Well.... God Certainly has provided. I have everything that I could possibly need now, for a home server. 256mb Ram, I dont know anything about the rest of the machine, since I can only see the hardware at this point. I know it has at the very least...some ethernet adapters. I might go up to best buy tommorrow or something, because I now need wireless installed on the thing...
So, Now what I need is... A decent copy of linux.. Thinking about using OpenSuse. Thats the one novell has released in stores, and I had been wanting to try it out. It's free for download off from their website. Or maybe Slackware. Was thinking of trying DSL, but I didn't like the name at all. Heck, I might even use fedora. But Fedora sounds like the best and safest bet right now. In any case, I think I might do everything in runlevel 3 and just ssh it. Seems like the best bet, I'm thinking the X-server would seriously Decrease performance. But I might keep it at 5 for a little while...at least for jackson to understand it. Either way it's stinking cool.
Wonder what I could do if I ever Got That old laptop to work... Well anyways, I need to take a shower and get Cleaned Up. This room is a terrible mess.
Looking forward to setting it up with dydns and port forwarding...thats the hard part right there. I must be missing something with what I am doing. I keep thinking I have everything set right, but then something doesn't work...I've enabled port forwarding.. I simply cannot understand what Is going on.
Another Thing God has blessed Us with is an XP Home Edition product Key. I can install Home Edition on my parents computer in the basement now...Thank God. That'll be a blessing for them. And me too.
And I'll VNC them while I'm at it..heck why not... Thats a cool Idea. The PC will become a gateway into the network as well.
I gotta get that range booster working so my mothers money wasn't wasted. I feel terrible about that...were like stinking broke. And I need to find another off ebay or something that works with ndiswrapper...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Figuring it out
Wow, Programming has been a blast, I spent all night last night just working with glade, and trying to understand how it worked. It's a truely awesome program, I love the guys at gnome, they made everything so easy, I remember programming for the win32 api, which... I'm sure .net has made it a bit easier.
Anyways, I feel like I have so much to cover.
Oh, yeah, I've been trying to get gtkpod to compile, but it cant without libgpod, it wont seem to detect it. So, I removed all entries in the config file that required libgpod, since i knew it wasn't on my system, that worked okay. But then it wouldn't compile, I guess because it needed the libraries. But I had them, or so I thought. Anyways, I think it just needed libgpod-devel to work, so I'm yummin that right now as we speak. Now i'm going to give that a shot with the original config file, to see if everything will really work.
./configure --prefix="/home/darkscript/virtual" I am using a sort of virtual directory, so it wont mess around with my system. its really really tight. But anyways lots to do lots to do. Probably need to read more of John Bevere, but i'm so wrapped up in this.
Anyways, I feel like I have so much to cover.
Oh, yeah, I've been trying to get gtkpod to compile, but it cant without libgpod, it wont seem to detect it. So, I removed all entries in the config file that required libgpod, since i knew it wasn't on my system, that worked okay. But then it wouldn't compile, I guess because it needed the libraries. But I had them, or so I thought. Anyways, I think it just needed libgpod-devel to work, so I'm yummin that right now as we speak. Now i'm going to give that a shot with the original config file, to see if everything will really work.
./configure --prefix="/home/darkscript/virtual" I am using a sort of virtual directory, so it wont mess around with my system. its really really tight. But anyways lots to do lots to do. Probably need to read more of John Bevere, but i'm so wrapped up in this.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Excitement
Wow, I've been working bunches lately. I have my computer back to normal.
Recently been toying with DyDns Network shares, reading for CCNA Exams, Messing with all sorts of things that I can get my hands on.
My mother recently purchased a Wireless G Card with a 35% rangebooster, super excited about that. Just changed my theme from that dark black, it was fun, but it was getting a tad bit annoying, and dark... haha I wanted something simple for a bit.
Anyways, currently working on modifying Gtkpod for using ffmpeg as a backend for converting video for the ipod. I thought it would be cool, since it added drag and drop functionality, to refer to it as dragon drop. sounded much cooler than drag n' drop. Anyways super excited, learning alot under karl's wing. I can hardly contain myself, Just need to deal with the issue of pride.
I was messing around with location of executables, it appears it doesnt matter where they are located, they can still be executed flawlessly, they dont use relative path for libs apparently. still limits them somewhat, since they dont hold the libs within themselves, however more freedom, since I can compile them in my home bin and not worry about then not finding dependencies residing elsewhere on my system. anyways time for smallgroup time to go
Recently been toying with DyDns Network shares, reading for CCNA Exams, Messing with all sorts of things that I can get my hands on.
My mother recently purchased a Wireless G Card with a 35% rangebooster, super excited about that. Just changed my theme from that dark black, it was fun, but it was getting a tad bit annoying, and dark... haha I wanted something simple for a bit.
Anyways, currently working on modifying Gtkpod for using ffmpeg as a backend for converting video for the ipod. I thought it would be cool, since it added drag and drop functionality, to refer to it as dragon drop. sounded much cooler than drag n' drop. Anyways super excited, learning alot under karl's wing. I can hardly contain myself, Just need to deal with the issue of pride.
I was messing around with location of executables, it appears it doesnt matter where they are located, they can still be executed flawlessly, they dont use relative path for libs apparently. still limits them somewhat, since they dont hold the libs within themselves, however more freedom, since I can compile them in my home bin and not worry about then not finding dependencies residing elsewhere on my system. anyways time for smallgroup time to go
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