Archives
2010 June
– Valve
– Win
2010 May2010 February
2010 January
2009 October
2009 September
2009 April
2009 February
2009 January
2008 July
2008 May
2008 April
2008 March
Welcome back.
» forget me
Subscribe:
Login:
| This Time for Real |
| Thu January 8th, 2009 at 4:38 AM PST |
|
OK. This time I'm going to really update this thing. Promise. Xmas was good. Saw the family. Got sweet gifts:
So now I'm back in Chicago, wasting time until Monday when classes start again. Oh boy. So to waste more time, I installed FreeBSD 7.1 on Element, my AMD64 desktop system, which has been in limbo since I took Gentoo off it. I previously tried openSUSE 11.1, which sucked due to KDE 4.1 suckage, and some other OSes, and none of that really worked. FreeBSD didn't really work either, but only because the NVIDIA drivers for FreeBSD are horrible and crash any time I do anything fancy. Sure, I'm using a GeForce FX 5900, which is technically "legacy" hardware now, but the legacy drivers aren't working. All I get is a crashed xorg and cryptic errors starting with "Xid" in my syslog. A bugreport has been filed with NVIDIA, but I doubt they'll do anything. I think they have all of a single employee working on FreeBSD issues, and frankly I don't blame them. I'll probably be leaving FreeBSD soon anyways. But I like FreeBSD a lot anyways. The biggest reason is its package repository. The Ports system has a HUGE advantage over the Gentoo Portage system: FreeBSD actually makes binaries of most of its packages! That means installation takes hours, not DAYS. Oh, and if you do want the bleeding edge software, you can still compile from source and be happy. Gentoo really needs a build system like pointyhat. So as I write this, openSUSE 11.1 is installing on Element AGAIN, this time I'll probably just stick with KDE 3.5, assuming they haven't broken that too. :( In other random plans, Delta-Zero has been really sketchy hardware-wise lately, so I think I should work on making a replacement for it, possibly out of Element. It would be good to have all of Delta-Zero's server stuff replicated on Element so that in the event of some major failure, I can swap some cables and everything can keep on chugging. Another good reason is that terabyte drive I got. It's SATA. Delta-Zero doesn't have SATA. So it goes in Element. So I have boatloads of space available there, so why not? |
| » (make a comment) |
Comments:
no comments to show
| Shoutbox |
|
Anonymous:
lonely shoutbox :( Mon April 7th, 2008 at 5:09 PM PDT |
|
Anonymous:
hello Mon April 7th, 2008 at 5:12 PM PDT |
|
Anonymous:
o hai Mon April 28th, 2008 at 12:31 PM PDT |
|
CHIZUBAGA:
I CAN HAZ CHIZUBAGA!!!!!!! Wed January 20th, 2010 at 12:58 PM PST |
|
Not Jeremy:
o hai remember when i threw hot sauz in yer eye. lulz Thu January 28th, 2010 at 11:28 AM PST |
|
JEREMY:
MOAR NAPKINS DURR HURR Thu February 11th, 2010 at 9:33 AM PST |
|
Shoutbox:
I wuz on a DAtZ.. haffing chizubaga!! Om nom nom nom!! Wed May 26th, 2010 at 1:04 PM PDT |
|
Totally not anyone you know:
Problem? Thu June 3rd, 2010 at 2:09 PM PDT |
|
Random Randomstein:
Shitpickle. Fri June 11th, 2010 at 6:04 PM PDT |
