Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Month: <span>December 2002</span>

Many folks complain about not being able to mount NTFS partitions (such as on Windows 2000/XP) with their newly-installed Red Hat Linux systems. Red Hat does not ship with NTFS as a supported file system because there is not currently any reliable write support. Customers who think they have full …

Christmas treated me pretty well — a Line 6 GuitarPort, and a bunch of books, including Chuck Palahniuk’s new book Lullaby, Umberto Eco’s new book Baudolino, a beautiful HC, slipcased Lord of the Rings trilogy, and an equally beautiful HC, slipcased The Hobbit. Plus some Best Buy GC’s which I …

All right, although I haven’t caught up with getting all my pictures of Evie uploaded, there are a bunch of them in the site now. The unfortunate part is that I have to build pages for them, since the Mac server where this page is sitting doesn’t automatically deliver index …

I just got back from Raleigh, and Red Hat HQ. Their new building on Centennial Campus is lovely! I had a seminar with my old instructor Randy Russell, for Red Hat Certified Examiner (RHCX) training. It was a great class and well worth the trip. I got back late Friday …

It looks like Line 6 is about to unleash their newest revolutionary creation on the world of guitar-slingers. Check out the Variax — as if your life depended on it! This will undoubtedly be my next major axe purchase, if it comes anywhere near the hype.

So here’s the scoop: Leah Morgan in Concert Sunday, Dec. 22 – 7:30 p.m. 1947 Virginia Ave., McLean, VA This is a house concert* and therefore you must RSVP either to me or Leah, due to limited seating. We will gratefully accept voluntary donations at the door; $10 per head …

I’ve finished my poor man’s steady-cam and it works great! I’ll post a couple short clips to illustrate when I get a chance, maybe this coming weekend. Total cost: under $13. The link above is to a UVa student who designed and built the original, and then posted his plans. …

Yet another batch of great new tunes from Leah on Saturday! We have a performance coming up on Sunday the 22nd at which we’ll be playing all these pieces. I’ll post more details here shortly. Also, we now have an e-mail address for correspondence about the bass position we have …

I haven’t posted recently because we were away on vacation, but I got back in town just in time to… take some more leave, since we got a bunch of snow dumped on us. ? Now I am enjoying some computer time; since I shoveled the driveway, my wife is …