Archive for: February 2004

Now I have the box booting under it’s own power. Yay! Step in the right direction at least. Now to compile KDE 3.2, and everything that depends on it.

At first, when I tried to emerge kde, it tried …

One thing I will say: this is the longest system installation process I’ve been through. That’s a downside to compiling just about everything is that you have to wait for the system to finish compling all the stuff. But I …

After spending several days trying to fight with KDE over font issues and running into this, that, and the other dependency problems with Debian Linux, I decided to give Gentoo Linux a try. There are several people on Slashdot whom …

My 3 and a half year old son Jaden seems to have a knack for wanting to do “the wrong thing” when it comes to playing games on the computer. For instance, with Frogger, he likes to run the froggie …

One of the things I’ve learned early in my working life is that companies can and will take advantage of their employees. The first couple of companies I was with did exactly that. In the first, I was whored out …

My neighbors are currently out of town, so my wife and I are keeping an eye on their place. This entails going over occasionally to check on their three cats (e.g. make sure they have food and water, clean up …

In some email I exchanged this evening, I mentioned something about VoIP simply being a “hobby” of mine. The response I got back was interesting: hobbies have a way of becoming full-time jobs. At least in my life, this statement …

qemu is a CPU emulator that runs under Linux and is designed to be relatively fast. One of the things the latest release (0.5.2) is “supposed” to do is emulate a Windows 98 environment, or rather allow you …

Well, at least in my house I am.

My wife called upon me this evening because she got a “server error” when she tried to use her web-based email. Her web-based email is on a server that I …