The world is a different place at 5am. Honestly things that normally wouldn’t be interesting suddenly become interesting. You see some freaky stuff this early in the morning. Well I did this morning … let’s just leave it right there.

I must have some looming uni assignments or something because I’ve been super productive and have cleaned up my messy desk for the first time in bloody ages. Funny thing is I found receipts for 6 spindle packs of CD-R’s (80 minute 50 packs), thats pretty dodgy. I also discovered several new species of dust mites, other assorted wild life and rare exotic plants living in what can only be described as “it probably was dust once”. Shocking, I live here too, ewwww.

Bubblegum Crisis episode 15 captured ok. On Tuesday last week I exchanged my faulty IBM deskstar for a new one, and life is good again. The service I got from Atcom was great even under difficult circumstances due to them being an on-line only store and me living out whoop whoop. If only money was plentiful again :\ but that would have something to do with buying more RAM… heh RAM is good, VMWare loves RAM, well it doesn’t, but the virtual environment is much better with more RAM allocated to it.

I’d like one of these thanks, reviewed here by Dan.

I had a play with Mplayer 0.18pre5 on the weekend, and it’s better than .17, much better, faster more stable. Now all I’m waiting for is e 17. (Though I don’t really know why I’m waiting for it, other than it looks pretty).

In other news, Divx 4 official is out, and with it the divx 3.x decoder has been fixed for files of odd resolutions where previously you’d get image corruption. (My Bubblegum Crisis episodes were like this.) I apologise in advance for the quote …

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, If I should die before I wake, I’ll cry in anguish, “Mistake!! Mistake!!”

#include <disclaimer.h>

Red Hat vs Debian not nearly as bad as Emacs vs VI …

In the italicised corner we have Red Hat Linux, a commercial distrobution built on a strong base that began way back in mid 1994. Red Hat has produced several versions over the years, ranging from 0.8 (preview) in mid 1994 through mid 1995’s 1.0 (Mother’s day release (US mothers day?)) Initially Red Hat linux used their own packaging technology called RPP, however by version 2.0beta (mid 1995) this had become RPM (after importing many other projects work and ideas), RPM was written in perl. Red Hat 3.0.3 (March 1996) contained RPM re-written in C. RPM files can be managed with the unix cpio tool. The latest Red Hat Linux is 7.1.93 (7.2beta) (latest stable is 7.1+updates). Red Hat has become the Microsoft of Linux.

In the bold corner we have Debian GNU/Linux, a totally free, non comerical distrobution also built on a strong base which started back in August 1993. Version 1.1 (there was no official 1.0 release) was released in March 1996. Debian uses the dpkg package management tool to facilitate the installation, removal and upgrading of packages in the system. The .deb files produced by this package management system can be unpacked by the standard unix tool ar. The most recent release of Debian is 2.2 revision 3 (plus minor updates). Debian is considered the Linux of Linux. (Others include, Slackware, the unix of Linux and many more).

Crap crap crap.

hmmm, not much of an update is it, better change the poll then, andeeeen?

MCSE: Mouse Clicking Solution Expert

Yep, another South park episode graced my hard drive on friday. It’s sunday now. I’ve been doing lots again. Bubblegum Crisis captured fine, episode 14 down, who knows how many more. I’ve been trying to catch up on Voyager episodes, 5 to go. I burned 16 cd’s last night, last one finished less than 30 seconds before Bubblegum Crisis started so it was a bit close for comfort. (Burner and capture card in one box).

I had a bit of a play with Red Hat 7.1.93 (aka 7.2beta) and it’s, well, interesting. It’s mighty large, it’s not mighty stable and well, the debian bug bit me again, so I installed apt on it (apt with rpm can be done ). Needless to say it could do with a reinstall (which won’t be happening because it took ages to install in vmware). Windows 2000 Server works in vmware.

SoftICE blue screens my computer. I knew windows was toast, but not this burnt.

Lisp in an iteresting language.

iMesh bit me, I’ve got half of the Titan AE sound track.

I’m up to part 3 in Max Payne, nearly there. Haven’t played it in days though.

The relative speed of a computer, regardless of CPU architecture, is inversely proportional to the number of Microsoft products installed.