Dave_bsr's Journal: Xerithane, 9.1 goodness, etc

Today: Mandrake 9.1 was released, I got it yesterday as rc-3 (yesterday morning, in fact), I posted quite a bit on that forum, and i read Xerithane's comment and made him my friend for it. I drove to class today, and parked in the EB lot, unfortunately the gates don't open until 9. So I was stuck in DECS waiting for 9 o'clock, and didn't do any studying. Slashdot was down for a while, i was looking for posts about mandrake's net install. I should have been studying for my SOC exam, but oh well.

So i'm sitting in Engineering Comp lab, and It's windows. so...IE crashes. netscape 4 crashes. mozilla doesn't install. Gaim for win (v.60a5) is stable and sweet, for msn and aim. phoenix installs, even if the moz doesn't. It needs a new name, i don't nominate "phallus" (see the poll on this subject at mozillaquest.com i think) but maybe minimoz or Stiny. Yeah...stiny...a la strongbad.

nuts. apparently a name has been chosen. Just not released yet. Which is good...they need a new version, as current/nightly is nice, while .5 is aging. Linux moves so fast...

So. mandrake 9.1. by the time it was released, i had already downloaded it, md5'd it, burned and installed it. roxxor. It's nice, fast (kde is tolerable on 300mhz k6-2, icewm+rxvt is probably flyin), and beautiful. Zeroconf (rendezvous for you mac people) is nice...yadda yadda yadda. I'll probably put it on the workstation later this week. man i'd like to have a new hard drive...

so i've got a lot of money. hard drives are cheap. i can get one from newegg.com for less than $1/GB, if i'm willing to go for a 1yr warrantee. lame. I was looking at some WD special editions. oh baby. I just don't know.

Anyways, i should get studying. big exam tomorrow. love to you all, pray for our troops and the Iraqi's - and I sure hope Saddam's reign ends soon and with as little bloodshed as possible. if we could get a new iraq set up...it would be awesome.