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On Hardware

Today I booted up the laptop to start transferring my TinyCore extensions. However, I was in for a shock - memory errors and a failure to boot! I checked the codes online and reseated the RAM as suggested to no avail, so I booted up with my copy of the Ultimate Boot CD into what was basically FreeDOS and had a look around. It seemed as though I was running out of memory, so I started removing newly added things from the onboot.lst file. I then added norestore to the syslinux.cfg file and rebooted and (eventually) it was working. I removed the norestore and rebooted and it was broken again. I rebuilt an extension that had been causing issues in case it was linked and readded it, but that didn't help the memory problems. In the end, I just deleted the .tor directory from the home directory backup and that seemed to do the trick. It means I can't use Tor anymore, but I have a copy of it tar.gzipped up so I can always put it back if I need it.

This [B/Gem/Ph]log

I tested to see if I could get to this Gemlog in Astro once the laptop booted and the second link on the homepage wouldn't load, so I couldn't get to the posts page. After some testing, I figured out that the "home" file on SmolPub has to end with at least one newline, so I stuck a couple in to be sure and it worked. Lesson learned.

I'm writing this entry from the laptop in question, resting on an atlas and then on my lap so I don't have to clear my desk. It's hot today and that combined with the laptop on me has me sweating. I may need more insulation between the laptop and my legs...

This is just a quick update: I'll write more if it posts.

UPDATE: It worked, but I need to remember to not have linebreaks within the paragraphs!