rear tubes exploding and ubuntu needs better documentation
So last week I upgraded my work laptop's hard drive. I did a dd copy from my old hard drive to new one. Then I resized the linux partition (and kept the windows xp partition the same size). I've got to say, resizing a filesystem while it is mounted is very, very gratifying. I haven't had a chance to do that since the old days of HP-UX 11.0 many, many years ago. It's cool running the df command every few seconds and watching the disk free slowly going up. I wish There was an LVM that worked with both Windows XP/Vista and Linux, but I've yet to find a solution. Linux can see Windows's "Dynamic Disk" volumes, but has no utility to edit them. (though I did find one utility from like 2002, but was unable to compile it because it required ancient kernel headers... not sure if it could make new volumes or edit them anyways). So everything worked great, except because my swap partition moved, and I recreated it, it had a new UUID. For some reason, it has a new UUID everytime my system is rebooted. So I decided to use a LABEL of "SWAP" instead of using UUID. Seems like it's easier that way anyways. Then the only problem I had is when booting up after a hibernate, it never realized I had hibernated and would just boot up from scratch. Seems like it's one of those undocumented things in Ubuntu. You have to manually edit the file "/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume" to say "RESUME=LABEL=SWAP" and then run "update-initramfs". Once you do that, if you ever to rebuild your swap, just make sure give it the same label and then you don't have to mess with the initramfs or fstab anymore.
Went biking for a few hours yesterday. First biked down to johnson creek trail. Took that to Mopac pedestrian bridge. Crossed over and biked to barton creek. Decided I wanted to go bike through rolling wood, so I biked that street that goes over to Red Bud Island. Holy crap that was fun. Going down those swerving hills at 30mph on a bike is like riding a crazy, more dangerous rollercoster. Biked to both ends of Red Bud Island. Biked over by the Oasis and the public boat ramps. Took all the west-most roads in tarry town up to mayfield park. Hiked down to the lake. Biked back home. Biked over to wheatsville and met up with Gabriel and then to Hyde park, but first going through that neighborhood where Hemphill Park is. What the hell is the name of that neighborhood? I'll probably never know. Once we got close to Mothers Cafe, my rear bike tube exploded. I replaced it after checking the tire for damage, and then once we got closer to Mothers, my rear tube exploded again. I'm not sure if I just had old crappy tubes, or if there was something I didn't see in my tire, or if I just need new tires or maybe I'm just reloading the tubes to carelessly. Ended up walking my bike home by myself from mothers the last two miles. It was a pretty long walk, being 102 F outside. Anyways, biked over 20 miles yesterday, which doesn't seem like, much, and I wasn't even tired after... but then an hour later, it hit me, and I had a huge headache. I don't understand why I always get a headache after I exercise in the heat, but don't feel a thing when I'm actually in the heat. Maybe I'm accidentally dehydrating myself, but it seems like 5 liters of water should be enough....
Went biking for a few hours yesterday. First biked down to johnson creek trail. Took that to Mopac pedestrian bridge. Crossed over and biked to barton creek. Decided I wanted to go bike through rolling wood, so I biked that street that goes over to Red Bud Island. Holy crap that was fun. Going down those swerving hills at 30mph on a bike is like riding a crazy, more dangerous rollercoster. Biked to both ends of Red Bud Island. Biked over by the Oasis and the public boat ramps. Took all the west-most roads in tarry town up to mayfield park. Hiked down to the lake. Biked back home. Biked over to wheatsville and met up with Gabriel and then to Hyde park, but first going through that neighborhood where Hemphill Park is. What the hell is the name of that neighborhood? I'll probably never know. Once we got close to Mothers Cafe, my rear bike tube exploded. I replaced it after checking the tire for damage, and then once we got closer to Mothers, my rear tube exploded again. I'm not sure if I just had old crappy tubes, or if there was something I didn't see in my tire, or if I just need new tires or maybe I'm just reloading the tubes to carelessly. Ended up walking my bike home by myself from mothers the last two miles. It was a pretty long walk, being 102 F outside. Anyways, biked over 20 miles yesterday, which doesn't seem like, much, and I wasn't even tired after... but then an hour later, it hit me, and I had a huge headache. I don't understand why I always get a headache after I exercise in the heat, but don't feel a thing when I'm actually in the heat. Maybe I'm accidentally dehydrating myself, but it seems like 5 liters of water should be enough....