After earlier bonking the wrong button to power-up the laptop, grimacing upon learning that destroys non-Windows partitions, and working to recover from it all, the system is back.As mentioned, hitting the button caused the laptop to mess up my hard… more »

"Destroys laptop" is a little harsh, but it did destroy a partition on my hard drive, the one responsible for booting and running my OS, rendering it no longer useful.The hard drive itself is still functional, and the partitions other than the first… more »

Since I'm done building the hex-core, I decided that I could use the dual-core to host the web and mail services currently being served by a slower single-core Sempron. The dual-core nicely has twice the storage (500GB instead of 250GB) and four-times th… more »

The installation of the new CPU is done, and the system is up and running; posting this entry from it, as a matter of fact. It's been a while since I've done a PC build. The last was actually a hand-me-down (thanks!) dual-core AMD. That machine is st… more »

I know that some may be concerned that we didn't resolve the garage power issue.There's a switch in the garage that controls all of the power inside of it. Opener, lights, everything... It was behind a box. The box was pushed into it. Somehow the gar… more »

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm having a bit of trouble with my server upgrade. I've tinkered a little bit more, and now have some additional insight.First and foremost, I don't know what in the installation wonked up the boot so that the latest and gr… more »

Even though the server was running fine, I thought I'd twist myself up and try an in-place upgrade of the OS to the new version. Alas, as expected, it isn't going well.First, the newer kernel images in the boot menu (normally hidden at boot time, but… more »