In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You're on a roll Brenda!
Have you ever tried making something work that for the life of you, you couldn't get working, only to have it accidentally start working for you after messing around with it for hours and you have no explanation why it did?
That's where I'm at right now, regarding something I'm making for my friend and his daughter with an old, crappy laptop that I got from the old man now that he has a speedy new one that was gifted to him for Christmas.
We're in this in-between time with old and new tech again, and for whatever reason I could not get this ancient BIOS on the right settings to read a Linux distro from the internal hard drive (Somewhat similar to a problem I was talking about YEARS ago when I tried installing an SSD to an old all in one PC that wouldn't read any OS from the newer tech).
I was just about to resign myself to buying a USB nub drive and running it from that (which would be slower, but should still have worked for the purpose), but then all of the sudden on a reboot it worked just fine.
What the heck did I do right this time? It's not as if that old BIOS had a lot of options to try out.
Oh well. I won't look a gift horse in the mouth. I'm just going to make sure I lock it down so they can't screw it up and press on with the stuff I thought I might actually have finished before I went to bed tonight. I think I have one more hurdle to jump through because I'm not super familiar with Linux, but I should be able to figure it out from here, and it's always good learning new things.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
I am. I'm just hoping to get it finished by the weekend.
Not anything that technical.
No, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Just be glad you got it working for sure.
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Out for my walk in the cold in a bit. Stuff to do.
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Walk in and then dishes done when I got back. I also put in an hour's worth of book work. 
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NICE!
Been working on that project more or less all day. It's going to work, but it's going to be a lot more work than I thought it would. That's okay. My time is cheap right now.
It is so cold outside right now, and windy too so it's sucking the heat out of the house. I broke down and turned the heat up to 53, but I think I'm going to have to go higher overnight so the pipes don't freeze.
Glad it's only 3 days of this crap this week instead of the 10 days of it we were supposed to get.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Out for my walk and my errands in the cold and snow. The snow arrived over night and it's not much. But boots and cane needed.
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Back from my errands and all is dry now. It had been trying to snow while I was out. Managed to get Ch. 24 finished and start Ch. 25.
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Got a call about a pick up game of mah jong for tomorrow then got another call from the head saying that it was cancelled. Probably people leery of the snow the weather people are calling for tomorrow.
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Looks like we're both making progress today Brenda.
Unfortunately it looks like I'm so behind now with what I'm doing that in order to make it work with the new software I have a LOT of manual things I need to do to get it all working right.
Not the end of the world, but even though I know what I'm doing after a deep dive inside the software it's not going to be a fast process to make this work unless I learn some coding tricks or just keep brute forcing away at it.
So do I spend what could be a few days learning something and possibly wasting that time getting nothing done, or do I keep doing it the stupid way manually and at least feel like I'm accomplishing something?
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Yeah, I am SIX.
That's difficult question you have to answer there. But I'm sure you'll figure some thig out.
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