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Kernel 2.6.6 rawks!!! Nuff said. First off all, X is working fine on my notebook, and fast. I wonder how xorg performs. Hmmm... Almost all of my previous woes was solved by using the new kernel! Except for bootsplash - an eye candy that I haven't bother to configure yet. And the best thing is 2.6.6 compiles half the time faster than 2.4.25. (Note to self: move .ccache from /root/.ccache to /user/ccache, and emerge kernel 2.6.6 on pc).



Anyway, my notebook now runs both Gnome (for Kit) and fluxbox (for myself). Wi-fi support was a breeze to setup. Seems like most stuff in Linux nowadays takes shorter and shorter to configure. So all that is left for me to customize if fluxbox. And oh, teach Kit all about Gentoo and Linux. Open Source rawks baby!

OK. Futsal. Last week my body ached for three days after the game. Tonight, I pulled my thigh muscles. Thank god I am not limping. And I have bruises on my legs and one on my arm. And my back muscles is in agony.



Why am I torturing myself by playing futsal? And on top of that, I have to pay for these pains. Can you believe it? RM10 for an hour of futsal, and all I get in return is pain. Some people say that no pain no gain. I'd say got pain no gain no money.



Gah! And it is still hot.

I don't think so. I think that people who use the phrase "I'm old already lar..." is practically insulting billions of old people in the world. I mean, just because you've forgotten something, or unable to play any sports, you blame it on old age?



Doesn't that sound a bit ageist (I'm making this word up)? If I were like, say 50 now, and then there's someone say like, 28, told me that he can't play futsal well or don't do the discos anymore, I sure as hell would be insulted. So what now?



I know, from now on, I'll just say "Hey dude, I'm still young and immature and I don't know anything. So don't blame me." But, isn't that ageist towards millions of young people? I mean, just because they are young they are not capable?



So how now brown cow? I think I'll just stick to Einstein's theory of relativity for the moment.

Hot as in hot hot, not horny hot.



Gah!!!! It's so hot that the ceiling fan is not enough. I use a table fan as well. It is damn hot. The wind coming through my window in my lab (actually, more of a home office) is warm - no kidding. During weather like this, I wish I had an air-conditioned room. And a bath-tub.



Don't. Come. To. Malaysia. At the moment. It is freaking hot.



Listening to: Timo Maas - Manga

After bertungkus-lumus the whole weekend, I managed to get Gentoo installed on the old Compaq Presario 1500. Yes, it does take me two days to install, almost, but don't get the impression that Gentoo is hard to install. The problem is with my notebook. It's slow, and it always, always die during compilation. I suspect a hardware fault somewhere, because the fan never stopped and it is very loud, and it gets hot easily. So, in the middle, of say, compiling qt or mozilla, the notebook would automatically shut itself down, and I have to restart.



And I can't use any binaries either - the package cd is old, useless even, since the first thing that I do is updating the portage.



Yes, I did disable acpi after getting a compiled kernel, but that did not help either. So what I did was fan the notebook - using a table fan during the whole day. Not once it shut itself down! Looks like even my notebook can't stand the hot Malaysian weather.



Next up for me is to pasang Gentoo on Alphademon's notebook. But first, I need to get a Knoppix CD since Gentoo's live CD could not detect his samseng, er, Samsung wireless network card.



And talking about wireless, heh, Kit and I got ourselves a Netgear Wireless Router M814. I had a problem getting it to work with the Aztech DSL modem, but of course it was due to human error. Much thanks to Alphaque who came all the way this afternoon to help me sort out the, err, human error.



Anyway, Gnome is damn fast on the notebook! The performance is significantly better than Gnome on Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (which was running on the notebook before). Anyway, a lot of work needs to be done - acpi configs, fluxbox (as I will not be using Gnome, Kit will), wireless configs, iptables and other stuff. But first thing first - sleep.



Listening to: Paul Oakenfold - Ready Steady Go