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flexibeastThe last several days have been full of happenings . . . .
Firstly, last Tuesday,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sacred_harlot gained another partner (as per this LJ entry). i'm very happy for both of them, and really hope that the relationship works out well. :-D
Then, last Wednesdaysacred_harlot and i took a journey out past Belgrave to have lunch with some friends of ours. They made us a scrumptious quiche using vegetables from their own garden, and we had a good chat. Unfortunately, their rooster - who the hens will have nothing to do with! - had a go at sacred_harlot, who ended up with a rather large scratch on her leg. Clearly, this rooster needs anger management, and that's going to be provided - via, say, deep-frying, or stewing. :-)
One of our hosts gave us a lift out there, but we came back via train (after she dropped us off at Belgrave station), and for once, the PT 'just worked' - we only had to wait several minutes to get a train from Flinders Street station, and about the same to get the necessary bus from the train station we get off at.
By Friday, the warm nights and increasingly hot days were really beginning to take their toll on me. But i really wanted to upgradesacred_harlot's main computer to Mandriva 2007, as i suspected it would fix a lot of the problems - mostly related to Nautilus and mp3 players - which had been cropping up on that machine. Unfortunately, for some reason the install DVD refused to play nice, either bringing up graphics mode errors or simply quietly failing to do anything. This was despite having used the same DVD to install Mandriva 2007 on naked_wrat's main computer, a process that basically went smoothly (aside from some network -related hitches due to how that computer is connected to the Net), and which also provided us with some rather impressive eye candy via Compiz (from which the Beryl project, recently mentioned by penguinpusher, has been forked).
So then i tried an NFS-based install, usingsacred_harlot's laptop as the NFS server. But the laptop decided that it too felt like being obstreperous, and began producing all sorts of errors, culminating in a plethora of messages from the Linux kernel basically indicating that things were getting too much for it. Great. Next option: an HTTP-based install, downloading the Mandriva 2007 system from the net. This seemed to start out okay, so i decided to leave the computer to its own devices, and went for a lie down in preparation for a social event that sacred_harlot and i were supposed to be hosting that evening. When i woke up a few hours later, however, sacred_harlot informed me that the computer had been stuck on estimating that time to completion was 7 hours 55 minutes for the last couple of hours. And indeed, the whole system was locked up. :-/ By this time the house was the proverbial oven, and i was really starting to get physically and mentally overwhelmed. i realised that there was no time to take this matter further, given the proximity of the evening's social event, so i went to pack stuff out of the way . . . . but it all got too much, and i ended up breaking down and crying. i then further realised that i was in no state to be socialising; and i certainly didn't want to ruin the evening for everyone else by sitting in the bedroom sobbing. So i threw some clothes on and took myself up the street to my other place to spend the night - naked_wrat was staying the night with a friend - in the ludicrous heat.
Saturday was forecast to be even hotter - and it turned out that way - but when i took myself back down the street the next day, i felt like i had regained some of my equanimity. Not for long; i realised that the failed HTTP-based install had wiped the old version of Mandriva, but had left nothing usable in its place. So i felt completely stuffed: no working OS on the machine, and no way of getting a working OS on it. Except for one last, best hope for peace: takingsacred_harlot's main box up the road (via taxi), and trying to do an NFS-based install from naked_wrat's main box. Hallejulah, it worked! So i then spent Saturday night and Sunday morning configuring the system in terms of networking, security updates, user logins etc.
Which brings me to Sunday afternoon, when i got a call from a long-time friend: she had just been kicked out of her flat by her flat-mate, based on one of the flimsiest of excuses. She and her flat-mate had been attending a seminar by a life coach (who is apparently quite a sleaze), and my friend, wearing a summer dress, had been sitting on the floor with her legs crossed. Her flat-mate took her aside and had a go at her for - get this! - 'flirting' with the life coach, who the flat-mate in question apparently had her eyes on, by virtue of the fact that on occasion her dress would ride up her legs a little and show some skin. Things went downhill from there.
This friend and i have known each other for over 12 years; and the fact is, she doesn't play these stupid girl-fights-girl-for-man games. In fact, she basically doesn't play games at all when it comes to interpersonal relationships. But it seems her flat-mate does, and is projecting her own behaviours onto others. :-/
Bottom line is this: this friend will be staying withnaked_wrat and myself indefinitely, until she can sort out what to do as a result of all this. All this has actually happened in a quite complicated context, which i won't (at least for now) relate here; but suffice it to say that we're all hoping - and have seen some indications - that this crisis actually turns out to be a blessing in disguise.
Which pretty much brings things up-to-date. i'm very much looking forward to autumn and some consistently cooler weather!
Firstly, last Tuesday,
sacred_harlot gained another partner (as per this LJ entry). i'm very happy for both of them, and really hope that the relationship works out well. :-DThen, last Wednesday
sacred_harlot and i took a journey out past Belgrave to have lunch with some friends of ours. They made us a scrumptious quiche using vegetables from their own garden, and we had a good chat. Unfortunately, their rooster - who the hens will have nothing to do with! - had a go at sacred_harlot, who ended up with a rather large scratch on her leg. Clearly, this rooster needs anger management, and that's going to be provided - via, say, deep-frying, or stewing. :-)One of our hosts gave us a lift out there, but we came back via train (after she dropped us off at Belgrave station), and for once, the PT 'just worked' - we only had to wait several minutes to get a train from Flinders Street station, and about the same to get the necessary bus from the train station we get off at.
By Friday, the warm nights and increasingly hot days were really beginning to take their toll on me. But i really wanted to upgrade
sacred_harlot's main computer to Mandriva 2007, as i suspected it would fix a lot of the problems - mostly related to Nautilus and mp3 players - which had been cropping up on that machine. Unfortunately, for some reason the install DVD refused to play nice, either bringing up graphics mode errors or simply quietly failing to do anything. This was despite having used the same DVD to install Mandriva 2007 on naked_wrat's main computer, a process that basically went smoothly (aside from some network -related hitches due to how that computer is connected to the Net), and which also provided us with some rather impressive eye candy via Compiz (from which the Beryl project, recently mentioned by penguinpusher, has been forked).So then i tried an NFS-based install, using
sacred_harlot's laptop as the NFS server. But the laptop decided that it too felt like being obstreperous, and began producing all sorts of errors, culminating in a plethora of messages from the Linux kernel basically indicating that things were getting too much for it. Great. Next option: an HTTP-based install, downloading the Mandriva 2007 system from the net. This seemed to start out okay, so i decided to leave the computer to its own devices, and went for a lie down in preparation for a social event that sacred_harlot and i were supposed to be hosting that evening. When i woke up a few hours later, however, sacred_harlot informed me that the computer had been stuck on estimating that time to completion was 7 hours 55 minutes for the last couple of hours. And indeed, the whole system was locked up. :-/ By this time the house was the proverbial oven, and i was really starting to get physically and mentally overwhelmed. i realised that there was no time to take this matter further, given the proximity of the evening's social event, so i went to pack stuff out of the way . . . . but it all got too much, and i ended up breaking down and crying. i then further realised that i was in no state to be socialising; and i certainly didn't want to ruin the evening for everyone else by sitting in the bedroom sobbing. So i threw some clothes on and took myself up the street to my other place to spend the night - naked_wrat was staying the night with a friend - in the ludicrous heat.Saturday was forecast to be even hotter - and it turned out that way - but when i took myself back down the street the next day, i felt like i had regained some of my equanimity. Not for long; i realised that the failed HTTP-based install had wiped the old version of Mandriva, but had left nothing usable in its place. So i felt completely stuffed: no working OS on the machine, and no way of getting a working OS on it. Except for one last, best hope for peace: taking
sacred_harlot's main box up the road (via taxi), and trying to do an NFS-based install from naked_wrat's main box. Hallejulah, it worked! So i then spent Saturday night and Sunday morning configuring the system in terms of networking, security updates, user logins etc.Which brings me to Sunday afternoon, when i got a call from a long-time friend: she had just been kicked out of her flat by her flat-mate, based on one of the flimsiest of excuses. She and her flat-mate had been attending a seminar by a life coach (who is apparently quite a sleaze), and my friend, wearing a summer dress, had been sitting on the floor with her legs crossed. Her flat-mate took her aside and had a go at her for - get this! - 'flirting' with the life coach, who the flat-mate in question apparently had her eyes on, by virtue of the fact that on occasion her dress would ride up her legs a little and show some skin. Things went downhill from there.
This friend and i have known each other for over 12 years; and the fact is, she doesn't play these stupid girl-fights-girl-for-man games. In fact, she basically doesn't play games at all when it comes to interpersonal relationships. But it seems her flat-mate does, and is projecting her own behaviours onto others. :-/
Bottom line is this: this friend will be staying with
naked_wrat and myself indefinitely, until she can sort out what to do as a result of all this. All this has actually happened in a quite complicated context, which i won't (at least for now) relate here; but suffice it to say that we're all hoping - and have seen some indications - that this crisis actually turns out to be a blessing in disguise.Which pretty much brings things up-to-date. i'm very much looking forward to autumn and some consistently cooler weather!
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Date: 2007-02-20 09:45 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-20 09:59 (UTC)With the 2.6 series kernels I honestly don't know how to find out, Linus obfuscated it to prevent people optimising their kernels into instability.
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Date: 2007-02-20 10:05 (UTC)