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A New Penguin, CCNA2, Ars Magica, Socialising, Dunedin
So I finally ditched Mandrake and played around with a couple of distros for server-level fun. OpenSolaris was even installed at one stage, albeit briefly. FreeBSD, the preferred option, didn't want to install and I'm not man enough to fight it. Finally settled on Fedora. Then began the tiresome process of getting Python, Zope and Plone up and going. They don't talk to each other very well at all. If PHPWebsite was fully standards compliant I wouldn't bother with this nonsense.
Last week I passed the CCNA semester 2 theory exam. It was held out-of-sync because myself and the other student (yes, the class has had a 80%+ drop-out rate) were having problems with the prac test, so the instructor put that off until this week and sprung the exam on us instead. I rather suspect that if I actually had the opportunity to study for it I would have done better than the 77% that I received. It's good enough for now.
Gaming this past week has only consisted of Ars Magica. The Storyguide has placed us on the Calf of Man, a desolate windswept place far from civilization. My character, as a Greek scholar, is already beginning to feel exiled. I am increasingly of the opinion that the setting - minus the inter-House politics - is magnificant and the system is both flawed and incomplete.
In a fairly social week, I started with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hasimir's gathering at the Gin Palace. There was fine conversation and some amusement at the fact that everyone present had an el-jay account. Later, an end-of-year gathering for the Henry George Foundation, with an excellent speech by Bob Knowles. Finally, went to caseopaya's end of year work function and had a very enjoyable time.
Have been reading books on network games and decided that would be a great profession; I would get to combine all my interests into one. Planning to go to the Dunedin Linux Conf in January. I have a mad dream of a dozen people taking over a disused warehouse in Dunedin and turning it into an IT centre of great repute. But who would join me in such a venture at the end of the earth?
Last week I passed the CCNA semester 2 theory exam. It was held out-of-sync because myself and the other student (yes, the class has had a 80%+ drop-out rate) were having problems with the prac test, so the instructor put that off until this week and sprung the exam on us instead. I rather suspect that if I actually had the opportunity to study for it I would have done better than the 77% that I received. It's good enough for now.
Gaming this past week has only consisted of Ars Magica. The Storyguide has placed us on the Calf of Man, a desolate windswept place far from civilization. My character, as a Greek scholar, is already beginning to feel exiled. I am increasingly of the opinion that the setting - minus the inter-House politics - is magnificant and the system is both flawed and incomplete.
In a fairly social week, I started with
hasimir's gathering at the Gin Palace. There was fine conversation and some amusement at the fact that everyone present had an el-jay account. Later, an end-of-year gathering for the Henry George Foundation, with an excellent speech by Bob Knowles. Finally, went to caseopaya's end of year work function and had a very enjoyable time. Have been reading books on network games and decided that would be a great profession; I would get to combine all my interests into one. Planning to go to the Dunedin Linux Conf in January. I have a mad dream of a dozen people taking over a disused warehouse in Dunedin and turning it into an IT centre of great repute. But who would join me in such a venture at the end of the earth?
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I was forced to install Novell SuSe a week or two ago. It really confirmed to me that I much prefer Debian systems. Granted, the Debian Stale vs Debian Unstable question gets hairy towards the end of a major revision, but, there's a lot to be said for the known quantity.
OpenSolaris was even installed at one stage
Is that what they're calling Solaris for Intel these days?
Last time I had Solaris for Intel installed, it was a pretty hideous beast with a fairly short hardware compatibility list, (which at the time didn't include the most popular network card on the market).
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Apparently that's the recommended distro for my laptop (HP Compaq nx5000); the sound card and the wireless work with it (thanks HP). Problem is recent events in Novell make SUSE's future look a bit dark.
Last time I had Solaris for Intel installed, it was a pretty hideous beast with a fairly short hardware compatibility list, (which at the time didn't include the most popular network card on the market).
I believe that is still the case. I couldn't get a connection up and running either :/
The Java version of KDE looks cute tho'.
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Back then, IIRC, the card in question was a Realtek. There was third-party hacked in support for them, but, it took quite an effort to get it working.
I seem to remember the video card support for X being pretty dire too. Even where supported, you'd get wierd shimmering and the screen would skip 100 rows to the left so the mouse pointer and where it "hit" in an application were in different places. Really wonky stuff. That was all back in the Solaris 7 era though.