It's been a very long time since I've sat up all night, hacking away with other people, all staring at the same code projected on a whiteboard.
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System-administration in the morning. The power went back on in Waterloo sometime this morning, so Tor and I logged into peri, sugar, and caramel-colour to fix them up. We realised, with regret, that h3po4 and h2o did not wake up properly.

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I didn't sleep last night.

My entire weekend was filled with geeky things. On Saturday and Sunday, I did the following things:

1. Get ALSA working properly on my television
2. Get XVideo working properly on my television
3. Get BitTorrent working properly on my television
4. Do all of my laundry
5. Compute my Federal and Provincial taxes (yay refund!)

I've spent the entire day working in front of the television. Work on this computer has progressed very well and I'm able to do everything I can think of right now.

Early this morning, I used it as a terminal to SSH into work and do some hacking. Granted, I'm not able to use an 80×52 character terminal, but this was rather expected. gnome- ( Read more... )

There was a television sitting in my living room doing basically nothing. At the NitiHouse, it was connected to the cable company, Vidéotron, because they never disconnected it when the last tenant left.

I moved it to the new place because, well, one doesn't just leave televisions lying about. So it stood on top of a dresser, facing the couch ( Read more... )

This morning, I decided to finally get the Internet connexion off my laptop and plugged into germany, my router. The router has been a trusty friend of mine since 2001 and I built it myself. With my bare hands. Everything needed to run my home network works off of it, so I just plugged in the DSL modem, set the username and password, and with a ( Read more... )

Computers hate being turned off. I setup my computer network today, and the first thing I noticed when plugging in germany was that it was very quiet. I opened the case and noticed that the CPU fan wasn't spinning. Some 3-in-1 oil started that spinning. But the power supply fan wasn't working so I opened it and noticed that one of the wires had ( Read more... )

For the longest time, my webserver has been down, and it's only now that I've been able to come back home to look at it.

So last night, I plugged in the monitor and took a look at it. Oh goodie, kernel panic.

A reboot and a dist-upgrade later results in a reasonably happy machine. So no worries until the next time it keels over. But by then, I ( Read more... )

It's weekends like these that remind me why I'm not a sysadmin anymore.
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