Wow, another month, another archive eh?
I found out today who was the true ruler of my household. It was when a large (and rather round) black cat used his claws to remove my hand from where he wanted to put his paw so he could drink my water that I came to the understanding that I am but a boarder in this little apartment.
Hence the huge $32 bag of catfood sitting in the kitchen. I got corny back though, and gave him a new collar (a very manly and cool blue) that he can’t stretch out by clawing at it!
So what am I up to now? Wishing I was in bed earlier. I was going but got to updating ufies.org and trying out the new vmware 2.0 beta (details on ufies). I got kinda scared at one point though, when FreeBSD (the OS I decided to play around with) gave me the “we are not responsible for lost HD contents” warning. I thought that FreeBSD might have been smart enough to get around the VMWare virtual disk. But my main linux system is still running great and the /usr/vmware/freebsd/freebsd.dsk file is getting bigger, so I assume everything is going good. I gotta admit that the install is a little scary for someone who has no clue about the terminology. However the “complete novice” install option was a great thing. Just choose “auto” for everything, and then select the type of workstation packages you want installed (user, developer, minimum, everything). Very cool. When it’s all done I might take a closer look at it. Wouldn’t mind sticking it in a system for my firewall too, I’ve heard that BSD is really good for security. Course, it’s not that secure if someone who knows nothing about it (ie: me) sticks it on, so I’m going to evaluate it at some point.
Almost Friday. Yay! No clue what I’m doing this weekend. I got a buddy of mine who has a birthday (yesturday… *wave
Happy Birthday Drew!) and there might be something going on there. Other than that, sleep and clean up. I finally got the dishes and laundry done yesturday, so it’s down to things like cleaning the bathroom, vacuuming, and tacking the phone line for the ADSL modem to the ceiling so it doesn’t run across the floor to the modem sitting in the middle of the living room. Seems that when these apartments are built they only have 2 phone outlets, one in the entrance and one in the bedroom. Neither near the computer on the other side. Oh well, a couple of long phone chords and some tacks to stick them to the ceiling will fix that up fast enough!
Hmm….. don’t you hate it when you have a whole bunch you want to say but as soon as you sit down you forget?