Escaping Kitties, film at 11

I was fairly lucky last night, and I don’t just mean being able to spend time with my evilevi. ;)

She had gone to bed a bit early, and I was staying up puttering around on the computer when I heard a odd noise from the living room. I went out to investigate, and found a cat-sized hole in our screen door (which was left open, letting all this wonderfully cool air into my apartment). Turns out that Newton and Speck had taken it upon themselves to investigate the chipmunk that lived in the outside bush a bit more closely!

I was able to get them back inside without any problem, but now need to fix my screen door. :(

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productivity at home

Monday night, after a quick trip to the grocery store, I recycled the innards of my old GameOS (XP Pro) box (Athlon 1.2 ghz, Asus A7V mobo) into my Linux file/print/web/email/etc server at home (Athlon 500Mhz, Asus K7V mobo). I’ve not had time for game-playing of late, so that CPU power is much better off actually being used.

The swap went as easily as one would expect, given the similar natures of the setups. Most of the time was spent cleaning the dust off the various parts. I booted my new fast Linux box, gave myself a pat on the back, and went to bed.

However, when I woke up in the morning on Tuesday, the box was strangely non-responsive. I poked at it for a bit, and got it running again. Work beckoned, unfortunately, so I wasn’t able to actually diagnose the problem till last night.

Note for the future: when you are prepping a box for server work, make sure the BIOS isn’t set to go into Standby mode after 40 minutes.