My So Called Life…

Phew, thought I’d made a massive cock up. I had a little dabble in to Linux yesterday, and Ubuntu is pretty good, but it still has a way to go in becoming a usable desktop replacement.

Having decided it wasn’t going to do what I wanted I went for a full reinstall with XP.

Having deleted the Linux partitions on the drive I let XP Setup build a new partition and install itself.

Having let it do it’s business I noticed it had labelled the boot drive as E:. Grrrr. That’s a pain in the ass. Not serious, but a pain in the ass.

Now I’ve tried changing the drive letter of a live XP system before and it’s never ended well. Usually with yet another reinstall. This time however, with a few helpful pages I relabelled the drive letter ¹ and after spending 10 minutes trying to rename and edit the rest of the registry to point to C: rather than the regrettable E: that XP had decided to give itself I found a nifty little find and replace that works on the registry ² quite nicely.

Admittedly having replaced every occurrence of the system drive none of the start menu items worked, nor did the shutdown option. But that’s what the reset button is for.

Surprisingly when the system came back up it worked. Everything worked. No errors, no crashes, nothing. It just worked. Turns out XPSP2 is a little more stable than we all thought.

Damn! The sandwich man had no cheese and bacon goodness, so i guess it’s bacon and egg from t’van for lunch.

Sooo tired. This Linux box will be the end of me.

The server’s been humming away nicely and we got a Counter-Strike dedicated server running, without too much of a problem. Linux certainly is another language though…

A learning experience though, and well worth it. I can remotely connect and admin directly from the desktop or rcon into the server and do it that way. We have teh power! Suse is taking a bit of getting used to though.

It still needs adminmod installed and maybe even a bot or two, just in case it gets lonely. Saying that we did have a player within about 10 minutes of getting it up and running. And Zero was his name-o.

Totally pwnd Drew though… Heheheh, teh n00b.

Linux CS 1.6 setup instructions.

Woah! Just saw an advert for Linux, by IBM of all people.

Well, Linux has screwed my system well and truly once again. Is it me or is it imposable to get rid of the boot loader. Now XP won’t even install.

Grrr.

Pissing Linux. Bunch of arse I call it. At least I got a good chunk of Vice City done today.

MailWasher has been updated again, now up to beta 2.0.something-or-other. Check it out for a spam free mailbox.

Still no joy with linux though. It seems to recognise the network card, but no joy detecting the DHCP server in the hub. Until it can do that it’s next to useless.

Well, I finally went and did it. Linux has been installed and it seems pretty good. Had to dump straight back into bloomin XP though as the network support wasn’t picking up my router and I’ve no idea how to configure it. Even after 20 minutes of tinkering with various options that I’m sure I shouldn’t have.

Say la vie. I’ll just have to tinker with it twice as hard tomorrow.

The webcam is down at the moment. This is due to me keeping most of my bandwidth for Mandrake 9. It’s about time I had a propper look at it, and after finding that 20 gig the other day I’ve managed to clear out a drive to run it on. Much better than my original plan to reinstall XP.