Amarok Blog

So after a straightforward flight from Glasgow to Philadelphia to St. Louis, Missouri, I had a nice couple of days hanging out with Sherry. The important thing accomplished is that I installed Kubuntu Linux on her laptop. Its a dual-booting system (Windows is installed), but I did make sure that she has only 3 seconds to decide to boot into Windows instead of 10. Default OS being loaded made a pretty big difference back when I was a dual-booter.



Anyways when the school year starts and hopefully Amarok 2 will be somewhat usable, I'll have a convenient guinea pig way of doing user-testing.



Came back to my parents home in Fulton, Missouri to find my functional desktop greeting me. Its entire motherboard and CPU had been bad and were replaced. Took me last night and this morning to compile a kernel (ended up using basically the .config from the Gentoo Install CD, the default genkernel has no SATA support at all) and tweak the system a bit.



If I was going to install a new CPU and mobo I thought I might as well get an upgrade... now I have a AMD64 3800 x2 instead of just a AMD64 3800 (was pretty limited in choice from wanting to keep my current RAM). This makes my Icecream Monitor even more hypnotizing... though obviously nothing compared to the -j20 compiles I was doing at aKademy.