Hello there. What's been going on then? Eh? Well, I've been at work this week, naturally, but today, after work, I went round to Gav's house to watch a film called Quills, lent by Michael. It was a film about the Marquis De Sade. Is that spelt right? Feel free to comment if not. Now I'm home, trying to set up another computer with Gentoo . . . I'm remotely logged in, following the instructions given here. It's all fairly straightforward, really. I've done this before, but I seem to be having problems with the video card in that machine . . . it's an ATI Radeon 7000, and based on dreams I've had recently (no, really . . . they were almost shouting at me), I suspect support under Linux is . . . temperamental, to say the least. I know this video card is supported under Linux, as SuSE auto-detected the video card and had it working fine . . . playing graphically demanding computer games and all that . . . however, Gentoo isn't so happy with it . . . so I'm reinstalling Gentoo, giving it another chance. After all, the video card is pretty important. Anyway . . . back to work.

I'm surprised no one has yet cottoned onto this . . . you take someone's PC . . . promise them that they never be troubled by viruses, spyware, reboots . . . everything you associate with a Windows system . . . you make sure they've backed-up anything important and give them back a PC without Windows, but that is stil able to do everything it did before, but without all the hassle . . . seems strange to me . . . but hey . . . I can still see minor hardware problems (damn you, ATI Radeon 7000 . . . I want at least 1000 frames per second, not this 250 you keep reporting). . . nothing too bad though. And if you really still want Windows . . . heck, it can be emulated, and if Windows crashes, it's only the emulator, an application, that has crashed, and not the machine itself.

didn't realise people were going here still. Hmmmm. Maybe I should use this place more. Not much wrong with the Golden Ratio after all.