It's worth every penny.
Until today, I was using the subdomain athena.gentoolinux.be through freedns.agraid.org for athena's DNS. I have a neat little script that keeps track of what my IP address is, and then if it changes, it automatically updates the DNS listing for my box, and the world can keep on accessing all the wonderful pictures and such that I host there. This is all fine and dandy, but it so happens that the owner of gentoolinux.be is a bit temperamental, and so this morning athena was nowhere to be found. Oh, the IP address hadn't changed, ports 22 and 80 are still forwarded there from the router, and apache and sshd were chugging along just fine, but the DNS listing had disappeared.
I had no idea what was wrong. And I was counting on tar-ing up and transferring a Harry Potter sound track MP3 folder today. Bummer. My first thought was to interrogate RFH: he was doing something with athena after 12:30 last night, but it turns out all he did was watch an episode of "Jack and Bobby," so that was a dead end.
I didn't think to try just using the IP address until I got home and discovered everything was working just fine.
So anyway, I switched the domain from gentoolinux.be to gentoo-server.be, so now athena can be accessed via athena.gentoo-server.be. This domain is "public" at freedns.afraid.org, so hopefully there won't be another similar incident. I sent off a message to the owner of gentoolinux.be to ask him to restore my ability to use it. There are a grand total of 3 domains available for use with "gentoo" in them. It's not essential to have that in the name, but I like it there.
I updated the links on my blog template (actually, I changed it so that it only needs to be updated in one place at the top in a JavaScript variable that gets referenced several times throughout the page).
I didn't go through and update all the links in my blog entries, although I did do the Rattlesnake Ledge photos one. I discovered that you can't put JavaScript inside the blog entries themselves. If I get athena.gentoolinux.be back, then I'll leave things as they are, but if I don't then I'll have to go back through and update each link.
If someone wants to look at photos that have a dead link, all they need to do is click on the "athena" link on the top or bottom of the page and browse to ~tim/photos/.
Showing posts with label roommate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roommate. Show all posts
Monday, June 12, 2006
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
It's a quest, not a commute
Try telling a hiker "you could just drive there" or NASA, "there isn't anything useful on Mars; it's just a big rock with little rocks on it, and a tiny bit of ice. We can make ice in a freezer and we have plenty of rocks here, and even if Mars were made of platinum or gold, the cost of mining it and transporting any of it here would outweigh the benefit by orders of magnitude."
Go ahead, try it. They won't listen. They will ignore you or tell you to shut up and go away. If they're feeling particularly benevolent and your inquiry seems to spring entirely from ignorance, they might just explain to you that the simplistic end result is not what they're after at all.
Needless to say, RFH, while largely ignorant, seemed to be motivated more by a desire to annoy me when he suggested (for like the fifth time) that I use a Windows install CD on Athena. (And yet each time he says it, I'm more and more impressed with the quick wit required to come up with this stuff time and time again. How does he do it?)
You see, I am in the process of installing a 64-bit Linux Kernel and I haven't got the configuration right just yet. It works fine using genkernel, which basically compiles everything as a loadable module and auto-loads what it needs at bootup based on hardware detection. The trouble is I don't want it that way. I want a lean mean kernel with compiled-in support for my hardware.
So, I have two kernels currently, and I can select the one I want to boot from GRUB. If I select my custom-configured one, it immediately blanks the screen (after setting the resolution) and I don't hear from it again. No logging. Nothing.
Well, there's a possibility that it's just taking a while to boot and if I wait a bit I can try and ssh in, but I haven't gotten to that yet. Most likely, though, it's a missing driver. I thought I included the proper modules for my hardware components, but I guess not.
I'm not doing this because it's easy.
Go ahead, try it. They won't listen. They will ignore you or tell you to shut up and go away. If they're feeling particularly benevolent and your inquiry seems to spring entirely from ignorance, they might just explain to you that the simplistic end result is not what they're after at all.
Needless to say, RFH, while largely ignorant, seemed to be motivated more by a desire to annoy me when he suggested (for like the fifth time) that I use a Windows install CD on Athena. (And yet each time he says it, I'm more and more impressed with the quick wit required to come up with this stuff time and time again. How does he do it?)
You see, I am in the process of installing a 64-bit Linux Kernel and I haven't got the configuration right just yet. It works fine using genkernel, which basically compiles everything as a loadable module and auto-loads what it needs at bootup based on hardware detection. The trouble is I don't want it that way. I want a lean mean kernel with compiled-in support for my hardware.
So, I have two kernels currently, and I can select the one I want to boot from GRUB. If I select my custom-configured one, it immediately blanks the screen (after setting the resolution) and I don't hear from it again. No logging. Nothing.
Well, there's a possibility that it's just taking a while to boot and if I wait a bit I can try and ssh in, but I haven't gotten to that yet. Most likely, though, it's a missing driver. I thought I included the proper modules for my hardware components, but I guess not.
I'm not doing this because it's easy.
Saturday, July 30, 2005
xdm and Xsession
Okay, so I was sort of right about the initrd being missing. Turns out a custom kernel wouldn't have that, but then it's not supposed to. In stead it has a system map. I'm not quite sure how it all works, but I did get the ALSA drivers installed as a module on my old kernel, so I have sound.
I started putting music and movie files onto athena. Apparently the samba client in KDE is broken, because I have to use Gnome to access shared folders on Windows machines. The server works fine, but I would like to get it set up a little better. Currently I just have a shared folder which resides in the /tmp directory that I use as a drop box when transferring files that aren't in shares from Windows over the network.
I still haven't messed with the TV tuner. I think that'll be my next big adventure. Speaking of adventures, I did "emerge --update world" which updated all the software on my machine at once earlier this week. I had some trouble and had to use a debug version of a library in kdewebdev, but once past that hurdle, it chugged right through over 60 updates. In the end, about 50 condig files had new versions. I tried using etc-update to merge the files in with my old ones (to keep the old changes I'd made, while applying the new changes the developers had made), but it was getting late, and the interface was confusing, so I just overwrote all my old config files.
Well, upon restarting, I was greeted with the xdm logon screen, and upon entering username and password, was logged on to a system with the most basic interface I had ever seen. It was grayscale (with about 4 shades of gray) and the only thing useful I could do was open terminal windows. So, that's what I did, and I soon figured out that one of those config files must have been overwritten. Turns out, I had overwritten the file that specified which display manager to use, hence xdm (the default) in stead of gdm. Also, in stead of logging me into KDE or Gnome, it had logged me into the default Xorg desktop environment/window manager. So, I fixed the config file (/etc/rc.conf), along with the hostname and domainname files that had also been overwritten, and I was good to go.
I set up an account for RFH, and configured KDE to look and behave exactly like Windows XP, so he'll feel right at home and won't have to learn anything or expand his mind at all.
In answer to all his "just get Windows Media Center" duckspeak, I have this to say: It's not about having something that works, it's about making something that works. It's about learning and customization, it's about designing and manipulating a system to fit your liking. Otherwise I would have just bought an off-the-shelf DVR, plugged it in, and then sat back down on my butt to watch TV. It would have been much cheaper, and a lot less time consuming. That's why it's called a 'hobby.'
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
It's Alive!
Well, not exactly as I'd like to have it, but I am writing this post on Athena using a Knoppix boot CD. I did this at RFH's suggestion (shudder). He kept insisting that I boot Windows to make sure the hardware wasn't defective, so this will shut him up. I haven't had much success with the graphics driver (not that I've been spending much time on it), so I had my doubts about the card's functioning. Knoppix boots to KDE just fine, though, so the problems I was having were due to the software. This is an x86 CD, though. I think I'm going to try a 686 configuration, thereby skirting all the 64-bit issues I was running into.
Saturday, April 09, 2005
I Dub Thee Athena, Gentoo Goddess of the LAN
So, it's been a whole week, and I seemed to have crawled down a hole and not bothered to tell anyone about it. Well, I promised pictures, and here they are. It took me a while to get them up, because, well, I was messing with my computer. More on that later (quite a bit, I'm afraid).
This happened last Wednesday night.
All Laid Out
This is the "before" picture. This is what I had when I started putting things together. The graphics card is on the left, at 9 o'clock. at 10, there's the motherboard, at 5 is the RAM, the CPU is in the center right, next to the DVD burner, and on the right, of course, is the case, with my free T-shirt. Newegg, in their infinite wisdom, thought that I would be a willingly unpaid human billboard for them. They are, of course, correct. I just have to find the appropriate occasion to wear something bright orange...
So, without further ado:
Motherboard with CPU installed and fan mounted
Sorry, I forgot to take the picture of the motherboard outside of the box, but before the CPU installation, or of the CPU at all for that matter. I was a bit giddy; at least this way I didn't get any drool on the microprocessor.
Tangental story: This way at least I warned you so you can skip the boring parts (or maybe these are the only interesting parts--either way, everything is offered, nothing is guaranteed). On Thursday, I mentioned to RFH over IM at work that I had put the conputer together. He asked me if I had remembered to put the coolant gel between the CPU and its cooling fan. I was shocked, and a bit embarassed, plus, this is not the kind of thing he just lets slide. He was right about something, and would lose no opportunity to lord it over me, and make sure I knew that had it not been for his warning, I would have embarassingly fried a CPU and possibly the motherboard as well, setting me back $300. Following this impeccable logic, I would forever "owe" him for this computer.
But, there is a God, and He is merciful. He does not wish to damn his children to hell, even if they do live with RFH0. The reason it startled me so much when he brougt it up, was that I was quite sure that I had meticulously followed the instructions--oh yes, when Tim knows that he doesn't know what he's doing, he actually reads the instructions. So, when he got home that night, he promptly barged into my room and practically demanded that I disgorge my computer. I was just as eager for a verdict, and so I obliged. Sure enough, I had, in fact, followed the instructions, leaving nothing out. *Whew* /Tangent
Another angle
The Box, with just the DVD burner installed
It looks so neat and clean, but that was not to be.
Motherboard installed
...Motherboard and DVD wired
Quite the tangeld mess, despite my efforts and even though the IDE cables (which are usually ribbon-shaped) are tightly contained in their yellow wrappings. I'm glad I got a SATA hard drive: one fewer IDE cable to get in the way. Although, the SATA coused me a bit of grief. The fact that RFH claimed that it was impossible to boot Linux from an IDE drive didn't make it any easier. He kept insisting that I should install Windows on it to get it up and running (which, for me, would take some of the fun out of it). But that's nothing compared to the floppy drive. SATA boots Linux Kernel 2.6 just fine, by the way.
Graphics Card & Floppy
Speaking of which, the floppy drive doesn't work. Or didn't. Well, I suppose it still doesn't work, but that won't hurt anything at the dump. I bought this one at the surplus store for four dollars. It had been gutted from some other computer, but it looked clean, and was only manufactured 4 years ago. A trip to the local computer store and $12 solved that problem. I could have gotten a white one for $8, but I want her to look pretty.
Oh, and speaking of 'her,' I renamed my computer (as you may have guessed from the title of this post). When I finally got the OS installed and it was time to enter a name I thought it more appropriate and also more original, given that she's an Athlon64 system, and Athena being the name of a goddess. Plus, it's far easier/more fun to endearingly/fondly/protectively/admiringly refer to a 'she' than an 'it.' This being a relatively powerful system running optimized code, the name also does justice to her sleekness: power and elegant prowess. Well, she will be elegant when I've got everything installed correctly. But I wouldn't have it any other way. If I wanted her to soar right out of the box(es) I would have used a stage 3, or just gone to Best Buy and picked out a Media Center PC (*yawn*).
Naked goddess
Back, guts.
The hard drive was, of course, the last item to arrive, which means I had to wait to do anything except mess with the BIOS settings. It was sitting at the FedEx office, or out for delivery (normally the Leasing Office at my complex accepts non-USPS parcels, but they seemed to have been out when the deliveries came on Thursday and Friday). The FedEx office, as it turns out, is two blocks from my worksite. Had I known that, I might have dropped by on my way home Thursday, but as it was, I picked it up Saturday afternoon after Bible study.
Trying to install Gentoo...
They seem to play nice together
Covers on
Covers, back
Compiling, futilly
...aaaaand CRAAASH!1
At least this freeze looks pretty
"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned."
"Go on..."
"I have broken the first commandment."
"You kill somebody?"
"No, Father! That is not the first commandment."
"Of course not! In what way have you broken the first commandment?"
--or something like that.
And now we come to yet another reason that 'athena' is the perfect name for my computer. It's my own little ironic way of reminding myself where my priorities should be. This Sunday was daylight savings, where we "Spring forward," so I lost an hour of sleep. Actually, I lost quite a bit more than that. I went out to play poker with some friends. $5 buy-in, lost my shirt2, and at least I didn't lose everything and then buy back in twice, like somebody I know. Anyway, when I lost, Caleb and I went to go see Sarah, who, for the record, is not a crazy old lady, although she is an old lady. I got home at like 3:00, and since tuxbox (as it was still then called) had finished its compilation job, I set off the next command that should keep it busy for the next few hours, set my alarm so that I could be at church by 11:00, and went to bed. I got up on time. I was fully aware of the time change. I was a bit tired, but I had plenty of time. I just wasted it. I was 15 minutes late.
I thought I would be able to boot into the operating system off of the hard drive. Just once, what could it hurt? Well, it turned out there was a slight problem. It wouldn't boot again. I had only actually gotten it to successfully boot once after numerous tries. It kept freezing up, and I wasn't sure what the problem was: faulty RAM, motherboard, bad graphics card. It turns out, the LORD had retroactively smitten my motherboard with a bad BIOS (the software that runs on the motherboard). On top of that, the memory was also bad, as it failed the startup test about half the time. Shutting off the power at the power strip for half a minute seems to help the RAM to pass, but that doesn't always work.
Anyway, the BIOS was, at this point, my biggest worry. I went to MSI's website on my laptop and got the utility to flash the BIOS, which I wrote to a bootable floppy, and stuck it into tuxbox. I set the BIOS to boot from the Floppy, and viola: nothing. It booted from the CD, which was the 2nd boot device. Drat. On my roommate's advice, I made a DOS bootable floppy. Same [non]effect. So, I figured God didn't want me to boot that day lest I forget having begged His forgiveness, and gave up for the night. On Monday after work, I bought the $12 black floppy drive and flashed the BIOS. Presto! It worked perfectly. Well, about 90% perfectly. It still froze up on boot occasionally because of the RAM.
Despite the RAM issue, I was able to get the operating system installed, and spent a few evenings this week emerging and configuring various utilities.
Actual compiling (I had moved from my room to the living room, where I hooked up both the monitor and my projector, which isn't as glorious in this shot, bacause there are lights shining on it and the screen is mostly dark blue and black.)
I still haven't gotten Gnome to build. Not sure what's causing it. I can only see the bottom of the compilation output, and it's not much good. Since I'm not in a graphical environment, I can't just scroll up, and if I pipe the output to a file, it only redirects stdout, while stderr prints to the screen. Still, I haven't tried that hard to solve that problem just yet. I managed to get the nVidia drivers installed (at least the 64-bit versions: it complains when it tries to install the 32-bit drivers because the libraries (that it just installed in 64-bit) are already there--the readmy said something about a manual setting for the 32-bit driver direcrtories that almost everyone wansn't supposed to mess with--maybe I'm special) and installed Xorg and Samba, as well as various other utilities.
Right now my RAM is sitting in a box on my desk. I'm going to send it back to Newegg and hopefully they'll send me some DIMMs that work all of the time. Meanwhile I'll be out a computer, hence the fact that I suddenly have time to blog:)
Not that I've been totally ignoring the other aspects of my life. I do tend to absorb myself in whatever I'm doing3. This friday I went to a housewarming for one of the guys on my volleyball team. It was a really great time and I got to meet a lot of enjoyable people.
0 'Roommate From Hell' --yes, I know, not very complimentary. But so, so very appropriate. I should make a note that he offered to loan me 512KB of functional RAM from his box until I got some that worked, but my BIOS wouldn't even show up with his DIMM in. He didn't even do it so I would be grateful either. Just being nice, it seemed.
1 The screen isn't all blank. There's that one little line, plus a blue streak,
2 No, not my orange Newegg shirt, my figurative one. Sorry to have gotten your hopes up.
3 Typically one thing at a time, like reading a book for five hours at a sitting. I can't even chat properly and surf the Internet at the same time. Maybe you've noticed:) I think the worst is when I'm blogging and someone IMs me. I either have to drop one thing and do the other, or do both poorly (or very slowly). Reminds me of a quote I read: Better, Faster, Cheaper: Pick two.
This happened last Wednesday night.
All Laid Out
This is the "before" picture. This is what I had when I started putting things together. The graphics card is on the left, at 9 o'clock. at 10, there's the motherboard, at 5 is the RAM, the CPU is in the center right, next to the DVD burner, and on the right, of course, is the case, with my free T-shirt. Newegg, in their infinite wisdom, thought that I would be a willingly unpaid human billboard for them. They are, of course, correct. I just have to find the appropriate occasion to wear something bright orange...
So, without further ado:
Motherboard with CPU installed and fan mounted
Sorry, I forgot to take the picture of the motherboard outside of the box, but before the CPU installation, or of the CPU at all for that matter. I was a bit giddy; at least this way I didn't get any drool on the microprocessor.
Tangental story: This way at least I warned you so you can skip the boring parts (or maybe these are the only interesting parts--either way, everything is offered, nothing is guaranteed). On Thursday, I mentioned to RFH over IM at work that I had put the conputer together. He asked me if I had remembered to put the coolant gel between the CPU and its cooling fan. I was shocked, and a bit embarassed, plus, this is not the kind of thing he just lets slide. He was right about something, and would lose no opportunity to lord it over me, and make sure I knew that had it not been for his warning, I would have embarassingly fried a CPU and possibly the motherboard as well, setting me back $300. Following this impeccable logic, I would forever "owe" him for this computer.
But, there is a God, and He is merciful. He does not wish to damn his children to hell, even if they do live with RFH0. The reason it startled me so much when he brougt it up, was that I was quite sure that I had meticulously followed the instructions--oh yes, when Tim knows that he doesn't know what he's doing, he actually reads the instructions. So, when he got home that night, he promptly barged into my room and practically demanded that I disgorge my computer. I was just as eager for a verdict, and so I obliged. Sure enough, I had, in fact, followed the instructions, leaving nothing out. *Whew* /Tangent
Another angle
The Box, with just the DVD burner installed
It looks so neat and clean, but that was not to be.
Motherboard installed
...Motherboard and DVD wired
Quite the tangeld mess, despite my efforts and even though the IDE cables (which are usually ribbon-shaped) are tightly contained in their yellow wrappings. I'm glad I got a SATA hard drive: one fewer IDE cable to get in the way. Although, the SATA coused me a bit of grief. The fact that RFH claimed that it was impossible to boot Linux from an IDE drive didn't make it any easier. He kept insisting that I should install Windows on it to get it up and running (which, for me, would take some of the fun out of it). But that's nothing compared to the floppy drive. SATA boots Linux Kernel 2.6 just fine, by the way.
Graphics Card & Floppy
Speaking of which, the floppy drive doesn't work. Or didn't. Well, I suppose it still doesn't work, but that won't hurt anything at the dump. I bought this one at the surplus store for four dollars. It had been gutted from some other computer, but it looked clean, and was only manufactured 4 years ago. A trip to the local computer store and $12 solved that problem. I could have gotten a white one for $8, but I want her to look pretty.
Oh, and speaking of 'her,' I renamed my computer (as you may have guessed from the title of this post). When I finally got the OS installed and it was time to enter a name I thought it more appropriate and also more original, given that she's an Athlon64 system, and Athena being the name of a goddess. Plus, it's far easier/more fun to endearingly/fondly/protectively/admiringly refer to a 'she' than an 'it.' This being a relatively powerful system running optimized code, the name also does justice to her sleekness: power and elegant prowess. Well, she will be elegant when I've got everything installed correctly. But I wouldn't have it any other way. If I wanted her to soar right out of the box(es) I would have used a stage 3, or just gone to Best Buy and picked out a Media Center PC (*yawn*).
Naked goddess
Back, guts.
The hard drive was, of course, the last item to arrive, which means I had to wait to do anything except mess with the BIOS settings. It was sitting at the FedEx office, or out for delivery (normally the Leasing Office at my complex accepts non-USPS parcels, but they seemed to have been out when the deliveries came on Thursday and Friday). The FedEx office, as it turns out, is two blocks from my worksite. Had I known that, I might have dropped by on my way home Thursday, but as it was, I picked it up Saturday afternoon after Bible study.
Trying to install Gentoo...
They seem to play nice together
Covers on
Covers, back
Compiling, futilly
...aaaaand CRAAASH!1
At least this freeze looks pretty
"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned."
"Go on..."
"I have broken the first commandment."
"You kill somebody?"
"No, Father! That is not the first commandment."
"Of course not! In what way have you broken the first commandment?"
--or something like that.
And now we come to yet another reason that 'athena' is the perfect name for my computer. It's my own little ironic way of reminding myself where my priorities should be. This Sunday was daylight savings, where we "Spring forward," so I lost an hour of sleep. Actually, I lost quite a bit more than that. I went out to play poker with some friends. $5 buy-in, lost my shirt2, and at least I didn't lose everything and then buy back in twice, like somebody I know. Anyway, when I lost, Caleb and I went to go see Sarah, who, for the record, is not a crazy old lady, although she is an old lady. I got home at like 3:00, and since tuxbox (as it was still then called) had finished its compilation job, I set off the next command that should keep it busy for the next few hours, set my alarm so that I could be at church by 11:00, and went to bed. I got up on time. I was fully aware of the time change. I was a bit tired, but I had plenty of time. I just wasted it. I was 15 minutes late.
I thought I would be able to boot into the operating system off of the hard drive. Just once, what could it hurt? Well, it turned out there was a slight problem. It wouldn't boot again. I had only actually gotten it to successfully boot once after numerous tries. It kept freezing up, and I wasn't sure what the problem was: faulty RAM, motherboard, bad graphics card. It turns out, the LORD had retroactively smitten my motherboard with a bad BIOS (the software that runs on the motherboard). On top of that, the memory was also bad, as it failed the startup test about half the time. Shutting off the power at the power strip for half a minute seems to help the RAM to pass, but that doesn't always work.
Anyway, the BIOS was, at this point, my biggest worry. I went to MSI's website on my laptop and got the utility to flash the BIOS, which I wrote to a bootable floppy, and stuck it into tuxbox. I set the BIOS to boot from the Floppy, and viola: nothing. It booted from the CD, which was the 2nd boot device. Drat. On my roommate's advice, I made a DOS bootable floppy. Same [non]effect. So, I figured God didn't want me to boot that day lest I forget having begged His forgiveness, and gave up for the night. On Monday after work, I bought the $12 black floppy drive and flashed the BIOS. Presto! It worked perfectly. Well, about 90% perfectly. It still froze up on boot occasionally because of the RAM.
Despite the RAM issue, I was able to get the operating system installed, and spent a few evenings this week emerging and configuring various utilities.
Actual compiling (I had moved from my room to the living room, where I hooked up both the monitor and my projector, which isn't as glorious in this shot, bacause there are lights shining on it and the screen is mostly dark blue and black.)
I still haven't gotten Gnome to build. Not sure what's causing it. I can only see the bottom of the compilation output, and it's not much good. Since I'm not in a graphical environment, I can't just scroll up, and if I pipe the output to a file, it only redirects stdout, while stderr prints to the screen. Still, I haven't tried that hard to solve that problem just yet. I managed to get the nVidia drivers installed (at least the 64-bit versions: it complains when it tries to install the 32-bit drivers because the libraries (that it just installed in 64-bit) are already there--the readmy said something about a manual setting for the 32-bit driver direcrtories that almost everyone wansn't supposed to mess with--maybe I'm special) and installed Xorg and Samba, as well as various other utilities.
Right now my RAM is sitting in a box on my desk. I'm going to send it back to Newegg and hopefully they'll send me some DIMMs that work all of the time. Meanwhile I'll be out a computer, hence the fact that I suddenly have time to blog:)
Not that I've been totally ignoring the other aspects of my life. I do tend to absorb myself in whatever I'm doing3. This friday I went to a housewarming for one of the guys on my volleyball team. It was a really great time and I got to meet a lot of enjoyable people.
0 'Roommate From Hell' --yes, I know, not very complimentary. But so, so very appropriate. I should make a note that he offered to loan me 512KB of functional RAM from his box until I got some that worked, but my BIOS wouldn't even show up with his DIMM in. He didn't even do it so I would be grateful either. Just being nice, it seemed.
1 The screen isn't all blank. There's that one little line, plus a blue streak,
2 No, not my orange Newegg shirt, my figurative one. Sorry to have gotten your hopes up.
3 Typically one thing at a time, like reading a book for five hours at a sitting. I can't even chat properly and surf the Internet at the same time. Maybe you've noticed:) I think the worst is when I'm blogging and someone IMs me. I either have to drop one thing and do the other, or do both poorly (or very slowly). Reminds me of a quote I read: Better, Faster, Cheaper: Pick two.
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