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[geekchick]

Things accomplished today:

• Got rickrolled by LJ, right off the bat. Oh, the embarrassment. Apparently that was the prank du jour for a lot of sites; none of them were anywhere NEAR as funny as the rickroll via singing telegram though.
  
• Didn't kill anyone all day. (Two more hours to go though as I type this, so maybe I shouldn't speak too soon.)
  
• Got a fair amount of tedious but necessary work done. Allergies have kicked in, so I'm both tired and stupid all day long and "tedious, but necessary" is about the right speed.
  
• Dicovered I'm boned on the RAID setup; Intel tells me that the only way I'll be able to get it working is to wipe my primary drive and set up a new volume. Yeah, no.
  
• Actually left the office for 90 minutes or so mid-afternoon to go get some coffee and enjoy the fact that it was 80 freakin' degrees and sunny.
  
• Picked up the new Dresden Files book, although I am trying to convince myself to finish "King Solomon's Ring" first.
  
• Ran across one of the Pinecone Research banners and signed up; a couple extra bucks here and there wouldn't be a bad thing.
  
• No carry-out meals consumed at all today. Actually cooked a real meal (as opposed to take-out or just having a bowl of Kraft Mac & Cheese or the like) for the first time in a while: black beans and rice with sausage, topped with chicken breast solidly coated in a mixture of a bit of flour, a whole lot of Penzeys' Cajun seasoning, not quite as much Penzeys' red and black pepper blend, chipotle seasoning, and a little paprika and then pan-fried. Om nom nom nom.
  

I think the rest of the night will be devoted to taking some Claritin, watching a bit of tv via Hulu, and then crawling into bed by midnight since thanks to allergy season kicking into high gear, I appear to be needing at least seven solid hours of sleep in order to even drag my butt out of bed.

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[asetwoman.livejournal.com]

Dicovered I'm boned on the RAID setup; Intel tells me that the only way I'll be able to get it working is to wipe my primary drive and set up a new volume. Yeah, no.

Were you trying to rebuild an existing RAID config? Yeah, normally you can't do that because RAID is done and parity calculated as the data is written to the drive(s). Or was it something else?

[geekchick]

Nah, trying to migrate an existing single-drive setup to a two-drive RAID 1. The software presents me with a "create a new volume from an existing drive" option, but it fails consistently. According to the fine folks at customer support (after they boggle a bit that my system would even boot after changing a BIOS setting), the only thing I can do is to set up a new volume using the option ROM and then perform a clean install of the OS including their drivers. Yeah, not so terribly interested in doing that right now, so I'll just back up to that second drive instead I guess.

[asetwoman.livejournal.com]

I don't know what RAID software you're using (I'm assuming you have no hardware RAID controller), but since RAID 1 has no parity, it really shouldn't be that difficult. So bah on that!

[geekchick]

It's the Intel 82801GR/GH SATA AHCI controller and their Matrix Storage Manager software. My coworker went through this process with zero problems, but apparently his Dell and my Dell were configured slightly differently. Yay.

I think I've already spent enough time on it, given that it wasn't even my idea to set up RAID anyway. ;)

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

Intel tells me that the only way I'll be able to get it working is to wipe my primary drive and set up a new volume.

"Only?" They're tools. The other way is buy drive #3, build volume out of drives #2 and #3, then copy #1 to volume.

[geekchick]

Well, yeah, there's always that option (which occurred to me, but I haven't yet wanted to wheedle my way into permission to buy another drive). I did specifically ask them though about why creating a volume from an existing drive with the two drives I had on hand was failing, so I don't necessarily award them automatic tool status for not telling me flat-out to buy another @#$% drive already; "only way" was imprecision on my part. =)

Hey, completely unrelated, but since I'm here: are you thinking of seeing Janeane at the Drunkhouse?

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

I dunno, but you could probably twist my arm.      ;-)

[geekchick]

I'm thinking of grabbing tickets for at least myself and Chris for one of the Saturday night shows. I hear there will also be beer there. Wanna consider your arm twisted?

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

My standard fried chicken coating is flour, Penzey's Cajun Seasoning, Penzey's Ground Chipotle Pepper, Penzey's Paprika (either smoked or Spanish Sweet), and a few good grinds from the Lemon Rind and Tellicherry Black Pepper Grinder from Costco. Amounts vary depending upon my mood and how much we have of stuff on hand.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

And it was intensely good, tonight! Mmmmm....

bah

[he-who-wanders.livejournal.com]

I completely missed that the new Dresden was out, off to the book store tonite i guess...

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Mr. X and I were reading my flist just now -- he pointed to your icon and said "There are the wonder pets!"

Good eye, Tuck.

This calls for some celery!

[geekchick]

Yep! I have no idea what made me pick up "The Wonder Pets Save the Wonder Pets" from Redbox last week, but I did, and I watched it, and now I can't stop singing "This is serious!" at (mostly) appropriate times. Heh.

Oh, I think I do know what it was that made me rent it: "Eeee!! It's a GUINEA PIG in a BASEBALL CAP! And I can rent it for $1." I'm easily amused, what can I say?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

BTW... what's "rickrolling"?