Weekend sort of
Mar. 11th, 2011 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoBut it isn't going to feel like one. Too many obligatory things on the schedule, so many in fact that they aren't all going to get done, obligatory or not.
At least the weather should be tolerable, though cloudy.
Apparently there was aurora visible last night as close as Madison, Wisconsin, so quite possibly it could be seen here. I didn't stay up late enough and go look. There is a possibility of a repeat tonight, but now it's cloudy of course. Last night it was pretty clear, at least at 10 pm.
Windows utilities fail to see or read Gary's primary HD on his desktop machine. Looks like a hardware crash, except that when I boot the machine from a Linux LiveCD the drive is readable. I'm guessing something is scrambled in the NTFS but it must be something that Linux ignores. Currently copying files off for him onto a USB attached HD so he can copy them onto his laptop and make sure they are in fact usable.
At least the weather should be tolerable, though cloudy.
Apparently there was aurora visible last night as close as Madison, Wisconsin, so quite possibly it could be seen here. I didn't stay up late enough and go look. There is a possibility of a repeat tonight, but now it's cloudy of course. Last night it was pretty clear, at least at 10 pm.
Windows utilities fail to see or read Gary's primary HD on his desktop machine. Looks like a hardware crash, except that when I boot the machine from a Linux LiveCD the drive is readable. I'm guessing something is scrambled in the NTFS but it must be something that Linux ignores. Currently copying files off for him onto a USB attached HD so he can copy them onto his laptop and make sure they are in fact usable.
