Organizing
I spent today cleaning and organizing. First, during the day, I organized my office, rearranged the wiring for my computers and did other useful (hopefully) tasks. Then tonight I cleaned off my bookshelves and rearranged things. I got a lot of books off the floor and onto some new shelves. That makes everything look nicer.
Incidentally, I realized today that one year ago last Sunday (June 12) was when my Ruby iMac (aka “Catbert” on my network) arrived over FedEx Ground. Its amazing it arrived in one piece considering my experiences with FedEx Ground… but the seller on eBay did an excellent packing job so it all turned out OK. The G3 400 really ran nicely then and runs even better now that it has Panther installed on it.
Tomorrow I hope to finishing backing up my PC's hard disk and then do an upgrade to Fedora Core 2. I also need to reinstall a copy of Windows XP. Its hard supporting users running it without a copy of my own that works (my copy died about three months ago — just refused to boot any longer).
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RE: Organizing
Catbert… Now THAT’s a role model
So what other Dilbert names have you got on the network?
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I really feel for you having to keep an active Windows machine on hand. Must be the most high-maintenance task there is for you.
Meanwhile, I’m now starting to download the source for KDE 3.2.3 on my FreeBSD box. Gnome 2.6 was a complete bust, with so much bloat it was almost unusable for me. Gnome made IceWM slow (because ports links the two) enough that KDE 3.1.4 was actually faster.
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Ed: Yeah. It isn’t much fun. Windows 98 on Win4Lin is pretty low maintainence and does most of what I need, but sometimes I need Windows XP to support people these days and it is a bit of a pain. Especially depressing is the fact that it died despite the fact that I might only use it once every few months at best. But, since it died, I’ve needed it mroe for support. sigh
I’m surprised about GNOME… I thought you were running an Athlon?
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In a blog entry while I was still at Xanga, I mentioned that I was willingly giving that Athlon box to my son because the mobo was strictly gamer-ware, and not at all suitable for *nix. I got my old Duron 800 back, with 384MB RAM, and that old 8MB video card. I’m praying for a nice Matrox card, even if only with 16MB VRAM. No more gamer stuff for me (ATI and Nvidia).
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Ah, I thought I remembered something, but I couldn’t recall what. Well, fwiw, a good ATI card has actually worked well for me. I think, and I could be wrong, that it had more to do with the combination of your hardware than the card itself. All I use is ATI or nVidia cards (ATI’s in my PowerMac, Dell desktop and old laptop and an nVidia in my really old Dell and PowerBook), and I don’t use the systems for gaming except on a very rare occasion.
Idea for you Ed: well, actually, I’ll write you about it instead of posting it here.