Yesterday I was really worn out. I had an exam on Tuesday to which I only studied about 3 days - 24/7. Typically me, always in the nick of time. Add to that Tuesday a bit of work and the organization of the application queue to our student’s association’s flats and you’ll have a full 6:30-22:00 day of non stop 100% brain activity.
So I was a bit tired yesterday and wanted to do something special with S after work. I found out that there was a summer theatre near Arabia that had put up an improvisational theatre. It was only 5 euros for students so we thought we’d give it a try. And although it started raining during the play, we didn’t regret a minute.
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I finally got my hands on a digital SLR camera! My friend Anso decided to buy a new one and gave away her old D30 to me (well, I’ll probably have to pay some symbolic sum for it). She had got it a few years ago from a friend and photographer who now shoots for HBL. I only got the body, but I had a couple of crap lenses I used with my analog SLR that fitted on this one. One is a 35-80mm kit lens and the other a Sigma 100-300mm which has some trouble with the aperture…
Anyhow, it’s nice to shoot some real photos again, and best of all it’s free! So expect a steady stream of pictures in my gallery from now on.
I decided to create a few virtual hosts for the different sections of my site. The new URLs are:
The old URLs still work, but I might delete them after a while.
Finally - my server Marvin is back online! I’ve had lots of trouble with bad sectors on the operating system hard drive for over six months, but just couldn’t be bothered to fix it properly.
I started off just checking where the bad sectors were, moving the contents of that partition to the second hard drive and symlinking/mounting the new location. This was enough for a while, but along came more bad sectors. I tried to move the whole operating system to the other hard drive and get that one to boot, but since my 160G ‘main storage’ drive is connected to a Promise Ultra TX133 card and my bios (even after latest upgrade) just can’t boot off a hard drive connected to that card, it didn’t work out.
So I repressed it for a while until my site didn’t work anymore (= catastrophe). I realized that the hard drive just wasn’t well and had to take it in for surgery. Luckily my career as kleptomanic IT-pathologist came into handy as I found three unused hard drives stashed away in some storage box. Now I only had to perform the delicate procedure of replacing the poor bastard’s brain without memory loss!
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