yet another install, because it only takes 11 minutes

scrub a lot of that earlier stuff about reinstall - i ballsed it up when i wasn't paying attention and it now has two brand spanking new, clean installs of pclos minime for me to play with. the first has a total of 768 packages as i have installed some stuff essential for listening to music and playing movies.

why did no-one ever say how goddam easy linux can be? i got the heebie jeebies at the prospect of making my own personal livecd and it's a piece of piss. all i had to do was open a terminal, su to root and say:

# mklivecd return

and there was me thinking it was on a par with installing tarballs, an infinitely trickier proposition.

as it's that easy, i got one going on the laptop. eats cpu mind, but that aint interfering with the music - that's playing on another machine courtesy of juk, which has now been going for eight days non-stop from when i first set it up.

that didn't take long. the iso is 730,546,176 bytes in 00:12:07.

it's become too easy to indulge in m$ bashing so i am exercising my brain in an effort to recall some one thing i liked about any windows os.

i like winamp. i like being able to rightclick and send just one track to start a playlist. hmm.... that's not the os though.

i like forget-his-name's mahjongg. two-thirds of the screen, well designed tiles. that isn't the os either. think harder.

arachnid. oh yes, that was my introduction to the two-deck patience game usually called spider. had a nice little icon of a playing card with diddy legs - eight as i recall. nope. not the os.

have to come back to that later. the search is taking too much cpu.