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November 24, 2003

Finally...

All ISOs are safely downloaded and on the fileserver. Tomorrow, burn them, then maybe build the box on Friday.

Gone are the days in which I would stay up all night mucking around on the computer. Not sure if that is a loss of youthful vigor, or a gain in wisdom. Now I just cannot fall asleep because I am thinking about that which I am not doing. I give it five more years, and I will be able to sleep like nobodies business.

Posted by Scott at 10:19 PM | Comments (0)

The Blog Lives!

Maybe I spoke too soon - I have suddenly found many things to blog about, not the least of which is the fact that I am now blogging again :)

Not quite sure yet if it is the cold, the headache, the fact that I might be feeling more me than I have been lately, the fact that I have been feeling less me lately, guilt for not blogging (why, when I am doing it for myself?), or just random chance?

Posted by Scott at 10:15 PM | Comments (0)

Dual booting here I come (maybe)

So it is not so straight forward after all. First Partition Magic would not work, which should not be a surprise, as my version is almost 10 years old. Then ntfsresize, a little known Open Source project that ships with Mandrake and other Linux distros, could only reclaim 2Mb from the NTFS partition. I tried to defrag to free up more space at the end of the hard drive, but of course the MFT was at the end of the drive.

Finally success! Thanks to Diskeeper, I was able to defrag on a reboot, allowing me to move the MFT to the begining of the disk. 8 whole Gigs I was able to free up for the partition.

Now all I have to do is to wait for the Red Hat 9 ISOs to download, burn them to disk, and I am set to go. 8 Gigs should be plenty, right? At least until I ditch WinXP and make the whole hard drive Red Hat. Hmm, maybe not.

Just need to remember to burn the keep the CD install around for when Red Hat has stopped letting you install, and forces you to use Fedora.

Posted by Scott at 9:50 PM | Comments (0)

Freeing hard drives from oppression

First this, then reparations, soon we will be forced to make sure that we use each drive equally, and then maybe they will have to develop computers that can run with only a slave drive.

Posted by Scott at 9:40 PM | Comments (0)

November 23, 2003

RedHat Linux 9

Going to try to install RedHat on my laptop, hopefully without killing the WinXP install. Dual boot, here I come.

I have at times been a MS basher, and at times looked down on Linux for being "mainstream", but you know what? Whatever works for the job, should be used for the job. Guess I just have gotten more pragmatic as time has past.

Posted by Scott at 7:06 PM | Comments (0)

Death of a blog?

It started so well. A couple of entries a week wasn't so bad. But now it has been over a month. Course it served its purpose, and made me feel better. Not that anyone cares, as it is really just a private journal, not really expected to be read. Believe me, I have looked at the logs, and there is no one reading this :)

Posted by Scott at 7:02 PM | Comments (0)