up / date
Woohoo!! Not quite a year. =:) Heh. Okay, then, things are decently good, by gummy. I've found a wonderful little web-hosting solution, it seems. HUGE, HUGE, HUGE thanks to Nathan Clemons at windsofstorm.net for hosting my site for the last 5+ years(?). It's been a LONG, LONG time and I really appreciate your kindness, Nathan!! Check out his latest project when you get a second... Looks good!! =:)
freebsd nifty-ness
As I said, there was nothing wrong with Linux that made me start looking for fun elsewhere. Linux is a very good operating system. BUT. It is not the only good operating system out there. And as I have a rather annoying personal trait of getting bored with things that don't challenge me mentally, I am constantly looking for things that stretch my mind. Enter FreeBSD--a UNIX Operating System that traces its roots back to the prestigious BSD4.4 UNIX OS (as oppposed to the Linux Operating System--which has no such claims to illustrious kernel heritages--the entire kernel is written from scratch by Linus Torvalds and a world-wide team of volunteers).
screenshots from days of yore…
kay! So here's the part where I show you some examples of what my working environment looks like. =:) Mind you, these aren't all THAT exciting, and are intended only to give you an example of the flexibility that you have in running FreeBSD/Linux/UNIX/anything other than Microsoft's Windows (sometimes) Operating Systems. I say "(sometimes)" because they are as a general rule SO horribly unstable compared to FreeBSD/Linux/UNIX. Anyhoo, enough talking... here's the pic's. Feel free to click on the images and up will pop a new window with the full-sized graphic (1024x768)....
window managers
Well, anyway, back in the days of hanging on on undernet's #linux for far too many hours every day, Brad Hughes (who I used to know as nyztihke, and now goes by nyz) showed me some interesting code he was playing with--hand-writing his own window manager from scratch. At the time, you had to manually edit .Xdefaults and restart his code any time you wanted to change something. =:) Anyway, I was still so enthralled with all the neato options that the seemingly countless number of window managers for X offered, that I was switching window managers about twice a week. At the time, I bounced back and forth between AfterStep, that raster kid's enlightenment window manager, the Ice window manager (icewm), Alfredo Kojima's window maker, and fvwm 2. I did some theme-type stuff and it was decent, but nothing you'd want to write home about.
emu - laters ?
Okay. I've just gotta say it. I am VERY impressed with vmware3. =:)
filing cabinet? no. filesystem.
One of the coolest things about Linux is the amazing amount of configurability it offers. One of those things that you're allowed to choose in your Linux machine is the type of filesystem that your Linux machine will use.
note to self: um. I forget…
It's an interesting thing to note--I'm still using blackbox. =:) Heh. I must be getting old....
toolbox… updates / whether you need them or not…
Hm. Much has happened since I've last updated this page. The toolbox project, that now will be pushed to its own page just for posterity's sake, has been replaced by bbconf, the much-improved blackbox configurator. I've done more miscellaneous coding, some of which may actually be considered useful for people other than myself.
over / haul
Well alrighty then... A design overhaul. Much needed and all. I'd love to think that this space could eventually be used to communicate with anyone who cares... sort of like that new-fangled "blog" thingey. =:) But being that I actually know me--and know just how little time I have... well, we'll see how it goes.... =:) Let's just say I'm not optimistic that I'll actually have the time to keep it up...
how does that song go again…
So not much has changed employment-wise in the last year+ that has gone by. =:\ I think that's a good thing.