Wednesday, July 14, 2004
BLAST!
Yesterday was a dark day in the battle for Linux. I got home, ready to do some tinkering before I headed out for some Soul Calibur (which I will get to momentarily), and in my zeal, I got overconfident. I decided to attempt a concurrent installation of Knoppix Linux, since it has really excellent hardware recognition. So I set up a partition for it, made the file system and went about it. No sooner than I was half-way through the installation script when I felt the need to check on my Gentoo install. And there, sitting there empty and forlorn was the partition, totally devoid of any Gentoo. Bah. Seems I managed to erase the bugger by overwriting the filesystem. Bah again. I was initally all pissed off, but was informed later on that being Debian, Knoppix has a program called apt-get. Apt-get works very much like portage in that it is a centrally run software management and installation system, but it uses packages instead of compiling from source (well, usually - it can also do the source thing) and that saves a fair bit of time.
So it is over. I now have a smooth-running copy of Linux alongside my Windows OS, and will be getting City of Heroes going as soon as humanly possible. And that, friends will be the moment of truth, whether all this excitement I've had over the past week will be worth it. Could be that it runs like crap and I'll have to wait for an update, or it might run like the Devil's pancakes and I'll never go back to Microsoft for a long while. We shall see.
Do you read Penny Arcade? Do you follow gaming news? Do you care? A yes to the third could mean a yes to the second, but it should mean a yes to the first. And a yes to the first means that you know about the whole Bethseda Softworks and Fallout thing. Now in order to comprehend this, you need to realize that while not the best RPG series out there, Morrowind, if nothing else, was mammoth. Hang on, that doesn't convey it right. MAMMOTH. Yes. That big. In Daggerfall and Morrowind, you basically have free reign of a continent, and you can just wander around and do what you please, in a very open-ended sort of
way. Combine that with some nice prettiness and some post-apocalyptic sardonic humour, and we have something that could be mighty tasty indeed. I look forward to any developments...
Defective Yeti is another blog that is a decent read most of the time, but has its odd great post. This is one of those posts. From the same site, but from an unrelated post, is this fancy thing that is just so cool I could hit it with a spoon. (No, that isn't supposed to be logical.)
From the wonderful In4mador! comes the Evil People Machine. If you start watching, it gets really hard to stop.
Now we zip over to Tagline, where I see a post by Stephen about Spider-man 2. Basically he just reviews Spider-man 2, which because I'm sure you are a rational, sane person, you have already seen and loved. The important bit here is a chord that I happen to agree very much with, and that is:
Damn skippy. There are certain filmmakers that I just can't get enough of, and Sam Raimi is one of them* for that very reason. I can't wait for Spider-man 3.
* The others include Kevin Smith, Guillermo del Toro, Quentin Tarantino. They all have that zeal for the kind of film they do that just makes it awesome.
Oh good lord. It's come to this. Why won't the apocalypse just come in peace and stop tormenting us like this?
Awesome!!! It's the Hulk's blog! (via Boing Boing)
Kewl. The Creative Commons license is at the very least an interesting addition to the possibilities for managing creation, and at best a promise of the future of copyright. Bringing it to Canada can't be a bad thing.
And that seems to conclude any interesting links for today. So I'll leave you with the following: thembleton halliburtwell snark. That is all.
¶ 8:47 p.m.
Yesterday was a dark day in the battle for Linux. I got home, ready to do some tinkering before I headed out for some Soul Calibur (which I will get to momentarily), and in my zeal, I got overconfident. I decided to attempt a concurrent installation of Knoppix Linux, since it has really excellent hardware recognition. So I set up a partition for it, made the file system and went about it. No sooner than I was half-way through the installation script when I felt the need to check on my Gentoo install. And there, sitting there empty and forlorn was the partition, totally devoid of any Gentoo. Bah. Seems I managed to erase the bugger by overwriting the filesystem. Bah again. I was initally all pissed off, but was informed later on that being Debian, Knoppix has a program called apt-get. Apt-get works very much like portage in that it is a centrally run software management and installation system, but it uses packages instead of compiling from source (well, usually - it can also do the source thing) and that saves a fair bit of time.
So it is over. I now have a smooth-running copy of Linux alongside my Windows OS, and will be getting City of Heroes going as soon as humanly possible. And that, friends will be the moment of truth, whether all this excitement I've had over the past week will be worth it. Could be that it runs like crap and I'll have to wait for an update, or it might run like the Devil's pancakes and I'll never go back to Microsoft for a long while. We shall see.
Do you read Penny Arcade? Do you follow gaming news? Do you care? A yes to the third could mean a yes to the second, but it should mean a yes to the first. And a yes to the first means that you know about the whole Bethseda Softworks and Fallout thing. Now in order to comprehend this, you need to realize that while not the best RPG series out there, Morrowind, if nothing else, was mammoth. Hang on, that doesn't convey it right. MAMMOTH. Yes. That big. In Daggerfall and Morrowind, you basically have free reign of a continent, and you can just wander around and do what you please, in a very open-ended sort of
way. Combine that with some nice prettiness and some post-apocalyptic sardonic humour, and we have something that could be mighty tasty indeed. I look forward to any developments...
Defective Yeti is another blog that is a decent read most of the time, but has its odd great post. This is one of those posts. From the same site, but from an unrelated post, is this fancy thing that is just so cool I could hit it with a spoon. (No, that isn't supposed to be logical.)
From the wonderful In4mador! comes the Evil People Machine. If you start watching, it gets really hard to stop.
Now we zip over to Tagline, where I see a post by Stephen about Spider-man 2. Basically he just reviews Spider-man 2, which because I'm sure you are a rational, sane person, you have already seen and loved. The important bit here is a chord that I happen to agree very much with, and that is:
Yeah, it all comes back to Raimi. Ultimately I enjoyed Spider-Man 2 so thoroughly because I was in the hands of a filmmaker who loves his subject, who's completely committed to it, and who wanted to make a movie - well, just for me. He wanted to make a great Spider-Man movie for me and for people like me, for those of us who love the character, and who want to see his adventures on screen for a long time to come.
Damn skippy. There are certain filmmakers that I just can't get enough of, and Sam Raimi is one of them* for that very reason. I can't wait for Spider-man 3.
* The others include Kevin Smith, Guillermo del Toro, Quentin Tarantino. They all have that zeal for the kind of film they do that just makes it awesome.
Oh good lord. It's come to this. Why won't the apocalypse just come in peace and stop tormenting us like this?
Awesome!!! It's the Hulk's blog! (via Boing Boing)
Kewl. The Creative Commons license is at the very least an interesting addition to the possibilities for managing creation, and at best a promise of the future of copyright. Bringing it to Canada can't be a bad thing.
And that seems to conclude any interesting links for today. So I'll leave you with the following: thembleton halliburtwell snark. That is all.
¶ 8:47 p.m.
