Brandon: On Hurricanes, and such...

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Trapped in my room for 30 hours while Hurricane Jeanne decides to beat on America's Wang, it depresses me, on my vacation and all.

Well, it looks like the parks will be down for at least one day. It's just sad, is all.

And the fact that I have to use AOL to connect to the internet.

Mood: Black Cloud

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Brandon: So, here I am.

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So, here I am, sitting in the BWI airport, on what I assume to be a free wi-fi hotspot. I know I didn't put in any credit card info or anything like that. Anyways, I'm on my way to sunny Florida, if there is any of it left after the aftermath of the hurricane. Spending 8 days at a glorious Disney resort, kicking back, having fun, and just having a damn good vacation. See you all when I get back.

Mood: Relaxed

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Brandon: Finally, it is finished

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About a billion hours later, X.org, KDE, and Mozilla all compile and I have a working Gentoo linux system. I thought you all might enjoy a screenshot.

Click Here

Purdy, ain't it.

If you'd like to see how my linux desktop used to be when I used it all the time when I worked at ACE, click here

Mood: Acomplished
Music: Stargate, again

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Brandon: How to install Gentoo Linux in less than a week.

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So, I decide I want to throw linux back on my computer now that I have all this extra space. So, I download my old favorite distro, Mandrake. Mandrake is nice and all, but it has some problems, mainly, it uses it's own configuration utilites to configure most of the system, and I just happen to prefer the standard utilites.

So I download Gentoo, the ultimate in customizable distros. Gentoo is cool mainly because of the fact that each and every package is compiled on your machine for your architecture. That is fine and all, except when you have to compile your entire OS, from the ground up, it can take some time. Like, a day, or a week, or a month. Who knows. I've been installing it since this morning, and it's compiling in the background as I speak.

Here are some tips for those of you brave enough to try and brew your own linux install using Gentoo.

• Read all the docs before you start. Look over the linux fdisk manual and the GRUB bootloader manual as well.
  
• Compile in support for your root filesystem, don't make it a loadable module.
  
• X11 and Xorg X servers do not like SSE extensions, Take them out of your USE paramaters or it will crash, and crash often during compile
  
• Segfaults happen, just start the emerge again and it hopefully will make it past it.
  
• Compiles take time. KDE has like 71 or some ungodly number of dependencies. Prepare to wait and wait and wait.
  
  I'm typing this using the links webbrowser in directFB mode, it's rather nice.
  
  Mood: Compiling
  Music: Stargate SG1 Theme
  
  
  

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Beowulf: Back to School

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Well, today was my first day back to school. Oh what fun it is. I get to see people I haven't seen all summer, I have new paper and pencils, I have yet to need to buy a single textbook, and there are so many lovely new faces on campus this semester.

In my last class of the day today, I had to sign something like a security agreement. It's a new class, offered for the first time this semester. It covers many different aspects of computer security. But, of course, they can't teach us how to protect our computers if we don't know how they're going to be invaded and attacked. So apparently we get to learn some of that fun stuff too. The agreement was simply some ethical thing saying that we won't use our knowledge for evil while within the confines of the educational institute.

Nathan, I went to Hastings a few days ago and saw your book. Should I call it a book or should I call it thick pamphlet? heh. I didn't buy it tho. I thought I would wait for Sunday and let you sign a copy. What time are you going to be there anyway?

I was looking at the classes I need to take next semester. I only need 11 hours to graduate. Just 11. That means I'm going to have to throw on another whole class just to be a full-time student. I'll have to find some class that interests me but is an easy A. Any suggestions?

Anyway, that's far more than anyone of you really wanted to hear about me.

Mood: Tired. Waking up sucks.
Music: Julianna - Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Browsing: transparent aluminum is here, according to Slashdot

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