Unhurriedly

We’ve elected to leave our iPhones here in the good ol’ U. S. of A. For various reasons, mostly involving money, we thought it would be a bad idea to bring them, including; $1.99/min voice and $0.016/KB data (thats $16.384/MB!) and the potential replacement costs should something happen. Staying behind as well will my trusty MacBook Pro.

So, we are going on a bit of a technological camping trip. You know, deprived of modern conveniences and forced to rough it like the pioneers. Packed with me are; an old 3.2 meg Sony Cybershot with a whopping 128 MB card, an ailing 4th Gen 20GB iPod, a 1st Gen 1GB iPod Shuffle as a backup and a 3+ year old Dell Latitude C400 running Debian Etch loaded with Picassa and Gimp for photos. I’m also lugging around my non-iPhone work cell, a rugged Motorola ic502 and my Nintendo DS with a few games. Oh, and a book, Samuel Delany’s Dhalgren which I’ve read a few times through.

I know, talk about a rough time… It will only get up to the mid 80’s while we’re there too!

Bethany is taking her new Kodak Z812 and her video iPod to pull photos with, so she is not slumming it as much as I am for a change.

There are claims of internet access, so hopefully I’ll be able to update while I’m down there. It’s not going to be a live-blog by any means, but I want to at least post some twitter and a photo or two.

See you there!

I’ll admit, I checked on it more than once throughout the day.

glenn@stammdebian:~$ uptime
16:49:06 up 318 days, 4:27, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00

We made it through. I don’t know how long the power was off, or if it was even off at all. We may have to go through this all over again next week if they didn’t finish.

Just another 47 days of worry…

Linux 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Last login: Wed Feb 17 13:06:58 2006 from [obscured]
glenn@stammdebian:~$ uptime
14:49:53 up 317 days, 2:28, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00

In just a few short month my precious little trooper of a Debian box will have been up, without a reboot, for a year.

Unfortunatly, in the infinte wisdom of those that be, our buildings power will be upgraded on Sunday.

This could easily be a much longer post as I describe my turmoil and the jeers of my fellow co-workers. I had gone so far as to consider renting a gas powered generator and babysitting the damn thing. Time and money have made this an overzealos plan.

Dave is going to power down the Stamm servers, like any other sane person would do and I am going to try to ride out the storm on the then nearly zero load UPS.

We’ll all find out on Monday whether or not it made it over the weekend.

317 days…