Current Status:<\/p>\n
\nOn the PC, I finally got drivers installed for the video card. I was able to switch to the DVI port (and even use both heads to span my desktop across two monitors), but the 1600×1024 mode wasn’t lining up correctly, like it wasn’t when I first installed my last card. I took a cue for what I learned last time, and installed the reference drivers direct from nVidia. 1600×1024 now works like a charm. Now I can sell my old card to my boss, who just bought an SGI flatpanel like mine off eBay.<\/p>\n
On the cube, I pulled it out of its case and stared at it, like I said I would. I jiggled the power plug. I had looked at the power strip yesterday, but it never occured to me to double check the plug on the power supply. Sure enough, it was loose. Easiest. Repair. Ever.<\/p>\n
On the PowerBook, I’m currently copying the entire hard drive over to the cube (which has just enough free disk space to leave a few gigs breathing room) in anticipation of the shipping box arriving tomorrow. After being on the phone with the Apple repair guy at work today, I finally managed to cause the spontaneous sleep thing to occur at work, for a while, we were working under the theory that it only happened at home.<\/p>\n
On the Linux machine, it turns out that I was on the correct track, but I ended up making a lot of false moves over the course of the evening. What it boiled down to was that I was leaving out certain parts of the Linux kernel that I was putting on the boot floppy. There are certain things that need<\/i> to be in there… like “How to use IDE drives” and “How to read Linux partitions” that were modules before. Once I figured out which parts needed to be in there (which was about an hour ago), I made the boot disk. Then I made another one, labelled it, and stuck it on my shelf<\/b>. I also put the write-protect tab on both to prevent accidental erasure. I’d still like to know why LILO refused to work, but I got it working another way, so I’m happy. At least now, if there’s a power outage, it will still automatically reboot, which is all I’m concerned about, really.<\/p>\n
I think I’m going to wait a while before I get the other server-ish stuff working again on the Linux machine. I need some quality SimCity 4 and\/or PSO time.<\/p>\n
Hmmm… still “About an hour” to go on Mac copy… guess I’ll just leave them on overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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