chris’ blog

ubuntu 6.10 is due today. i want to try it. i figured i’d waited this long i may as well get the official release.. only it’s hours after the release day clicked over, and it’s still not here. waiting.. waiting..

raw organic honey is rather expensive, but oh so sweet..

i started the detox today. it seemed fine at first. the pills didn’t go down as hard as i thought they would. the soy milk didn’t taste so bad. but as i started work, a headache started looming. by 2pm it was a full blown migraine, so bad i thought i was going to vomit.

and i attribute it all to caffeine. i don’t know whether i drink a lot. probably on average 1.5 cups a day. but i would have at least 1 a day without fail. and today obviously i had none. it was pretty tough.

so i left work. i couldn’t really concentrate on anything, and well, there wasn’t much work for me to do anyway. i got home around 3:30, and lay down straight away. i slept all the way through to 7pm, and only woke because chris came home.

i hope tomorrow is easier.

i finally got my mobile recording interface. it’s very nice. and, well, it works nicely somewhat with linux. the drivers are all supported, and i have had it running, but it’s not entirely optimal yet.

i’m running fedora core 5 at the moment, and while 9 months isn’t very long in human years, in open source, it’s an age. and i think this device is having issues with some of the configuration of firewire and audio visual device who-ha. so i’ve had to switch in on and off and run things from console to get it working. which isn’t really where i want to leave it. apparently other people have got it working with the gui tools, so i’m determined to get there.

also, the realtime kernel patches don’t yet work for intel core duo chips. which is a little annoying, seeing as i’ve just forked out for one.. but it will pay off in the long run.

meanwhile.. i’m thinking of making a change to ubuntu. i had a very good experience installing it when i first got my laptop (2-3 months ago), but it was very annoying having to download gcc (lucky i didn’t have to get wireless drivers compiled).. and i couldn’t get Xgl working (i’ve got to have my laptop eye candy). i’ve used exclusively fedora since it came out (3 years ago), but it’s way too big, needs way too much configuration and has too long a release cylce for me.. i read one article recently that said 30% of all desktop linux users use ubuntu, with debian following second at 14%. so i figure that many nerds can’t be wrong..

i don’t quite know what’s made me do it, but i’ve decided to do the 15 day de-tox program. i take i think 9 pills a day. and i’m allowed no alcohol, caffine, dairy or processed foods. some people at church are doing some fasting as well, for 21 days, so i figured i could possibly continue it (minus the pills) for that time. i’m going to struggle, that’s for sure. but i want to finish it..