Thanks Rob - pidgeons is not a word; pigeons is. It looks weird though. Don't you think?

Anyway, I don't think I have much new to report here. Do I? Today is Tuesday, I think. Although I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't work out where the hell I was, what day it was or what time it was. Unfortunately, I started believing it was Friday/Saturday night and, you know, thinking it didn't really matter how long I slept . . . god damn pigeon. Another one just landing on my roof. Grrrrrrr. I need a web-cam up there. Pigeon-cam, I'll call it . . . no - not that. No concessions to the pigeons. Perhaps just roof-cam. Hmmmmm. Anyway . . . trying to rebuilt the kernel as we speak, from 2.4 something up to 2.6.1 . . . god knows why . . . Why oh why oh why do I do these things? It'll probably just completely mess the computer up. Sometimes I really do believe the whole open source thing is a lost cause. The computer world seems to be getting more and more proprietary . . . patents and copyrights. Grrrrr.

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-- Check if we have source files, get them if we do not. --
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
---- Kernel does not exist here. We will go get it. Opening anonymous
---- connection to ftp.bz2.us.kernel.org . Attempting to download
---- linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2 from pub/linux/kernel/v2.6
XXXXXXXXXX Download attempt took 4 seconds.
XXXXXXXXXX /usr/src/source/kernel/linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2 was not
XXXXXXXXXX successfully downloaded.
---- We will try to download the .gz version.


What does it all mean?

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-- Remove old source, open new source, apply patches, rename tree --
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
---- No existing linux-2.6.1, no files to delete, no problem.
---- Installing new version of kernel source tree. linux directory is
---- created by tar.
---- Opening up source tar, may take a minute...
---- Wouldn't a cup of coffee be nice right about now?
---- Opening /usr/src/source/kernel/linux-2.6.1.tar.gz


Sounds a bit more encouraging. Right. Off to work.