Vacation, whose vacation?
WorkYep, supposedly I'm on vacation, but these are not going to be as fun as other years. First Silvia couldn't choose vacation period on September, as we would have wanted and had to split vacation between August and October. I don't like to be on vacation on August for several reasons, but as this year we don't have money to go those nice places we used to go most of these reasons vanish. So far we're practicing some short-range tourism, like having lunch in
Cudillero and going back home by evening, and some house-keeping ungrateful tasks, like cleaning windows (no pun intended!). I expect the October period to be less static, because not going somewhere feels a bit like having no vacation.
DebianMy
Debian stuff is mostly frozen now, as we're in the way of getting Lenny released
soon. The
newmail crasher is finally fixed also in Debian, so, unless something really nasty appears in the meantime,
current versions will be the ones shipped in Lenny CDs/DVDs. The only thing I miss is not having a more updated themes package, because current release dates from beginning of 2007 and doesn't contain any of the new
PNG
themes.
HardwareAs some may already know my MacBook hard disk (Hitachi 160 Gb) died two or three weeks ago. I've been able to recover most of data from it, thanks to
SystemRescueCd and
some help to mount encrypted partitions by hand. Unfortunately one of the lost pieces was the trial-error-made deb package with a mostly working driver for the Atheros wifi card of the MacBook (but only with kernel 2.6.21). As I was stupid enough not to document the process or backup it I guess I will have to start from scratch with that again or fall-back to MacOS X for wifi connectivity.
The MacBook was 1 year and few months old, but there's a known conflict between which
warranty Apple provides (1 year) and the one supposedly granted by
the Spanish law for consumer goods (2 years), and Apple is actively rejecting to follow it (no links, but Google is full of stories). Therefore I've decided not to fight on lost battles and just buy a replacement (another Hitachi but 320 Gb, still don't have it though). Of course I will think thrice before buying anything more from Apple. And for those wandering, no, I don't like to pay another heap of euros for the "AppleCare Protection Plans" when the law already gives me almost the same for free.
I only hope the disks of my main box not to start failing soon (they're two, they're older and they're spinning most of the time:
14:41:56 up 24 days, 22:07, 13 users, load average: 0.11, 0.08, 0.09).
Syndicated 2008-08-21 12:53:49 from Ricardo Mones