This is pretty cool… Thanks to a post on A Whole Lotta Nothing, I now have an automatically updating “Now Playing” section!
(UPDATE) And since I almost never listen to music now, it is sitting idle and I have commented it out…
Because I am a techie geek
Score one for the good guys!
Waiting
The frustration of waiting for a compile to finish. Time stops. Productivity stops. When the build be done?
Tomorrow is another day.
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.
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.
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.