Archive for January 6th, 2005

Vacation Day!

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

I could spend the day stewing over my laptop, my broken ipod, the mixer, or going to the store to buy a new microphone or maybe even a new laptop. Or I could hop in the car and go off to Muir Beach with my wife instead.

Hmmm.

It doesn’t seem like a hard question when I write it down.

Back with beach pictures later.

Curious Laptop Behavior

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

The mystery deepens. I had a couple of mysterious crashes while using Fedora Core 3, and when I installed FreeBSD 5.3, tried a kernel recompile which resulted in mysterious and unreproduceable segmentation faults in the compile. Usually such things indicate poor hardware, but both systems used a version of gcc that I don’t completely trust, so I decided to try 4.10. Interestingly enough, I had a hard reboot while recompiling the kernel for it. I think it might be that my laptop gets too hot and resets, as it only appears to happen when the laptop is significantly stressed.

Oh, and as an aside, 4.10 seems to have problems with the sis0 network controller, issuing only watchdog timeout errors. Sigh.

Not sure what I’m gonna do about this. I’ll ponder it all for another day.

Making some headway in Halflife 2 anyway. But Striders are a bitch.