Dear Slashdot Journal,

I know I havent been around lately, and for that I am really sorry. I have been having a pretty good time here in the real world lately, but I will write again soon. Tell google how much I miss him and will be home before long.

Love
Me.

Linux: LOD, A New Beginning

Description:
This will be my attempt at logging my experience with Linux on the Desktop, or "LOD" (NOT to be confused with the Legion of Doom ;). Such posts will be marked with the penguin to the right (isnt he cute).

A little background:
For the past long amount of time, I have been using Windows on the desktop, with intermittent splurges of linux, usually ending in frustration for many reasons. While I have been successful at using Linux for my server needs for the past few years, LOD has been an unachievable aim for many reasons, including but not limited to: ease of use, ease of installation, compatability with various programs, ability to play games, etc. Now I will again forray into the wild west of desktops, and attempt LOD. Stay tuned for more details on how this journey goes and what I find during my adventures.

Some Scope:
1. Create a dual boot machine with WindowsXP / Linux
2. Decide on a Linux distro and version
3. Use Linux as primary OS, only switch to XP for gaming purposes (i.e. XP becomes a game console)or a really really good reason (I cant think of many others)
4. Get all my peripherals working in Linux. Includes: HP Printer, UMAX Scanner, CD Writer (generic, IDE), Rio 600 mp3 player.

Other things will probably emerge too, but those are the big ones for now. I have to keep XP for things like WarCraft 3, Neverwinter Nights, etc.

Next post:
Back Up and Installation, or "There and back again".

From the Enlightenment website:
Enlightenment is a completely themeable, highly configurable Window Manager for the X Window System, traditionally used in Unix environments.
Let me preface this by saying I love E (short for Enlightenment, duh). Its good stuff, and runs really fast! VROOOOOOM!
To celebrate this excellent WM, I have written a small poem. Donations acceptable via paypal. Wait, we hate paypal, dont we? OK, amazon one click(TM).
Ode de Enlightenment
Enlightenment.
Let me count your themes.
1. 2. 3.
I stop, for they are too many.

Enlightenment.
Take a look behind the scenes.
Ohh- ahh!
You run so fast!

Enlightenment.
Lets read the FAQ!
"What platforms does E run on?"

Linux mostly, and BSD too,
IRIX and HP,
Solaris, we wont forget you!
Also AIX, but who cares?

E17,
We eagerly await with baited breath and will
remain where we are with E16 instilled.

FIN.
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OK so the poem sucks, but hey you get the point.

OK, so you gotta check this out:

Weebl and Bob.

Later on it gets a bit dull and repetitive, but the first few are right on!

BOOSH!

On thing I have noticied about being a geek is that like everything else in life it grows and shrhinks in intensity as time goes on. Usually I will be hardcore geek for a couple weeks (doing coding and web dev stuff and being really active on ./ and buying stuff from thinkgeek) and then wont really be on the computer that much, instead hanging out with friends and family etc. Being more active, working out, watching more movies, and maybe even hitting on girls more (I am usually pretty shy when it comes to that).

So right now I am kind of in the latter mode, but thought I would post anyway just because I havent in a while, and after all, its in my sig.

Other geeks: do you see yourself coming and going through these phases?

It is probably a healthy way to be since I dont really see it as a Good Thing to simply code all the time, or just to watch movies, or just to work on the website. It is good to be social and get out there and be healthy too. I think. Anywhoo, just ramblings from an on again, off again geek. Maybe this means I'm not hard core, but if harcore means never getting married because I'd rather code and not meet women, then no thanks! (I have enough of a hard time meeting them as it is without simply giving up!)

Linux and I sometimes have a love/hate relationship. I always love it, sometimes it hates me. See, it always runs great on my server, but anytime I build a new box it turns into a lot of finger crossing an praying to the linux gods that the latest version of RedHat supports my *card and or USB device. Right now I am playing with VMWARE which I borrowed from a friend so that I can run linux simultaneously with Windows - first it hated my mouse, which I fixed by taking a look at the knowledgebase. No big deal, it is also a little slow which is kinda not cool since I am running it on a pretty decent computer (AMD Athlon 1.53Mhz 512 DDR RAM) so even though I am running 2 OSs at the same time, I dont want the mouse to lag. I tried setting the local priority for the machine up, but that didnt help. So I went to go install Enlightenment since it is less baggage than the current Gnome which comes default in RedHat 8. I kept getting RPM segfaults....just NOT encouraging. I think I might just reinstall 7.3 and hope for the best. Redhat 7.3 is running GREAT on my laptop and now I use it for most of my java and psql stuff. Here is a screenshot:
w00t!

OK so I am moving tommorw. Can't wait! Woo! My new apartment is real nice and should house my new computers nicely. What, you all dont get an apartment soley based on your computer(s) needs? And you call yourself a geek?

OK so basically I have three journals now. Hmm. I have a hard time posting in even one-yet- for some reason I feel that as a geek i MUST keep a blog of some sort. Even if I dont have anything interesting to say. Hmm. Perhaps I should just concentrate more on being interesting.

So the three that I have are
http://www.threemoons.net
cypherecho
and this one, the one you are reading now.

So, which to post in? Threemoons is overrun right now with too many posters, cypherecho needs lots of work (you'll notice the pretty apache error if you click on it that I have not had any time to address since I started moving) so that leaves this one.

At least there is a slight chance of other geeks reading this though and seeing how geeky I am too, and how we should try to be friends. And live in a small happy digital world that is ruled with an iron fist by the moderators. eep!

Dear slashdot journal. Hi, can we be friends? I know that I got mad at you the other day, but I dont think it was entirely your fault, and I am sorry I called you a worthless journal not even worthy of blogger. Do you forgive me?

I think I hate slashdot journal. I have lost so many attempts at posting its ridiculous. Bye for now crappy slashdot journal.

OKKKKKKKKKKKKKK - third try on this as it keeps crashing. Frustrating man!!!

I have decided to revive the ol' slashdot journal since my site has been overrun with freaks and hippies. Also because I am interested in attending the Slashdot Meetup next month for Richmond.