notes from the mousepad

what’s going on in jim’s world:
- i worked tons of extra hours at work last week, and fighting off laziness this week.  some weeks this fight is more difficult than others . . .  i guess it’s nice to have a lull, though.

- i’ve started reading an o’reilly python book.  i’m excited by this, and hope i actually make it through this book.  :-)  i got most of the way through my last book (about samba), but stopped with it after a while.  what can i say, because of what i was able to learn, i now have a working samba server . . .  a lot of later chapters just spoke to issues that i haven’t needed to deal with.  maybe i’ll pick up the samba stuff again after Chad teaches us about open ldap and i set up my own domain … at home … for one user with three machines.

- after typing /CONNECT irc.freenode.net more times than i’d care to remember, i finally got around to setting my configuration settings on irssi.  thank you, irssi setup instruction website.  now that i have everything configured, i’ll be peeking my head into #chiglug a little bit more.  /me waves at irc.oftc.net.  i guess i’ll have to configure a few irssi scripts so you can see what dorky songs i’m listening to while we’re all on our irc channels.

- i’m giving fedora 7 test 4 a try on my new laptop.  aside from having difficulties getting a wifi connection going with either the ilwifi (sp?) or the ip3945 driver/firmware (thanks for giving it a try, ktdreyer), it has been running smoothly.  i am just giving fedora a try to see some of the differences between the various flavors of GNU/Linux.  don’t worry, i have xubuntu 7.04 installed on this machine, too.  (and
wifi works out of the box with xubuntu (using a non-free driver, though.))  professionally, i think it makes sense to give Fedora a try, as so many business use redhat as their gnu/linux distro of choice.  with that in mind, i’d also like to try cento at some point.  perhaps i will use that in setting up my server if i ever do the open ldap thing.  i have no intention of trying suse, though.  /me sighs at distro wars . . .

- i’m looking forward to a solid documentation and ISO testing effort for the next xubuntu release.  i’ve subscribed to the Xfce-devel mailing list, and a few of the participants have recently started discussions about documentation, and they look to get started soon.  i think i’ll get involved with those, too.  i guess I’ll have to check the
licenses of each of the documentation projects . . .  i want to help out, and if documentation from one area
can be used in another . . . great, but  wouldn’t want to upset anyone, though, or break any rules.  We’ll see how it goes.

- This is a long note / post, so I’m going to give things a rest now.

Regards,

Jimbabwe