HAPPY EASTER!!!
I just got done reading the entire Gentoo Linux Install process. For those that don’t know about Gentoo it is the uber-geeks Linux distro, well next to Debian anyway. Gentoo is a roll-your-own linux distro where they give you three different levels of customization, Level1 is for the hardcore “I want everything to my liking”. Level2 is for “I’m not that smart but I know enough to hang myself”. And Level3 “I’m a Linux tool and I don’t know shit”. But after reading the install process it sounds really interesting. The entire distro is compiled from sources so it takes forever to install but you get to really know your system, plus you don’t get all the extra bloat that you get with most commercial distros that are out today. Now while I still love Mandrake a great deal this is kind of an interesting idea to me. Since I really don’t know shit about Linux (I just pretend like I do), this would be a good learning oppurtunity for me. The only bad thing is that I have those screwed up sound drivers that I have to use to get my stoopid Aureal soundcard to work. I’m sure it wouldn’t be that big of a deal though if I’m going to be doing everything else.
I got a Maximum PC magazine the other day that had a little article about how some motherboard manufacturers are using some screwed up recipe for capacitors on their mobo’s, and Abit was one of the main culprits. The article also said that if you send the board back they will replace the bad capacitors for FREE. So I was thinking about boking up my Abit BP6 (Dual Celeron) mobo and sending it back to them to get it fixed. I really love that mobo, and I was said that I couldn’t get it to work on my Linux desktop machine. It would be a lot more fun to play with an optimized SMP kernel then the stock one that came with Mandrake 9.1. So I will be looking into that real soon.
Not much else going on today. We were going to go by Best Buy and take Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets back because chapter 19 messes up on both our DVD player, and Jim’s DVD player, but they were closed. So now all we are doing is trying to get some laundry done so we have clean clothes to go to the gym with tomorrow.
We did good last week about going to the gym and working out. Since we only go Mon-Friday we ended up doing 5 days of cardio and 3 days of weight training. We may try to bump that up to 5 and 5. My abs aren’t hurting now after I do declined situps so maybe I can bust out a hundred of those or so, not all at one time, but maybe in 3 sets.
Mom and Dad are sending me a couple of bottles of Arthur Bryan’ts BBQ sauce in the mail this coming week so I can have some to BBQ with this summer. I may have to drive out there and buy a case of it if I could BBQ as much as I would like too. I would cook everything on the grill if I could.
“What that you want some scrambled eggs, well let me whip that right up for ya!!”
OK enough is enough. We gots laundry to do.