I’ve called it quits for the day, I can’t get Fedora to install. It keeps locking up or oopsing all over the place. Based on how many other people have gotten this to work I’m betting it’s bad hardware but I’m so frustrated right now that I just don’t want to deal with it.
Maybe tomorrow I’ll run Memtest86 on it to see if it’s bad RAM.
Happy Independence Day everyone!
Due to this appendectomy I couldn’t travel and so I missed Reese’s third birthday. I don’t care about the rest of the stuff, but missing his birthday really tears me up. He got his first bicycle today and a few other things. Joi videotaped it so at least I’ll be able to watch the tape when I get back up there.
It’s still dying. I’m running on half the RAM, which has improved stability a little. So today I headed out to Fry’s and picked up a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939, 1G RAM, an AMD Athlon 64 processor, and 2 120G SATA drives. It’s going to be one heck of a nice Linux box when it’s built. That’s Monday’s plan.
And it was really nice to get out of the house for a little while. Being cooped up in the house for this past week has given me a real case of cabin fever.
Cycle Connections was out at the XL List KC Rally and they’ve put the article, with some pictures, up on their site. Check it out!
Since it’s the first of the month and I’m a little bored, here’s some of my favorite books:
On some good advice I shut down the machine and ran Memtest86+ on it. As I suspected there were failures in the tests, so I started pulling modules and testing one at a time to see if I could isolate it. I wasn’t able to reproduce the errors at all, even when installing both modules as before, so I’m not sure what to think. But I’m going to watch the system and see what happens. If it really was just a bad connection that reseating the RAM modules fixed then I’m not going to have to spend money to build up a new server. And that’s a Very Good Thing.
I’ve been experiencing pretty regular kernel oops’es on my main Linux box, the one that hosts this blog among other things. I’m thinking it’s bad RAM, but I’m hesitant to spend $100 to replace the RAM in an older machine. So I’m thinking of building a new server based around an Athlon 64 processor. I’m going to check the latest Fry’s Electronics sales ads to see if there are any good deals to be had.
I gave up, between the motorcycle trip, the hot summer, and now me being down, recovering from this appendectomy I gave up on being able to maintain my own lawn. I found a company via Google, believe it or not, whose rates are reasonable. So if you’re in the DFW area and need a lawn service, take a look at All Around Lawns.
On a side note, I’m feeling better, it’s not as painful as it was and I’m moving around a little easier. I’m really looking forward to taking a shower tomorrow. I could have today but I decided to give it one more day just in case.
This was taken from SCOTUSblog:
In a 7-2 decision, the Court ruled that local governments have no constitutional duty to protect from private violence an individual who is shielded by a court’s restraining order. Such individuals do not gain an enforceable interest in that protection, the Court declared in an opinion by Justice Scalia. The case was Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (04-278).
So basically, don’t expect the cops to help you out when your estranged husband kidnaps your children and ultimately kills them. That restraining order doesn’t mean a thing to them.