Tergiversations of a Traveling Mind

It's like a video game, except inode entries are getting bumped around instead of pinballs. Yay! :D

I'm a little goofy at the moment, because I've been trying like crazy to get Bespin running on a server under a hybrid custom application that I'm slapping together so that Matt and other members of the CREM development team can edit, test, and make commits to the repository from the web.

Don't ask me how I'll do it...I'm not even sure it will work. Perhaps some of you will be visiting me in a local insane asylum in a week or two.

However, while I take a break and ponder the futility of my undertaking, I wanted to share a thought regarding file location (or relocation), which seems to be the bulk of my troubles for the particular part of the task I'm working on. ( They're coming to take me away, haha hoho heehee... )

Okay, so did anybody read what I actually posted about catching up on e-mail and all that fun stuff over my spring break? That was all lies, I tell you...or I should say, my computer made a liar out of me. My computer, in a horrendous attempt to thwart my spring break relaxation and mental coolness decided to stop working.

I can't explain it ‒ all I know is that two out of three boots into Windows were suddenly putting me into a locked up screen. And since the manufacturer's recovery disk doesn't let me pick and choose how I want to reinstall Windows, it basically meant that I had to wipe the entire hard drive (Linux and all) and start all over again...don't worry, I took the time in one of my successful bootups to backup everything for the transfer, although I'm sure I could have used Knoppix recovery tools if things had gotten really bad.

While it may have eaten up my time (and caused some cursing along the way), I'm actually quite pleased with my newly reinstalled machine. I took the time to look through what files I was backing up, got rid of the junk (as well as some unnecessary programs that were lingering on my machine), and the end result is I have a machine that loads much more quickly and lags far less often when I'm gaming.

The downside is that I'm just starting to catch up with e-mail, but the upside is that I actually took the time to get me a mail program (Mozilla Thunderbird) to make checking my mail a little easier.

Ah, yes...and toys. I finally broke down and bought myself an MP3 player. It's a Samsung YP-T9, 2 GB, but I'm not sure if I'm pleased with it or not. I'm still waiting for the battery to charge for the first time, so I haven't tried it out (other than the demo model in the store). But so far I've already run into a couple of annoyances. The player comes pre-installed with six or seven themed album folders, which you can't delete (even though they're categories I would never use). I'm also annoyed that to charge the player requires plugging it into your computer, not a wall outlet. I'm assuming this is normal for most players, but it's still annoying since I generally don't boot up my computer unless I'm using it (which means I can't charge the thing over night). Hopefully I'll get to try the thing out tomorrow.