Monday, November 07, 2005
A new place
Like I explained in my last post, I am living in a hotel. Well, yesterday we moved to a new hotel - this one very near Philadelphia, Pa.
I spent a lot of time yesterday reading in one of my favorite books - Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide (Companion Handbook), aka Baby Tintinalli. Since I finished the other books I bought at Barnes and Noble last week, I thought I should start reading something at least vaguely related to medicine.
Today, I am setting my computer up again. I (once again) deleted it completely and installed a couple of operating systems. First, I tried to install a Gentoo system, but I could not get the ethernet modem setup, so I gave up on that. FreeBSD did not detect my hard drive correctly, so I didn't want to go any further to prevent damage to my system. I ended up installing SuSE, and played with it for 3-4 hours, but I couldn't stand the userland interface... it drove me nuts. So, right now I'm back to Mandrake/Mandriva, which took me 2 hours to re-install after midnight last night. Needless to say, it was a late night. Of course, this is much of the time I spent reading the above book :)
So, now I'm trying to get the system back to where I left it - with a few improvements.
So, I'm going to stay with a 64 bit OS and wait for Macromedia and Sun to step up to the plate and make 64 bit versions of their software.
Right now my to do list is:
I spent a lot of time yesterday reading in one of my favorite books - Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide (Companion Handbook), aka Baby Tintinalli. Since I finished the other books I bought at Barnes and Noble last week, I thought I should start reading something at least vaguely related to medicine.
Today, I am setting my computer up again. I (once again) deleted it completely and installed a couple of operating systems. First, I tried to install a Gentoo system, but I could not get the ethernet modem setup, so I gave up on that. FreeBSD did not detect my hard drive correctly, so I didn't want to go any further to prevent damage to my system. I ended up installing SuSE, and played with it for 3-4 hours, but I couldn't stand the userland interface... it drove me nuts. So, right now I'm back to Mandrake/Mandriva, which took me 2 hours to re-install after midnight last night. Needless to say, it was a late night. Of course, this is much of the time I spent reading the above book :)
So, now I'm trying to get the system back to where I left it - with a few improvements.
So, I'm going to stay with a 64 bit OS and wait for Macromedia and Sun to step up to the plate and make 64 bit versions of their software.
Right now my to do list is:
- get codecs to play window media video, divx, xvid files installed
- make sure I have the onboard wireless card set up correctly (which will require going somewhere that has wireless access)
- 64 bit flash player
- 64 bit java platform
- 64 bit codecs for windows media, divx, xvid if I can't get them going
