The World's a Blur

Amazingly enough, Linux can actually look very good if configured correctly and customized for your equipment. Luckily for me, it's only taken me about 5 years to figure out exactly how to do that. Hundreds of mindless hours combing through arcane info pages, outdated wikis, and forum postings led to my Eureka moment. I finally have a setup I can live with, sort of. I can type all of the characters I wish to, and they look good to boot. Of course, the Holy Grail of X still eludes me, but I struggle valiantly on trying to find an agpgart driver for my chipset so I can finally have accelerated X. Driver support has always been iffy on Linux, and I gave up depending on it years ago. Too frustrating to limit myself to one or two supported devices. Of course, if you'd read my earlier entry, you'd know that I haven't spent my entire break wrestling with a software system or rewiring my computer... That actually only took a day. For the rest of it, I spent my time out in Vancouver. I have always liked it out there, and this trip did little to change my opinion on the matter. While I did not do a lot of exploring this time out, I did get a lot of R & R, which is mostly what I was hoping for anyway. With my normal weekly schedule the way it is, I appreciated some time where I could get some other tasks out of the way and simply relax and read and watch the Olympics. The furthest I got out was to Langley and that was just for a pleasant dinner and a stop at NCIX to pick up a set of headphones to replace an old pair of mine. Other scintillating destinations? Well, I did make it to Costco a few times. In any case, I have to write a paper tomorrow, so I should probably get some shut-eye...