soapbox

Frankly, I don’t think dactyl is in good health and I don’t know what’s wrong. So, if you go to see the blog one day and nothing comes back, just wait a little while.

Dactyl is set to reboot automatically in the case of a kernel panic, but the issue we’re currently having is something less than a kernel panic but something more than nothing. Cron still works when things die, so I’ve set a cron job to reboot the computer at noon every day. It’s not ideal, but at least things will recover.

If you, gentle reader, happen to be up at Dartmouth and have some free time in the next couple of weeks, there are some things you can do to perhaps fix the problems. It would be good if someone could actually look at dactyl’s motherboard and make sure nothing is chock full of dust leading to overheating. Or, for someone supercool, you could connect a monitor to the computer and see what it actually says during a crash.

If you want to help, let me know.