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Guess I know what I’m doing in two weeks…

10/18/2008 – 2:17 pm

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Truth in comics

7/30/2008 – 9:48 am

I love xkcd and its geeky geeky ways.  It often captures things I’ve lived and/or seen.  Today’s is one I have lived and seen lived.

This reminds me of a post on usenet my friend Anne made in 1998.  To quote:
So I am left not bitter just tired of this whole meeting people, emotional ties, finding [...]

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Sunday fun

5/11/2008 – 6:11 pm

Shutdown
<install new/replacement disk>
fdisk
mkswap
umount /boot
dd
e2fsck && resize2fs
mount -o remount,ro /
dd
e2fsck && resize2fs
mount -o remount,rw /
pvcreate
vgextend
pvmove (wait a long long long time for 174 GB, especially with disk read errors, to move)
vgreduce
shutdown
remove old and busted, put new hotness in as primary disk
boot into rescue disk
mount / /usr
grub-install /dev/hda1
ms-sys -m /dev/hda
vi /etc/fstab
shutdown -r now
Party like its 1999 or, [...]

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