My gold box...
I clicked on my amazon gold box offer for the first time and found the Nesco American Harvest, BJW-1, Beef Jerky Works Kit was my personal treasure. It looks like a beef jerky caulk gun to me; I am now a true believer in Amazon's ability to see through to our darkest desires.
04:47 PM, 27 Oct 2003 by Jeff Davis Permalink | Comments (0)
Gentoo
I bought a little Shuttle XPC box and installed gentoo linux on it. Gentoo is cool, it's sort of like debian but it's all compiled from source so you can compile everything optimized for your particular box. I would not say it's for the faint of heart and the install summary has about 35 steps but it all worked for me in the end. The package install tool is nice and it's pretty easy to install dev packages (like gimp 1.3.21).
It took a few days to compile everything and it's astonishing to consider how complex the full build was but I do feel like I got my money's worth out of the cpu.
As soon as I get dual screens working on the shuttle box I am going to switch to using it as my desktop box and stick my current (very noisy) tower in the garage as my db/dev/fileserver box.
12:17 PM, 27 Oct 2003 by Jeff Davis Permalink | Comments (0)
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