Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

I hadn't intended to start upgrading systems to Karmic Koala so soon...since the servers are kind of pegged with other people downloading and upgrading. But, playing around with do-release-upgrade on my Ubuntu server at work....at first (on Thursday) it… more »

I got the new-ish computer out and started looking at what I could change in it....while digging into it, I discovered it has a SATA drive. So, that meant no moving the old 'box' harddrive into the new 'box' hardware. So, that narrowed the return optio… more »

Well, before I posted on this subject a few days ago, I had submitted a support request using Norton Antivirus 2009. Shortly after the the blog posting, I got an Email for Symantec's PR company....sent to my work address. Not via the blog (or the assoc… more »

A few days ago, I got a LiveUpdate Notice that I could upgrade to the latest version of Norton Antivirus for free as part of my annual subscription. This was new. In the past, I just kept renewing the subscription of Norton Antivirus...until they dec… more »

That's my Satellite 5105-S701, which has the host name 'sidrat'. The machine is like 6 years old...there was a plan to upgrade in 3, and then 4...and then 5....and perhaps someday I will upgrade. Though what I've been thinking of getting...I'm not… more »

Of course, I'm talking about my Ubuntu server (well, maybe not obvious....except that I'm not known for doing upgrades). I had debated waiting for Hardy Heron's release before building this Linux server. Except that I had bought the box back in Decem… more »

The new ST3500641AS-RK that I ordered from Amazon.com arrived by UPS (Free 2nd Day -- Amazon Prime) this morning...it was cold, so I left the drive to acclimate and went off to work. I got home late :| Due to a bad BOINC project, I found the machin… more »

As I may have mentioned, I finally turned on this computer on Saturday. I had first tried installed OpenSolaris, but it choked on the motherboard's SATA controller. Though maybe I gave up too soon, but I had pretty decided a couple weeks ago that I w… more »

....or something :crazy: Today, for no real good reason....I decided to reboot my Linux server (lhaven). And, make it check its filesystems. It took longer than I expected, because since I swapped the motherboard...it comes up in PIO mode, which m… more »

Also among today's UPS deliveries...was the RFE'd CPU fan for my Dell Dimension XPS (Gen 2) named "TARDIS". (my Windows laptop was named "SIDRAT")....though I been reusing the names on other devices lately. Namely, the Time Machine partition at work i… more »

Apple is rebooting my Windows computer almost as much as Microsoft is now. Today's reboot was brought to me by Apple...and my computer wouldn't come up after it. :## Seems strange that the CPU fan died during this cycle...but eventually that's wha… more »

While, it isn't set in stone....I started leaning towards the idea of going with Linux as the OS to install on this system. Pretty sure it'll work, while Solaris might not. And, it isn't like I'll be playing around with ZFS/raidz in the immediate futur… more »