Halloween and Gentoo
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Over the weekend Andrea and I spent most of our time dealing with Halloween related things, mostly giving out candy at her parents’ house. Now I know some of you may be thinking, “Hey, Halloween isn’t until Thursday!” and indeed you are correct. However, the city of Manchester doesn’t like Thursdays (who can blame them?) so instead our official Halloween Trick-or-Treating time was on Sunday afternoon.
However, that’s not when we were giving out candy. For some reason, the neighborhood that Andrea’s parents live in feels the need to do things differently from the city, so they had their official Trick-or-Treating time on Saturday night. Andrea dressed up as Buttercup of the Powerpuff Girls to hand out candy. I dressed up as Chip. It was easier that way.
Also over the weekend I got Gentoo installed on my laptop. It went considerable smoother than on my desktop PC. So far I like the Portage system, it seems to work well and make a lot of sense. The Linux kernel however is another matter. I don’t really understand why the PCMCIA drivers that everyone says to use are not part of the kernel, and need to be compiled separately and loaded as modules. But they don’t work from modules.autoload for some reason. Ah well, it works fine when loaded by hand for some reason. Overall it seems pretty speedy, and for once everything on my laptop works, including sound.
In other news, I just received an 80GB hard drive for Hindenburg from Matt. Hopefully we’ll get that installed soon and get some people moved over onto it. Our current drive for holding virtual web sites is pretty much full, and has been for a while.
