I am so busy because I put off doing all the things I needed to do ASAP but ended up compiling everything I needed to make suse linux my primary operating system. Now I can go back to programing again and take my world off of hold. Thanks to (e:ajay) and (e:twisted) for helping me along the way to having a functional development system. I need to decide on a good IDE for PHP on linux.

I have so much great stuff in store for the site in the near future!! It was so satifying compiling PHP 5 by myself. Now I just a fast connection and I can make the supercomp a server.



Now that I have gotten the hang of making and installing I have gotten everything to work on the laptop including sleep mode, wirless, graphic card, php 5, apache 2. There is also so much excellent software.

(e:terry) and I picked up (e:shawnr) and we went to go see the UB battle bots competition in the student Union at UB. Adam, this guy in my elecy tonics class won the competition with a bot that had a propeller which could chop the other battlebots up.

Then we ate at the student union, which is a serious ripoff. Terry and I each had popcorn chicken and fries, shared one drink and one salad and it came to $14.00. That is so insane.

You would be proud of me. I installed suse linux 9.2 by myself and built the lastest wireless firmware and got the ATI radeon 9700 Mobility to run properly on linux for the first time. It is really fast. If you remember we were getting like 1000 frames in 5 sec = 200 fps at best.

Now it runs like it should have and the 3D is really smooth. I am getting used to using make now.

9682 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1936.400 FPS
10565 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2113.000 FPS
10566 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2113.200 FPS

These number are much more what I expected. I really believe this linux thing can work out now.

I was looking for info about the battle bots contest at UB tomorrow and I found out there is a bunch of robot stuff going on in Buffalo.

Buffalo Robotics Club -

UB Robotics -

Maybe once I am done with school I will begin building robots.

So I was happily working with Fedora Core 3 after Linux got me started. Okay I meant (e:ajay) - that was really a typo but I think linux is a good nickname for him - so I am going to leave it. Anyways, so after 1 hour of having fun with it I went ahead and messed it up to the point of no return. Like seriously I think I did the equivalent of deleting the mac OS X library or the window system32 folder.

Ya, so I am back to square one and back to Suse 9.2. I actually liked Fedora Core a lot - and think I will switch at the end of the semester but right now I really need a functional operating system ASAP and I know that Suse gives me wireless out of the box and is now "qualified" by alias for running Maya 6.5. When I have time to figit more, I will figure it out on Fedora Core. Or maybe tomorrow seeing as I seem to enjoy installing linux everyday!!!

Hopefully, I will end up making it work this time. I have learned so much from watching (e:ajay) type.