Life in the Third World

Well, I guess it has gotten so bad here, the missionaries have offered to mow my lawn. Mormons are some great neighbors! Too bad about their "Let's go to the locked up church, we can take you in and show you around, and let you see what a service would be like before Sunday." routine.

Ennui.

It's tough to have meaningful things to say about your day when it consists of sitting in front of a computer, drinking a pot of coffee, and reading through confuscated webs of documentation.

I need to read something wittier than the man pages... but check out

man 5 sudoers

for a chuckle. I am a fan of the insult option.

Less Nonsense

Easier to deal with, Beth and I are going to see Once Upon a Time in New Jersey at the Village Theatre tonight. We'll have dinner, and see the play, and drive home, separately, as she is at work today. What am I doing today? Editing this!

Currently reading Felix Holt, Radical. Last read Crime and Punishment.

Stable

I have unfortunately been tinkering with my PC for a while. I had broken the habit for a long time, but have recently been jumping between *Nixes on a weekly basis. Currently it is Slamd (Slackware 11) but last week it was NetBSD, a few weeks back it was openSuse... it's sucking up all my time on weekends and I'm never getting beyond basic package installation and configuration before I return to a new system. It is not healthy, and has to stop.

One of the frustrating things I find about x64 based linux is confusing compatibility issues for 32 bit build and binary emulation. The fact that potentially 2 copies of all system libraries has to be maintained separately, and the loader smart enough to know the difference, is exasperating. There will be some reading necessary before I can set up wine, since it requires an -m32 flag.

I want to keep this stable and working. I like Slackware. No clutter. Easy to understand package system. No RPM's. Good.