With my latest emerge -uDav world, VMWare was upgraded to 5.something. With that upgrade, I decided to see if recording MDs would get any faster. Indeed, it did. In fact, now Nero is slower than Simple Burner. This is a joyous moment. I may actually be able to keep my MD for another few years thanks to VMWare.
To Sony: Thank VMWare for righting your wrongs.
So recently, some talks and readings with some of my friends and Planet Gentoo, and I decided to check out some hotplugging and automounting. Continue reading
I just realized how fun of a time installing Linux on my new computer next year is going to be. Continue reading
One of the advantages that Linux has over Windows is the ability to run on very old hardware and still not be crippled. For example, you really need a computer made in the past few years to run Windows XP comfortably. This standard has forced people with perfectly fine computers to dump their old ones and get brand new ones. On the other hand, current Linux distros, can be modified so that it is able to work on lower end systems. While you may not be running the latest KDE, you would still have access to all the newer features of drivers and hardware and even the latest software if you run a stripped down (but not necessarily ugly or unusable) window manager (Fluxbox comes to mind).
Knowing this, it has taken Microsoft a long while to do something about it. Now, they’re finally attempting to reach those they’ve abandoned and are still using Windows 95 or 98 because they don’t want to waste money and perfectly usable hardware.
I question their decision to use the memory hungry Windows XP look and feel for these computers. I would’ve assumed that taking out useless eye candy would be the way to go. It’s not like those huge title bars are helping anyone working in 800 x 600.
Windows is being an uncooperative bleargh. PUT MEH IN TEH FIRST PARTITION!!! it says.
So I wriggle all the filesystems around and put them on different partition. Turns out, I have to rewrite the bloody partition table, and that didn’t happen, so my first partition is STILL NTFS even though it’s FAT32 now.
And alas, I discovered how to use CFLAGS. I added -pipe and -Os.
I also printed out a reference to all of those wonderful keyboard shortcuts for nano.
Gogo increased productivity (except when Windows is concerned).