Well, the cold is almost over with. One bug out of my way, more or less anyways. It's nice being able to almost breathe again. Unfortunately within the last couple of days, my software mangling got really impressive. While I've been meaning to reformat for a long while and use my other raptor as a second boot drive, I really don't want to deal with backing up twenty gigs of probably useless data. However I finally got some new DVD cases in (200 of them, and at about 13c each, I made out pretty well). How my temp directory got over 800MB on a drive I haven't booted off of in at least a year is well beyond me, though, as is why I have a copy of OSX Tiger .dmg (Apple's ISO, if my understanding is correct) files on a windows hard drive and probably not an Apple computer within a mile of me. I would like an iBook, but seeing that it comes with Tiger, I think I'm set.
For anyone else looking to do some system cleanup,
WinDirStat is a very, very useful Open Source app to let you figure out what's eating at your hard drive. My old dFolder Explorer extension is getting a bit dated. And apparently you can delete stuff from within it as well, which makes cleanup that much easier. Eliminating that second copy of Steam eating a quarter of your 36GB Raptor helps quite a bit.
Oh yeah, I went a bit nuts adding some of those fun little buttons over the right, as you can see (unless you're viewing from something like Netscape 0.001A1 from about 1982 which doesn't support pictures...) Go ahead,
steal some.
New goodies in from Newegg again, too. With luck, I'll finally be able to move my media server out of the middle of my bedroom thanks to a Cat6 cable over 10 feet long. New 1GB flash drive too, now packing some
Portable Apps. Do download them - they're nice to have around for when you've gotta deal with that IE-only school computer or what have you. No joy getting SMTP configured correctly right in Portable Thunderbird yet, but I only really need to check my mail on-the-go at the moment, and there's always the server-side SquirrelMail if I'm desperate. If you don't have a flash drive, get one - I picked up the very speedy and durable Corsair units, and for $51 before a $15 mail-in-rebate, it's a steal to begin with. I'd have rather liked the 2GB one I saw for $75 or so (Sandisk, I think), but it was out of stock and I don't need that much space to go in my pocket anyways. My 16MB Gateway drive that I got for a mere $25 still holds a dozen floppies worth of data, and if I could be bothered to carry an iPod USB cable around with me everywhere, it'd be almost as nice as a solar-powered external drive (assuming that e.SATA ports end up becoming a front-mount option eventually).
Whatever, more busy work to deal with. Tonight's HHB homework is to read about eighty pages and a three-page-or-so essay on material that nobody in the class understands. Yay.
And go figure, my calendar plugin thing broke XHTML1.0 compliance. Oh noes! Troubleshootins' for another day, I suppose. Or just use a watch.
