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New box in the house!!! (Saturday, January 29, 2005)

Well, earlier in the week I brought home an IBM PC 300PL, which was to replace my IBM PC 300GL, which was my previous FreeBSD-based web server (affectionately called Beanie). However, seeing as how the CD-ROM didn't like any of the CD's I had burned with Fedora Core on them, I decided a floppy/net install was in order. Still no luck, was having problems getting the driver for my integrated ethernet port to work. Solution: bring home a separate ethernet card from work. Problem: solved. I am currently in the process of installing Debian-Testing (Sarge) on the box. I figured it was time for a change in scenery, nothing against Fedora though. I love Fedora, but I'm curious enough to try Debian. Hell, maybe sometime soon I'll put Gentoo on it just for kicks.

You know, I just realized something... I've got seven computers living in my apartment, and five of them are running free, open source operating systems; the other two run Windows. And I have perfectly good excuses for that. One of them, our old desktop, we hardly use. Another, my laptop (which I always use), I'm just too lazy to install anything other than the default OS (however, my choice of browsers, e-mail apps and office suite are free and open source). Plus I want to ensure that the wireless networking will perform beautifully. I've heard good things, but until I have something I can test it on that I can afford to turn into a paperweight if need be, Windows is on it to stay (at least until Longhorn comes out and M$ ends support for XP... I'll be damned if I buy another version of Windoze). Anywho, enough ranting.

As a side-note, I recently started a business. More details to come later...

-Aaron

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