not://files v2.0/

The Thinkgeek WiiHelm has to be the strangest bit of gaming hardware, ever. (Vtabevat gur boivbhf. Unvy Revf!)

Nespresso are offering a SEK 400 cash-back on machines so I've been trying to find one for a while. Today I did, and it makes really decent espresso; better than what passes for espresso at many coffeehouses.

There was sleet and snow this evening, so obviously the powerlines to all of Linköping failed?!

Well, there were two one-second blackouts while I was in the sauna, and apparently my normally rock-steady home power line was also affected because my ADSL-bridge had hung and the @/"¤%# PC diskserver had fscked up all its filesystems. I'm sure it's a bad thing when fsck complains about lost+found being full...

Of course, my lovely Sun U10 firewall hadn't noticed anything strange at all.

Today I got around to installing the memory upgrade I bought for my closet server some months ago.

Swap out 2×256 + 1×128 MB.
Swap in 2×512 + 1×256 MB.

Power on. POST detects 1280 MB of memory and automagically updates BIOS settings. Machine restarts and POST is happy.

Boot. NetBSD kernel starts. Auto-detects hardware. Disks. Asks for root file system. WTF?!

Manually type raid0a. Error. WTF?!

Boot netbsd.old instead. raid0a found but everything crashes.

Boot from install CD. Look at disklabels. See garbage. WTF?!

OK, maybe one of the 512 MB DIMM:s were bad. Strip down to just the known good 256 MB DIMM. Everything looks perfect.

OK, plug one 512 MB DIMM back. Everything looks perfect, well it was a 50/50 chance...

OK, swap 512 MB DIMM:s. Everything looks perfect. WTF?!

Plug in only 2×512 MB. garbled disklabels. sigh

1×512 + 1×256 MB. Everything OK.

Feh! 1 kSEK for a 128 MB memory upgrade and a pile of spare parts instead of the wanted 640 MB upgrade and a small pile of junk.

After the orkplace move I'm limited to the crappy windows laptop as far as desktop computing goes, so I found myself lacking proper music listening facilities.

So I ordered a docking station for my LifeDrive® and picked it up on my way to work today. Only bad thing is that it picks up a lot of noise from the other junk on my desktop if I connect the AC adaptor or USB hotsync cable, so I guess I need to hack some proper grounding.

When I logged in this morning NortonSymantec Ghost informed me that there had been errors while I wasn't logged in. After having a look in the error log, indeed there had been errors. Not a single backup had actually worked since I got back from vacation a few months ago, due to CRC read errors. In the last hour CHKDSK has completed 25% of scanning for bad clusters in files, so I guess it'll be another 3 hours before I can get on with running a full backup for the rest of the day.

I got a strong buying impulse today when I found the superb PS2 steering wheel kit at a discounted price at PC CITY in the local Mammonian Temple Town, so tonight I've improved lap times and race positions in Gran Turismo®4. The 900° steering precision makes all the difference, almost more of a difference than the step from the Dualshock®2 to the old 180° wheel. Which I already knew, but I'd decided to wait for the Pro version to drop below 1 kSEK before shelling out for the upgrade.

I think I might need to get a Chumby whenever they become available.

Magic-1 uIP web server is a web server running on a homebrew computer with a homebrew CPU made out of 74 Series TTL logic cans. Wow.

Hello all little SCSI cables out there, this is what happens to you if you refuse to coöperate.

This little bugger completely disrupted a FWD SCSI chain in the Ctrl-C OpenVMS Cluster, and got one of its nasty heads cut off to serve as a warning to the other SCSI cables.