Yesterday I bumped into Beibhinn O'Connor who I hadn't seen in a long time since she finished University. I was relieved that I was able to immediately remember her name, something I am not usually so lucky about. She is studying for Blackhall place (to become a Solicitor) and coincidentally she will also be doing jury duty next week, same as I am. The strangest part of the conversation though had to be that a normal person like her had read this journal. While I am glad that some people occassionally read this it left me without much to say and the conversation didn't last but with any luck I will bump into her sometime next week during jury duty.
Tomorrow I have a phone interview for Technical Support work at Dell and I am hoping the hardware questions will not be too detailed as my interests have always been more on the side of software, design, and usability. It would be nice to be gainfully employed and to start reducing the debt from my student loans, especially with the Christmas season only weeks away.
Red Hat: Fedora Core 3
After a few false starts I properly upgraded my home machine to Fedora Core 3. Years ago when I first partitioned the machine 4GB seemed like a lot of space, more than enough to install a very full version of Red Hat. This time round I was informed that I didn't have enough space to upgrade which forced me to instead clear everything out do a clean install but still I was told I didn't have enough space. This was particularly annoying because of how long the system took to tell this and because I didn't have the option to go back and change my settings and was forced to start again from scratch.
Typically right after upgrading I read about a great big improvement that I will have wait for until the next the next version of Fedora.
Ooh, pretty diagrams charting the start-up process of Fedora Core 3,
before optimisation and after optimisation.
