I haven't had much time to do anything. It's summer. Too many nice days to waste inside toiling away on router. BTW the soekris box works WONDERS.

Got rid of cable modem from Cumcostly. DSL is definately slower, but it is more stable.

More later. Back to reading.

Yet another slow day. Not much to do. Work is slow. Who would be working on such a FINE (sarcasm) Saturday? Well...One or two people would. After all, I am.

Hrmm...Rock Linux...Almost cut it. They just need to actually release a usable version.

So back to rolling my own. Ouch. Spent way to much time working on that. The problem I am running into is getting uClibc working right w/ openssh. After that, its a matter of borking around with init scripts and getting a bootloader to play nice w/ the new roll-your-own.

My overall first impression of the distribution is that it lacks some of the polished documentation that Gentoo offered. There is no explanation of where files go when you do certain steps.

So...Just as I start to think about making requests for better "roll-your-own" router distribution. I stumble upon ROCK linux in freshmeat. After reading about it, they have several "sub" distributions withing their build system. ONE of them just HAPPENS to be a "Router" distribution as can be seen at
http://www.rocklinux.org/people/pjotr/guide.download/html/ (drop the space between "O" and "A" in download [Stupid Slashdot text editor...]). Oh my. Time to try!

One of my biggest beefs with distributions today is the lack of a "minimalist" approach. Even Gentoo, a source based distribution winds up being around a 500MB install. Now that doesn't mean that you can't find minimalist distributions under 50MB. It's just that you have to do some funky install procedures to get what you want.

Oh...my poor, poor Netopia router. How did I hate it. It is finally starting to show signs of giving up the good fight.

I would give anything to throw an old PC at our network to replace the old Netopia beast, but to be quite honest, I just don't have the time or devotion to finding out all the funky quirks necessary to get this card or that hard drive to play nicely with linux.

I am not a very organized person. I don't like making lists and even if I did, I very rarely look at them again. I have a big stack of papers that I keep on my desk at work. Each piece of paper is a todo list. Oh, I get the work done, but never quite the way I initially intended.

Ahhh...The sweet smell of spring is in the air! For now anyway.

Nothing like sun to make a man want to get up before noon. Not as effective as a fog horn, but it makes for a more graceful awakening.

Subjects are subjective. I am not very good at coming up with Subjects. They make my head hurt.

I don't know how people write in jourals. Big, long, intricate journals with long, drawn out thoughts on how one brushes one's teeth. It's good to write things down every once in a while, but let's keep it to grocery lists or something.

Not sure what to enter here. Figure I would take up a small portion of Slashdot's available storage space.

More space....

Sigh...

How do people write in their journal daily?