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Catch-up...
Jul. 16th, 2001 10:42 pmYesterday's silence was imposed by my ISP, whose DNS server committed seppuku, resulting (said the tech) in the loss of their T1, a situation that had repercussions as far away as Boulder. From a practical standpoint, there was no getting out of Pagosa on the Internet, unless one was willing and able to connect to a long-distance ISP, which I wasn't.
Their mail server remained on the fritz until late this afternoon.
At any rate, Galina finally pulled into the driveway in the middle of the afternoon on Saturday. We all had a burger-and-fish-fry that evening, and a good time (as they say) was had by all.
(I even spent some time holding Huntur.)
Shannon's kin took off on Sunday morning, and all of our good intentions regarding rearranging the store took a back seat to a lazy, napping day. I put a fairly large dent in Jim Ellroy's L.A. Confidential, which I decided to reread when I ran across it a few days ago in a box. It was my first Ellroy book, and I devoured it in the course of a long plane ride way back when... It's still a good read, and I am noticing small details that bypassed me the first time through. Drew, I think, spent most of the day with Shannon, trying to offset the depression that attended the departure of her family.
I went with Galina to open the store today, and returned home around 10:30 am. By the end of the day, I had the following on my plate:
I've got about 65% of the first item done, and about 15% of the second translated. I started the third item this morning (before the first two appeared to displace it), but can't recall how far I got... there appear to be a number of diagrams that are going to have to be keyed, and I suspect that effort will be a significant part of the job. As far as the last item is concerned, the client and I reached closure on the rate and the deadline, and I haven't started on it yet.
My eSlate 450k arrived and I spent some time installing Red Hat 7.1 on it. After the install crapped out a couple of times, I got to looking at the BIOS settings and decided to turn off the CPU's caching. That seemed to do the trick, as the next install proceeded well, except that when the time came to reboot, the boot process stalled at the automount step.
Recycling power caused the boot process to go to the login prompt, but the screen kept flashing, which made me suspect I had incorrectly specified the display and/or graphics card type (actually, I'd gone along with the install program's recommendation... bad move).
I repeated the install procedure, this time in text mode, and was able to specify a generic laptop 800x600 display. This also gave me an opportunity to add mysql and a few other packages to the set of software to be installed.
I ran across the same automount problem, but this time, when the machine finished rebooting (after another power cycle), the screen was not flashing and I was able to log into the system. As a departure from my usual approach to such things, the machine boots into GUI mode, and I'm now running a GNOME desktop.
Hot dawg!
I called the Sony tech support folks and they appear willing to service my machine, but I have to provide them with a purchase receipt. Heck, I thought my sending in a copy of that receipt to get my rebate took care of that. (It didn't. Sony didn't even have my name on file as a registered user, which tells me their rebate department is not talking to their support folks.) The VAIO did well today, up until the point where I got carried away with my translation and didn't notice that the unit was overheating again (the fan stopped), resulting in an unceremonious shutdown.
It's late and there are still a million things left to do, including some urgent things for the store. They will still be there tomorrow morning, after a night's sleep, which is what I plan to get involved in presently.
Cheers...
Their mail server remained on the fritz until late this afternoon.
At any rate, Galina finally pulled into the driveway in the middle of the afternoon on Saturday. We all had a burger-and-fish-fry that evening, and a good time (as they say) was had by all.
(I even spent some time holding Huntur.)Shannon's kin took off on Sunday morning, and all of our good intentions regarding rearranging the store took a back seat to a lazy, napping day. I put a fairly large dent in Jim Ellroy's L.A. Confidential, which I decided to reread when I ran across it a few days ago in a box. It was my first Ellroy book, and I devoured it in the course of a long plane ride way back when... It's still a good read, and I am noticing small details that bypassed me the first time through. Drew, I think, spent most of the day with Shannon, trying to offset the depression that attended the departure of her family.
I went with Galina to open the store today, and returned home around 10:30 am. By the end of the day, I had the following on my plate:
- a construction schedule, in Excel, due Wednesday morning;
- a 40-page document on nuclear materials accounting and control, due Thursday morning;
- a 27-page document on a video surveillance system, due on July 24;
- a 45-page document on sociology, due August 15.
I've got about 65% of the first item done, and about 15% of the second translated. I started the third item this morning (before the first two appeared to displace it), but can't recall how far I got... there appear to be a number of diagrams that are going to have to be keyed, and I suspect that effort will be a significant part of the job. As far as the last item is concerned, the client and I reached closure on the rate and the deadline, and I haven't started on it yet.
My eSlate 450k arrived and I spent some time installing Red Hat 7.1 on it. After the install crapped out a couple of times, I got to looking at the BIOS settings and decided to turn off the CPU's caching. That seemed to do the trick, as the next install proceeded well, except that when the time came to reboot, the boot process stalled at the automount step.
Recycling power caused the boot process to go to the login prompt, but the screen kept flashing, which made me suspect I had incorrectly specified the display and/or graphics card type (actually, I'd gone along with the install program's recommendation... bad move).
I repeated the install procedure, this time in text mode, and was able to specify a generic laptop 800x600 display. This also gave me an opportunity to add mysql and a few other packages to the set of software to be installed.
I ran across the same automount problem, but this time, when the machine finished rebooting (after another power cycle), the screen was not flashing and I was able to log into the system. As a departure from my usual approach to such things, the machine boots into GUI mode, and I'm now running a GNOME desktop.
Hot dawg!
I called the Sony tech support folks and they appear willing to service my machine, but I have to provide them with a purchase receipt. Heck, I thought my sending in a copy of that receipt to get my rebate took care of that. (It didn't. Sony didn't even have my name on file as a registered user, which tells me their rebate department is not talking to their support folks.) The VAIO did well today, up until the point where I got carried away with my translation and didn't notice that the unit was overheating again (the fan stopped), resulting in an unceremonious shutdown.
It's late and there are still a million things left to do, including some urgent things for the store. They will still be there tomorrow morning, after a night's sleep, which is what I plan to get involved in presently.
Cheers...
