April 24, 2005

One volume

It's been an unusual and not very productive weekend but I've finally dealt with the one task I really wanted to finish up. Everything is now on a single partition and it all appears to be working with the exception of some fink X11 stuff.

After attending an auction and dinner for our local elementary school on Friday, I started the process of cloning and rearranging everything which took most of yesterday to get all the kinks worked out. Along the way I had a scare for about half an hour yesterday when I thought I was going to need to resurrect ten years of mail from various pieces of backup data. In the end, it was the bizarre behavior of Eudora and my own sloppiness while moving everything that caused the problems.

Today I just had to shove everything back onto the internal drive where things once again seem to be working properly (and a heck a lot more quietly; the external drive may be big and fast but the noise was getting to me this morning when the rest of the house was quiet).

All that's left is fink. If I can figure out how to force a rebuild of everything I should be done with this project and ready to move to a larger drive on the AlBook soon.

Posted by Dave at April 24, 2005 05:17 PM
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Unusual weekend for me, too. Dropped by the Huntington Library where a bunch of Isaac Newton's books and journals are on display. This is definitely well worth the trip, just to see Hooke and Descartes illustrations, not to mention Newton's journals in his own handwriting. It seems that scholarly men of the time wrote in Latin, but his own daily journal is in English. Lots of diagrams interstitially in the text (we'd say today that the text flowed around the graphic diagram on the page). Also some notes on alchemy, literal notes of a sequence of tunes. Irene was with me, she hummed a few bars of this 450-year-old music, it sounded like a chant.

Posted by: George Girton on April 24, 2005 09:26 PM commLink

Woah! George, your weekend was a far more productive use of time than mine.

According to The Huntington Library description the Newton exhibit will be there until June 12.

I think Jon will like this a lot, especially if we talk about it before hand.

Posted by: Dave Ely on April 25, 2005 12:28 AM commLink