today i installed windows for the 4th time on my new pc. last night i installed it for the 3rd time. i'm getting pretty good at it, and if i keep this up i'll never have to register XP.
it's also given me quite a bit of time to continue reading dealers of lightning. it really is much better than the other book i read about parc ~6 months ago. while i was reading this, i listened to disc two of 26 mixes for cash, which (right now) i think is one of aphex twin's best albums.
listening to aphex twin and reading about the pioneers at parc makes me wish i felt like i was really good at something (it doesn't matter if i really am or not) instead of feeling kind of mediocre about things. then again, it took them 18 months to do the MAXC, and i have no idea what i could do if i actually stuck with one thing for 18 months.
last night i tried to install rhl 9 on my pc (tentatively named 'milano'). X was very angry: it wanted to go at 65 Hz while my lcd display only does 60 Hz. i refuse to play the Modeline game, because it is 2003. ATi has some linux driver stuff, but only for XFree86 4.2.x.
so today, i installed rhl 8.0. first, the cds i had were bad so i had to re-download/burn them. X worked in the installer, which was a pleasant surprise. it *almost* worked normally, but i didn't get a 1600x1024 option to choose from. ATi's drivers don't seem to work as it doesn't seem to find the agp something or other, probably due to linux not being familiar with my motherboard chipset thingies. unfortunately, at this point i glanced at a calendar and noticed it was 2003 so i booted back to windows and practiced flying in bf1492.
i keep clicking on icons in the quicklaunch part of the taskbar, thinking that it works like os x's dock.
it's almost 7 am so i'm going to try to sleep.
