Monthly Archives: October 2002

How to upgrade from NULL to RH8 using apt. A bit scary but certainly do-able. I’d have updated glibc using rpm as a later comment pointed out instead of trying to remove it and then updating it. I did it on a dev server long ago and the server wasn’t rebooted for ages, so it can be done!

QDB: Quote Database Home

*iMike* the bible should be rewritten to more common language
*DigDug* yeah, like c++ or perl
*D1* in comic book form

woo! I can do apt-get install mplayer and it installs the player, codecs, and dvd libraries from freshrpms!

RedHat 8 review – I’ve just installed it. It looks nice. It’s not the same desktop I had running before. (I used Window Maker, now.. gnome or kde probably).
RH8 feels snappier and more responsive. When I untarred my home directory it seemed to work faster than I remember doing so before.
Galeon loaded 20 tabs faster than before. I think that’s down to the new kernel.
Of course, I had to install the mp3 rpms as xmms wouldn’t play mp3s by default.
Menu items are strange as I’m used to choosing applications and I know what most of them do, now it print “Web browser” instead of “Mozilla”. Good for the new users though.

Quick 5 minute assesment, ‘s not bad!

Cork City Tour – see the city where I live!

Linux-Kongress 2002 Papers – good reading here!

The BOFH makes some money on the side..

Dr. Fetid – d’you like 80s and 90s music?

Metatags are dead.

Blondes are not going extinct!

Seven tricks that Web users don’t know. – read, read, read, and read again!

slashdot is 5! How can that be? I remember looking at the old site just a few years ago, not 5, no! I’m not old am I?

BBspot – Students Tempt Blue Screen for Fun