Another Tango

Today gave it another shot to my beloved Tango.

The poor thing is really is really shaken, these two and a half years have really taken its toll.
The CD ROM went AWOL, for real, but, after disabling it completely on the BIOS, the little laptop sprung to life once again, without those pesky and ball breaking delays, stutters or whatever you might wanna call them.

Installed Lucid from a USB pen drive, on a new HDD I got today 320 GB, the biggest MF I ever had, the hardware certainly differs from the amazing Viking, but that little lappie is driving me crazy with the noise and the heat it generates.

The screenshot is from before installing the "Propietary Hardware Drivers", so it has a totally shitty resolution and it looks like doggie barf; besides that I like the fact that there are over 200 MB of updates.

Updates dujour

Installed these yesterday, no problems so far; the thing worth mentioning is that they forced a reboot.

2010-09-25 18:42:21 status installed man-db 2.5.7-2
2010-09-25 18:42:23 status installed python-gmenu 2.30.0-0ubuntu4
2010-09-25 18:42:23 status installed desktop-file-utils 0.16-0ubuntu2
2010-09-25 18:42:25 status installed python-support 1.0.4ubuntu1
2010-09-25 18:42:26 status installed libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4ubuntu0.1
2010-09-25 18:42:27 status installed bzip2 1.0.5-4ubuntu0.1
2010-09-25 18:42:57 status installed flashplugin-installer 10.1.85.3ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-25 18:42:57 status installed flashplugin-nonfree 10.1.85.3ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-25 18:43:00 status installed gnome-terminal-data 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
2010-09-25 18:43:01 status installed gnome-terminal 2.30.2-0ubuntu1
2010-09-25 18:43:01 status installed libqtcore4 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
2010-09-25 18:43:01 status installed libqtgui4 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
2010-09-25 18:43:01 status installed libqt4-opengl 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
2010-09-25 18:43:01 status installed libqt4-network 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
2010-09-25 18:43:02 status installed libqt4-xml 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
2010-09-25 18:43:02 status installed libqt4-dbus 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.1
2010-09-25 18:43:02 status installed openssl 0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.1
2010-09-25 18:43:02 status installed fglrx-modaliases 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu5
2010-09-25 18:43:02 status installed libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2

Marble & stairs

Windows 2003 & Intel PRO 1000

So the other day had to make a Windows installation, of a Server, if that can be true.
Haven't been quite a while since I performed a Windows installation, that is, a real one, not a virtualized in some way or another...
This was on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server, not a top of the line one (by a long chance), but not a piece of crap server either, and really it is not that old.

Anyway, really great was my surprise when I finished the installation and I find out that there is NIC working, not one, at all.
I thought that I somehow screwed the pooch during the install, and that I have forgotten to add a "Windows Component", namely, the TCP/IP one; so I loaded up the installation CD, and checked it.
It was installed.

The thing is, the plain vanilla Windows installation did not installed the drivers for the damn NIC, an Intel PRO 1000, so I had to download the driver, copy it to a USB pen drive, and then transfer it to the PowerEdge.
Not a biggy of course, but really strange, given the nature of the whole thing (a commercial OS, on top of a Dell server), well, live and learn, maybe?

  

  



EDIT:
The people at Hotfile has deleted the file, it seems like it was breaking a copyright issue... SO, here is the link to the file, from the Intel site
Network Adapter Drivers for Windows Server 2003

Updates dujour

Installed these on Sunday, a reboot later, and everything keeps working a Ok

2010-09-19 15:23:22 status installed linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic 2.6.32-24.43
2010-09-19 15:23:22 status installed linux-headers-2.6.32-24 2.6.32-24.43
2010-09-19 15:23:23 status installed linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic 2.6.32-24.43
2010-09-19 15:23:23 status installed linux-libc-dev 2.6.32-24.43

Spring is here

No matter what, the year is over...
From now on, everything is downhill.
Yeah, of course, we are three solid months to New Year, Dude, what the hell are you talking about??? Whatever, have it your way, then...
To me if it haven't been done already, it is good bye, see you next year and good luck.

Su Mystery Theater (23)

Just installed it, no problem at all.
Go Safari.

Updates dujour

Installed these a couple of days ago, no problems at all.

2010-09-17 11:06:49 status installed man-db 2.5.7-2
2010-09-17 11:06:51 status installed python-gmenu 2.30.0-0ubuntu4
2010-09-17 11:06:51 status installed desktop-file-utils 0.16-0ubuntu2
2010-09-17 11:06:54 status installed python-support 1.0.4ubuntu1
2010-09-17 11:06:55 status installed libhpmud0 3.10.2-2ubuntu2.1
2010-09-17 11:07:28 status installed hpijs 3.10.2-2ubuntu2.1
2010-09-17 11:07:29 status installed hplip-data 3.10.2-2ubuntu2.1
2010-09-17 11:07:34 status installed hplip 3.10.2-2ubuntu2.1
2010-09-17 11:07:34 status installed apt-utils 0.7.25.3ubuntu9.3
2010-09-17 11:07:34 status installed ureadahead 0.100.0-4.1.3
2010-09-17 11:07:35 status installed apt-transport-https 0.7.25.3ubuntu9.3
2010-09-17 11:07:37 status installed samba-common 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2
2010-09-17 11:07:37 status installed libwbclient0 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2
2010-09-17 11:07:37 status installed smbclient 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2
2010-09-17 11:07:39 status installed winbind 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2
2010-09-17 11:07:39 status installed libsmbclient 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2
2010-09-17 11:07:39 status installed samba-common-bin 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2
2010-09-17 11:07:40 status installed sreadahead 1:0.100.0-4.1.3
2010-09-17 11:07:40 status installed xulrunner-1.9.2 1.9.2.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-17 11:07:40 status installed firefox-branding 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-17 11:07:41 status installed firefox 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-17 11:07:41 status installed firefox-gnome-support 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-17 11:07:42 status installed firefox-3.5 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-17 11:07:42 status installed firefox-3.5-branding 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-17 11:07:42 status installed firefox-3.5-gnome-support 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-17 11:07:42 status installed libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2

Bars & stairs

A "landscape mode" picture from Friday noon.

Lenny meets Hercules

Or Lenny on a Sony Vaio PCG FRV37.

Made a net install today, just for the hell of it, on Hercules, the mighty Sony beast.
I have to say that the whole thing feels wonderfully snappy and responsive, and this laptop is a piece of crap, no matter how you look at it (Pentium IV 2.80 GHz 768 MB RAM).

The whole net install took about 2 hours, and it is a piece of cake to do (referring to the ole internet joke "Ubuntu is an old african word for I can't make a Debian Net Install").
Used a local mirror; and everything seems to be working just fine with the laptop, except for the "Suspend" to RAM (prolly I don't have much, but even tho, devoted a puzzling 2 GBs from the 20 GB HDD to swap), even tho, "Hibernate" does work A Ok.

Another vertical frame

Because life isn't always on "landscape mode".

Bars & prohibido fumar

The crappy picture festival continues @ Oesediez!

The Right Book

This ain't Shakespeare, nor Borges, nor Cortázar or Cheever, but damn me if I'm not enjoying this book!

Updates dujour

Installed these the other day, everything A Ok so far.

2010-09-11 12:28:52 status installed ureadahead 0.100.0-4.1.2
2010-09-11 12:28:54 status installed man-db 2.5.7-2
2010-09-11 12:28:56 status installed python-gmenu 2.30.0-0ubuntu4
2010-09-11 12:28:56 status installed desktop-file-utils 0.16-0ubuntu2
2010-09-11 12:28:57 status installed shared-mime-info 0.71-1ubuntu2
2010-09-11 12:28:59 status installed python-support 1.0.4ubuntu1
2010-09-11 12:29:01 status installed mountall 2.15.2
2010-09-11 12:29:01 status installed gdebi-core 0.6.0ubuntu2
2010-09-11 12:29:01 status installed lftp 4.0.2-1ubuntu0.1
2010-09-11 12:29:02 status installed python-lazr.restfulclient 0.9.11-1ubuntu1.1
2010-09-11 12:29:02 status installed sudo 1.7.2p1-1ubuntu5.2
2010-09-11 12:29:03 status installed xulrunner-1.9.2 1.9.2.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-11 12:29:03 status installed gdebi-core 0.6.0ubuntu2
2010-09-11 12:29:03 status installed python-central 0.6.15ubuntu1
2010-09-11 12:29:03 status installed gdebi 0.6.0ubuntu2
2010-09-11 12:29:03 status installed gdebi 0.6.0ubuntu2
2010-09-11 12:29:04 status installed python-central 0.6.15ubuntu1
2010-09-11 12:29:04 status installed firefox-branding 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-11 12:29:05 status installed firefox 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-11 12:29:05 status installed firefox-gnome-support 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-11 12:29:05 status installed firefox-3.5 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-11 12:29:05 status installed firefox-3.5-branding 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-11 12:29:05 status installed firefox-3.5-gnome-support 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
2010-09-11 12:29:06 status installed python-support 1.0.4ubuntu1
2010-09-11 12:29:06 status installed libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2

A vertical frame

So far the pictures I've been posting here were all a real piece of shit taken using the landscape mode, if you will.
Here is little one I took last Friday, before the rain, with a vertical frame.

Winter got back

Sort of, actually, but it is obviously far more better than whats ahead for us... The rains on Friday did lower the temperature in the end.

The Mighty Mighty Thor

Behold the migthy beast!
Perfect for a classic Sunday.

Penguin surprises

Call it New World Chauvinism, stupidity or ignorance; but I was totally and utterly convinced that the Penguin Paperback was as a (North) American institution as a Quarter Pound with Cheese...
Live and learn, I guess...

I have to confess that I have (well, used to have anyways... ) sort of as fetish towards Penguin books during my younger years, the orange "sides" were really nice looking on my library ;)
And, of course, the authors were simply the right ones at the moment, not to mention the prices.

Penguin Books history @ Wikipedia

Updates dujour

Installed these a couple of days ago, no problems whatsoever

2010-09-03 10:01:08 status installed install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5ubuntu1
2010-09-03 10:01:10 status installed man-db 2.5.7-2
2010-09-03 10:01:11 status installed wget 1.12-1.1ubuntu2.1

The other side of ads

Taken early on the afternoon, before the shit storm hits us.

Green rooftops & Blade Runner (2)

Just found (thanks to pleia2's blog) the coolest Green Rooftop I've seen... The Living Roof of the California Academy of Science.
You could almost see the Hobbits in that picture, I'll be damned ;)

As I said before regarding green rooftops, these would make Rick Deckard red with envy, and, on top of that, this particular green rooftop its in San Francisco...

Softer, softest

After yesterday's grittiness it is time for a little joy, or at least, some soft cloth, or towel ;)

Night light

Couple of shitty night cellphone pictures of the crappy state that Buenos Aires is right now.
Dirty and everything broken.

All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won't even take spooks. Don't make no difference to me.

Less words! More pictures!!

Spring is a go! Full blast ahead! At least, for the moment the nights still get cool, and that certainly helps this God forsaken city to blow off some steam.
The picture on right has a small, stupid, completely obvious & boring Easter Egg.

A little status on book reading

Finished Beevor's "Stalingrad" a few days ago; what a marvelous book that is, enjoyed it from page one.

It was an eye opener to say the least.

After that got a grip on "About a boy", the third Hornby book I got my hands on, even tho I've seen the film many times, I've enjoyed the book quite a bit.
The film adaptation doesn't goes too far from the book, and there isn't a soul on Earth who can play Will better than Grant, no question asked.

The other book I read about Hornby, couple of years ago, was "High Fidelity" after seeing the movie, right... I was shocked to find that the book was set in London :D I'm a schmuck, but I believe the Frears adaptation is way better.

Right now I'm onto "A long way down".

A sunny Bs. As.

Slowly but steady, spring (and the dreaded summer) is coming... You can almost feel the ole Sun slamming these buildings during the afternoon.

Updates dujour

Installed these last week, no problems at all so far...

2010-09-02 14:57:01 status installed man-db 2.5.7-2
2010-09-02 14:57:01 status installed ureadahead 0.100.0-4.1.2
2010-09-02 14:57:03 status installed python-gmenu 2.30.0-0ubuntu4
2010-09-02 14:57:03 status installed desktop-file-utils 0.16-0ubuntu2
2010-09-02 14:57:10 status installed hicolor-icon-theme 0.11-1
2010-09-02 14:57:13 status installed python-support 1.0.4ubuntu1
2010-09-02 14:57:34 status installed linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic 2.6.32-24.42
2010-09-02 14:57:35 status installed ifupdown 0.6.8ubuntu29.1
2010-09-02 14:57:35 status installed libudev0 151-12.1
2010-09-02 14:57:36 status installed udev 151-12.1
2010-09-02 14:57:37 status installed mountall 2.15.1
2010-09-02 14:57:37 status installed binutils 2.20.1-3ubuntu7
2010-09-02 14:57:38 status installed bogofilter-common 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1
2010-09-02 14:57:38 status installed bogofilter-bdb 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1
2010-09-02 14:57:38 status installed bogofilter 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1
2010-09-02 14:57:38 status installed libgs8 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.3
2010-09-02 14:57:40 status installed ghostscript 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.3
2010-09-02 14:58:13 status installed ghostscript-cups 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.3
2010-09-02 14:58:14 status installed ghostscript-x 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.3
2010-09-02 14:58:14 status installed libdjvulibre-text 3.5.22-1ubuntu4.1
2010-09-02 14:58:14 status installed libdjvulibre21 3.5.22-1ubuntu4.1
2010-09-02 14:58:14 status installed libgudev-1.0-0 1:151-12.1
2010-09-02 14:58:14 status installed libkpathsea5 2009-5ubuntu0.2
2010-09-02 14:58:15 status installed libwww-perl 5.834-1ubuntu0.1
2010-09-02 14:58:15 status installed linux-headers-2.6.32-24 2.6.32-24.42
2010-09-02 14:58:16 status installed linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic 2.6.32-24.42
2010-09-02 14:58:16 status installed linux-libc-dev 2.6.32-24.42
2010-09-02 14:58:17 status installed ubufox 0.9~rc2-0ubuntu2.1
2010-09-02 14:58:17 status installed usb-creator-common 0.2.22.1
2010-09-02 14:58:18 status installed python-aptdaemon 0.11+bzr345-0ubuntu4.1
2010-09-02 14:58:18 status installed python-aptdaemon 0.11+bzr345-0ubuntu4.1
2010-09-02 14:58:18 status installed usb-creator-common 0.2.22.1
2010-09-02 14:58:18 status installed python-central 0.6.15ubuntu1
2010-09-02 14:58:19 status installed usb-creator-gtk 0.2.22.1
2010-09-02 14:58:19 status installed python-aptdaemon-gtk 0.11+bzr345-0ubuntu4.1
2010-09-02 14:58:20 status installed aptdaemon 0.11+bzr345-0ubuntu4.1
2010-09-02 14:58:21 status installed libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2
2010-09-02 14:58:28 status installed initramfs-tools 0.92bubuntu78
2010-09-02 14:58:28 status installed python-aptdaemon-gtk 0.11+bzr345-0ubuntu4.1
2010-09-02 14:58:28 status installed usb-creator-gtk 0.2.22.1
2010-09-02 14:58:28 status installed python-central 0.6.15ubuntu1
2010-09-03 10:01:08 status installed install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5ubuntu1
2010-09-03 10:01:10 status installed man-db 2.5.7-2
2010-09-03 10:01:11 status installed wget 1.12-1.1ubuntu2.1

The current setup

A little picture of my real desktop as it is these days.