Dist-upgrading to Lenny

Appears to have been a success. Only casualty upon reboot was my numpad appeared to have stopped working. A quick google turned up this blog entry that details a similar issue under Ubuntu. In essence, it turns on mouse keys by default, so you just have to go into Preferences and turn it off, and your numpad will work again.

More Samba fun

My adventures with Samba continue apace; it appears the real root of the issue is the fact that I was using smbfs, which is apparently out-dated. So, I try cifs, but it doesn't work. After some trolling of a nearby samba irc channel and sending some packet dumps to a samba dev (thankyou Kukks) it appears I need to get my hands on a newer version of cifs than the one that ships with debian edge.
So, I get my hands on the 2.6.24-etchnhalf kernel, except it appears to have a dodgy vesa-mode init or something, because even booting into single mode gives me a corrupted display on my Geforce 6600. Boo.

Now that lenny is out, I'll give dist-upgrading to it a try and see what the fallout is...


In other news, I appear to have Monday off due to it being Presidents Day, or something similar. Might make an appearance at the archery range, now that my back is starting to loosen up a bit. Myself and Samantha have also booked our flights home for the trip in July. Given I won't be able to enter the US for 6 months (God Bless America), I'm flying Vancouver-->Toronto-->Dublin, and Samantha is flying LAX-->JFK-->Dublin. It's her first international flight, so I'm kind of bummed I can't accompany her. Hopefully when I make the trip home for Christmas I'll have a shiny new US visa, and we can make the trip home together.