Not much happened shopping wise on Saturday. I make it to the pub on Saturday and meet up with various people which was nice. Drinking beer is a lot more enjoyable than shopping.

It only took around 5 hours of system time to compile the base system and large chunks of Gnome. Its still not fully setup yet but I'm getting there. One thing has already come to my attention. If you execute:

[root@malory]# netstat -ln
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Active …

Well it took about 80 minutes to build the bootstrap (the compiler chain and libraries). Not bad, I think my work machine may have the edge, but I'm not sure comparing the Gentoo toolchain to the crosstool toolchain is that fair.

I've just kicked of the system build (which is …

My shiny new AMD64 system arrived on Wednesday. Last night I got a chance to play with it. I was a little nervous because the nForce chipset has had problems reported with the SATA interface. In fact I thought this was a problem the first time I ran the Ubuntu …

Today I implemented some basic flow control in my test application at work. It allow me to make my test scripts loop. I only mention it because it was an enjoyable activity compared to yesterdays brain squeeze.

Tomorrow I'm going to be meeting an elder god. This may well have …