As I’ve now been using GNU/Linux at work, I thought I might as well install it at home. I really liked Knoppix which works well with all my hardware. The problem now is that when you do a hard-disk install, the Knoppix-kernel is replaced with the default Debian-one (I suppose). And that one doesn’t know about my Adaptec 2400A IDE-RAID controller, and thus “panic”s.
Thus, I’m currently downloading Gentoo, which might be a bit above my head (the stage1 install certainly was), but we’ll see. Can’t be any worse than the pains with Partition Magic (7 crashes, 8 works) to actually free up some disk-space… 😉

Could people please make sure that they a) don’t run any sort of stupid attachments and b) don’t have Sobig.C? I’ve gotten about 60 copies of that particular worm in the past week, and it’s getting annoying. The “usual” (if there is such a thing) audience is probably be well aware of that, but it never hurts to mention it anyway…
Incidentally, my GMX-account has surpassed the 5000 Junk-mails border (which is quite something in 3 months). 🙁

Creative has published new Audigy drivers. Maybe these manage not to crash in TetriNet… 🙁

Upgraded my RAM to 1gig. System feels much more responsive (and it’s at about 1/3 the price I paid for my original 512mb).

Did a little scripting in Ruby, and it is a really neat language (with a huge amount of nifty bindings), although embedding it is next to impossible. I also think that my Ruby-“style” leaves a lot to be desired, I need a Ruby-style-guide or something to see how things are really supposed to be done.