Another thing I like about Xandros is that when I compile software and install it using checkinstall it keeps track of it. Even packages I imported using alien were kept track of. Nice....

Interesting.....

I've been using Xandros for some time now, and I'm getting used to using it more and more often. Last night I was able to install Diablo II on my Xandros machine last night as well as finally get my ZSNES installation working last night. My sound worked as soon as I hooked up some speakers. Hook up my joystick, and I'm in business.

Keeping the blog alive :)

My Xandros machine at work is humming along just fine. I installed Mozilla on it, as well as Firefox 0.9 (which I accidentally trashed by installing a wayward extension), Xine, and I'm trying to get the dvdrip program to work. Zinf never worked on this machine, so I insalled Yammi for my audio library. That really sucked, too, for I liked Zinf for its ability to organize music.
Don't have Xmame, snes9x or zsnes yet, but that's coming. Also need to install Java/eclipse/Ant as well.

What about my home Xandros machine? Since I got it up and going I haven't touched it too much. I installed a WineX package I built at work. It works okay, but crashes if I leave it idle too long. Not a problem as long as I keep saving my Starcraft games often. I haven't had a chance to record any shows to computer or perfect my AutoHotkeys solution to setting up a timer for recording shows, yet, but that'll be in the future.

Some days it seems so hard to pick myself up and get any work done. There are plenty of things that I can tinker with on my computer that I allow myself to get distracted. I'm working on that.

An interesting note-taking site.

A nice way to capture thoughts as they come to you.

I was able to install PostNuke on my computer, after having to recompile apache and PHP so that they can talk to each other. Interesting concept. From my perspective, I think each user will have his/her own PostNuke installation. Now it's just a matter of figuring out how to configure the sites so that users can just log in, update their content, and most importantly, design the site the way they want.

As a desktop machine, Xandros is cool, but for server tasks, I may have to go back to Gentoo or Slackware. I wanted to host a demo of ColdFusion and put PostNuke on here for testing, and I may still do that, since I need the environment in short order, but at my next opportunity I may put Gentoo back on my machine. I will still keep my Xandros setup at home, though.

The Xandros works well. I like using it at home, and I'd like to put it on my machine at work. It's simply a matter of playing musical filesystems as I find out what I need and what I don't need. :)

I have a Gmail account! I didn't realize that as Blogger user I had an invitation. It's good that I have something like this. It's about to be on!

I also have the TV Wonder USB working on my computer at home. I can view and record movies now. I'm trying to automate the thing such that I can set it up to record shows at a certain time using ATI's program. I'm experimenting with AutoHotKey to try to do that.

I was able to fashion a Celeron 500MHz computer with 512 MB Ram and a 40GB HD. I was able to install Windows 98 on it (so I can use my TV Wonder device for capture) and try out Xandros Desktop (Open Circulation Distribution) for usage on my machine. I like it so far, but my only beef with it is that if I want to be able to update software as easily as Gentoo I'd need to have internet access, which is what I will not have. So I will be stuck with creating stuff from source, or switching back to Gentoo or Slackware. I installed checkinstall, so when I compile stuff from source now I just create Debian packages for it for later. I really like the interface it has on it, so I may keep Xandros around a while. I will still keep Gentoo and Slackware around.

At one point I was trying to get a Live CD together with all the games I was able to put on it. I was using Gentoo's catalyst to put it together, and I was able to get to livecd-stage1 before I put that project aside. I found a LiveCD distro, SLAX, that will allow you to compile modules that you can add into the LiveCD on the fly. I plan to compile ZSNES, Snes9x, XMAME, and WINE so I can bring all my games with me on the road as I pleas. I think that'd be neat.

I remember also a time where I tried to record a program using that TV Wonder USB device, and my computer kept crashing. I was using the software that came with the device, but now I may try using VirtualDub to capture video now; I may also use it for my tape collection. I can save the music as an AVI file, then strip the audio to make WAVs, then MP3s.

My Gentoo installation process didn't work! :( The most frustrating part of it is that the installation usually choked on decompressing the tarballs or compiling the software. So I went about installing Slackware on the machine last night, which we'll see if that worked, since I had to go to bed before I completed the installation.

I found out today that there are some machines one of my fraternity brothers wanted me to look at. Maybe I can get some parts out of that thing.

Now I just need to get blogrolling back.

I like the new format of Blogger. more templates :)

I was finally able to get Gentoo installed on my machine at home. It would always choke when I tried to unpack any tarball. So what I did was unpack the stage 3 tarball and the portage tree I had, save that on a loopback filesystem, and copy the files from there when I got home. Now all I have to do is compile the rest of the stuff I want on there, and all's well. Why did the computer choke? Not sure, but I think it's got some hardware issues, and since I really can't buy a machine now, I'll do whatever workaround I need.

post and publish

I'm using blogBuddy...test 12 test 1 2

I'm also thinking about putting blosxom back to work on making my blog.

I copied the kernel and modules from the installation cd onto my Gentoo computer last night. That worked out fine. I'm still having problems with compiling software on it, althought I really think it's a problem with the motherboard or processor on the machine. As I don't have another machine right now, I have two choices: I can compile software on another machine, then install it on this one at home, or I can find a way to compile this software on this machine. It runs Linux (and Windows) pretty fast, so I'd like to use it as I want.

Long time, no see! What's been going on lately? Well, here goes.....

I finally got my gentoo installation up and going on my Pentium 200MHz computer. I had openbox, apache, xmame, rox, openoffice, etc. running on my machine. I even had a little blogging tool called blosxom running on it as well.

Then a lot of changes occurred. First we moved into a new apartment. Then I got a newer computer. The computer I got was a K6-2 with 64MB of ram. I got it from a friend after I built another computer for her. The mobo didn't recognize the hard drive I had in my old computer (A Western Digital drive,) so I had to reinstall everything. So far I got Windows 2000 running on that machine, and now I'm getting Gentoo put back on. I have problems compiling software on this machine, though. I tried compiling the kernel with lower optimization settings, but that didn't work. so I tried to compile the latest version of GCC, to no avail. When I tried to update gcc, the computer flopped on compiling ncurses (it's a portage thing.) I thought about compiling this manually, possibly using the ebuild.sh script.

I also have an ATI TV Wonder USB edition, which I would like to get to run with Linux, but as of yet there are no drivers for it. Looks like I'll have to get that working myself. No problem with that.

I got the stage 3 tarball installed. Now to installing the kernel and logging program. With a decent pair of speakers I plan on turning this thing into a MP3 server.

I downloaded the GRP CDs for Gentoo Linux in an attempt to install it on my home computer again. I should have some time this weekend to work on it.

Well, got my blogrolling thing back.