Summertime…and the bloggin’ is easy…

Actually, it will probably be light again this week, like last.

…but probably little time to do much except what I came here to do. I might check in this evening.

I’m heading off to DC for the next week, and will probably be consumed in tasks there. I’ll have broadband in the hotel, but I don’t know how much time I’ll be spending there, other than to sleep, so no promises. Maybe Sam can pick up the slack from Tenerife.

Guess what comes up numero uno on Google for “Minnesota Death Camps“?

What a country.

Guess what comes up numero uno on Google for “Minnesota Death Camps“?

What a country.

Guess what comes up numero uno on Google for “Minnesota Death Camps“?

What a country.

I’ve downloaded the ISO for disk 1 of Fedora Core 4 several times now. Each time, the file size is the same, but each time, I get a different sha1sum, and it never matches the one listed in the directory.

I’m doing a Windows Update on my W2K machine, and there are seven critical security updates that repeatedly fail to install. Anyone have any ideas as to what I should do?

[Update on Sunday morning]

Sigh. Was it really necessary to specify a priori that advice to get different operating systems (I have two other machines running various flavors of Linux) or computers would be unwanted, and unhelpful?

It’s not the power supply. I just swapped it with another computer’s (a fairly new, 450W one) and the same thing happened.

Next is a memory diagnostic.

[Update at 12:50 PM EDT]

Memtest86 found five errors in the first pass, on tests 6 and 7. The problems with the Athlon supposedly show up on test 5 or 8, so it’s probably not a speed problem. I’ll let it run another pass and see if it sees the same thing the second time through.

[Update at 1:17 PM]

Only one of the errors repeated, on test 6, but it did repeat.

[Update at 2 PM]

I let the machine reboot into Windows after the memory test, and it’s now been up for over half an hour, which is a record for the last couple days. I don’t know why running a memory test would have that effect, but the problem seems to have been (at least) mitigated, at least temporarily.

[Update at 8:40 PM EDT]

OK, the machines is now up for over six hours, with no glitches. I’m posting from it. Go figure.

No, thanks, I know this isn’t the end of the story.

[Friday morning update]

The machine is still alive and healthy this morning.

Firefox has let me down. I haven’t previously used it that much in Linux, but I was forced to today with my current computer problems. I notice that on my Fedora box (Core 3), it’s started crashing with regularity. I had several instances of it running, some with multiple tabs, and they suddenly all disappeared. Now when I try to reopen it, sometimes it will open, and after I open up a couple tabs, and switch to another one, it gets blown away. The last time, it died even before it finished loading the first page.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem is? (If anyone’s wondering, I’m posting this from another Windows machine.)

[Update a few minutes later]

I decided to upgrade from 1.0 (which was a preview version that came with the Fedora install) to 1.04, which is the latest version. We’ll see if it’s more stable. So far, so good…