The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Firefighter 1 update

| April 13, 2008

I just passed the online FEMA/DHS ICS-100 course, which had to be done by midterm (which is in about two weeks), so that is all set. I'm slightly behind on the reading, but I expect to get caught up today. In addition, I'm going to have to practice putting on my gear more quickly. We [...]

Got the T60…

| April 6, 2008

I ended up keeping the hacker thing going and rechristening it “Hiro”, just like the previous laptop. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 Beta, AMD64 – Wireless does not work during install, but works fine on the installed OS (effectively, “out of the box”). – Video card works in 2D using “Radeon” driver. Will try the “RadeonHD” [...]

Computer naming patterns

| April 5, 2008

In the past, I have named my computers after characters from hacker literature. Thus: hiro case molly yt I am considering a departure from this pattern, but cannot come up with a better pattern or theme. Ideally, we should: – allow for at lease half a dozen different names. – have all of them be [...]

Well, the crappy plastic skid plate is gone…

| April 1, 2008

The thaw this morning heaved up a lot of the ground, and the crappy plastic skid plate was mostly broken off, as are my front 2 mud flaps. I took off the skid plate and ordered a Panzer Plate. I need to get some ramps, though, so I can install it.

Getting up early..

| April 1, 2008

Is hard when it's foggy out (so it's not very light), cold (because that's how Lizzy likes it when we sleep) and you're all snuggled up in bed with the cats and the missus. Needless to say, it did not work this morning. I think I will stick with the old sleep pattern until we [...]