I have stopped using irssi for my
IRC client in favour or ERC. I am very used
to irssi and never thought I would need anything else but
ultimately having Emacs taking care of my email, IRC, editing and
music playing makes things easier for me. I do much less `moving
around' between windows and now all my copy and paste operations,
plus configuration, documentation and searches use the same
familiar key bindings. ERC will take some getting used to but I
will get the hang it I am sure.
I will try also to remove myself from channels that I don't really
participate in, but this might prove difficult as I consider myself
the consumate lurker and hate to miss anything exciting. It would
be nice though to only have say five or six channels to manage. We
will see how that goes.
Now that I have finished sorting through the CD's my friend lent
me, it is time to transfer them onto an external USB that I can
give to him. It needs to be Windows formatted (NTFS) so I was
thinking of using Samba but I recall doing this before took over a
day and that was not with the 165GB that I have now. I might try
putting the music onto dual layer DVD discs. That way I can copy
them to his computer relatively quickly, plus I would have a third
backup on removable media that I could easily store somewhere in
case of something awful happening to my hard drives.
I estimate I would need about 19 discs for this, which is quite
expensive but the real problem is knowing how much to put on each
disc to use the minimum of discs and to make each disc useful in
itself, in other words not to `span' discs so that you'd need all
of them to recover one disc. Sounds like a good little programming
exercise.
When your team is trailing, late in the hockey game, you can do
what is known as `pulling the goalie', the phrase has another
connotation, when a couple decide not to continue using
contraception, but I digress..
Basically, you remove your goalie in favour of an extra attacker
and hope to even the score, however it is a risky move as it is
very easy (so one would think) to score a goal against a team with
no goaltender. Last week poor Patrik Stefan found out how difficult
the empty net is to score against.