SuDo /$BASH-ing my head against the wall.

     Too tired for a real update, but I do have something to say.  I've built a computer out of the spare parts in my office.  It's not a bad one, 2.6ghz Pentium 4, 2 Gigs of RAM, 120 gigs of hard drive space (spread over two drives) and a decent LCD monitor that my brother in law gave me.  The only thing she's missing is a proper video card, and she has an AGP slot.  Im planning on grabbing an older Radeon of Nvidia card to throw in it, but for now it's got a useable on board video processor.

     Having spent a grand total of nothing on this computer so far, I'm hesitant to go out and drop serious cash on a copy of windows or macOS.  Not to mention, since I don't wear an eyepatch and carry a blunderbuss, I'm not about to pirate an Operating System.

     That leaves me with one choice.  Open Source.

     Enter Linux.

     I've experimented with Linux computers in the past, and got fairly proficient with a dual-booted Red Hat 9 back in the day, I even ran Mandrake on an old laptop when I was in school the first time.  But this is the first time I've built a real Linux computer for more than just playing around.  This PC will be my 'work' computer, where I write for this blog, and render videos and such.

     I won't bore you with the details, but I will say that installing a newer version of a Linux distro (Hah!  Listen to me!  'Distro', I almost sound like I know what I'm doing!) on a slightly older computer isn't very easy.  After researching a lot of different versions of Linux, I settled on Ubuntu.  Problem is, the Ubuntu distro is too big for a CD-R and the computer refuses to boot from a flash drive.  I can't just burn a DVD because my only DVD burner is in my laptop, which some of you may remember is currently in the pawn shop.

      So, here's what I did.  I downloaded the Ubuntu mini installer.  Basically a shell of an installer program that installs the OS directly from the file servers at Ubuntu.  This took FOREVER but, after three tries, each with different settings, I finally got Ubuntu 12.10 working properly.  And I gotta say, Linux has come a long was since I last played with it.

     Anyway, I've got a few more bugs to work out, and some programs to "apt-get -install", but the computer should be ready to start work by tomorrow!  Yay me!

     PS> Did you know there was Steam for Linux?  I didn't, and I have an extensive collection of Linux compatible steam games (mostly from humble bundles)!  Color me pleasantly surprised!