Just a Monday...
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elfsIt's funny how the little things drive you crazy. This morning I noticed that I had not yet installed either the thesaurus or the rhyming dictionary, and that frustrated me. I also didn't have the word count mode for Emacs installed, and that annoyed me too.
But I'm really very happy with Gentoo. It is fast, but part of that might be the XFCE enviroment over Gnome, which is becoming bloated. It's lightweight, because every utility on the system is one I personally chose to install. The 2.6.7 kernel is very responsive and does audio, video, and laptop suspension perfectly. Still, whoever wrote the PCMCIA mananger scripts was lazy, and the network scripts are therefor broken for laptops. About the only design decision I've had to manually override was the use of the DICT protocol for dictionary lookups, opting instead for WordNet. The DICT protocol handles advanced parts of speech, such as hyponyms, hypernyms, and the like, very poorly.
On the other hand, it's weird that I was walking to work with the Gnu C Compiler rebuilding itself in this small box tucked under my arm. Just a few years ago that would have been an all-day operation during which you didn't consider touching the machine. Now it was going while I listened to music and worked on a story. And it builds a java compiler, too.
I was enjoying this band, The Celtic Nots, when I stumbled on one of their older songs, and decided I couldn't stomach them anymore.
We have Yamaarashi-chan over for the week, which is wonderful. I also got her report card today, and she's doing very well. Her teacher said that she's "always willing to try new foods and adventures," which surprised us because getting either of the kids to try any new food is always an adventure. Well, we figure they'll figure it out. I'm still encouraging both of them to read for themselves; I don't want their school-learned skills atrophying over the summer. But the call of the wild is too much; they've been spending a good chunk of their days outdoors.
And poor Omaha is laid so low by allergies. I wish there was more we could do for her, but nothing seems to help but rest and twice-a-day showers to get the pollen off her body. We need to replace the filters in our HEPA system, but it's pricey, like ninety bucks or so.
But I'm really very happy with Gentoo. It is fast, but part of that might be the XFCE enviroment over Gnome, which is becoming bloated. It's lightweight, because every utility on the system is one I personally chose to install. The 2.6.7 kernel is very responsive and does audio, video, and laptop suspension perfectly. Still, whoever wrote the PCMCIA mananger scripts was lazy, and the network scripts are therefor broken for laptops. About the only design decision I've had to manually override was the use of the DICT protocol for dictionary lookups, opting instead for WordNet. The DICT protocol handles advanced parts of speech, such as hyponyms, hypernyms, and the like, very poorly.
On the other hand, it's weird that I was walking to work with the Gnu C Compiler rebuilding itself in this small box tucked under my arm. Just a few years ago that would have been an all-day operation during which you didn't consider touching the machine. Now it was going while I listened to music and worked on a story. And it builds a java compiler, too.
I was enjoying this band, The Celtic Nots, when I stumbled on one of their older songs, and decided I couldn't stomach them anymore.
We've had enough of the paranoid liesWonderful, huh? It was such a shrill piece of useful idiocy that I decided to pass on the rest of their oeuvre.
Of the NRA and the friends it buys
To promote the outdated legislation
Of the Founding Fathers of this great nation
We have Yamaarashi-chan over for the week, which is wonderful. I also got her report card today, and she's doing very well. Her teacher said that she's "always willing to try new foods and adventures," which surprised us because getting either of the kids to try any new food is always an adventure. Well, we figure they'll figure it out. I'm still encouraging both of them to read for themselves; I don't want their school-learned skills atrophying over the summer. But the call of the wild is too much; they've been spending a good chunk of their days outdoors.
And poor Omaha is laid so low by allergies. I wish there was more we could do for her, but nothing seems to help but rest and twice-a-day showers to get the pollen off her body. We need to replace the filters in our HEPA system, but it's pricey, like ninety bucks or so.
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Date: 2004-06-30 01:54 pm (UTC)