Hacking Journal [2006/01/13]
Kubuntu and Books
[2006/01/13]
I got another motherboard and CPU from a friend so I now have another box to tinker on. It has taken me about 2-3 days to get Kubuntu installed but that can be tracked down to over half my DDR RAM crapping out. Good thing I had [Memtest86+][] and a few hours to test it all. I now have it booted and running on a AMD 1900+ with 1 GB of DDR400 and a 20GB Hard Drive…. but it is all outside the case, kinda cool looking.
I also got in my shipment of books from Amazon.com. I have started to read The Mythical Man-Month finally, and it is a pretty good read so far. I also got in a hard copy of Time Management for System Administrators This book is definitely a 5-star book, I read it first on Safari and then just had to have it. I will be posting a review of it soon after I re-read it in paper form. I also got a paper copy of Agile Web Development with Rails I have had the PDF since the second Beta book but I needed a paper copy for work.
Tomorrow I will try to hack on my website ideas a bit more.
Eric Davis
[Memtest86+] :http://www.memtest.org/
