A Rather Slow Weekend
Though it was opening weekend of MNRF, I didn't go. The early weather forecast was for some rain, though like many a weather forecast it changed and this time evidently for the better. I didn't really miss going to MNRF, I found. I expect I will go a time or perhaps two this year, but I don't have "faire fever" about it. In a way, I'm looking forward more to IRF, though that's more to see folks I haven't seen in nearly a year than for the faire itself.
I didn't do much with either the older or newer laptop this weekend, despite my intent. I want to get the newer one set up before doing much with or to the older one. And I want Jay around for the Gentoo install since he has some experience with Gentoo. I did get the latest Gentoo universal CD ISO after finally getting around to installing a bittorrent client on belgian. I was surprised at how smoothly that went. Manrake/Mandriva's urpmi tool actually worked as intended and it was simple to get Opera to launch bittorrent when I clicked a bittorrent link.
I also spent some time researching, or try to research, the Nokia 6010 as I now have one. Overall it's probably more than I need and it's considered rather basic. I've got pretty much all the phone numbers I expect to use on the road programmed in, and even a couple that can be dialed by voice command. What I don't have is any custom ringtones. There are several ringtones already in the phone and none are very appealing nor all that distinctive, to me, from one another. While there are web sites that have more, what they have also doesn't much appeal to me and I'm not sure I can get anything via such sites anyway. It looks like I'm stuck with the preprogrammed rings unless I manage to find the right cable for a decent price and deal with what seems to be pretty much all Windows software, dagnabbit.