(I’m a bit rusty right now, haven’t been very active on this blog-front. What follows will probably be sub-par quality…) OK, so my laptop (a Dell Vostro 1400, running Ubuntu 7.10 right now) started mis-behaving on Tuesday (25th March), and was unusable on Wednesday. I called Dell support on Thursday, and their phone-service was all-right [...]
I’ve been having some problems with my laptop for the last two days–it keeps getting hung up every few hours, and won’t reboot unless I do a ‘diagnostic’ start-up. Thankfully, I bought it locally (paying a premium) instead of asking someone to get on from the U.S.; so I have a decent service plan. Have [...]
Had some fun today—spent some time reading up on git; gave github a whirl; loved it; found out that it wouldn’t remain free for private projects for long; ended up installing gitweb on my site.
Have been writing a lot of emails lately… Just catching up with friends.
I’m itching to buy a camera… Suddenly photography seems to have become interesting again.
Just bought: a 500Gb Seagate FreeAgent external drive. Bought it quite cheaply from Nehru Place. I’ve reached that stage where all I do is sit and wonder over how cheap computer hardware keeps getting. I’ll just end up buying more stuff the cheaper it gets, probably. Seagate has some proprietary backup software, but I’m never [...]