I came very close to losing my shit over computer problems today. I was adding drive space to my rack server, you see, and it turns out the kernel... the uh... wow, I've been awake for a long time. Anyway, I had to upgrade the kernel (annoying++) rearrange all the guts and drives (scraped knuckles++) and get it to work with some kind of lamo driver from Promise technologies which only works with this one very specific kernel (screaming at this point) which didn't support disks over 33 Gigs (jumping up and down) and the installation of which would cause the bootloader to decide the drive geometry was fatally stupid and that it was pointless to ever try to load (throwing computers out the window at this point), requiring a "rescue floppy" to recover from, which needed to be put on some weird 1.7 meg floppy which my solaris machine didn't want to deal with (and neither did I) and my other machine with a floppy drive continuously got errors attempting to write to.

blah blah, more bad computer shit, I'm getting ticked off again just writing about it

Anyway. Turns out that once you write the shortened partition information to a drive and attach it to a fasttrak "raid" controller, you can not dissuade it of its small-ness, even if you upgrade the kernel, without taking it off the "Raid" controller and putting it back on the IDE interface. However! If lilo is run with these drives attached, the kernel will get geometry errors on boot and thus refuse to load past "LI". Of course, this was mostly found out through trial and error, since Promise does NOT support linux, officially. epithet epithet epithet so I had to plug and unplug these stupid things and reboot about nine thousand times

But it all works now! Totally huge drive online! Never run out of disk space again! I can go to sleep if I want!

Oh, I got a credit card, too. Honest to god credit. I've never seen one with my name on it like this before... verrrry interesting. I hear you can seriously fuck your finances up with these things. Horror stories of interest piling up upon interest. But now I have twice as many bird holograms in my wallet! Twice as many chances to make a thing to open locked doorknobs with. Twice as many colorful chits of status to wave in the face of modern commerce when I want other people to do things for me.

In other news: I cooked again tonight. Chopping onions into fine particles creates an effect which reminds me of teargas, but tastier.