Marcie Alana (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mrciealana) wrote,@ 2002-10-04 12:19:00 |
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Geeking
It's been a month. Lots of things have happened. My emotional stability has been up and down. Right now it's up. My doctor tweaked my medication, and now I feel pretty good about things. It's sad to depend on medicine for my emotional stability, but it beats the alternatives.
Last night was a good example of how much better I am. I'm getting things done. Two weeks ago my web server crashed. It's nothing special in terms of web servers, but Bigrock's been on the air since 1996 -- before most people even knew the internet existed. Until two weeks ago, it had been in it's second hardware incarnation. Now it's on it's third.
It seems that the transition always happens in crisis. In both cases, the hardware was old and slow and the hard disk was failing. This time I tried to prepare. I'd been building it's replacement. Slowly getting the parts and putting them together to make sure they worked. Bigrock got the best of me though, and ate it's hard disk about a week before I was ready.
What followed was about 3 days of hell -- trying to salvage the hard disk and set up the new configuration in a way that would work. Two weeks later I'm still tweaking it, but I'm happy with the way it's working. Bigrock's always run some flavor of Linux, but this time I built it up from scratch rather than using someone else's. It's not the sort of thing anyone but another geek would understand, but I'm quite proud of it.
In the process of putting things back together, I've been pulling a "Six Million Dollar Man" -- I've been rebuilding it better than before. It now has a big hard disk, big enough for all the MP3 files that I've been ripping from my CDs. I've also finally gotten around to hooking up my ancient laser printer.
Hooking up the printer should have been easy, but it turned into a three hour long marathon. First I installed networking software to allow the computer to share its printer, and then I tried to print a test page. No dice. I tried just about every variation of the configuration before I got it to work. It was a loose cable. *sigh*
I've been pretty immersed in getting things running and haven't paid much attention to anything else, including writing, but I think I'm just about done. Tomorrow we're having a "10 way speedstar" competition at the drop zone. We're shooting for second to last place, being mostly newcomers.
Anyway, enough of the geeking.
It's been a month. Lots of things have happened. My emotional stability has been up and down. Right now it's up. My doctor tweaked my medication, and now I feel pretty good about things. It's sad to depend on medicine for my emotional stability, but it beats the alternatives.
Last night was a good example of how much better I am. I'm getting things done. Two weeks ago my web server crashed. It's nothing special in terms of web servers, but Bigrock's been on the air since 1996 -- before most people even knew the internet existed. Until two weeks ago, it had been in it's second hardware incarnation. Now it's on it's third.
It seems that the transition always happens in crisis. In both cases, the hardware was old and slow and the hard disk was failing. This time I tried to prepare. I'd been building it's replacement. Slowly getting the parts and putting them together to make sure they worked. Bigrock got the best of me though, and ate it's hard disk about a week before I was ready.
What followed was about 3 days of hell -- trying to salvage the hard disk and set up the new configuration in a way that would work. Two weeks later I'm still tweaking it, but I'm happy with the way it's working. Bigrock's always run some flavor of Linux, but this time I built it up from scratch rather than using someone else's. It's not the sort of thing anyone but another geek would understand, but I'm quite proud of it.
In the process of putting things back together, I've been pulling a "Six Million Dollar Man" -- I've been rebuilding it better than before. It now has a big hard disk, big enough for all the MP3 files that I've been ripping from my CDs. I've also finally gotten around to hooking up my ancient laser printer.
Hooking up the printer should have been easy, but it turned into a three hour long marathon. First I installed networking software to allow the computer to share its printer, and then I tried to print a test page. No dice. I tried just about every variation of the configuration before I got it to work. It was a loose cable. *sigh*
I've been pretty immersed in getting things running and haven't paid much attention to anything else, including writing, but I think I'm just about done. Tomorrow we're having a "10 way speedstar" competition at the drop zone. We're shooting for second to last place, being mostly newcomers.
Anyway, enough of the geeking.
