On Friday I bought a new computer - an Athelon-xp 2100, and the O/S I decided to use on it was Gentoo Linux. For those of you unfamiliar with Gentoo, here's their "Gentoo in a paragraph" description:
"We produce Gentoo Linux, a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme performance, configurability and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience. "
Now, from an installation standpoint, this means that every single program you want to use is compiled JUST for your computer, with only the support your computer requires. When that program runs, it'll be the leanest, quickest, most stable and secure version possible - customized just for you. The drawback here, is that this si a VERY, VERY time consuming process. I had the basic O/S and kernel installed in about 4 or 5 hours, but then when it came to installing the X-Windows system and gnome desktop, I had about another 9 hour wait. The worst three apps for speed of compilations were mozilla, gimp, and openoffice.... between the three of them, about twenty hours... (Mozilla is Netscape, Gimp is PhotoShop for linux, and OpenOffice is a Microsoft Office clone).
After two full (ENTIRE) days, I now have a 'ready to use' system with an audio system, cd burner, email, etc,etc - and DAMN is it fast!
I'm pretty psyched, but now Carole says there's an 8-computer-per-household limit, so now I have to pick an old one to throw out / give away...
an 8 computer per household limit? i think that gives you license to buy a second house!!!
Posted by: sage at November 3, 2003 09:37 AMwhy 8? who says 8?
that's bogus...
here's an update...
the weather sounds better here than there...
i think we had frost today...the first i've heard of frost...i got into the work truck this after noon and the guy that drives it mondays and tuesdays in the morning had the scraper brush on the floor...hmmmmm...the leaves have just started falling and turning yellow...well that;s the ones that didn't blow away in the hurricane...
looks like snow for the weekend....i say bring it on...
in other news...Sabby only has a few days left i figure...i took her to the vet college today...they were very nice...i'll never get another pet again...but if i did...and it needed to go to the vet...i'd take her there...there were great...Sabby pooped...sorta... on the floor and they wouldn't let me clean it up...
she has liver cancer...she's not in any pain but she dehidrated and constipaited and has no energy...plus she lost a lot of weight and most of the hair on her tail...kinda like fudar...with the mustache....
anyways...that's my news....who's coming with me to a southern destination in feb?
Heyla Sage! How was your big Hallowe'en show???
Vetiver - that sux able sabby - but for a ferret, I think that was a pretty long life, wasn't it? A friend of mine had a ferret once, it didn't even last two years. Fubar Ferret, eh? Bummer...
Oh - and as for Warm in February? We've got a week in Cancun in the works... you're TOTALLY invited... our suite sleeps 4 - that would be loads of fun! Wayner & Patti are going to be in Mexico in February too, and they said they might meet us there as well - wouldn't that be a blast?
Posted by: Calvin at November 3, 2003 03:08 PMhallowe'en show was in the hugest room ever... kinda like the SUB ballroom at UBC... it was like playing in mongolia... 60 people in a room that big looks really sparse from a stage that's 5' off the floor... especially when they're all hanging out in the beer garden on the back wall... but the sound was kickin' and the people that were there really liked us... we got a live cd out of it, too... the bass is a little non-existant because we were using an ampeg 8*10 on stage so the guy didn't run a lot of it thru the board, but it sounds really good anyhow... i'll be trying to rip a few mp3s off it and i'll put them up as soon as i figure out how to seperate the songs as it's all one big 43 minute track right now... mexico sounds good... kaitlen and i will be hitting australia in may, though and our cd will be released in mid-late february, so we're probably out for that one... tell them i said "zapatista!!"
Posted by: sage at November 3, 2003 10:28 PM