 08:45 PM (jtW2s)
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You could try debian, too.
and get a usb key to use instead of floppies. It mounts fairly painlessly in linux and stores oh-so-much more
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Sunday, December 07
So Far, So Good
Yuri, my new Athlon XP 2800+, boots into BIOS.
Which means I have failed to destroy anything.
So far.
One gripe: The cables on the little extra port thingies that come with the motherboard aren't long enough, so you can't use the nonexistent slot to the right of the AGP slot. Poo.
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Saturday, December 06
Another Busy Busy Week Survived
Feeling just a little more relaxed today.
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You look much better!!!! The Barkeep says he's been buggin' you about a blog for a friend, so read your email and let's work on the frazzled look for next week...;)
Posted by: Susie at Saturday, December 06 2003 03:00 PM (0+cMc)
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Sloweron
AnandTech has a
detailed comparison of Intel and AMD's low-end chips. To keep it short: Intel get slaughtered in
every test. I'm so glad I didn't get a Celeron...
But guess what Munuvia is currently running on? Gotta fix that.
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Guess what lower end chip I'm NOT using in my recently upgraded system? I've been an AMD fan for a long, long time.
Posted by: physics geek at Tuesday, December 09 2003 02:37 PM (Xvrs7)
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Customer Service
So, the power supplies and the second motherboard have come in, and the shop is just waiting for the second video card. It's on back-order, and they send me a message saying it's not available right now, and would I like a different version of the card, which they
do have available?
So I ask exactly which version it is they have available, since there are five very similar cards made by just this one supplier.
And they cancel my order for the card I wanted, replacing it with a different card, which is also on back-order.
Thanks, guys.
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Friday, December 05
It's A Boy!
My new nephew, Harold Huxley Misa, said hello to the world at around 5 AM today.
Mother and son are doing fine. Father is apparently exhausted.
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Wait 'til he gets the bills.
Posted by: Simon at Saturday, December 06 2003 02:42 AM (FUPxT)
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Yay! (Buy Legos NOW, while they are on sale...)
Posted by: Susie at Saturday, December 06 2003 04:20 AM (0+cMc)
Posted by: Ted at Sunday, December 07 2003 10:46 AM (2sKfR)
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I went to visit him today. He slept the whole time :)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, December 07 2003 12:40 PM (jtW2s)
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The Politburo Diktat
Blog of the Day is
The Politburo Diktat headed by the Commissar (of course), for
services to
cartography.
And general staggering brilliance.
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Thanks for the mention.
I hope your faithful Munuvains find this map of Munuvia, here:
http://acepilots.com/mt/mt-static/munuvia.html
I kinda buried in that post, sorry.
Posted by: The Commissar at Friday, December 05 2003 10:06 AM (F6uR0)
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All the more treasured for being hidden!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, December 05 2003 10:10 AM (jtW2s)
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Re: Susie as 'leader'
Until the oterh day, I had not paid Munuvia the attention that it merited. As Susie was one of my 'comrades,' and the Munuvian I had most contact with I dubbed her 'leader.'
She quickly set me straight. You'll notice the capital city of Munuvia!
BTW, you helped all these Munuvians get set up? Congrats. All nice-looking blogs.
Posted by: The Commissar at Friday, December 05 2003 10:57 AM (F6uR0)
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I noticed the capital :) Very nicely done.
I have solved the problem by appointing Susie our spiritual leader - which she already was anyway.
And thanks!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, December 05 2003 11:01 AM (jtW2s)
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South Park Pixy
(Thanks, Susie.)
People who know me are probably wetting themselves laughing at this point, because that's not a bad likeness. Except my wings are a lighter grey in real life.
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You look tired :-( I can't seem to save mine.
Posted by: Jennifer at Friday, December 05 2003 10:22 AM (FsZEk)
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Print screen, and then paste it into your paint program of choice.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, December 05 2003 10:39 AM (jtW2s)
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Let's see another one once the Busy Busy Busy week is over... (less tired...)
Posted by: Susie at Friday, December 05 2003 11:00 AM (0+cMc)
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Ugh, I can't get to the site from inside our local area network. Apparently South Park is considered 'tasteless' by the administrators.
Oh, wait -- Google Cache is my friend... yay! (I love being a proto-geek :))
Posted by: Tim the Michigander at Friday, December 05 2003 10:04 PM (LzKRr)
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I showed one of the girls at work.
She said "What's that?".
I said "It's me".
And she burst out laughing, and said "It
is you!"
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, December 06 2003 01:27 PM (jtW2s)
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Thursday, December 04
Printy Goodness
I've mentioned my
search for a printer here
previously. I was strongly tempted by the
Canon i865, which is perfect for what I want except for the
minor critical failing that there is an even better model available, the imaginatively named
Canon i965.
The i865 is a four-colour, 4800x1200 dpi printer; the i965 is a six-colour 4800x2400 printer. So, obviously I want the i965, 'cause it's got more colours and more dots.
Problem: As of my last writing, the i965 was not available anywhere in Australia.
Now it's available in my local computer superstore. (When I say "local", I mean local. It's closer to my house than the nearest newsagent or grocery store. Of course, I do live in the wilderness...)
So: New computers, meet new printer. I just hope they get along better than my modem and my router...
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ooooh, pretty! Dang shame the gf says she's already finished with my Christmas shopping...
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