The building where I have my server which runs this blog lost power on Wednesday, June 4th, and it finally got restored this morning. Fortunately, I am pretty religious about making backups on an external hard drive, so I had a day-old backup, and was able to upload most stuff to my dreamhost account, and set up failover service with my DNS host, zoneedit, so traffic to robfelty was redirected to robfelty.com. For those of you that noticed, I had […] (Read more)

I broke it again!! I had Kubuntu 7.04 beta running nicely, except for a few things which didn’t work. So I tried to install Fedora 7 beta on my second hard drive (we’ll call it drive B), and somehow messed up the Kubuntu install, though I was able to get much of the important files (home directory mostly) from the messed up Kubuntu drive to the Fedora drive. Then I had the Fedora drive working nicely, except for the soundcard […] (Read more)

Around Christmas time, I was taking it easy for a bit, browsing the web and such, and started drooling over Apple’s upcoming products – a new operating system, and of course increasingly fast and cool machines. I bought a 1.5 GHz G4 Powerbook in December 2005, to replace my 800 MHz G3 iBook that I bought in March 2003. I figured that graduating from grad school would be a nice time to get a new computer. I was thinking about […] (Read more)