Get your haiku in now!
Speaking of the contest, I wanted to let everyone know I will not be able to announce the winner until Monday. I am going to be without internet for the weekend (including Thursday), and so will not be able to post to the blog.
First thing Monday morning, [...]

How many people do you know that have a hard drive for a coaster? Yes, you may say it. I am very strange.

I suppose I should explain. When Brian’s computer died, this little bugger was the culprit. One half of a 500GB RAID. 250GB of evil. Don’t do a [...]

File server is up and running, though not yet connected to the network. I decided on kubuntu over ubuntu, because I like KDE instead of GNOME. But that’s just me. Same operating system, different interface.
I need to figure out how to mount a second hard drive in the case. It’s an old [...]

Bad news: One of the 512mb sticks is toast. Good news: I had more memory in there than I thought! Two more 512mb sticks, and a baby 128mb stick. Running a final memory check on the remaining RAM, and if it all turns out well I’ll attempt to install Ubuntu on [...]

Rule number 1 of computing: Always make a backup. Rule number 2: See rule number 1.
As we have been putting off setting up the file server, of course my husband’s hard drive would pick this weekend to crash. Horribly. Click of death, never to be seen again. Of course, since I [...]