Okay then

Drove to Encinitas this morning to check on the server. it was sitting there waiting for someone to do something.

For reasons unknown, the machine had been power cycled and it was stuck part way through the boot process. Seems it had trouble with the superblock on one of the raid devices. and it was waiting for someone to run a manual check on the device.

After a bit of time -- while I was trying to remember anything about the raid tools on that old RedHat machine -- I finally go the system to reboot.

There was nothing wrong with the raid arrays. There was nothing wrong with any of the disks in the arrays. There was nothing wrong at all EXCEPT that the raidtab didn't have an entry for /dev/md2.

So, when the checks were made, md2 failed with a misleading error. Fix the raidtab and all is well.

Sigh.

Funny in a sick and twisted way

I sent California my taxes last month.

California cashed my check. A little while ago, I received a check from California for the full amount of my tax payment. That is, I wrote them a check and they wrote once back to me. No explanation.

I sat on the check until this morning when I finally deposited it.

In this afternoon's mail deliver is a letter from the state. I figure it's an explanation. Good, says I.

Nope. It's a bill telling me I still owe the full amount of my taxes.

What a load of crap!

hp7410

My new printer comes with a built-in memory card reader for all the kinds of cards currently in use. It is possible to print directly from the cards or, through usb, directly from a camera.

It is also possible to down load the contents of a card to any computer on the network. This, though, requires the hp drivers. It does not seem to be directly accessible. HP makes a linux driver for this printer. that is the major reason I love HP printers.

As I type this, 271 photos (36MB total) are being moved to a directory on my laptop. At the rate it is transferring the images, it's going to take more than an hour. This is really pathetic!

WAIT. I just found out it's all in python! I can find out what the printer expects and use, maybe, a faster tool!