I may hate the sun when it’s a hundred degrees, but I love to see it when I want snow to melt. Even a soggy lawn is preferable to snow in March.

The “sun” actually came yesterday in the form of my puter bits; I didn’t expect them until today at the earliest, but they arrived yesterday afternoon. I LOVE the case; aluminum, black with a window (that I will use not for “coolness factor”, but to check inside the case for dust LOL) and air vents over the processor and the video card slot. Both P and I forgot (duh) to order case fans, though, and don’t have any extra 120mm hanging about, so P ordered some yesterday. I suppose it doesn’t matter, though, since neither of us really has time to build this thing until the weekend. The rest of the stuff doesn’t look like much in a pile, but once I can see it in action, I think I’ll be impressed.

I probably should get started on my backups, though, because there’ll certainly be a lot of them (GAWD, my /home directory!) If I were a little more confident that Captive wouldn’t do anything funky to my NTFS partitions, I’d use that in my new install, but I think it’s probably best to just have a FAT32 partition for files I need to access from both OSes, then storage in both NTFS and ext3. The 4GB FAT limit is a pain in the arse, but better than corrupt data. Captive’s getting there and most people don’t have problems, but I’d rather be certain that “most people” includes me. I can read NTFS easily enough from Ubuntu, and if I absolutely need to get a file from an ext3 partition on those rare occasions that I’m using Windows, I can always use Explore2FS–it works fine. I think I’ll use the 160 GB for OSes (100GB Ubuntu, 60 GB XP?) and divide the 250 into storage and “scratch”. I dunno–we’ll worry about that when QTParted or GParted is fired up. 🙂

P.S. The KF now has his very own, Boss-approved account, and a blog. Hee hee!