Haven't gotten a chance to try out my newly made packages. I had intended to try it out on July 2, but all of the festivities of the 4th of July holiday made that impossible. Quite a lot happened. I got a chance to see my father this holiday, which was a plus, considering I haven't seen him in a while (try a year,) and I just realized this was the most time I spent with my mother and nieces in a while. If this thing works with my Pentium 200 computer I'm going to make packages for an old 486 Toshiba laptop I have at home. With Gentoo Linux you can just about make distributions of packages for any computer, old or new, with the same tools. True you can just get CDs or download packages for the net, but I'm just really impressed with Gentoo that I want to try it wherever I can.

I'm actually starting to make an effort to redesign my site. It's something basic right now, but maybe later I'll do something flashy with it.

Well, I tried emerging other packages which have failed due to compiler issues, so what I'm going to do is grab what packages I already have and the portage tree, take them home, and compile some of them there (I have all of the sources on CD I've downloaded in the past.) I'm just anxious to see how my efforts went here.

I also want to turn some of my other computers to Gentoo Linux machines. I run the web server, which has Mandrake 8.1 on it now, and I find emerging packages a whole lot more convenient than installing RPMs if i needed to update my machine, so at a convenient point I want to install Gentoo on my web server.

As far as the compiler went, I'm going to update gcc to 3.2.2 later and see if that helps.

I set up a file that had all the packages I wanted 'emerged' (installed) and ran this command to install all of them:

cat autoemerge.txt | xargs emerge

I was hoping to see at least 1/3 of it done, but my virtual machine ran out of space well before then, so I had to clean off some disk space and keep going.

Well, the virtual machine kept choking on building fluxbox and openbox, so I tried emerging IceWm instead. Let's see how that goes.

For the last few days I've been trying to set up a Gentoo Linux installation at my house. As I only have a Pentium 200 MMX machine I've been trying to compile all of the software on my office computer, a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4, and install the resulting packages at home. I tried the stage 1 tarball, only for gcc to choke doing so; so I just tried a stage 3 tarball, with better results. However I have yet to finish compiling all the software, because 1) I tried to set up distcc so the I can use another machine I have in the office to do builds, but that hasn't worked out too well for me (I have been mucking around with the distcc settings, so I will have to play around with them some more.) and 2) I ran out of disk space. I use VMWare to make my "distro," so I won't have to do all this stuff on another machinel Hopefully this distcc and ccache thing works. I'll just let it run until tomorrow evening, burn a CD with all the packages I made, and take them home and have some fun.

I downloaded a copy of VMWare Workstation 4 so I could try out Windows .Net Server 2003, and I'm really impressed with VMWare. I just hate the fact that it's so expensive. I'd like for some of the open source alternatives to be more up to snuff, so I wouldn't have to pay for it. TIme to roll my sleeves up and work on some of this code.

I also got a chance to try out FrontPage 2003 Beta, and I like how it's changed. One of the reasons that I liked Dreamweaver over FrontPage is that I could see the HTML and Preview my changes at the same time. You can do that now in FP2003. Another thing is that when I see the code and the preview at the same time I can click on an element in the preview and the cursor goes to the location in the HTML view.

Also, I'm thinking about setting up Plone or Movable Type to play around with setting it up and seeing how I can ease updating our web site.

I still gotta redesign my web site. I think this time I'll take the time to do it right and employ some design principles.

Wow! I haven't been here in a while. I found a nice tool to allow me to access all my bookmarks from anywhere in the world. It's called Bookie, and you can find it at bookie.mozdev.org. I found it after using Mozilla Firebird for Windows.. I'm impressed. Right now, though, the client and server were not available for download, so I had to compile it from CVS, which was not a problem for me.

I finally finished my database programs...the rest of it I'm going to do using Microsoft Access.
I haven't really seen too much in the way of the blogs I mostly hit. Coherence Engine had some nice entries; the guy who does the Super Fast Computer is trying to install Gentoo Linux on his machine; maybe I'll give him some help.

It's also time to set up some links on my blog site.

It's really frustrating to write programs when you don'l know what the commands do in the language.

Working on some programming.

Nothing Special Today
No special blogs to look at. I was wanting to read some more of the Coherence Engine.

I've been checking out the Coherence Engine blog, and I realize that it's good to read opposing viewpoints on stuff. Another blog that's really interesting is http://chuckolsen.blogspot.com/

A nice site if you want to process digital videos. http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com/

I found it! The interview with Jaron Lanier for which I was looking!

Another interesting blog - http://edtechdev.org/blog/archives/cat_technology.html

This is an intersting blog. It's about different views on how software is created. Its latest entry reminded me of some material by Jaron Lanier, who coined the term virtual reality. I'd really like to find the article I read.

Another link to peruse http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/

Still on the hunt for some more Linux blogs.

Metroid Prime, IMHO, is one of the best games I've played in a while. The graphics are superb, and the gameplay is superb. That game alone is reason enough to purchase a Nintendo GameCube. Here's a good link for completing all of Metroid Prime:
http://www.gameforms.com/features/walkthroughs/metroidprime/

http://scripting.com another site I find interesting.

http://aelice.silhouette-project.com/ - another good one, but this one isn't about linux.

Some good links on linux experiences.
http://justenoughlinux.com/
http://zopenotes.com/