Wannabe geek.
Love Slackware, but still use windo$e for some games.
Tend to overuse smilies and exclamations !! :)
Finally copied my Slack 10.2 installation over to a nice new roomy SATA disc, it turned out using cp -avx was easiest. It's a Maxtor, but hopefully it will do ok, I'm not exactly doing anything mission critical on this PC.
Now wondering whether I should have chosen XFS, instead of ReiserFS. It seems to have most of the advantages of ReiserFS with lower CPU load. Hmm.
Just upgraded to Slackware 11.0 but still using the 2.4.33 kernel.
Breaking News 3D acceleration finally up and running properly on my Radeon 9600XT.
My copy of Slackware 11.0 and the Slackware Book arrived yesterday, well in time for my birthday. Pleasantly surprising as I was not expecting it until Christmas.
I have upgraded to kernel 2.6.17.13 and my ATI is behaving even better. The new HP Deskjet 5940 is working well too, so finally I have a working printer under GNU/Linux.
13 May 2008
I now have a new computer. 2nd-hand case, Asus P5B Motherboard, 2 Gigs Ram and Core 2 Duo E6300 CPU. New PSU, 500 Gig(ISO) HDD and NVidia 8600GT graphics card.
I rsynced across my Slackware 12 installation easily and upgraded it to 12.1. Running smoothly.
The XP installation was a little more troublesome. Ended up creating the NTFS partition under XP on the old box, rsyncing across the data under Slack and then doing a clean install of XP. I then installed service pack 3 (from the download) and all the usual suspects. So far its behaving itself.
22 November 2009
We now have a new furry overlord, aka furry bundle of doom aka Smudge. Its been years since I've had a cat and its quite and adjustment process. But its great to have one again :)
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