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Spring
And spring is the season for birthdays for Stevegses. 8-)
We and some friends went off to the Good Fortune restaurant for Peking Duck on Saturday. Food was enjoyed in convivial company and a good time was had.
Friday night at gaming I couldn't put a foot wrong and ended up winning all three games (two Ticket to Ride: Europe and Gargon). Mind you I'm not saying it was easy but I got more than my fair share of lucky breaks.
Sunday was setting up the new computer. An AMD Sempron 2800+ on an ASUS K8V-X motherboard with a Gigabyte of Memory and a couple of 120 Gigabyte Western Digital SATA drives. No bleeding edge here. I'm loading Gentoo my "favourite" Linux distribution.
Today Maureen produced a candlelit dinner of Lamb Shanks with a birthday muffin to celebrate.
Mmmm lucky Stevegses. 8-)
Posted on 05 September 2005 at 07:50 AM by Stephen Gunnell
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Stupid Gentoo
Saturday I rebooted Eldred to bring in a new kernel and when I tried to log in Gnome utterly failed to start the window manager. *Sigh* go back and reboot with the old kernel. Oops, it doesnt work with that one either. Hmmmm.
Now I know this version of Gnome works because I've compiled it from the same source on William my new box and it works there. So I recompiled the obvious things and even tried trashing the user preferences (in the test login). Still nothing.
After about five hours I got seriously annoyed and copied the portage "world" file to one side. I then stripped it back to a few choice core applications and ran emerge --depclean to clear everything out. After that it was time to build everything anew. Yesterday evening I was able to boot back into Gnome finally. So ... what weekend 8-(
Posted on 13 September 2005 at 07:30 AM by Stephen Gunnell
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sorry missed the birthday. things are strange. hope the hip's all mended, and you're all bouncy abouts.
-C
Posted on 18 September 2005 at 10:18 AM by cat_amused