The last few sniffles
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elfsMost of the cold is gone. I'm still dry-coughing once in a while, not enough to be annoying in the daytime, but it isn't helping me to sleep. Speaking of which, I didn't get much last night; my anger and frustration kept me tossing and turning despite the cough medicine (man, that codiene ain't doin' diddly!) and melatonin. I've had mild flushes of fever on and off. My voice sounds like me again.
I have a Linux box again; all 540 gigabytes are on-line once more, and the second drive device is my boot device. A combination of serendipity and persistence won out in the end; I re-installed RedHat 9, which only took about twenty minutes, by saying "Just build me a Gnome development station." I can excise the crap later with the software installation tool; it was enough to get me up and running. By luck, I had recently backed up my $HOME directory in anticipation of moving it to a larger partition, so that was intact-- my gnome sessions and X settings were there. Also, /usr/local was on a different partition that survived Window's evil, so all of my non-RedHat-approved extenions, like a working movie player, were all there. Much of the rest I was able to suck out of the laptop. I'll have to rebuild the kernel eventually to get USB and cryptography working, and I want (but don't need) the latest graphics drivers, the latest screensaver, and the MultiMediaSystem with MP3 (Redhat doesn't ship with it because they're afraid of legal crud).
Replacing the Windows disk looked to be troubling. 40GB drives, which the old one was, are about $90; so, for that matter, are 80GB drives. And Office Depot is selling a 120GB for $70 (after mail-in rebates). That's about 59¢s a gigabyte, not too bad. But work came through, offering me the same thing for $50, or 42¢s per. There was one 120GB drive left over from the last qualification round, when we went with a larger drive instead, leaving these in the closet. Go me.
I'm going to unplug all of my Linux drives from the power supply before I install Windows. Maybe I will invest in an XP upgrade; I quail at the notion, however.
I have a Linux box again; all 540 gigabytes are on-line once more, and the second drive device is my boot device. A combination of serendipity and persistence won out in the end; I re-installed RedHat 9, which only took about twenty minutes, by saying "Just build me a Gnome development station." I can excise the crap later with the software installation tool; it was enough to get me up and running. By luck, I had recently backed up my $HOME directory in anticipation of moving it to a larger partition, so that was intact-- my gnome sessions and X settings were there. Also, /usr/local was on a different partition that survived Window's evil, so all of my non-RedHat-approved extenions, like a working movie player, were all there. Much of the rest I was able to suck out of the laptop. I'll have to rebuild the kernel eventually to get USB and cryptography working, and I want (but don't need) the latest graphics drivers, the latest screensaver, and the MultiMediaSystem with MP3 (Redhat doesn't ship with it because they're afraid of legal crud).
Replacing the Windows disk looked to be troubling. 40GB drives, which the old one was, are about $90; so, for that matter, are 80GB drives. And Office Depot is selling a 120GB for $70 (after mail-in rebates). That's about 59¢s a gigabyte, not too bad. But work came through, offering me the same thing for $50, or 42¢s per. There was one 120GB drive left over from the last qualification round, when we went with a larger drive instead, leaving these in the closet. Go me.
I'm going to unplug all of my Linux drives from the power supply before I install Windows. Maybe I will invest in an XP upgrade; I quail at the notion, however.
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