Some Days in the Life - July 14, 1999
Last night was an extremely late night, thanks mostly to my falling asleep after dinner and snoozing until midnight, when I still had an extensive Linux presentation to do before class today. Further, I had detention to oversee today (I have to do that about every six days not counting weekends this summer). Just one kid had it, so I let him know that I lost additional sleep thanks to him. He was suitably abashed.
I tried to time bread to come into the office with me today, as well, but sadly I mistimed just enough that it wasn't practical. As in, there were still twenty minutes to go before I left. But the place smelled great, and thankfully the breadmaker will shut off/already has shut off automatically. So, nice fresh bread when I get home. The documentation warned that the crust will get soft if you don't remove it from the maker right away, so I may have soft crust wheat bread at home. Which, I assume, will make it just like store bought wheat bread, so no big.
I love thick, crunchy crusts though. Love them. So I hope it's not too bad. This will be my sandwich bread for the next long while. It's darned tasty wheat bread, too.
The presentation today was on Linux, and it was a good one. Lots of screenshots. I mined the World Wide Web for examples of Linux GUIs and Window Managers. KDE, Enlightenment, fvwm, Gnome, Afterstep....
Some of them look really really cool. The sad part of all this (besides the fact that I was up until four in the morning or so, doing Powerpoint stuff) is that I'm slowly, methodically convincing myself that it's insane to be using a Macintosh instead of a Linux system.
The problem is, I have a lot of Mac hardware available to me, and not all that much non-Mac hardware available to me, and the Mac implementations of Linux leave something to be desired. I have yet to have a machine where X-Window (any flavor) just works out of the box. Which is a darned shame, as I'd like a system where that's true. I'd like it very much. I'd especially like it on my iMac in my office, which is a waste as a Macintosh. But one that also works on the 233 mhz "classic" G3 Powerbook (the current name for last year's models) would be nice too, so I can do stuff at home.
But, if I have to spend $200 on a basic CPU, steal a monitor from work and throw Red Hat on something for testing and learning purposes, that won't break my heart. I'll survive that pretty darn well, really. It just seems a waste.
Oh, and no one -- no one -- has currently ported Linux to the Power Macintosh 53xx series computers, which were two years' ago's All-in-Ones. And that's a bloody shame, as they're boat anchors otherwise.
Anyway, Yellow Dog not being particularly happy on the iMac (and being slightly surly), I'm going to try to download and use LinuxPPC instead. We will see what happens. (Of course, I don't expect to successfully download it, but hey -- hope springs eternal). It recommends doing a three partition scheme -- one HFS+ partition (for Mac stuff), on HFS standard partition for transferring data back and forth between the partitions, and one "unallocated" partition which will be where the Linux partitions will be created during installations.
We'll see what happens. Ah, the joys of computer geekery.
In closing for today, Women's Soccer Rocks. I mean, seriously so. Wow. Very cool stuff.
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