It’s been a while. I guess I had ’shunned’ myself from a lot of the online community when I realised how pathetically f*cked-up it can be - the passing of Daco, related events, and reactions from some ‘people’ that associated with him in his past had me reeling. But I’ve come to accept some of my experiences, and now that I have, I’ve developed an itch to swan-dive back into the goo-bucket.

My computer rig has changed. I have upgraded to win9x, icq99a,netsca… haw! Not really. 1 gateway/firewall, 2 workstations, a server, and an ibook. My gateway still tracks ’stable’ in Debian, which it should. Workstation 1 is no different either OS wise… tracking Gentoo. But, my idea of a UI has changed. My better half had issues trying to use my workstation in any way. Felt it was time to add a user friendly touch to it, and installed Gnome. My plan was to run Openbox inside of Gnome, as opposed to my very personalised Openbox only setup. I wasn’t that happy about the change. Started screening the interweb for ideas and a 3D generated desktop caught my eye. Might as well ‘use‘ my 3D card for other things than games. Compiz Fusion was installed, along with composite based tools such as Avant Window Navigator. Productivity hasn’t dropped, I can ‘wobble’ a window or two for amusement. Heck I just like it. She likes it. It’s quite a dramatic change from my previous, somewhat minimal, set-up… but… I have that still on my Debian based ibook though so it’s all good Workstation 2 is a dual booter - Studio 64, which is a Debian based(Etch) multimedia focused distribution. I use it as a DAW. Realtime capabilities, Ardour, JAMin, and all that jazz. I’ve used it for recording musical compositions - work and personal. The same machine also has WinXP on it. That’s more for my parents when they visit. My server is now tracking Gentoo’s ‘Hardened’, and offers a secure Q2 service, httpd, network backups,and a few other things… but they are a secret

I have set myself up with a project to get me back into the zing of things. Going to try and incorporate gtk2 into ‘daco-tools’ since it would be nice to have a GUI, since some fonts don’t display the ‘funky’ function too well in a terminal. Going to be difficult since I aint no stinkin’ programmer, but I’ll give it a crack. I couldn’t think of anything else to do!

Good times

So, after 4 days of no one calling me back to inform me what the status of the order was (no order was showing placed online @ dell.ca), I called them and told them to pound sand.

4 days of wasted time, while no one would return my calls, or even answer an email that I had sent.

Dell, you can kiss my rosy red ass, right in the brown puckered part.

Worst service ever.

So, the Compaq fiasco has led me to the decision of purchasing a new laptop.

I’ve come to the conclusion in my head, that two dead disks in 16 months is more likely a hardware problem with the laptop, than it is bad luck.
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My laptop died a spectacular death the other night.

Everything on it was working mostly fine,but I had decided that after playing with xubuntu, on my EEE PC for the last few weeks, that I wanted to give it a go on the big beast.
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So…

I jumped on the Eee PC Bandwagon about a week ago, and bought a black 701 series.

For those that have no idea what I am talking about, the Eee PC is, simply the smallest fully functioning laptop that I have ever laid my hands on. Let’s get the specs out of the way.
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I’ve bought a couple new toys recently, here’s the skinny.

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