Does updating the theme of the site count as an update? No? Okay...time
to type.
Life is busy right now, and extra things are gonna have to give. I have
not had a chance to do much photography (both making and processing
them), so I am putting the daily site on hold, again. For the sharp eye
among you, you would have noticed this last week.
On the upside, I have lost about 20 pounds since the beginning of the
year. While I am not where I want to be weight-wise, I have lost a pants
size which puts me back were I was about 10 years ago. Life is good.
I am going to see about updating things here more often, if nothing else
to have a record of things not in a cloud based service which may
dramatically change its pricing model on me.
And, again, I hit something which is causing massive disk performance
issues. That, and suspend/resume does not work on either laptop.
I would try to debug the issues, but that means learning a whole new set
of tools, and I will not have time for a while. Next week, I am in week
long meetings which will run late every day, and then I have to finish
writing and present a training class the last week of the month. The
hour or two I can spare will be far better spent for me by backup,
re-installing ArchLinux than by starting to
learn the tools. Yes, a bit of a cop-out, but I need the machines to do
what I need to do. I will keep the servers FreeBSD, however, as it works
great there.
I will revisit the issue of FreeBSD on the laptops when I either get new
kit, or support for my models gets better.
As the month draws to a close, I am further into the switch. I have
rebuilt my main laptop to PCBSD. I am still
setting a few things up, but it seems to be going well.
Two things I need to fix:
Skype: While there is not a native client, there are lots of
folks who report success with the Linux client. I will need to do
some research.
Nikola: The software I use for my blogs. It throws a python
error when I run it, so I cannot update things. Again, I think I
just need to do some more research.