I updated my computer this morning and upon rebooting my machine hit a kernel panic in both the optimized config and fallback config.

When I update I always log out of my KDE session, go to a console (Control+ALT+1), log in as root, init 3 to drop it down to level 3, then do the updates.

The gotcha today was that I have 2 SATA drives and an old IDE drive in my system. Formerly the SATA drives were sda and sdb while the IDE came up as hdd. After the update however the IDE drive became sda and then the other sata drives became sdb and sdc. This caused everything to blow up because Arch is not a stickler for label booting and boots by device names.

If this happens to you, the solution is here in the Arch wiki. It took me a while to find that.

Rappin’ ’bout SEO, know what I’m sayin’?

Best practice web deZine, yo! via hackermojo

Over the weekend my friend Darrin and I trekked down to the Kentucky Bourbon trail and visited some distilleries.

I took a few pictures with the camera phone but they are really really paranoid about fires (with good reason) so they prohibit cell phones for the most part. Darrin had a digital camera and you can see the pics in his Flickr feed

We originally planned 4 stops but had to cut it short. Some of the tours are in-depth and very long.

The smell in the barrel storage warehouses is amazing.

Facebook has added new levels of profile control. You can select who sees what.

Now the 10 people you keep as friends just to have 10 people to send application invites to so that you don’t annoy your real friends can’t see stuff that you only want your real friends to see.

Amazon has come out with an update for their Linux downloader.

Ze file: amazonmp3-1.0-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz

Use pacman -U file if you previously installed the other version, pacman -A file if this is your first one.