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Pool coping project drones on
Work on the pool coping project continues slowly but surely. I didn’t intend for this to be an all-summer project, but that’s how it’s turning out. The hot weather has really slowed it down, which is not all bad, as it’s keeping me from overextending myself. I’ve done most of my recent work in the…
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Pipe Insulation Adventures
Now that our boiler job is complete, I’m going through and insulating all of the near-boiler pipes, which put off quite a bit of heat. First priority is the primary loop (1-1/4″ copper), followed by the secondary loop for the indirect water heater (1″ copper), followed by the DHW piping near the indirect (3/4″ copper),…
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Hump Day Ramblings
I accidentally shut down my X server yesterday before I left work, so I took the opportunity to install the custom nVidia driver on my X desktop. And I must say, the proprietary driver is much nicer than the nv driver that comes with X.org. Someone at nVidia has put a lot of work into…
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Bike-to-work milestone
Today I biked in for the 22nd time this year, which matches my total for last year (and this time last year, I hadn’t even started riding in yet). I haven’t been riding with quite the frequency that I did last year. Most of last year’s rides were concentrated in August and September, and this…
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Success with Dell widescreen monitor and X.Org
What a difference a video card makes… A couple months back I tried getting a Dell 2007WFP working with X, using the Intel graphics controller built into my motherboard. I didn’t have much luck. Well, now I have a new video card, with an nVidia GeForce MX 4400 chipset. And, all I had to do…
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Load center upgrades
Continuing in my grand tradition, I’m writing about yet another house project that I’d like to do… the problem, as always, is finding the time for it.. We have two circuit breaker panels which really should be replaced. They are FPE panels with known safety issues. One panel is our main house panel, and the…
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Troubleshooting cloudy pool water
For the past several years of pool ownership, I’ve always had off-and-on problems with cloudy water. I’m generally pretty good at keeping up with the water chemistry, so I’ve always been a bit curious as to why the water clouds up so regularly. The pattern is the same every year: it starts out crystal clear,…
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Crash.
Well, the hard drive in sonata, my desktop machine at work, is dying a slow death. I saw the writing on the wall a few months ago, and now it’s finally biting the big one. I’m typing on the box now, but it’s slowly getting wonkier and wonkier as it churns out ever more i/o…
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FP using new concerto
I’ve got my “new” P3-750 box booted up as concerto.ucs.umbc.edu. This post will hopefully confirm that b2evolution is working right. Things are looking pretty good. My calendar and photo album appear to be working. I set up my Oracle Calendar download stuff and it looks good. The RRBC mailing list is back up and running.…
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sshdfilter config
I’m beginning to think I need to set up a Wiki for this stuff.. but later. Trying to get the sshdfilter stuff up and running on my new Debian box, and of course I didn’t document the process when I did it on 3 previous machines awhile back, so here goes. Install sshdfilter script in…