spam: the other white meat

Ugh. Tuning up my hubs, getting ready for this season and of course, disaster strikes. I took the play out of the rear hub just fine- it’s an easy process! Two 5mm wrenches on either side of the axle and then you can lossen the bearings right up. Or tighten them as the case may be. The rear went, no questions asked. On to the front. Hrmmm… seems stiff. Really stiff. Ugh! Why is this not lossening. Suddenly there was a loud CRACK and the result is what you can make out in this picture. Well the wheel is on its way to Portland Oregon to be repaired. Hopefully they will be able to get the axle end off to replace it.

I finally got arround to installing gallery back on my account. I’ve been meaning to work on a collection of images that I’ve been hoarding for some time. Actually I just wanted to put them in an accessible place and this seemed like a good bet.

http://red.eggplantmedia.com/~arthur/gallery/

this is what we’re using for feeds on our calendar right now

http://www.icalx.com/public/arthuregg/Arthur32Dates.ics
http://ical.mac.com/ical/US32Holidays.ics
http://icalx.com/public/jlemieu/public.ics
http://www.icalx.com/public/arthuregg/Shard32Dates.ics

Need to check out this story: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0311-09.htm it is yet another thing on empire. look at it for your class this summer silly.

So we needed a dev box in our new office and i volunteered to be the pig to dig an old box out of a closet (an 8500 with a g3 card), get linux on it and make it run. Of course, in the process, it is now my workstation in our new office.

Interstingly, while ydlinstalls neatly and quickly, there were some problems.

First of all the XF86config was really fizucked. Gettin the monitor to display anything other than 600×480 was damn near impossible, execpt if it was inverted purlple. I looked at the ydl list serves, but no joy. Finally, thanks to google, i can across this gem: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2001/debian-powerpc-200111/
msg00400.html and discovered that actually NOT telling the kernel what to do was better and infact, since this is an oldworld machine (ie: no open firmware) if i boot to macos9 first and let the monitor options get set THERE, it actually retains them booting linux. go figure. i guess this is the product of running really old hardware.

Well actually, this isn’t really old hardware. This machine replaced my duo2300 some five years ago (yes, i was behind the times even then) and was my desktop untill 2001 i think. Bearing in mind that each cpu takes something on the order of 1 tonne of material (mostly water) to produce, seems a shame to not put to good use. and so it is. it sits at my feet puring and i’m now back to enjoying linux on a daily basis again.

Anorther annoying thing is that gcc did not install by default. I think i just selected the desktop install which does not seem to be complete. and yum and apt-get just aren’t working at the moment. well see how long this lasts.