I managed to get my main system upgraded to Baselayout-2. It was painless. I got the xorg.conf file to display 1920 x 1200. The prior resolution was 1600 x 1200, fair distortion ( Read more... )

CB is taking a history of rock-n-roll class. I was going through some of the more popular tunes I remember (and their parodies), when I started;

There's a lady who's sure, all that glitters is gold.
[CB cuts in]
And I'd like to-o sell her, some jewelry.

I have a system with a non-mounting xfs root partition. This is the first time I have ever had xfs cause me any problems. I have been using it for years and years. At one point, I decided that xfs had a performance benefit for the type of things I was doing, and I have been using it ever since. I guess I find out how wise that decision was in ( Read more... )

At dinner tonight, we decided that angler fish are a sub-class of Grue.

Bug is a very loving and capable young lady. She is now of age. It is time to try your wings.

May you grow and blossom from the decisions you have made!

Life has been somewhat crazy of late. Financial turbulence is the latest issue. I had several things I needed to do tonight, but the car the children use most often needed gas, so I thought I would take 20 minutes to fill it. I got out of the driveway, hit the brakes to the most horrid grinding noise you would ever want to hear. Unsafe. ( Read more... )

science is an uncomfortable domain. It always has been. People always questioning, challenging the Ideas that make the most sense to you. Some people never change their minds. Science is dynamic. Not all papers published are for the purposes of advancing knowledge. Sometimes, data is left out, or missinterpretted, leaving a clear and bold ( Read more... )

Squirrel is my daughter who does things. For the past several years, she only does good things. She is a teenager today. She is a lot of fun to be around!

May you find joy in your righteous endeavors!

My web server shuts itself off from time to time. I think it wants time off for good behavior or something. It did it while I was gone, so the site was down for a few days. Not the end of the world, but a solution needs to be crafted ( Read more... )

after fighting with it for over a year, I have given up on keeping my HP 4600 dn on the network. The thing prints beautifully, but it will not accept input from a network card, or the parallel port. What do you call a printer that won't print user documents ( Read more... )