>as some of you may (or may not) have noticed, I sorta fell of the
>face of the virtual planet for a while. reason? big relationship
>kerfuffle. as it suddenly turns out, I'm now a single person (got no
>strings to hold me down 'n' all that). so, there it is. another
>relationship come and gone, and now I'm sitting here pulling the
>pieces back together. feh.
Feh is right. As Greg said "Condolences on losing your partner/COngrats on
ditching the less half, though it always is a bit of both. All you need is
something to focus on, which is why you made an excellent course of action
in deciding..
>So, I'm considering making some big changes in my life (I recently
>brought up the 'searching for an idenity' thread a while back). I don't
>know what these changes will include, but one I am seriously
>considering (and this may sound rather silly and non-eventful) is
>turning my ol' Windows machine into a Linux box.
>
>Is changing one's primary OS a life-shaping event? Right now it
>feels like it could be ;>
If it's not a life shaping event, Linux will at least give you an
intellectually stimulating hobby that will keep you busy engough to take
your mind off that stupid dull ache. It's like Ben and Jerry's ice cream,
but won't gain you any weight and will raise your salery (hopefully), and
is quite honestly a heck of a lot of fun.
A few comments on what others have said:
Greg's advice is sound, double partition that sucker. Unless you are going
to be using your machine as a server on the net, you probably want a small
win95 partition to wordprocess (though there is a linux wp) and game
playing. Though emulators abound this is the most expediant way to do it.
Reformating the drive is the easiest way to partition it, but I don't think
it's necesary. Though you will have to defragment it to get all the bits
on one side.
As to the BSD contingent, and let us not get embroiled in a regional war
shall we, a few disagreements. Unless you plan on using it as a dedicated
server on the net (And I think Deb plans to use it as her home computer)
Linux scores big time over BSD. Not by any miracle of systems design, but
just because there are far more rabid Linux cult members willing to port
every dame type of application over to that system. So you have far more
bells and wistles to play with. BSD doesn't yet have a java
implementation, Linux has one running in the kernal. So while BSD is a lot
more stable, unless you are setting up a mail server for your LAN, Linux is
just a better toy to play with.
>I'm also in the process of learning Perl (and possibly C++), but
>that's sorta secondary.
>
>I have finally succumbed to my geekish tendencies. Woo :)
Revel in your geekdom while you can.
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