{"id":1915,"date":"2009-09-04T23:48:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T04:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2009-09-04T23:51:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T04:51:46","slug":"wedding-sick-nessy-xen-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2009\/09\/wedding-sick-nessy-xen-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding, sick, Nessy, Xen server"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wedding I attended on Saturday for Jonathan and Crissi was very nice (photos by Andrew Keyes<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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There was nommy cake!<\/p>\n

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And I told #plug folks once the wedding was done (I met Jonathan through PLUG):<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, after arriving home after the wedding I was feeling a bit tired, later in the evening I started feeling achy. By Sunday it was a cold, Monday I saw my doctor because I was concerned about a cold with the ongoing sinus issues and the never-ending cough. Ended up being sick for much of the week, even considered finding someone to fill in for my PLUG talk on Wednesday, but I managed to load up on DayQuil and make it through alright. I’ll blog about that soon, and post slides. I started feeling better late Thursday, and today aside from a few side-effects from an anti-biotic (I’ll need to be very gentle on my stomach this coming week) I’m on I’m mostly recovered from the cold.<\/p>\n

This afternoon I took my bike, Nessy, down to Tri-County Bicycles<\/a> for some work on the gears. The guy at the shop was super-friendly and helpful, they will look at the gears over the weekend and reset them. Assuming I don’t need anything replaced, I’m also going to pick up a couple cheap hybrid tires that I can use on both my trainer and on roads – plus won’t be bad for the infrequent dirt trail biking I do these days, no more need to swap out tires when I go from trainer to outdoor riding!<\/p>\n

I also recently snagged a small NVidia 8400 GS PCI card for my Xen server. Unfortunately I didn’t do my research first, it was a cheap impulse buy. After hours of struggling with this silly GeForce, I was still having overscan problems (they yanked overscan fiddling support from the linux driver after the 7xxx series, overscanning isn’t too bad so I’ll live with it), video tearing (annoying, I need to try harder to fix this) and I learned that the proprietary nvidia driver doesn’t play nicely with Xen kernels – so I have to boot into a non-xen kernel to watch movies on my TV. I am not impressed, should have gone with a cheap ATI. Still, even with these issues it’s a much better connected-to-tv system than my old Inspiron 7500 laptop, which served me well but really was too slow to be a reasonable player. I’m also considering tossing Nagios3 on the Xen server, now that it’s always turned on either as my Xen testbed server or as my media PC I figure it’s a reasonable machine to run my currently non-existent monitoring infrastructure from.<\/p>\n

And now, bedtime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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