W-ainy day
Jul. 8th, 2009 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoIt wained most of the day because it was W-day.
I did get out in the early sprinkle to set more plants out into the garden (hot peppers) and plant some beans. Mosquitoes were fierce, but it was cool enough that I was wearing a long sleeve sweatshirt and sweat pants, so only my hands and face were uncovered. Still, it didn't encourage dawdling.
Watered everything before going back in, but then it began to rain anyway. Slow, gentle rain, the ideal kind for the garden.
On a whim, bought a couple of old slide rules off Ebay. I have a decent one, but it's the student rule that was distributed by the Cleveland Institute of Electronics, and has special scales and a bunch of electronics formulas on the back side. A great tool for doing electronics work, but I wanted a standard log log rule that I could take into an exam with me. The one with all the cheat formulas printed on the back would never do. Settled on a Pickett N-500-ES, the aluminum kind with yellow background instead of white. This one comes with the traditional leather belt holster that all the engineering geeks used to wear when I was in college, and the seller threw in a Dietzgen student rule and case as well. So now I am slide rule "rich."
At work I managed to lock up my desktop computer again, second time in a week, from apparent overheating. Except when the case is opened the heat sinks are barely warm. I suspect a faulty temperature sensor. The problem does appear to be related to BOINC software running in the background and ignoring settings to limit CPU usage. When BOINC is stopped, the problem doesn't occur. So I gave in and am draining the remaining work units from that machine, after which I will shut down BOINC on it.
Installed Virtual Box so I could compare it with VMware. So far, I'm favorably impressed. I loaded it with Debian since I had the installation CD handy, but I will bring my Solaris CD from home and try that next. VMware makes no claim to support Solaris and I haven't tried it with the product, but since Virtual Box is open source ware sponsored by Sun, it explicitly supports Solaris. (But not FreeBSD? I wonder why that is...)
I did get out in the early sprinkle to set more plants out into the garden (hot peppers) and plant some beans. Mosquitoes were fierce, but it was cool enough that I was wearing a long sleeve sweatshirt and sweat pants, so only my hands and face were uncovered. Still, it didn't encourage dawdling.
Watered everything before going back in, but then it began to rain anyway. Slow, gentle rain, the ideal kind for the garden.
On a whim, bought a couple of old slide rules off Ebay. I have a decent one, but it's the student rule that was distributed by the Cleveland Institute of Electronics, and has special scales and a bunch of electronics formulas on the back side. A great tool for doing electronics work, but I wanted a standard log log rule that I could take into an exam with me. The one with all the cheat formulas printed on the back would never do. Settled on a Pickett N-500-ES, the aluminum kind with yellow background instead of white. This one comes with the traditional leather belt holster that all the engineering geeks used to wear when I was in college, and the seller threw in a Dietzgen student rule and case as well. So now I am slide rule "rich."
At work I managed to lock up my desktop computer again, second time in a week, from apparent overheating. Except when the case is opened the heat sinks are barely warm. I suspect a faulty temperature sensor. The problem does appear to be related to BOINC software running in the background and ignoring settings to limit CPU usage. When BOINC is stopped, the problem doesn't occur. So I gave in and am draining the remaining work units from that machine, after which I will shut down BOINC on it.
Installed Virtual Box so I could compare it with VMware. So far, I'm favorably impressed. I loaded it with Debian since I had the installation CD handy, but I will bring my Solaris CD from home and try that next. VMware makes no claim to support Solaris and I haven't tried it with the product, but since Virtual Box is open source ware sponsored by Sun, it explicitly supports Solaris. (But not FreeBSD? I wonder why that is...)
