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Summer is fun also

Nate — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:57:35 +0000

Just posted this to contrast it with the winter post that I left up for so long

Freeing up space

Nate — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:08:58 +0000

The best way to free up the most space on a linux server the “rm” command. For example, to free up space on the /home partition, you can use:

rm -rf /home

Be certain to run this as the root user for best results.

You can even free up space on the entire drive if needed with:

rm -rf /

You will soon find considerably more space available on your drive when this command has completed.

Note: Do not take this too seriously.

New install

Nate — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:30:04 +0000

The server has been totally reinstalled. Seems a little better, but most likely there is still stuff that is broke.

Winter is fun

Nate — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:50:31 +0000

Nothing like starting your day this way.

Don’t give your iPhone a bath

Nate — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:11:42 +0000

Everyone in the family seems to like to borrow my phone, and that’s usually not a problem. That is unless you’re planning on texting your friend while taking a bath, which is what my wife did the other day.

One major design flaw in the iPhone immediately becomes clear when you’re frantically trying to shut the thing off but the screen backlight doesn’t work and what you can see of the screen is flickering. On any other phone you would just pop the battery out, but not this one. I did eventually get the phone to power down, which was probably a good thing since it was starting to getting pretty hot, probably from the battery shorting out or something.

Also on a regular phone, you could take the thing apart and dry it out thoroughly, but that too is a problem with the iPhone. If you’ve seen the video on youtube where they just sort of pop the back off the phone let me reassure you that this is not the case. Even with the entire edge of the phone display separated, my phone case did not want to come apart, so I’ve got the nice scratches near the bottom. In fact, I gave up after it became apparent that the cover was trying to take some pieces with it. I settled for having just the sim card cover off and case edges separated somewhat.

Now that I’ve trashed them, I’ll have to give the iPhone designers (or perhaps the Chinese company that actually builds it) some credit, becasue my phone survived this situation.

After a lengthy hair drier session (I found the “cool” setting to be quite useful) and a day spent in a soft bed of rice, this story has a happy ending. Once the condensation cleared up from the camera lens I decided it was probably safe to power the phone back up again. Sure enough, it is now working fine again, but I’m not too sure about the battery capacity – it seems perhaps somewhat less than before, which was never great.

Anyway, the real story here is that you should never immerse an electronics device it water, least of all one with it’s “hood bolted shut”.

Back to school

Nate — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:47:24 +0000

Well, the kids are back in school. Here’s a picture on the first day.

Justin and Elizabeth

Nate — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:20:16 +0000

Justin’s cousins Elizabeth and Zack are at my parents for a few days.

Pictures are updated

Nate — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:37:46 +0000

I’ve updated all the pictures. I still need to update my gallery program to match the rest of the site better, but I’m feeling lazy. Besides it seems to work pretty good.

Upgrade

Nate — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:00:55 +0000

I broke some stuff with the latest upgrade.

More baseball

Nate — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:16:21 +0000

Turns out the kids will be playing their games on the same days this year, just to make things more interesting I guess.