Solicitors, Cooking, Kernels, Clarity, Firewall, Poll
Quoted: "Can I just say that if the briefing book had been written that clearly, I would have easily understood?" --C.J. Cregg (the West Wing)
Explanations: I was fixing sandwiches for lunch when a solicitor came to my door. I decided that I really need to get a sign for my door. There's a poll below where you can help me decide what should go on the sign. :)
I bought a knife. Actually, I bought three knives. I started out to buy a cleaver (and wonder if maybe I should have gotten one, as intended, even though I wanted it for fruits rather than meat. Anyway, I found a broad bladed knife in a set of three, and it was only a few dollars, so that's what I got. I had bought, a day or two before, a bag of apples and oranges, and I wanted to tray to make a soup with them.
I cut into pieces one whole, de-stemmed Red Delicious apple, one navel orange, one whole, de-stemmed Granny Smith apple, and one banana. I put that in a pot with 6-8 cups of water (I used too much water) and sprinkled in cinnamon, garlic, and dill weed, along with some olive oil and a package of dry ramen noodles. I put it on medium heat until the noodles became flexible, then lowered the heat to 1/4 and cooked it, covered, for 5-7 minutes.
I was vaguely pleased with the result. I had it for supper. I know that I need to do something different, next time, with the Granny Smiths and the banana. I think I need to add the slices of banana after it is cooked, but I don't know what to do with the Granny Smiths. Maybe I need to just leave those out of the soup and make dried snacks with them. Then again, maybe not. I mean, the soup didn't taste bad. It could have used a little more spice, but I think some lemon pepper would do the trick. Any suggestions on ways to prepare the Granny Smith apples so that they aren't quite so tart? I need to cook them longer than the Red Delicious, don't I?
On the computing front, I gave up on that small machine. It was taking hours and hours to download things (and wouldn't boot from the CD, so I couldn't even get it to draw from the CD. I really should have put the CD on one of the other machines and told the little machine that that was an FTP server. Anyway, I decided that a 486 with 32MB of RAM might not be the best firewall server for me. Therefore, I moved to Faith and reinstalled Debian on it, using the update CDs. I'm kicking myself for not writing a new set of full CDs. Swiching around four CDs is a pain in the neck.
Anyway, I got that mostly installed, and I decided to try a new kernel to get ALSA working. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why the kernel binary packages don't set up the initrd stuff they require! Anyway, after failing miserably to get it to Just Work, and after failing miserably to understand any of the HOWTOs I could find on the subject of initrd kernels, I gave up. I have to say that the ones I found were not very useful in my situation. Documentation is the one downfall of the Linux experience. It is often so cryptic as to require expert help to understand. And if you have the expert help, you don't need the document. But I digress.
Having failed to get a newer kernel working, I decided to wipe everything and start clean, not adding sound software in the install. But I came to the driver module section, and I tried, for kicks, to install the Sound Blaster module (which I thought I remembered failing in the previous install), and it returned success. So it works. And I have to say that KDE2's startup sound is impressive. :) Now, I only have to figure out how to give access to all users (not just root) to use the sound device. There. All done, now. I have sound!!!! I can't wait for sarge to come out. I'll put it on Love. First thing first, though: I have to get Faith working as a masquerading firewall. :)
More explanations later...
Talk to me: Poll Signage
Explanations: I was fixing sandwiches for lunch when a solicitor came to my door. I decided that I really need to get a sign for my door. There's a poll below where you can help me decide what should go on the sign. :)
I bought a knife. Actually, I bought three knives. I started out to buy a cleaver (and wonder if maybe I should have gotten one, as intended, even though I wanted it for fruits rather than meat. Anyway, I found a broad bladed knife in a set of three, and it was only a few dollars, so that's what I got. I had bought, a day or two before, a bag of apples and oranges, and I wanted to tray to make a soup with them.
I cut into pieces one whole, de-stemmed Red Delicious apple, one navel orange, one whole, de-stemmed Granny Smith apple, and one banana. I put that in a pot with 6-8 cups of water (I used too much water) and sprinkled in cinnamon, garlic, and dill weed, along with some olive oil and a package of dry ramen noodles. I put it on medium heat until the noodles became flexible, then lowered the heat to 1/4 and cooked it, covered, for 5-7 minutes.
I was vaguely pleased with the result. I had it for supper. I know that I need to do something different, next time, with the Granny Smiths and the banana. I think I need to add the slices of banana after it is cooked, but I don't know what to do with the Granny Smiths. Maybe I need to just leave those out of the soup and make dried snacks with them. Then again, maybe not. I mean, the soup didn't taste bad. It could have used a little more spice, but I think some lemon pepper would do the trick. Any suggestions on ways to prepare the Granny Smith apples so that they aren't quite so tart? I need to cook them longer than the Red Delicious, don't I?
On the computing front, I gave up on that small machine. It was taking hours and hours to download things (and wouldn't boot from the CD, so I couldn't even get it to draw from the CD. I really should have put the CD on one of the other machines and told the little machine that that was an FTP server. Anyway, I decided that a 486 with 32MB of RAM might not be the best firewall server for me. Therefore, I moved to Faith and reinstalled Debian on it, using the update CDs. I'm kicking myself for not writing a new set of full CDs. Swiching around four CDs is a pain in the neck.
Anyway, I got that mostly installed, and I decided to try a new kernel to get ALSA working. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why the kernel binary packages don't set up the initrd stuff they require! Anyway, after failing miserably to get it to Just Work, and after failing miserably to understand any of the HOWTOs I could find on the subject of initrd kernels, I gave up. I have to say that the ones I found were not very useful in my situation. Documentation is the one downfall of the Linux experience. It is often so cryptic as to require expert help to understand. And if you have the expert help, you don't need the document. But I digress.
Having failed to get a newer kernel working, I decided to wipe everything and start clean, not adding sound software in the install. But I came to the driver module section, and I tried, for kicks, to install the Sound Blaster module (which I thought I remembered failing in the previous install), and it returned success. So it works. And I have to say that KDE2's startup sound is impressive. :) Now, I only have to figure out how to give access to all users (not just root) to use the sound device. There. All done, now. I have sound!!!! I can't wait for sarge to come out. I'll put it on Love. First thing first, though: I have to get Faith working as a masquerading firewall. :)
More explanations later...
Talk to me: Poll Signage