To do list--done
Apr. 16th, 2009 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoSucceeded in upgrading the console firmware on the DS10 this morning. As with many Alpha things lately, success was based on advice from experienced users. The instructions provided by HP did not work, and failed to mention any of the methods that do work.
This afternoon, dug up 64 sq. ft. of garden, preparing for the strawberry plants. Hauled the hardware cloth cages to cover them out of the woods where Gary stashed them after the last time they were used. They'd been there a while, small saplings had grown up through the half inch squares, requiring some effort to get the things loose. We need those cages, though, or the neighbors' chickens will surely scratch all the young plants out of the ground before they have a chance to get established properly.
Convinced Gary that he'd be better off learning to use awk and sed for a data preparation he has to do than if he tried to write a C program to do it. Dug out my old Sed & Awk manual from the O'Reilly UNIX Power Tools series for him and then scared up a pair of archive CDs of the old SIMTEL archives that have gsed, gawk, egrep, and perl for MS-DOS on them. (Since there's no chance he'll use Linux for this, he will need versions of the utilities that run on a Windoze box.)
It's only 9 pm and I'm done for. I think it's the digging that did it.
This afternoon, dug up 64 sq. ft. of garden, preparing for the strawberry plants. Hauled the hardware cloth cages to cover them out of the woods where Gary stashed them after the last time they were used. They'd been there a while, small saplings had grown up through the half inch squares, requiring some effort to get the things loose. We need those cages, though, or the neighbors' chickens will surely scratch all the young plants out of the ground before they have a chance to get established properly.
Convinced Gary that he'd be better off learning to use awk and sed for a data preparation he has to do than if he tried to write a C program to do it. Dug out my old Sed & Awk manual from the O'Reilly UNIX Power Tools series for him and then scared up a pair of archive CDs of the old SIMTEL archives that have gsed, gawk, egrep, and perl for MS-DOS on them. (Since there's no chance he'll use Linux for this, he will need versions of the utilities that run on a Windoze box.)
It's only 9 pm and I'm done for. I think it's the digging that did it.
