patch day
I had planned to spend the whole day with Andreas so we could finally come up with a release candidate of our research paper. But it turned out this day was all about problem solving. I got up 6am to be at a client's office early. They had a problem with a Software I wrote and I had to fix it. I was done with that at about 11am.
I left to meet Andreas but he wasn't home, because he had to help one of his clients to setup a DSL connection. Which was supposed to take not longer than 30 minutes lasted about 4 hours. T-Online (the provider) refused to accept the modem's authentication although the technical support hotline confirmed that there was nothing wrong with it. After speaking to about 5 of those support guys Andreas figured that he then knew enough about their support abilities to not try call again and told them to fix it and then call back. Time for us to leave the scene... at 2pm.
Finally we had some time to work on our paper. I almost finished the little program that will convert our wiki-written paper to LaTeX, then we had to leave at about 6pm because Andreas had plans for the night. In the meanwhile my laptop's display went all fuzzy again leaving me in a mood to toss it out of the window.
Open laptop laying sideways unfolding like a swiss army knife. The hard drive is hanging in front and Gentoo Linux running from it on the screen in the background. At home it continued to act all weird and I decided to take it apart and see if I could locate the problem. After I had it all in pieces I found that it worked flawlessly if I lifted the main board on one side. I fooled around with it for a while but could not figure out why, so I stuffed some paper underneath to lift the board and put it back together. The display is working now, time for touchpad to drive me nuts. Its randomly doing mouse clicks while it's bareley reacting to touches. A I'm typing this the cursor keeps jumping wherever the mouse pointer is at, pieces of my writing become highlighted on its own and of course, since I'm typing, I keep accidently overwriting them. Ctrl+Z is my best friend right now.
During the work with my notebook I noticed the noise produced by my server and figured it was time to do something about it. So I took that apart, padded the hard drives, throttled the fan, closed the cover and put it back in the shelf. It's still not as quiet as I wish it was, but it's better than before.
So now it's 11:50pm and I'm done with all the hardware problems and planned to finish the Wiki2TeX program but I guess I'll go to bed now and do that tomorrow. This research project is jinxed. Been almost done for 2 months yet we're unable to finish it. Hopefully this week will be the week.
I left to meet Andreas but he wasn't home, because he had to help one of his clients to setup a DSL connection. Which was supposed to take not longer than 30 minutes lasted about 4 hours. T-Online (the provider) refused to accept the modem's authentication although the technical support hotline confirmed that there was nothing wrong with it. After speaking to about 5 of those support guys Andreas figured that he then knew enough about their support abilities to not try call again and told them to fix it and then call back. Time for us to leave the scene... at 2pm.
Finally we had some time to work on our paper. I almost finished the little program that will convert our wiki-written paper to LaTeX, then we had to leave at about 6pm because Andreas had plans for the night. In the meanwhile my laptop's display went all fuzzy again leaving me in a mood to toss it out of the window.
Open laptop laying sideways unfolding like a swiss army knife. The hard drive is hanging in front and Gentoo Linux running from it on the screen in the background. At home it continued to act all weird and I decided to take it apart and see if I could locate the problem. After I had it all in pieces I found that it worked flawlessly if I lifted the main board on one side. I fooled around with it for a while but could not figure out why, so I stuffed some paper underneath to lift the board and put it back together. The display is working now, time for touchpad to drive me nuts. Its randomly doing mouse clicks while it's bareley reacting to touches. A I'm typing this the cursor keeps jumping wherever the mouse pointer is at, pieces of my writing become highlighted on its own and of course, since I'm typing, I keep accidently overwriting them. Ctrl+Z is my best friend right now.
During the work with my notebook I noticed the noise produced by my server and figured it was time to do something about it. So I took that apart, padded the hard drives, throttled the fan, closed the cover and put it back in the shelf. It's still not as quiet as I wish it was, but it's better than before.
So now it's 11:50pm and I'm done with all the hardware problems and planned to finish the Wiki2TeX program but I guess I'll go to bed now and do that tomorrow. This research project is jinxed. Been almost done for 2 months yet we're unable to finish it. Hopefully this week will be the week.