Feb 09,2003
Time for a few updates before the weekend is over…
Lets start off with the laptop… Of course I couldn’t just leave well enough alone, I had to make some ::ahem:: adjustments. The system comes stock with WindowsXP Home, so the first thing I did was re-partition the 40GB drive and re-installed XP on a little 8GB slice. I split the rest into three chunks, 15GB for Debian Linux, 15GB for FreeBSD 5.0 and the rest for swap space. (overkill on the swap, I’m sure…) I found a nifty little procedure on how to get the ghosted WinXP rescue disks to allow me to repartition the drive and reinstall the image on the newly resized slice. You can read the originals here. After that, the linux and bsd installs were pretty much no-brainers. I installed linux first, then FreeBSD, and ended up going back into the Debian install to reconfigure LILO to recognize all three O/S’es.
Ahhh… A triple-boot system!!! Life is good!! (Now if I could only get OS/X to run on it….)
I picked up a Linksys Wireless router and pcmcia card to start messing around with 802.11b. It took about thirty minutes to get things set up w/ encryption and such. (not that I trust it, mind you) I will say that I am quite surprised at how well the signal propagates from the back corner of my basement. I haven’t done any drive-by’s of the house yet to map the footprint, but I intend to do just that later this week.
So the unveiling of the new website was originally scheduled for this weekend. I have decided to push it back a few more days (perhaps another week) to tie together a few loose details…
Entered at 22:25PM
February 9, 2003 12:09 am 
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