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March 22nd, 2004

unixronin: Galen the technomage, from Babylon 5: Crusade (Techno)
Monday, March 22nd, 2004 01:12 pm

I've been pondering lately that I really need to rebuild the top of my desk while I have access to a fairly well-equipped wood shop.  The shape of the top is currently ... uh ... sub-optimal, shall we say, and it turns out it's not just a convenience and space issue; the fact that the edge of the desk comes where it does causes me to rest my right elbow on it when I really shouldn't do so, and that in turn is causing a bursa on my right elbow (which became painfully infected recently).  Not only has much of the paper skin peeled off of the desk surface, but the particleboard beneath it is beginning to break up on the surface due to moisture damage.  The only problem is sourcing the cost of the materials.

"You'll all be happy to know I have a plan!" )
unixronin: Galen the technomage, from Babylon 5: Crusade (Chugo: duty/loyalty)
Monday, March 22nd, 2004 01:54 pm

Go here to send a free fax to your Senators asking them to oppose the Broadcast Censorship er, Decency Act, S.2056, courtesy of the ACLU.  We all know S.2056 isn't about decency, it's about imposing the moral beliefs of a select (and bluenosed) few upon everyone else.

unixronin: Pissed-off avatar (Pissed off)
Monday, March 22nd, 2004 03:28 pm

whitestar's been spontaneously powering itself off since yesterday evening.  Having swapped out the power cord without success (on the speculation of a broken core in the power cord due to bending), I speculated that it was a CPU thermal problem, so I took the heatsink fan off to clean the top of the heatsink and (as I more than half expected) found it clogged with dust.

So I've removed and thoroughly cleaned the heatsink, I go to put it back on, and guess what . . . I can't find my heatsink thermal compound.

YO, MURPHY!  OFFA MY CASE!

unixronin: Pissed-off avatar (Pissed off)
Monday, March 22nd, 2004 07:25 pm

. . . the way US stores, gas stations etc won't accept Canadian coinage from you, but are quite happy to slip it to you in your change?