Category Archives: Miller Cam

Penguin Party

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Kallys and Blu made a winter area for Kallys’ penguins and they got them an Igloo from the Vavoom! store…

They all went in and had a big old party.

Later it turned into a slumber party when they all got tired and fell asleep.

House Warming

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Blu and me and Logan were invited to a house warming party given by Daphnard who just came to live on Turing Breezes.

We had Gateaux. Yummy…

…and Champers (-:

Left to right: Daphnard, Cazaluff, Logan, Me, Kallys, Blu H, Lail, Blu.

The Wood Choppers’ BallS

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Logan and Dad made this (with supervision from me).

This is the extract from Logan’s web site:

Right click on the logs and choose “Chop”. You loosen up your limbs and ease the crick in your neck, you step forward and take the axe from the stump. A moment or two as you gauge the weight of the axe and you take your first swing. There is a satisfying sound as the axe bites into the stump. You lift the axe and swing again. This time the sound is louder, the axe bites deeper into the log, but you have to put all your weight into to it pull it back out. You swing a third time and this time your efforts are rewarded with a very satisfying crunch and a flurry or wood chips as the log splits and falls away. You step over to the log pile and lift another…

Cayce

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After the Catastrophic Failure reported in my previous post, I decided that Logan should have a new computer. The computer arrived a day late, but we figured that there was not much complaining to be done when the delivery was free and it was almost Christmas and the delivery bloke almost lunched his van that same morning on his way to work to collect our PC and deliver it.

Meet Cayce.

The first person to tell me why we named the computer Cayce (and the correct pronunciation) wins a dinner date with yours truly at Rhingstingahs later this week. Answers in the comments please (-:

Catastrophtard

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Logan had two power outages yesterday in quick succession. Her PC had barely got back up from the first outage when it was knocked over again by the second. I won’t bore you with tales of the 8 hours we spent trying to get it to load windows or even safe mode, it was a pain the aris. In the end we got it running on a CD and told it to restore the system to a recent restore point. It immediately announced that the file system was corrupted (no shit?) and demanded to spend several more hours counting several hundred thousand files and several more hours counting several hundred million clusters. Needless to say, we got bored and went to bed.

When we got up again, we found a message that proudly proclaimed that it was ready to do the system restore. We picked  a restore point, hit OK and waited. The wait was refreshingly short this time. After a mere 20 seconds we were greeted with this message:

System restore did not complete successfully. Your system files and settings were not changed.


Details:

System restore failed due to an unspecified error.
Catastrophic Failure (0x8000FFFF)

Error Code 4371*

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I found this in one of Logan’s apps earlier

  query = db_defs.sign_location.all()
  query.filter( 'application_name =', application_name)
  query.filter( 'application_owner =', application_owner)
  query.filter( 'object_type =', 'server' )
  results = query.fetch(2)

  if len(results) > 2 :
      ##does stuff here...

So… ummm, you fetch two results and then test for greater than two. How’s that working for you?

.

*For those of you that don’t know or can’t remember Error Code 4371 is the Logan is a ReTaRd Error. It’s pretty common.