'Tivo and the busy busy day
And no, it wasn't spent at the computer either. Gary had two performances to be at today, so I did all the animal care stuff, and the grocery shopping. Ran into Woodstock at noon to have lunch with him and his fellow performers as I usually do after the farmer's market each month but everyone else was rushing off to somewhere else. Fortunately two friends had stopped by the market to hear the music and they joined us for lunch.
After bedding down the horses and sheep I went to water the garden and came back with three more zucchinis and a fist full of lettuces for dinner salad. Those were joined by a tomato from the planters in back of the library (which turned out to be sweet and very tasty.) I'm promised that I get the entire day tomorrow for weaving, which is a good thing as I need it.
Kept myself away from the computer by tying it up with large downloads. I switched from Slackware 10.2 to Wolvix Hunter this week, pretty much. I can still boot the older Slackware but I'm trying to avoid that. This means I need to recompile a few things I use regularly, such as the driver for the brain-dead winmodem in this machine, tinyfugue for mucking, and various emulation packages I use. Hmmm. The user install from the Wolvix CD didn't include development tools, like the C compiler or the assembler. OK, gotta add those. Wait, in order to compile that driver for the Intel 537EP modem I'll need the kernel source and headers. That's a major download over dialup, but it ran OK in about three hours. Not enough, though. Turns out I need several other large packages installed. Another 70 meg to download, so that will run, or try to run, overnight.
On the whole, I'm pleased with Wolvix or I wouldn't be doing this. It's Slackware 11, which is still one version back but that's OK. I prefer not to be on the cutting edge with Slackware. The kernel ix 2.6.x which is a nice upgrade from the 2.4.31 I've been running. It appears that some BOINC apps that crashed on the old kernel will run successfully with this one. That isn't supposed to happen, but it does. Slackware now has its own version of the Debian apt/aptitude/synaptic tool set that tracks and installs packages. It's called slapt or Gslapt and does work. They still need to build a better dependency table, but the tracking, selection, and installation of packages from online repositories is already just as slick as apt-get.
After bedding down the horses and sheep I went to water the garden and came back with three more zucchinis and a fist full of lettuces for dinner salad. Those were joined by a tomato from the planters in back of the library (which turned out to be sweet and very tasty.) I'm promised that I get the entire day tomorrow for weaving, which is a good thing as I need it.
Kept myself away from the computer by tying it up with large downloads. I switched from Slackware 10.2 to Wolvix Hunter this week, pretty much. I can still boot the older Slackware but I'm trying to avoid that. This means I need to recompile a few things I use regularly, such as the driver for the brain-dead winmodem in this machine, tinyfugue for mucking, and various emulation packages I use. Hmmm. The user install from the Wolvix CD didn't include development tools, like the C compiler or the assembler. OK, gotta add those. Wait, in order to compile that driver for the Intel 537EP modem I'll need the kernel source and headers. That's a major download over dialup, but it ran OK in about three hours. Not enough, though. Turns out I need several other large packages installed. Another 70 meg to download, so that will run, or try to run, overnight.
On the whole, I'm pleased with Wolvix or I wouldn't be doing this. It's Slackware 11, which is still one version back but that's OK. I prefer not to be on the cutting edge with Slackware. The kernel ix 2.6.x which is a nice upgrade from the 2.4.31 I've been running. It appears that some BOINC apps that crashed on the old kernel will run successfully with this one. That isn't supposed to happen, but it does. Slackware now has its own version of the Debian apt/aptitude/synaptic tool set that tracks and installs packages. It's called slapt or Gslapt and does work. They still need to build a better dependency table, but the tracking, selection, and installation of packages from online repositories is already just as slick as apt-get.