Fedora Core 4 has been out a while, and repositories are just starting to pop up for it finally. Seems theres problems with the move to GCC 4.0 and getting things to compile. Other than that, I'm really liking it. I haven't made the move on my home PC yet, but I've been running it here at work for some time (since test 2 i believe...) and I've had it on my laptop since test 3. Major updates include Gnome 2.10, GCC 4.0, and more enhancements to SELinux. Worth the upgrade? I would say yes. Mostly for cosmetic reasons tho. I loved how it detected and even would allow me to install over my Cisco 340 Aironet wireless card at work. I was amazed (since Ubuntu could do it figured Fedora should too!). I'm loving NetworkManager. I finally can confidently say Linux does wireless as easy (i think its actually easier) as windows. (When the card is supported...) Anyway Props to the developers for another great release! I'll be posting more on my bro's install for his new Athlon64 and an ATI Express200 board, and a SATA Drive using the SB400 chipset.
June 12, 2005 Posted by mitch |
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Well sortof... We are currently a little over half done with installing the pergo flooring into our kitchen. Its taken a while because of some of the weird shapes that need to be cut around. However, we should be finnished today. Elissa's grandparents will be comming back down to help later and it should only take a couple hours to finish up. I should be able to post pictures today if I get my computer setup....
** UPDATE **
Well, we finnished finally!! It was midnight before we finally finnished, and we couldn't have gotten it done that fast without the help of Elissa's grandparents and uncle Bill. Elissa and I are very gratefull for their help for this project. They were a tremendous help. Anyway, now what your all waiting for, PICTURES! Which are found at the usual place.
Hell has frozen over. Atleast thats the sentiment of most mac users. It's beent the joke for a while, and also been the rumor since the initial release of OS X. I'd heard a long time ago that Apple had a "just in case" plan with OS X, which had every release running on Intel hardware, which isn't to hard to believe considering its roots(BSD). CEO Steve Jobs confirmed this during his keynote speech yesterday. Now, what I've read alot of people say is "will I be able to load this now on my current system?" The answer is "not if Apple can help it". With the fact that Apple is now going to Intel does not mean that those of us that build our own systems will be able to install OS X ourselves onto those systems. Why? Because they are not changing their buisness model, doing that would put them in direct competion with MS and Linux on their turf. Apples target audience will not know nor care what processor their system is running on. When you buy Apple, you don't care, you buy the whole package. Why the move then? Well as Steve Jobs put it, there wasn't a roadmap with the PowerPC. IBM isn't making it advance as fast as Apple would like, and there were cooling issues with the G5 that prevented them putting it in a laptop. There were also production issues with the PowerPC. With Intel, these are all solved. I'm actually liking this change, its one I wish they would have made along time ago. This may contradict my reactions with Intel, the Pentium D, and DRM I had made a while ago, but as I said there, it heavily depends on how the DRM is implemented. If it can be turned off, and hopefully won't be implemented in the Apple variety. However, I still think Apple could have gone with AMD, but AMD couldn't solve the production problems had with IBM either(Its probably debatable, but that would have changed if AMD had gotten the deal with Apple..). Anyway, This all still keeps me probably going for an Apple next time I'm going to buy a laptop.
June 2, 2005 Posted by mitch |
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Its been a long time comming, but, finally we have carpet. Still have a few finishing touches for the living room to do, (hide the big vent hole and the electrical outlet in the middle of the wall, and clean and clear coat the hardwood) but other than that... we're mostly finnished... man... Its been 4 months and I'm ready to call it quits finally... hopefully we can be fully moved into a large portion of our house within the next week. I'm so tired of working a full day at work and going home to a construction zone to work some more... its been really annoying and alot of work. Time will tell if it was worth while :).
You can check the pics at the usual place.
Well, they've gone and done it, DRM in hardware. I guess it goes without saying that I'm not a fan of DRM in general. This very much is going to be dependant on how this technology has been implemented of course, but none the less, I was thinking of buying an Pentium 4 for my mythTV box I will be building in the comming months... Now however(yes i know the DRM isn't in the P4), I don't support this course of action, and I'm going to back that up with my wallet. This finallized it, I'm buying an Athlon (might even splurg and get one of the dual core's :)) I've heard that there are glitches with them and their HD video playback, but I'm sure that will be worked out and something fixed in gcc to compensate for it. Or I'm planning on getting a PCI-Express video card, so that might be fixed with that... or an NVidia chipset mobo... we'll see. I still have a lot of research to do about it. With the Wintel aliance in full force it seems. All I know right now is that I'm not buying Intel.
