Remote desktop

Set up a remote desktop connection on my Ubuntu home machine, and can now connect via tightVNC off my Winblows laptop. It's pretty sick actually and I worked on an english project from school today on my home compy. Only thing is it's kind of glitchy with multiple desktops, and doesn't work with compiz.

Building LFS inside of virtual box. It's really nice, because I can save the state and shutdown. I'd be scared to do that otherwise. Also started a 'console-only' ubuntu inside of virtualbox, to see how hard it would be. Found WiiLander for homebrew, and THAT is a fun game. Updated to Jaunty Jackalope a day ago. My internet is screwy (shocker) and all in all just screwing around. Trying to take a C camp this summer. Found MOC for a console only music player. It's nice... if only I had music to play on it. (VM, remember?)

I'm back...

Redownloaded LFS, because I have nothing to do in my non-social nerd/geek life. I tried in a virtual box, but APPARENTLY virtual box doesn't support 64-bit. Crap. RE-RE downloaded the x86 version, and waiting. I've put homebrew on my Wii, and got a few cool homebrew apps.
- Homebrew browser (download apps straight from this, no computer involved)
- DOOM (port of doom)
- Quake (port of quake)
- WiiEarth (Google earth for the wii!)
- MPlayer (Play AVI files on the TV!)
And prob some others I haven't put up. I've also played freeciv, and freecol, which are pretty addicting (PC). Thinking about deleting Slackware, pain in the @$$ to connect to the internet... Winblows doesn't even STAY connected. Left with Ubuntu. I also made a twitter. @nmjcman101 for anyone who cares.

Screw LFS

Well, I haven't posted in a while... Not that all 0 of my followers cares... but here goes. I gave up on LFS, and just have Ubu, the Slack, PClOS, and Winblows on my desktop. I WAS using Winblows, but the internet... shocker... BLOWS so I switched back to Ubuntu. It's working pretty good and there's a few neato games on here too. I'm trying to learn C, so that I can write homebrew for the wii just for fun.

LFS again

Ok, got through chapter 5 of the LFS book, but I really do want a package manager. I have looked at apt-get (which I LOVE in Ubuntu) RPM (No experience) LPM (Something designed specifically for LFS, although it doesn't look complete enough to be useful) and portage (the Gentoo package manager) I would like to install apt-get, but I'm not sure how feasible it would be to use on LFS. Ehh RPM and LPM, so I think that once I'm closer to finish (I'm just starting chapter 6) I will try portage, and XFCE. Me and my friend also think it would be cool to sell custom computers (meaning everything from the hardware to the OSes installed) over the summer to see how feasible it is. I think that would be cool.

LFS!

Ok, so I was bored. Really. really. bored. So I was looking around at different Linux Distros, and installed PCLinuxOS (Which is SICK BTW, although I do prefer GNOME a little over KDE, and XFCE is pretty cool too). Then I found about this thing called LFS, Linux From Scratch, which is essentially a book (free download www.linuxfromscratch.org) that tells you how to custom build a Linux system. How chill is that?! so I DLed it. Reading the site, I can only install on a 32-bit system, no x86_64 version yet, although they're implementing it on the next version, so I'm stuck installing on Ubuntu. (Slamd64 is so far my fave distro on my compy, but I haven't gotten much to work with it so I still need the others) So I began installing on Ubu. First thing I'm installing I got an error, surprise surprise. I really didn't feel like screwing around, so I DLed the LFS LiveCD which provides the tried and true host for installing LFS. Got that running, and right now I'm running the configure scripts. I'm also planning on installing Winblows (ugg) just because I think that with Linux I won't be able to use my 9600 to it's full potential. I really just want a base version of Winblows, without all the complete JUNK that comes with it that I never really use anyway. Complete BLOATWARE. A little Google found me this VLite thing, (forget the website) which allows remastering of a Vista DVD to your liking, to shrink the install. COOL. Now all I need is a Vista DVD and I'm good to go...

Close to finished!

I got everything for the computer working, got a new graphics card, hard drive and everything physical works. Now I need software, IE OSes. Screw Winblows. It's REALLY ANNOYING with Linux so far, because the MBR couldn't be overwritten, had to be first partition, whatever I'm done. I'm installing (so far) Ubuntu, and Slamd64 which is a 64-bit unofficial port of Slackware. Installed both of them with 100 gig partitions (logical) with a 100 gigs unallocated first partition in case I want Windows, and a 2 gig last partition for FreeDOS which I still need to install. I have 20 gigs (logical) for whatever else (I'm thinking PClinuxOS) and 300 gigs (logical) for data. Installed OpenArena on Slamd64 and haven't reboot into Ubuntu or ANYTHING yet.