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arkady's cold, which she caught from her co-worker who just came back from holidays in New York. OMGWTFBBQ OH NOES MERKIN FLU!1!!! I slept most of the way in on the Tube (we have the Norn Line back, thankfully) and have been sitting here staring into space and guzzling lemonade. If I feel like this tomorrow I'll be taking the day off, buckets of gold or no.
I didn't mention: on Friday, daneel_olivaw gave me his dead Canon
Digital Ixus v2 (the CompactFlash model) — the one I recommended to him a
couple of years ago ;-) It's fully functional except there's no output from the CCD.
Could be anything. I may well try to find another dead Ixus on eBay to build
a Frankencamera. You can get twenty to thirty quid for a dead digital camera.
Of course, this requires getting around to it. I still haven't even attempted to do anything to my dead MP3 camera. And there's a PCI wifi card still sitting on my PC waiting for me to install it and see if it works under FreeBSD.
Monday night I tried a dist-upgrade to turn Ubuntu 5.04 on my laptop to 5.10. It lost power half way through, but starting the command again seemed to proceed okay. However, on boot, neither X nor the network would start. I could have faffed around with it, but decided "fuck it" and reinstalled afresh. Tonight I'll run through my page and see how much of it I still need for Breezy.
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Date: 2005-10-19 12:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-19 12:24 pm (UTC)Bah!
*goes back to Lemsip*
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Date: 2005-10-19 12:24 pm (UTC):-D
Fantastic! I shall give that a try :-)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-10-19 01:06 pm (UTC)During a quiet period yesterday I read somewhere about the W32codecs not automatically supplied with Breezy. Not sure how I'll manage trying to sort that out.
I'd rather not have to do a complete reinstall - I've had enough of that with Hoary! ;-) I think trying to do the upgrade in a couple of hours in the evening after a day's work is probably not the best idea - so I might wait a while.
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Date: 2005-10-19 01:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-10-19 01:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-19 01:09 pm (UTC)Though actually I doubt that would work because there's no dist-upgrade in there.
Then again, upgrading your distribution is something of a "power user" thing I suppose.
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Date: 2005-10-19 02:53 pm (UTC)You may have the bug that just ran rampant through the Buffalo scene, as the vector for it here got it from someone who had just returned from NYC. (I actually mapped out infection chains one day, figuring out who gave it to who. Funny in a scary "oh my god, good thing this is just a cold!" way)
Enjoy it, I certanly did. My running total was 1 box day quil, 1 bottle nyquil, 2 bottles cough syrup, 2 boxes tissues, 1 bottle sore throat spray, 2 bags cough and vitamin C drops. Catch it quick with some zink, c, and echanacia and you may be better off than I was.
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Date: 2005-10-20 10:51 am (UTC);-)
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Date: 2005-10-23 06:47 pm (UTC)Tho' first I'll enquire with them about what they need and if indeed that camera is covered - I think Digital Ixus II is different to Digital Ixus v2 ...
I'll grab 'em when I'm alive and able to breathe and stuff.
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Date: 2005-10-23 08:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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