I started eating sugar to stay awake.

I then finished off the corn chips that were hanging around on the desk.

I watched a bit of tv.

I put the computer into the new case, I managed to find the power pin headers I couldn't find the other day, they were hidden under the drive bays, and I couldn't find them because of the cdrom drive being in the way.

I also found a usb header on the motherboard, good, it can be used to run the front usb sockets that will undoubtedly be attempted to be used, resulting in "the usb doesn't work" unless I connect them to something. I plugged both sockets onto it.

I finished moving everything over into the new case, including the "new" disk, to replace the one that might be damaged.

I powered the machine up, it's making a terrible noise. The "new" disk is most of the noise, and the cpu fan is the rest of it.

I ripped the "new" disk out, using the old one, it's fine. I'm not going to replace it, the replacement disk sounds like the bearings are going.

I tested the usb ports, one works, the other does not. I found that you can't run 2 ports of one header (why do they have 10 pins, and you only use 4?) The usb card in the machine has a single pin header on it, so I moved the non working port onto that, so one port on the front is usb 1.1 (connected to the mobo) and the other is 2.0/1.1 on the usb pci card.

I'll buy a new cpu fan for this machine tomorrow, and then it's done.

My brother came in with a letter, at the same time my mate rang for a chat, I looked at the letter, it didn't look like something I wanted, it looked like a fine. Hmm, what could it be from? Could they have seen my plate yesterday? I wouldn't be getting a fine for starters, and it wouldn't arrive today. Maybe they somehow saw my plate when I buzzed the speed camera on my way up to Newcastle a couple of weeks back. Oh.. hangon, as far as they are concerned, I don't even live in this state.

I put the letter aside, without opening it, and tried to concentrate on the conversation on the phone.

I couldn't concentrate (and I don't remember any of the conversation), I opened the letter.. it was from the bank, oh is that all.

I went back to the conversation, when I got off the phone, I looked at the letter. It's a new PIN for my replacement card, oh bugger, they've changed my card number. I've had the same number since 1999, and now I have to remember a new one.

There's also direct payment things setup with those details. I wish the useless guy at the bank had told me the number would change, I would have tried to make the card last until August, when I would get a new one anyway, and keep the same number.

I put some dinner on, and did the washing up.

I got one my 486s, and made up a freesco disk to run on it.. disk failed. Argh, these damn floppy disks.

I ate my dinner.

I tried another disk, still no good. I tried earlier versions of syslinux, like I had to do last time I tried to use freesco on an old machine. Still no good. I tried my win98 boot disk I know works.. no good. I reckon this floppy drive is stuffed.

I found my new floppy drive my mate gave me a few days ago, connected it.. oh look, it works.

Freesco would try to boot, but fail to load the kernel.

I used norton disk doctor to "fix" a floppy, reimaged the disk, and then it worked, somewhat. I only wanted to see if the network card was working (I think so).

I watched some documentaries, one about frogs.

My mate (I go to dinner with) rang for a chat, because there was nothing on tv. Hmm, I really need to get something sorted out with these card interfaces, but I also need a proper internet connection. I chatted for a bit, about the pc being almost ready, and the replacement disk being stuffed. I got off the phone, because it was getting close to 10 minutes, and then my mate had to pay a lot more for the call.

I stopped procrastinating, and I started reading about ldap. I needed a few more packages installed, and some configuration changes.

I am currently trying to load in some ldap entries for authentication, so I can reconfigure (and test) radius configured to authenticate against ldap, this would be nice, since it will avoid users' passwords getting out of sync across machines.

If only I could work out what these error messages mean, and how to get past them.

I went to watch an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

The phone rings, I'm thinking "what does my mate (I got to dinner with) want now?"

I answer the phone, "Hello", "Where are you darlin'?" "uh, I think you've got a wrong number" "What number is that?" "it's (my number)" "it's not (some other number I don't remember, that's not my number)?" "no, this is (my number again)" "Is that the Grange (local pub)?" "No it's not" "Oh, I'm so sorry, bye" "bye".

Why is she so sorry, it's just a wrong number, oh yeah, it is 11.56pm.

I'm going to watch my episode of Aqua Teens, and then I'm going to bed.