The Aerie
Bah! I've been too busy to blog lately. Recovering from the server crash has proven time consuming on the back end. It's been up for two weeks, but little things keep interfering in progress. For example, I wanted to pull the photos off my digital camera... but the server was behaving differently than it did before. In the past I plugged the camera into the USB cable, and up popped a utiltiy to pull down the images. This time, that doesn't happen. I could run the utility manually.. but I couldn't remember its name because I'd never had to do it manually. So I spent a couple hours on it, chasing the wrong command (gphoto2 instead of gthumb, IYMK).
That adds up. Multiply that times a couple dozen, and there go several evenings returning from 95% functionality to full functionality. Yet to be covered: the update program isn't running, I still can't figure out why my music server only boots halfway up after reboot, and I still can't get my downloads to work right. Among other things.
On the upside, I did find an updated version of my favorite photo slideshow viewer, so I installed that after I got the camera working. I have to go in and customize it with some features I had added to its prior incarnation, but it's a lot nicer than what I was using.
I'm tempted to post now about Microsoft's stupid "Windows Genuine" spyware, which incorrectly identified my factory-installed Windows XP Pro as "not genuine," and about the Mayday parade, and about yardwork. But I'm too busy and must return to work.
Oh, and I think it took me about five or six hours of time spread out across a month, but I think I may have restored my ability to send e-mail to Comcast by getting my ISP to put my address on the Comcast whitelist. !&#^#! morons at Comcast. I have six gazillion things to do, and I have to add this crap to my list. I tellya...
Posted by Albatross at May 9, 2006 10:53 AM | TrackBack