computer fun

I’ve spent the last couple days immersed in technical bullshit. The imac started acting up so I had to revert to the original hard drive. I hate fixing things now, but it was not worth the money to have fixed by somebody else. Anyway we got the old one running and I had fun downloading the essential files I need to do the music thing, luckily everything worked out, except I have this osx partition I cant access and don’t really need. When I eventually figured I couldn’t do anything with it, the vaio started calling me. I’ve been meaning to check out linux for a while so I looked it up in google and went to town. It seems every time I start on this linux thing I start running around in circles. Too many hoops to jump through to get it working right. They got this new thing though called “live”. There’s all sorts of different “compilations” but basically you boot the OS from your cd drive, and everything is up there in your memory. I cant really recommend one without at least trying one other one, I like MEPIS but I tried UBUNTU first. UBUNTU didn’t like my video and would only do 480. This seems to be common with UBUNTU. Somewhere I found a link for MEPIS and downloaded that. The way this works is you download whats called an “iso” from the web. You download another program like “Burn4free” and you take the “iso” and burn a disk with it. Like burning an mp3. I had to fool around with my monitor a bit but MEPIS loaded just fine. It came with mozilla and it would really be useful if something happened to your hardrive and you needed to get on the net for tech support. Its like having another computer.

file that i burned and ran is called
SimplyMEPIS-2004.04.iso