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back in through the windows

Friday, November 4th, 2005

So, here I am, back in windows. I’ve brought gkrellm with me, which is somewhat nice (though could be nicer). I’ve still not found a fully satisfactory answer to the music player question … but itunes is head and shoulders above rhythmbox, and winamp is at least a head’s worth above xmms. Things are … [...]

recovery

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

recovered almost all the data off of it. There may be data that’s corrupt, but I’m not sure where, so I guess I’ll just have to pay attention to what I hear for a while. SATA disks here on wednesday. New games here Monday. Money? What money? I don’t have money! (err, anymore)

Dying Drive!

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

My music drive is dying. Sucks, huh? Read errors, system hangs, all sorts of badness happening. So I’m copying all the data off of it. So far, I’ve recovered 48ish of the 107GB on it. Some copies are just totally failing, which sucks. Some cause the drive to grind for a while. Lots of dmesg [...]

Wrong, but not Forgotten

Monday, October 17th, 2005

So, despite feeling exhausted and crappy, I managed to finish the essay-exam thing. 4 full pages, half of a fifth (so right in the target of 3-5 pages). Ready to turn it in tomorrow. I still feel totally crappy. And I still don’t understand LR Parsing. And I’m not entirely confident anymore than I still [...]

WOE UNTO THEE (rhythmbox)

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

So I’m trying to populate a playlist in rhythmbox … andI keep running into random mp3 files that cause it to spiral out of control and crash. The mp3 files that cause the problems seem totally unpredictable, so far… just random files in random directories that just can’t read. So I’m going through my music [...]