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renting my woes away
After calling every auto shop in town, poking around under the dashboard, and hours of subaru googling, the solution has become apparent. We’ll be going to our wedding in a rental car, and worry about our poor subaru when we return…
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Modern Auto Errors
Here’s a situation where I want an error message and can’t get it. My ’96 Subaru Legacy’s “check engine” light has come on, and some googling suggested that I might be able to retrieve an error code that would tell what is wrong. After reading some instructions and making several trips out to peer under…
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AT&T drops the bytes
For those, including myself, who have unable to access my site for a few days, we can thank AT&T for mistakenly dropping iAdvantage, the biggest Internet Service Provider in Asia, from their network on Friday.
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The plot sickens
I fear a grand conspiracy is being unveiled. The are no Subaru mechanics in town, and the import shop that has done work on my car for me is closed until August 4. Dennis is on vacation. Maybe it’s time to call Click and Clack.
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The game begins
There five days to go until my wedding day. I will be doing several hundred miles of driving, including playing chauffeur for my guests. Late Saturday night, very visibly, and somehow ominously, the “check engine” light began to glow in my Subaru. So the planned things are starting to happen, and also the unplanned. I…
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Creepy Illusion
This one is especially good at making you doubt your senses.
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buffer_jdirty (bh)
Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: “buffer_jdirty (bh)” Came in to find this message on our trusty dual-processor database server this morning. It’s on RedHat’s errata page, the first fix for 7.3, a problem with the Symmetric Multiprocessor Kernel. The annoying thing is that the kernel with just that fix is no longer available, they…
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Operation Failed
Outlook is saying this to me this morning when I hit the Send button. Almost funny in it’s uselessness.
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Great Falls Basin
On a whim, Ann and I took off late Saturday night for Great Falls Basin, where we slept under an amazing sky and woke up early to get a climb in. This route is one of my favorites, Frosted Flakes (5.9). It requires some uncertain smearing, a little edging, and has an easy dihedral at…
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31 years old
After making Ann put together a shrimp fajita and marguerita dinner that could be prepared and served in the mountains, I ended up choosing to have it in the back yard. I swung in the hammock, sipped my drink, and read Don Quixote while she cooked me the tastiest meal to come out of my…