a blog about nerdy things

So over the weekend, I finally got a lot of housework done.  Cleaning the toilet and mopping the floors?  Not quite.  More like consolidating my home servers and finally getting down to installing linux on my main machine for use as my primary OS.  I first narrowed the list down to Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora Core 9 because both offer large support communities and the maintenance releases are fairly frequent.

I tried installing Ubuntu first, but ended up having some difficulties while installing the proprietary Nvidia driver.  Then i installed FC9 without a hitch.  Everything ran very smooth and I was even starting to like the yum update manager.  Then I realized that I had left the power cable to the video card unplugged while installing Ubuntu, so just to satiate my curiousity, I reinstalled Ubuntu and PRESTO!  It worked flawlessly.

I’m going to write up an article some time this week that goes into finer granularity concerning my Ubuntu 8.04 install and customization.  Until then, I’m still searching around for linux replacements to accomplish all my common tasks and needs…

yea, this topic has been beaten to the ground many times by a lot of bloggers.  and yet i still use email every single day.  if it’s dying, i’ll be jack kavorkian and help make it as painless and easy as possible.  but what are we really replacing email with?  instant messages and social networking status changes?  could you really do the same thing on aim or twitter that you do using email?  i’m going to go with a big resounding “no” here.  perhaps email isn’t dying.  perhaps online communications are just evolving into more distinctive and customizable forms.  so in the end, you have an idea that you wish to convey to the world.  depending on the idea content and the scope of social interaction you desire, you can choose a medium of communication that is custom-suited to how you want to interact with the world.  whether that be email, instant messenger, twitter, facebook status, myspace status, etc.  this reminds me that i wanted to look for a program which could handle all forms of online communication.  digsby was an interesting experiment, but was far too buggy and left a huge footprint on my system.  anyone else have any ideas?

Well, I figure I should put my CMS on hiatus and check out some of the other flavors out there so I can get a fresh perspective on how I want to direct the project.  For now, I’ll be using WordPress 2.5 which seems to be pretty nice thus far.  Let me mess around with the settings and everything for a while…  and definitely do something about the style…