Anthony’s Ramblings

Did an ‘apt-get dist-upgrade’ yesterday and updated the ol’ server to Debian 5.0. For the most part, everything went fine. I did encounter one weird thing. The latest version of MySQL would not install, complaining about not having version information for libz.so.1 located in /opt/mono/lib/. It was very, very strange (I don’t ever remember installing Mono). I Googled around a bit, and found that other people simply deleted the file that the MySQL installer was referring to (as there was another copy somewhere else on the system and some path specification was messed up…something like that).

In any case, deleting it (and the entire /opt/mono directory…I don’t need it) seemed to fix the problem. MySQL is working (or else you wouldn’t be reading this). :shrug:

Woot!

I had been stringing the loan along since I purchased the extended warranty back in ‘06. But, now that the warranty has expired, it’d extremely suck to have a car payment AND repair bills (although, this car has been pretty solid). It was sort-of on a whim (one of those “turn your head the other way and click” sort of things), but I had the money sitting in my savings account. Granted, it was being saved for when we buy a house…but that’s on hold for the moment. I’ll make a good chunk of it back by the time we’re ready to continue the home hunting trek via saving my car payment plus other extra cash. So, in my eyes, it’s a win win! Improves my credit report (less debt), and I’m throwing away less money (not paying interest).

So…meh.