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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Sunday, September 30, 2001Regarding Debian Linux I feel that using Debian would be The Right Thing but the simple truth of the matter is this: The development of this OS occurs at a glacial pace and they are just too far behind right now to be taken seriously anymore. Furthermore, Debian will not install on a machine like the Dell L400 (which can only have a floppy or CD-ROM drive installed, and not both simultaneously) without some seriously partitioning and prep work. In other words, you can't just boot the Debian CD and install Linux on a machine without having a floppy drive, it just doesn't work. It's frustrating to think how much time I wasted on that. [ Posted at 9:27 AM | Permalink ]Books, books, and more books Since finishing command line for the third or fourth time, I've been slogging through a few different titles a bit at a time. I got an el-cheapo copy of John Douglas' Anatomy of Motive, a non-fiction piece from the FBI's original profiler, and I've been struggling with King and Straub's original Talisman, as noted previously, which I just can't get into much these days. I also read Gene Steinberg's horrible suck-up, Mac OS X Little Black Book (this guy should never be allowed to write a book again: This thing didn't answer a single question I had), and re-read Davig Pogue's decent iMovie 2, the Missing Manual. I can't stand Pogue: He writes Windows books (where the money is), but trashes Windows in his Mac books, which he obviously thinks is cute. But he's not honest with his Mac fans, and I don't like that. On tap: Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers and Neil Stephenson's Big U. Oh, and about 13 magazines. [ Posted at 9:23 AM | Permalink ] And speaking of alternative OSes, I also installed Mandrake Linux 8.1 on Moonraker, the tiny Dell L400 that I love so much. Like Red Hat 7.1, it recognizes the wireless card and uses it, but unlike RH 7.1, it's smart enough to enable networking after enabling the PC card subsystem, so boot-time is reduced dramatically. Mandrake 8.1 comes with the latest KDE (2.2.1) and KOffice, and it's a keeper. I could actually travel with this thing and get work done. [ Posted at 9:16 AM | Permalink ] So I installed Mac OS X 10.1 yesterday and it's not a big deal, unfortunately. The speed uptake is not noticeable on my 2001 iBook (dual USB) with 384 MB of RAM at all, despite the happy-happy-joy-joy reports from everyone else on the planet. But kudos to Apple for offering it for free: I stood in line like a freaking dope for over an hour just to get in the store, but I had a good time chatting with folks, and the manager of the store individually shook everyone's hand and welcome them. And then handed them the free software. Good stuff. [ Posted at 9:14 AM | Permalink ]
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