Pete's Log: linux 2.4, wings, beer and activities night

Entry #416, (Life in General)
(posted when I was 22 years old.)
alright, today has been far too long. Started out with having to wake up early in order to go to a cse 232 TA meeting. That went alright, I suppose, tho it was unexciting. Then Kogge's class, which was a struggle to stay awake during, since I was very tired, and he was still reviewing pipelines. Then return to the lab, steal Rob's XF86Config file, and XFree 4.0 finally is forced into working condition. Yay. Then I had a very long, frustrating battle with linux-pmac-devel, a.k.a. linux 2.4.0-test7 with some patches by the powermac developers. Unlike the stock 2.4.0-test7 kernel, it compiled fine. it even booted fine. my keyboard just didn't work, but i could ssh in. so i realized i had to turn on support for usb keyboards and mice. so i do so, recompile, reboot, and init fails to run any scripts since bash can't run, since shared libraries fail to load. argh!!! so after experimenting for some time, i narrow the issue down to the usb core input mouse driver, which, when compiled into the kernel, causes shared library problems of all nasty varieties. kinda bogus if you ask me. so i decide to stick with 2.2.17 for the time being. next i battle with the hardware clock for a while. i shouldn't mess with such things when i'm tired.

citibank has sent me six separate things, which all arrived the same day, all about loans. need to work on deferring those.

wings: Arun brings the large penguin to fitz, then Brian, George, Tony, and I pile into Arun's car and head for wings. Kyle shows up as well. A fun time, although we've lost a significant number of people. But we're actively recruiting new participants.

Next: activities night. NDLUG showed up in force, with large penguin and three laptops. Arun, upon seeing Katherine Ball stop at their booth, started a fight with the speech and debate group across from NDLUG. all ended up for the best, tho, since George and Arun signed up. After getting more than a page of names, we decided to call it quits. I did see Rosemary Gibney wandering past the NDLUG booth and called out to her, she seemed amused, tho slightly frightened by the NDLUG exhibit. I got some mail from the Gibney's, it seems they're going to be in town for the Texas A&M game this weekend, which should be fun. They've invited Mamie and I to various events. I am quite tired.