Many things happened since last entry. Let's see. First of
all I moved to a new laptop. Gave my old one to my wife (she
uses it for writing) and got a nice ThinkPad for myself
(A21e). I chickened out and installed Red Hat 6.2 on the
laptop (I shouldv'e gone Debian) and I still kept a small
Windows partitions, mostly to deal with some Windows
annoyances at work.
The RH 6.2 install was nearly painless. Just figuring out
how to get the sound to work took a little while. It's up
and running now with ALSA drivers. I have to make a page
describing my configuration to help others set up laptops.
Meanwhile I've fiddled a little with my Debian box. The user
enviroment with Gnome and WindowMaker for window manager
needs a lot of tweeking. I also have to get some basics
going. For example, I need to configure printer filters to
be able to print Web pages and I need to set up dialup. I
haven't had that much time to work on it.
Last Friday I stopped by Linux Expo and I picked up some
neat toys. One was a CD with Ximian release of the Gnome
environment. I'll try it out on the Debian machine when it
is set up better.
I also got a copy of "Evil Geniuses for Dummies" signed by
Illiad (see http://www.userfriendly.org) for my son. My son
was very impressed with the autographed book, and it's not
easy for a dad to impress a 13 year old son. :)
The funniest part of the signing was that there were
supposed to be two authors signing their books: Eric Raymond
and Illiad. Illiad was late and a long line formed waiting
for him, while Eric just sat there waiting. While thunbing
through the User Friendly book I got to a cartoon which
featured Eric Raymond, so I had him sing the cartoon. I know
it's silly, but so what.