Burning that midnight oil...

It's been bugging me that one of the hard drives on my system has a 30GB capacity, but only shows about 8 GB under Windows 2000. The rest of the disk, if I recall correctly, had been devoted to Linux but between not having booted the Linux partition in a while and having recently lost the LILO boot manager, I decided to bite the bullet and simply devote the entire chunk of iron to Windows.

After spending more time on it than the extra space is worth, I've concluded that it can't be done (a fancy way of saying: it's beyond my capabilities and I have lost the desire to pursue it further). I've also learned that Windows 2000 doesn't do fdisk, and that the Ultimate Boot CD is pretty neat. (In creating that CD, I learned Roxio's CD Creator 6 won't burn a proper bootable ISO image as the program changes the name of the ISO file to conform to an 8.3 file name. Eventually, I learned that to get the job done right, I had to download BurnCDCC - from here).

In addition, some kind of scheme that does not want to go away limits the amount recognizable by Windows to 8.4 GB, where apparently 1 GB = 10⁹ bytes != 2³⁰ = 1073741824 bytes, which is what a proper "binary" gigabyte (= 1024 MB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes) weighs in at, which is why the drive capacity is shown as 7.82 GB in the list of drives.

So maybe I should reinstall Linux, someday. But not tonight, for sure.

Cheers...

I did not realize I was so tired...

...until I came home from the store. I lay down to rest, chatted with Natalie and Galina, and proceeded to fall into a sound, dreamless sleep until shortly ago. (I'm not taking bets on what time I'll fall asleep.)

The skies have been cloudy these past few days and someone at the store mentioned that the weather is supposed to turn rotten tonight (more, um, snow), so that threatens tomorrow's twin visible ISS passes, the first of which is slated to occur - if memory serves - a few minutes after 5 am (5:04?), with the station coming out of the northwest (azimuth 315) and heading toward the southeast (azimuth 125), attaining a height of almost 50 degrees above the horizon. The second pass tomorrow will be after 9 pm and the ISS will rise to almost the zenith as it goes whizzing past.

I'm slated to go over to the kids house in a few minutes. I suppose I should go get formal (e.g., put on a shirt).

Cheers...