Archive for April, 2006

Server Upgrade (not so smooth)

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

So the cutover is complete… there’s only one thing left to fix, and that’s something I didn’t use much until recently anyhow — mailman.
I’m debating about weather or not to put it back on.
I’ve got some things I’m going to start working on this week or next, I’m not sure when or how. But it’s [...]

Fedora Core 5 : It’s not so bad…

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

So I’ve been a regular user of RedHat / Fedora distributions since RedHad 8.0. That’s been a while.
I’ve -never- had such trouble setting up a printer in my life as I have with Fedora Core 5.
For some reason, the system-config-printer utility would _not_ actually setup the print que. Ever. I tried and tried, I yum’ed [...]

Gah! I hate windows!

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Ever since I “upgraded” by video card a bit over a year ago to a GeForce FX5200, my system would randomly restart while running 3d applications. I’ve installed all the updates I could find, AGP drivers and patches for my motherboard, etc. The only thing I hadn’t done, was reinstall windows. I still run 2000, [...]

Getting used to this…

Friday, April 21st, 2006

The last month has been absolutely insane. Between adjusting to the whole concept of home ownership, and having a lawn and what not to take care of, I’m also having massive amounts of time being taken up by an amazing girl. The problem I’ve faced is that I have way too much on my plate [...]