It’s always a negative!

So its been a little bit since I last posted, theres a good reason for this. Last few weeks I’ve been mad study’n for physics and calculus. The calculus hasn’t been that bad so far, but I suspect that it will get worse. However, physics has been a big zit on my ass. I do admit its starting to get better, just gotta open your mind and let the shit pour in. Physics, in my mind, is a bit common sense and a bit bullshit. Once you get past the bullshit, it all makes sense ;-). Other then that my C++ class takes up a good amount of time. Thankfully my good friends Andy and Suzie (who are engaged now, they’re so cute…) are in the class too so we all work on the program together. It helps. Oh yeah my last class, econ; I don’t think I actually not slept in the class as of yet. *shrug*

Oh, started a new workout routine! I’m gonna start swimming on Tuesday and Thursday (my only days I can get to the pool before 7:30 when lap swim is done) and strength training on the other days. Had the cutest personal trainer the other day show me the kinda work out I probably should do. She had these bright blue eyes, I’m just a sucker for blue. All the really cute ones that talk to me are generally taken though, *shrug* oh well. In a few weeks after doing this routine though my abs are gonna be frigg’n rock, you can already see the 6 pack come’n back.

In other nues (yay i made a new word) some how I phucked up my Linux box a bit. I got an itch and decided to install some 36 gig 15K scsi320 drives in a raid0 array. Instead of reinstalling I just DD’d each partition over to the nue drive(s). Normally one wouldn’t think this would be a problem, but for some reason after that my system became really slow. I dunno if I phucked up some files during the DD or what. *shrug* And rather then digging though and try’n to find out what got screwed up , I think I’ll just try something new. Been meaning to anyways. I like change. Back in the day I was a Gentoo man before I became a Ubuntu bigot, and after I saw the setup Sayabon, I might have to give it a whirl once more.

I think thats all. For those who have no clue what my titles means, here it is in lamen terms: “Update the local list of installable packages.” Linux n00bs out there (sorry Andy I had to use it) may not be aware but there are several different ways of getting programs installed on linux.

1. RPM: the most well known, useful mostly. I hate RPM, they are usually a pain in the ass, but it is the most common package for Linux
2. DEB: really only used on debian distrobutions; such as of corse Debian, [K|X]Ubuntu, I’m sure there are more, I know Knoppix uses it on its back end.
3. BIN: bianary packages or .bin installs are common for installs that are made for any distrobution, these aren’t very popular because you have to use the command line and many package based installs are try’n to get away from the console, it scares people.. *caughwindowzbigotscough* scuse me..
4. Soure: Popular/Not Popular way of installing. Its nice because you get tons of options when installing them and can even optimize the compilation to run faster on your machine because it uses specific cpu instruction sets specific to you machine. (not the best option if you wanna package the binary up and spread the love) but compiling takes tons of cpu cycles, however can be pretty to watch… Shutup! I think it is!
5. Other: There are actaully several other ways people have created to install packages on any system. One is .run installs. Generally download them with the +X already active so all you do is double click on the file and opens a nice gui to install. .package is another one, not so popular but ultimately nice idea. I could keep naming them, but I think I’m geting a bit off topic here. *shrug*

Ok class time over. Hope you enjoyed the

$ sudo apt-get update