May. 11th, 2009 [Funk Babblings]

08:03 alone in the house for the next 3.5 days. Except for cats. #
11:22 attempting to max out my 2002-vintage computer to be as modern as possible. #
12:11 not a good sign when the first power-on after an upgrade just results in beeps. And that's just stage 1. Back to the workbench. Or lunch. #
13:47 Good news: my motherboard has diagnostic LEDs. Bad news: they light up red or green. I hate red/green LEDs. Colorblindness FTL. #
14:19 at least the LEDs have visibly distinct elements for red vs green. Then it's just a matter of guessing either RGRR or GRGG. #
14:36 starting to think I bought bad/incompatible RAM. I guess the price was too good to be true. #
14:45 giving up on the new memory, going back to the old. Have to continue with 2GB instead of 4GB I guess. #
15:20 stage 2: upgrading Ubuntu from 8.04 to 9.04, through 8.10. This could take a while. #
17:07 Tough to download Ubuntu packages when DSL keeps dropping out. #
20:10 watching GParted repartition my disk. Discovered a long-lost home directory in the process, with email going back over a decade. #

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