Someone's always awake at 4am
You don't need hallucinogenics for interesting effects. Just staring unblinkingly at a single point in a fractal poster can make it swim before your eyes. Tried it. Now feeling weird.
Just finished reading The Algebraist. Maybe I'll elaborate later. For now, suffice to say that it was an at times laborious, but still in the end rewarding, read.
Should probably download some - if not all - of the Gentoo wiki so that I'd have some material available when I begin the eventual reshuffling of our computers. I plan on returning my former desktop - our current firewall - back to its original position and replacing it with more dated - albeit in my belief still sufficiently capable - hardware. That of course requires approximately two system-wide reinstalls and a nontrivial amount of downtime wrt. the internet connection: A prospect I'm sure my flatmates will be less than enthusiastic about. (Suppose I could just give in and go back to how things were in the beginning, of course - with one of their WinXP machines as the connection-sharing machine. But a dedicated firewall box - even one admittedly lacking in features - feels fairer in my mind. This way our suffering is equal. The fact that the firewall has been up and running for over a hundred days now is just a bit of extra icing.)
Trying to set up two displays on a linux box will probably provide endless hours of fun too. Not to mention the Soundblaster, the TV-output and the menagerie of peripherals I have around.
Just finished reading The Algebraist. Maybe I'll elaborate later. For now, suffice to say that it was an at times laborious, but still in the end rewarding, read.
Should probably download some - if not all - of the Gentoo wiki so that I'd have some material available when I begin the eventual reshuffling of our computers. I plan on returning my former desktop - our current firewall - back to its original position and replacing it with more dated - albeit in my belief still sufficiently capable - hardware. That of course requires approximately two system-wide reinstalls and a nontrivial amount of downtime wrt. the internet connection: A prospect I'm sure my flatmates will be less than enthusiastic about. (Suppose I could just give in and go back to how things were in the beginning, of course - with one of their WinXP machines as the connection-sharing machine. But a dedicated firewall box - even one admittedly lacking in features - feels fairer in my mind. This way our suffering is equal. The fact that the firewall has been up and running for over a hundred days now is just a bit of extra icing.)
Trying to set up two displays on a linux box will probably provide endless hours of fun too. Not to mention the Soundblaster, the TV-output and the menagerie of peripherals I have around.