Mar 31 2003

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Published by Andrew at 5:40 PM under Uncategorized

Yadda, Yadda, Yadda…
Not a lot happening these days.
Moved all my DNS stuff off of my laptop to a new machine in our co-lo rack, so I could shutdown the laptop and collect it from my friend’s place. Thanks Dave, for hosting it for me for so long.
Got it back, screen is worse than it was before. Backlight only comes on about 1 in 3 boots. And still bad keyboard, toasted battery.
and I went down to Got.net yesterday so we could download a bunch of Red Hat updates and the patches to “Civilization: Call To Power”. Didn’t manage to get the patch.
Went to Coffeetopia where they have Surf’n'Sip (wireless Internet) and discovered I had left my power supply at got.net. Martin grabbed the 25mb patch, then we went back to his place to enjoy some yummy cabbage and corned beef.
I took apart my laptop to try to fix the screen. 2 hours later it was put back together. Screen works better (backlight comes on every time now) but we found out why it was doing it: a capacitor in the backlight system is shorting. Once it gets hot the backlight cuts out. Eventually it will quit entirely. Put a bid on a replacement LCD panel on Ebay.
Then we tried to patch our copies of CivCTP (1.0 crashes when you try to go into a multiplayer game) and discovered the 25mb download was the wrong file. Martin hooked up his laptop to the phone line an downloaded the right files (luckily 2 4mb files) and we started playing.
At about 4AM we decided it was time to sleep.

Edit: As I was finishing this, Martin called. Against all odds his appeal was accepted by UCSC, so he’s still a student. WOOHOO!
Go Martin! Go Martin! Go Martin!