New Year, For Once
I begin this year with a lot of news:
- new life
- new house
- new love
- new(ish) job
- new hope
- new dislike of Windows
That's right folks, I'm leaving Windows. My plan is (barring some major Vista overhaul, or some new Windows OS that is absolutely unbelievable in a good way for once) to be using Windows only in a virtual setting on some other OS, preferrably as a background service that permits me to run Windows programs from another OS's desktop.
Right now I'm experimenting with Fedora 8 in this capacity - I've been using Fedora (and occasionally OSX) for actual server stuff for years now, and occasionally I've toyed with the idea of using them as my daily work OS. Now it's time to take the dive. It's no longer a question of if, but when, and which virtual machine software I'll use to get me there.
Also, my project partner from last year and I are hurriedly finishing up work on the laser harp in time for it to be presented in the main gallery on campus next week. We're going to put up a site for it, so you'll finally get to see some pics, production and finished and in use and everything. It's pretty exciting because I guess the video the professor took of all the projects from last year's class got passed around the department, and everyone's in a tizzy about it. At least that's what I heard...
- new life
- new house
- new love
- new(ish) job
- new hope
- new dislike of Windows
That's right folks, I'm leaving Windows. My plan is (barring some major Vista overhaul, or some new Windows OS that is absolutely unbelievable in a good way for once) to be using Windows only in a virtual setting on some other OS, preferrably as a background service that permits me to run Windows programs from another OS's desktop.
Right now I'm experimenting with Fedora 8 in this capacity - I've been using Fedora (and occasionally OSX) for actual server stuff for years now, and occasionally I've toyed with the idea of using them as my daily work OS. Now it's time to take the dive. It's no longer a question of if, but when, and which virtual machine software I'll use to get me there.
Also, my project partner from last year and I are hurriedly finishing up work on the laser harp in time for it to be presented in the main gallery on campus next week. We're going to put up a site for it, so you'll finally get to see some pics, production and finished and in use and everything. It's pretty exciting because I guess the video the professor took of all the projects from last year's class got passed around the department, and everyone's in a tizzy about it. At least that's what I heard...