So…what did I get up to today? Well…planned my route to go see Donna (yay! :-), I’ve checked the oil on my car (which much to my pleasure shows no sign of burning any oil….). I also finally got around to doing the photos for the driving licence. Unfortunately you don’t get to see them. Well, I might scan one of the three “rejects”, but unfortunately I’ve demonstrated the fine art of building a partially complete and yet almost totally useless network.
What makes me say this? Well, neither Samba nor NFS has been configured…Samba was my original choice, cos then Windows could see the network (if I were in windows), and so could the RiscPC….
Then when someone said, well, if you don’t worry about windows you could use NFS – which’d be much better – I though, yes. Actually, the RiscPC can do NFS too (I think I had a bit of software which did both NFS and SMB).
Anyway, essentially my network allows me to control the music server, and that’s about it atm. Which is rather a shame ‘cos if I scan stuff it’ll be on the RiscPC….oh well….(gah!)
So, that wasn’t entirely wonderful – nor was the realisation that the printer is no longer connected to the RiscPC and so I ended up retyping my letter to the DVLA just so I could print it….I then spent a long and rather tedious period of time trying to work out why my printer wasn’t printing straight, before realising that the paper guide had moved *mutter*
Anyway, while I was in town I decided to treat myself – so the 20UKP I found under my car finally went towards another Tangerine Dream CD (Force Majeure), and an ex-rental DVD of “East is East”.
So that was kinda fun – and I didn’t get any odd looks so I presume I passed reasonably well :)
However things went a little pear shaped…not very, but one of those nagging “oooh, that’s p*ssed me off” sort of levels. I decided to have a quick looksie at my Rocky Horror Show DVD and was rather upset to discover that it is actually a “region 1” region 1, as opposed to all my other “region 0” region 1 disks….
Not only that but the quality just didn’t seem quite up to other DVD’s of mine….which is rather annoying….And then we get on to the real annoyance…
About half way through East is East (which incidentally, unlike the authors of the cover I wouldn’t describe as “hilarious” – some of it’s funny, a lot of it is very dark humour wise….) the DVD drive started to do the traditional “Your windows install is fseked, please reinstall it before watching any more DVD’s”.
Yes, my untouched install – apart from the SCSI card drivers has gone down the pan!
Sometimes I’m driven to want to destroy all of microsoft. These days it seems to be whenever I’m near an MS “operating system” for more than about 30 seconds. At least linux has only been screwed up by my own ineptitude so far – and it’s yet to have required me to reset it….
Hell, even the old RM P75 seems to be soldiering on (9:15pm up 8 days, 9:52, 1 user) – although it’s only running on 16 of it’s 24 Megs….so I should really reset it – but it’s not like it really needs the ram atm….
So, it can just build up a good uptime!
Anyway, I need to sort out stuff for tomorrow….So…