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cellioI have a doc deadline today at work (SDK release). Some of my coworkers seem to think I should be frazzled. I've learned over the years how to plan for these things, so I'm right on schedule -- including some planned-in last-minute emergencies. :-) (That is, I allocated time to then-unknown tasks that I suspected someone would come up with.) I'm running what I think will be the final build now.
There are things I want to say about the pledge-of-allegiance thing, but I know I don't have time right now so it'll have to wait.
My new computer arrived last night. Yay! I haven't done much to it yet (took a while to get it to see the network, and that was an important first step), but after Shabbat I'll begin the frenzy of installing software and the like. I also saw my USB external hard drive just zip along, which is pleasant. (The drive is USB 2.0, backward-compatable to 1.0. My old computer was 1.0; this one is 2.0. The difference in data-transfer rate is 40 times. That is not a typo.)
Eventually, I want to partition the drive and put Linux on it (dual-boot). But the 10 minutes I spent last night reading Red Hat documentation were insufficient, so that'll wait. Partitioning the drive from the start would be easier, but it contains dire warnings about interactions with NT and I don't have time to figure them out right now. (The OS is Win2000, which is based on NT.)
I also got a delivery from the beer co-op this week. Looks like an interesting assortment. There are two beers in the mix that I don't personally like, but I have friends who do. (The beer co-op is a method of sampling lesser-known beers in a state that requires that you buy beer by the case.)
Ralph's D&D game was Wednesday night. It was fun as usual. I think we need to come up with a heuristic for communicating what is important and what's not without giving things away, though. We were about to embark on a journey that would take a week and a half to two weeks. We spent a while discussing travel arrangements, how much gear we were carrying, where supply points were along the way, etc. As a player, I expected encounters along the way and possibly even some "weather hazards" (it's getting on toward winter). Ralph had planned to get us to our destination that night, though, without encounters along the way. But he couldn't just say to the players "this doesn't matter", or that would have given this away. On the other hand, we could have saved half an hour of preparations.
Last night before getting the computer I went to services and ended up leading them. (The rest of the people there voted me most likely to succeed, or something.) I really wish the associate rabbi would call or something if he's not going to show up to lead, rather than leaving us to figure this out. This is the second time this has happened recently. (The senior rabbi is out of town; normally he does this one.) I almost didn't show up, but the store was open late enough that I could so I did. (I usually go.)
Speaking of leading services, I'll be doing that again next Friday at Tree of Life.
Sunday afternoon we are going up to Cooper's Lake to paint the Pennsic house, assuming it doesn't rain. We're just doing the exterior, so this shouldn't take that long. I don't have the carved bits for the interior done yet. (Actually, they're not even drawn yet.) I hope to make and apply those in July sometime. (The house is a re-creation of a building in Cordova around the year 950 CE. They did lots of decoratively-carved stucco. I can fake that. :-) )
I think my doc build is done now.
There are things I want to say about the pledge-of-allegiance thing, but I know I don't have time right now so it'll have to wait.
My new computer arrived last night. Yay! I haven't done much to it yet (took a while to get it to see the network, and that was an important first step), but after Shabbat I'll begin the frenzy of installing software and the like. I also saw my USB external hard drive just zip along, which is pleasant. (The drive is USB 2.0, backward-compatable to 1.0. My old computer was 1.0; this one is 2.0. The difference in data-transfer rate is 40 times. That is not a typo.)
Eventually, I want to partition the drive and put Linux on it (dual-boot). But the 10 minutes I spent last night reading Red Hat documentation were insufficient, so that'll wait. Partitioning the drive from the start would be easier, but it contains dire warnings about interactions with NT and I don't have time to figure them out right now. (The OS is Win2000, which is based on NT.)
I also got a delivery from the beer co-op this week. Looks like an interesting assortment. There are two beers in the mix that I don't personally like, but I have friends who do. (The beer co-op is a method of sampling lesser-known beers in a state that requires that you buy beer by the case.)
Ralph's D&D game was Wednesday night. It was fun as usual. I think we need to come up with a heuristic for communicating what is important and what's not without giving things away, though. We were about to embark on a journey that would take a week and a half to two weeks. We spent a while discussing travel arrangements, how much gear we were carrying, where supply points were along the way, etc. As a player, I expected encounters along the way and possibly even some "weather hazards" (it's getting on toward winter). Ralph had planned to get us to our destination that night, though, without encounters along the way. But he couldn't just say to the players "this doesn't matter", or that would have given this away. On the other hand, we could have saved half an hour of preparations.
Last night before getting the computer I went to services and ended up leading them. (The rest of the people there voted me most likely to succeed, or something.) I really wish the associate rabbi would call or something if he's not going to show up to lead, rather than leaving us to figure this out. This is the second time this has happened recently. (The senior rabbi is out of town; normally he does this one.) I almost didn't show up, but the store was open late enough that I could so I did. (I usually go.)
Speaking of leading services, I'll be doing that again next Friday at Tree of Life.
Sunday afternoon we are going up to Cooper's Lake to paint the Pennsic house, assuming it doesn't rain. We're just doing the exterior, so this shouldn't take that long. I don't have the carved bits for the interior done yet. (Actually, they're not even drawn yet.) I hope to make and apply those in July sometime. (The house is a re-creation of a building in Cordova around the year 950 CE. They did lots of decoratively-carved stucco. I can fake that. :-) )
I think my doc build is done now.
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Date: 2002-06-28 01:57 pm (UTC)Dumb advice: assuming that you have a great big hard drive, leave 5GB unpartitioned. You'll be hard-pressed to make linux take more than half of that. A relatively complete Red Hat 7.3 install takes a bit less than 2GB, and that includes several office suites and a bunch of games. You can worry about linux later when you have time.
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Date: 2002-06-28 02:29 pm (UTC)On the other hand, I think there's a good chance that you won't be going directly back to Covanion, and cities are likely to be rarer in the areas you're going into. So the planning may not matter so much for this adventure, but it may matter for future adventures. Which is why I didn't just say, "Yeah, yeah, it works out."