10:40 PM

Shoot. Power problems reared their ugly head with Al-Rassan yesterday.

Things were going so swimmingly, too - things were really starting to come together on that machine. Then I dropped it and caused the AC adapter to stop working. Everything else was fine, but the battery stopped charging and I couldn’t get it to come back on. I cracked open the case to make sure there wasn’t anything loose, but didn’t find any problems. So finally I sealed her up and figured I’d wait to see what I could do.

This morning, on a whim, I took the power pack from my work Thinkpad and tried it. Voila! Worked fine - thankfully. So now I’ve just got to find a replacement on eBay to get Al-Rassan back up and running.

In the meantime, I tried once again to upgrade Tigana to a more recent distro than Redhat 7.2: this time, Fedora 2. No such luck. Still can’t get the CD-ROM to be recognized (even though I boot off of it.) What the heck is up with that? My next trick will be to try to install 7.3 on it and see if that gives me network/USB support.

In the meanwhile, I’m getting reacquainted with Arbonne. She’s still a good machine, after all these years.