Voder-Vocoder

Yesterday I finished a E2 node I’ve been working on for a while: http://everything2.com/?node=From+Beirut+to+Jerusalem. Today I noded http://everything2.com/?node=Kyoto+Now%21.

Spending more money on CD’s.

Got these nifty thumb screws for my computer. They are the same size as the srews that you use to keep the covers on the case, but they have an oversized thumb knob to make access easier. For the first time in months, my case covers are screwed on!

As of last weekend, I’ve been graduated for exactly one year. Crazy.

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Later.

I’ve installed RedHat 7.3. Everything works well. My review:

Gnome 1.6 – sucks.

KDE3 – Works well. I haven’t yet decided between KDE3 and WindowMaker for my window manager/desktop environment. KDE’s fonts are okay. And their font installer app rocks.

Ximian Evolution – I got it to sync with my palm!

Konq – As a browser, it sucks. As a file manager, it’s okay (not that I need a file manager). It seems to be on par with Nautilus.

KDE Console. – It’s got tabbed windows. I like this a lot. I’d like it more if I knew what keyboard shortcut moves between tabs.

The evil noises in KDE when you mess with windows. – I turned that shit off.

KDE’s mp3 player – okay, once I leaned how set up the playlist. I’ve gotten sick of xmms’s crappy fonts.

Connecting to the internet. "rp3 -i ppp0" (the gui option) or "alias u ‘/sbin/ifup ppp0′" (the CLI option). Should I forget my old-fashoned fASCIIst ways and go the way of the point and click? I don’t know.

Quite frankly, I don’t _want_ people using Linux for ideological reasons. I think ideology sucks. This world would be a much better place if people had less ideology, and a whole lot more "I do this because it’s FUN and because others might find it useful, not because I got religion".

—Linus Torvalds

Good Morning. This is my blog. The idea here is that I’ll post here on a regular basis, and other people are encouraged to do so too.

Here are my plans for this blog:

1. A login system to track users.
2. Skinnable Style Sheets.
3. Integration with the chatting applet
4. Perhapse eventually make my whole site dynamically generated.

Now a link. This is my new desktop background on my work computer.