greetings
Yeah - it’s been a while since I’ve posted, so I figured that I should give an update…
The last week or so has been good - stuff is pretty busy at work, and I’ve had a few large projects on my plate. One of which has been moving our ~30 gig CVS repository over to a new server. The old server only had a gig or so of disk free, and our engineers were chewing through about 1 gig a month, so that repository really needed to be moved :-) Luckily, the move went over fairly well with very few issues, which is a good thing, since if CVS is down, that pretty much means that no one is able to do productive work. I’m pretty please with how I have CVS working now…I have samba/winbindd running, which allows me to use a pam module for winbind which authenticates users against our Active Directory server. This makes administration much easier for me. Eventually, we’re hoping to work towards some sort of Single sign-on architecture, and this is a step in that direction.
Okay, Ijust realized that I used four links to wikipedia in that last paragraph. Geez.
Also this week, I found out that my building permit was approved, so we’ll be starting serious work on our basement soon. 2×4’s, here I come. It’ll be great when it’s done…there’s just a large amount of work in front of me.
In other news, I got to place two calls into Dell support today, which is always great fun. This morning when I got into work, as I walked by one of our server racks, I saw the dreaded blinking orange light. Turns out one of the RAID 5 members died last night. Thank goodness for RAID5 - no data was lost. I called that one into Dell, and they had a replacement disk at our door in under three hours. Not too bad. I was able to replace the hot-swappable disk and start rebuilding the disk, which was still rebuilding the last time I checked. Fast-forward to about 45 minutes ago…I’m dorking around on one of my linux boxes using GNU Screen (I use Screen nearly all day long, so my left Ctrl key gets quite a workout). While navigating in Screen, the Ctrl key is used a lot, and all of a sudden, the Ctrl key got very mushy and stopped working. Great. So I got to call in a keyboard replacement. Hopefully that’ll arrive by friday. Luckily, I have been running with my Caps-Lock key re-mapped as a Ctrl key for the last year. I’m not sure what I’d do if I had to (God forbid) use the right Ctrl key. That would throw me off in a nasty way.
With that…I bid you adieu for the evening.
Are you running a separate keyboard? That may prolong the life of it and make it more comfortable to use…
Let me know if you want another person to bounce your plan & ideas off of regarding your basement. That’s exciting that it’s about to start!
Yeah - when I’m at work, I use a “natural” keyboard all the time, but at home, I use the laptop keyboard. I’ve had the laptop for a year and a half now, so it’s about time for the keyboard to go.
Thanks for the offer on the basement…I’ll surely take you up on it. This weekend, I’m hoping to get the concrete walls sealed and the bottom sill plates down. Word on the street is that I should use pressure treated 2×6’s for that, and they should be attached w/ construction adhesive and a few concrete nails/screws. Does that sound right?
Put the entire wall together first, with the bottom plate being pressure treated, as you said. The most commonly used attachment for bottom plates are remington shells that explode the nail through the plate and into the concrete. No adhesive is needed. You also only need 2×4s, since they’re not actually exterior walls.
Keep the framed wall 1/2″ from the concrete (that way you can use regular pine for the studs). The reason for putting the wall together first is that it’s much more solid to pound the nails from the bottom up than toenail them in after the fact.
I can probably stop by sometime this weekend.. email/IM me your schedule and we can work out a time. I’m installing a concrete patio for M&R this weekend as well (pouring next week, weather dependent).