The computer

Well, it seems my laptop, though it has been with me through many times, and i've learned countless things on it, is reaching the end of the line. Its becoming aged, and many parts are beginning to die out one by one. ACPI gone.. CD Burner, flickering candle of hope, it still works half the time, but that means it wastes many cd's, battery is non existant 5 minute charge, touchpad can no longer be turned off, powerbutton works, but not instantly anymore, sometimes takes several times to get it to go, and pcmcia port is busted(meaning no wireless). And S-video port messed up years ago, that was the first to go.


IT's going down the drain . =/

Started out, when I got it in 10th grade around Halloween. or at least in the fall, i think it was just a little bit before christmas...had to be because I got the keyboard soon after. Began playing Renegade and stuff, since I have played that for so long.

Helped me through cisco class, learned alot of programming stuff on it, and spent a few mournings modifying renegade, or at least trying to learn it. Taking notes as I eagerly studied,

remember spending nights under the covers, looking for cool software.

Maybe i could set it up as a server afterwards, and get rid of the tower, this could do everything faster, and I could keep it on FC6 as well, and not worry about the extra setup


It's been a faithful machine.

refreshing

Its been a long time since I have gotten to mess around with computers. I'll have to admit I was beginning to get a bit burned out, with applications not working and stuff...and how with linux, it seems like the applications you need are always scattered around, but I think I finally got some good breakthroughs today, and its good to celebrate those.

Found a new media player that beats the crap out of amarok, exaile.. it allready has shoutcast streams built in, as well as it fetches album art automatically. but its just like it in other ways, plus its on GTK, so it should be a tad bit faster in gnome

I've simplified the user interface so that it has much less clutter on it.. somehow icons in my way made me very mad...now the gui practically has nothing, mainly driven by keyboard shortcuts. I probably need to think through those a bit better...

Windows was fun to work with today.... I replaced my moms video card in the basement, put windows on her computer and set it up with itunes and multiple accounts with a vnc backend to login to.

Its sweet... not to mention, I gave her that usb wireless adapter. so now I'm taking the router upstairs. works because my laptop's pcmcia port got jacked up.. pretty lame

But it is okay... I am getting my webserver set up soon, that will be great. I've got time to play video games, kick back, read books, pray, sleep... I'm free for a change. And its marvelous. Exaile Rocks, Windows isn't all that booring, especially when you try to make it do things it wasn't designed for. But linux is more fun than all...

So soon, i've got a webserver/shell server / whatever I want.. .its amazing... I'm going to have fun with that.