http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide Just another useless personal blog Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:31:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amarok crashed on me just as it was completing a collection database scan, and it popped up a crash reporter and asked me to fill in some more information about what it was doing. I dutifully filled it out, and noticed that it was going to email the crash ... http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2008/11/13/double-whoops/ I upgraded my Linux server box to Ubuntu 8.10 tonight, and it went smoothly enough. Well, mostly... The big, complicated things like Apache, MySQL, and MythTV actually worked perfectly after the upgrade, and instead the glitches showed up in relatively small things, like the MP3 player. The ... http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2008/11/06/salvage/ I've been trying to use up more of the loose change I have on things like bus fare. Pawing through the pile of it is annoying though, so I figured I may as well sort some of it. Maybe I should have gotten bigger containers, though. The mixed bowl ... http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2008/10/24/quicksort-will-not-help-me-here/ I used to leave my gaming box running 24/7, partly out of laziness and partly because I would occasionally log into it during the day to kick off some kind of maintenance, or start downloads, or other things that I wanted done before I got home. It was a ... http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2008/10/22/i-dont-got-the-power/ It's only a single anecdote, of course, but just within the last few weeks, the chef's salads I get from a nearby cafe have already been trimmed back to half the amount of meat and have still gone up in price by nearly a dollar... http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2008/10/16/tighten-those-belts/ I've put in a couple days of use of my new iPod Nano, and it's working out well so far. My main worry was about its 'pocketfeel' (hey, if food critics can have 'mouthfeel'...) so that I can fiddle with it without having to take it out and look at it, ... http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2008/09/24/field-test/ My iPod Nano arrived today, so here's the obligatory vanity shot, showing off just how tiny even the retail packaging is: There are apparently still some kinks to be worked out with its support under Linux, since it's still brand new, so for now I've only fooled around with it in ... http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2008/09/22/thin-is-in/ It's time to wipe and reinstall my Windows box, since the accumulated crud on it is apparently interfering with games, so I'm in the middle of archiving all of the files on it onto the Linux box, since it still has plenty of space. While setting it all up though, I ... http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2008/09/16/you-can-have-too-many-backups/ Alright, uncle, I give up. I've fretted about choosing an MP3 player for far too long, so there's a shiny new 16GB iPod Nano on its way to me now. There's decent support for the iPod under amarok now, so it might be fairly painless to sync it up with ... http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2008/09/09/surrender/ And speaking of SMART, I did a cursory check of the health of the current Linux box's drives, and discovered that they were running a little warm. Like, 49-52C warm. When the recommended temperature is around 40C. I guess the ventilation in that box isn't as good as I ... http://www.planetcrushers.com/heide/archives/2008/08/29/cook-that-data/