Humpy Rabbit Socks

Cold weather riding home, but I'm warm in my comfy humpy rabbit socks.

Post Coital T-Day Bliss - Back To The GRIND

So it was nice getting a couple of days off where, quite frankly, not too damn much got done.  I've still got wood to chop and house remodeling to finish.  Dorris is feeling a little crummy so I've been keeping the wood stove going and the house nice and warm.

Now, I'm getting ready for my Monday morning wake-up at 3:40 AM.  The weather's supposed to be good so I'm taking the commuter bike.  It's a 7:31 sunrise so I think I'll just take the van pool to work and ride home.  It's only a 4:22 sunset so I cannot stay too late either. (Riding home the the dark sucks - riding to work in the dark sucks too.)

I've been looking at my commuter bike - a bike I've owned for over thirty years and raced on in college.  It's over due for a little love and cleaning - I'll see if I can get that done this week.  Here it is back when it was my everyday ride and I'm coming back down Hurricane Ridge with Cliff (I'm on the left).

Man, I gotta lose some weight.  I think I can ride two or three days this week, and salads for dinner.

I'm using my new keyboard more (note the sudden interest in doing blog entries) and I'm loving it the more I use it.

From The Phone

So this is an attempt to add a blog post from my smart phone using Blogger. So far, so good. Let's see if I can put in a picture of my phone:

I ended up doing more editing from the PC because I could not figure out how to add more text after the photo, put in links and so on, but you can see that I've also upgraded my keyboard to a Rosewill RK-9100BR. Sweet! Now I can really hack away in the dark instead of just figuratively hacking away in the dark!

More posts on both on how I hacked my phone and the nice new keyboard are coming...

THE POWER!

So I did all those upgrades and still decided to overclock the CPU - after all, it is an unlocked Black Edition. So I bumped the CPU multiplier from 16 to 18 for a 12.5% bump in CPU speed. I didn't touch the voltages, and if it starts running full bore for any length of time, it would give the existing fans a very hard time.

Now Running - Debian Squeeze!

Quite a few upgrades both hardware and software to catch up on:

Upgraded hardware to Athlon II X2 245 CPU on a Gigabyte MA-785GM-US2H. This CPU overclocks nicely (and the DDR2 overclocked also.)

Then upgraded to a Phenom X6 1090T with 8Gb of DDR2 1066. Ended up buying a new Antec Solo case to get the heat and noise under control - very nice case. (I feel no need to overclock this chip.)

Tried to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS amd64 and FAILED! (Funny, the live disk ran fine!)

Then upgraded to Debian Squeeze 6.0.2.1 amd64. (I took a hard look at Archlinux and may still give that a try later.) All working very well - I seem to conveniently forget how much custom software I have to install and compile every time I do this.

Oops! Long TIme - No Post

Ouch! Long time no post.

We'll try and get a few out.

Upgraded To Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

So I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 some time back. I did the network upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04. Without a doubt, the easiest online upgrade I have ever done. The weird thing is, I vastly prefer to do a clean install, but I could not get the 10.04 CD to work so I crossed my fingers and went for it. Only thing that did happen was Ethernet didn't work (and I had to scramble to remember the ifconfig commands). I traced this back to the way I had configured /etc/network/interfaces.

Couple of things I did do:

Un installed the Nvidia video card drivers and switched back to the stock vga driver.
Backed up my home directory.

But really, this even went better than the 9.04 to 9.10. I had to reach in and tweak the GRUB settings from a rescue CD after that upgrade to even get GRUB to boot.