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"The Graveyard"
I've essentially spent the past day and a half either at school (about 10 hours today) or trying to get my home network back up.
My server machine vengeance croaked in the late evening (all of a sudden segfaults everywhere and a plethora of files even root didn't have permission to stat, let alone read). I had my old workhorse marius up to pick up the task before midnight, but then suddenly the exact same thing happened. I was out of feasible answers, having no particular piece of hardware to blame it on, so I decided the problem was probably that I was trying to run modern Slackware (8.1) on old 586 machines.
So then I figured my best option would be to bring out my classic Athlon machine tron to handle the problem at least temporarily. I put Slack on it as I tried in vain to nap through the installation, and when it choked on my first couple of attempts to install LILO, I figured I'd better get some sanity sleep. A whole four and a half hours.
After I got back from school, nearly twelve hours after an already tired awakening, I got to the bottom of the LILO problem, threw on a few of my old configuration files, and now the basic IP masquerade functionality is active, for now. I'm going to make sure to do full backups of everything I need before I try to enable anything else.
I finally got to bed at about 21:30, with my alarm set for 00:30.
I half-awakened in bed. The light in my bedroom was off but I could see the ceiling in the glow of tron's monitor. I tried lifting my arms and my head. My muscles felt like loose rubber bands and my skull and limbs dropped like bricks. I soon perceived that every muscle in my body was in mild spasm, including my diaphragm (a phenomenon known as "hiccups"). My mind felt detached from my body; I was stuck in some paranoid delusion that I could not possibly decode, I felt anaesthetized, and I began to wonder whether I was about to die or have an...
"The Graveyard"
I've essentially spent the past day and a half either at school (about 10 hours today) or trying to get my home network back up.
My server machine vengeance croaked in the late evening (all of a sudden segfaults everywhere and a plethora of files even root didn't have permission to stat, let alone read). I had my old workhorse marius up to pick up the task before midnight, but then suddenly the exact same thing happened. I was out of feasible answers, having no particular piece of hardware to blame it on, so I decided the problem was probably that I was trying to run modern Slackware (8.1) on old 586 machines.
So then I figured my best option would be to bring out my classic Athlon machine tron to handle the problem at least temporarily. I put Slack on it as I tried in vain to nap through the installation, and when it choked on my first couple of attempts to install LILO, I figured I'd better get some sanity sleep. A whole four and a half hours.
After I got back from school, nearly twelve hours after an already tired awakening, I got to the bottom of the LILO problem, threw on a few of my old configuration files, and now the basic IP masquerade functionality is active, for now. I'm going to make sure to do full backups of everything I need before I try to enable anything else.
I finally got to bed at about 21:30, with my alarm set for 00:30.
I half-awakened in bed. The light in my bedroom was off but I could see the ceiling in the glow of tron's monitor. I tried lifting my arms and my head. My muscles felt like loose rubber bands and my skull and limbs dropped like bricks. I soon perceived that every muscle in my body was in mild spasm, including my diaphragm (a phenomenon known as "hiccups"). My mind felt detached from my body; I was stuck in some paranoid delusion that I could not possibly decode, I felt anaesthetized, and I began to wonder whether I was about to die or have an out of body experience. I finally resolved to come to and figure out why my alarm hadn't gone off yet.
It was 22:45. Of course.
So, here I am. And I still have the hiccups.
Mine is a hard mind to have.
Please love me.
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I've essentially spent the past day and a half either at school (about 10 hours today) or trying to get my home network back up.
My server machine vengeance croaked in the late evening (all of a sudden segfaults everywhere and a plethora of files even root didn't have permission to stat, let alone read). I had my old workhorse marius up to pick up the task before midnight, but then suddenly the exact same thing happened. I was out of feasible answers, having no particular piece of hardware to blame it on, so I decided the problem was probably that I was trying to run modern Slackware (8.1) on old 586 machines.
So then I figured my best option would be to bring out my classic Athlon machine tron to handle the problem at least temporarily. I put Slack on it as I tried in vain to nap through the installation, and when it choked on my first couple of attempts to install LILO, I figured I'd better get some sanity sleep. A whole four and a half hours.
After I got back from school, nearly twelve hours after an already tired awakening, I got to the bottom of the LILO problem, threw on a few of my old configuration files, and now the basic IP masquerade functionality is active, for now. I'm going to make sure to do full backups of everything I need before I try to enable anything else.
I finally got to bed at about 21:30, with my alarm set for 00:30.
I half-awakened in bed. The light in my bedroom was off but I could see the ceiling in the glow of tron's monitor. I tried lifting my arms and my head. My muscles felt like loose rubber bands and my skull and limbs dropped like bricks. I soon perceived that every muscle in my body was in mild spasm, including my diaphragm (a phenomenon known as "hiccups"). My mind felt detached from my body; I was stuck in some paranoid delusion that I could not possibly decode, I felt anaesthetized, and I began to wonder whether I was about to die or have an...