{"id":408,"date":"2004-04-27T22:21:26","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T22:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20040427222126"},"modified":"2004-04-28T03:53:40","modified_gmt":"2004-04-28T03:53:40","slug":"27042004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/27042004\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was coming home on Friday evening I had a plan for the weekend.  I was going to enjoy the nice weather we&#8217;d been forecast, and take lots of photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/venice-chilies.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/venice-chilies-small.jpg\" alt=\"Chilies for sale at a Venetian market.\" title=\"Click for larger view.\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12\"><\/a>Within half an hour of arriving home my plan was confounded by a dying hard drive.  At first I wasn&#8217;t sure where the sound was coming from, but the stream of I\/O errors to the console confirmed that my hard drive was on its way out.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to take advantage of the new hard drive, which I had to buy, and upgrade from Debian to Fedora.  The installation of Fedora went very smoothly, detecting all of my hardware even down the make and model of monitor.  <\/p>\n<p>Restoring all of the software services that I run, and recovering my data off the old drive, took most of the weekend.  I&#8217;m still not finished, but the essentials are working (Subversion, TALAggregator, CUPS, NFS, MySQL, etc).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve since attempted (and so far failed) to upgrade my machine to 100MB ethernet on the internal network, and added a 2nd 120GB to act as backup.<\/p>\n<p>The good side of this upgrade is that my machine now has a new lease of life.  Fedora is much faster than Debian, probably due to a combination of kernel tweaks and a newer version of Gnome.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo is of some chilies for sale at a Venetian market.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was coming home on Friday evening I had a plan for the weekend. I was going to enjoy the nice weather we&#8217;d been forecast, and take lots of photos. Within half an hour of arriving home my plan was confounded by a dying hard drive. At first I wasn&#8217;t sure where the sound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}