It takes longer to read a CD on my DVD drive than to write it on my CD-RW drive. Am I the only one who finds this weird?
CDs are so tiny. It is not fun trying to fit 21 gigs into 700 meg CDs. Unfortunately DVDs are pretty pathetic themselves, else I’d buy a DVD burner.
Burn-proof technology is cool. It allows me to be reading and writing on four of my drives at once without a buffer underrun. Yay.
I am “borrowing” Wendy’s monitor, a VistaPoint L770, until her father declares that he needs it more than I. This is much better than the 14 inch monitor I’ve been using (800×600 @ 50Hz!). Unfortunately I cannot max out its refresh rate without knowing its horizontal and vertical frequency ranges and/or dot clock frequency, so I am running it at a suboptimal configuration (1024×768 @ 70Hz). Overall an excellent replacement for the piece of junk I’ve been straining my eyes over the past month or so, even if it has a cloud-flying Hello Kitty angel on its lower right corner. I just wish I knew its specifications.
Daily backups are on again. Let’s hope I don’t need to use them.
In a coincidental twist of fate, my old backup script was wiped out when I did something stupid while daily backups were not running. Funny, no?
My cron list is getting pretty big. I need to create a daily/monthly/weekly thing like OpenBSD’s instead of trying to randomly allocate events so they don’t steal each other’s (others’?) resources.