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Well, not really my feet, but my computer's back up and running. This morning I restarted it for a kernel upgrade, but ... no, it didn't want that. So I downgraded to my old kernel again, but then suddenly my sound stopped working. "What the hell", I thought, and most of my day went to recompile the kernel over and over and over again. And suddenly, just before 16:00, the sound started working again. Not that I had done something herocally different, but this time I compiled "sound support" as built in and ALSA support as a module. I am quite certain I had tried that before, but this time it actually worked. \o/

In either way; Machinae Supremacy - Flagcarrier is a very nice tune. I feel happy when I hear it. Especially from 4:00 and out. Does it sound familiar to you? Played Final Fantasy VI perhaps? Does it remind you of the masterpiece Terra's theme? Methinksyes. Awesome tunes.

A friend of mine, Stein-Ivar to be precise, recently purchased a brand new computer with a nice X25-E SSD disk, which is fast as lightning and he has kept bragging about how fast he can untar archives and emerge packages through it. Of course, I love new and fast technology, but since it is so expensive, it costs about 3000 NOK (which is about €333), I just cannot afford it. At least not yet, but I'll try to save up to it. :-)

Alright, back to the Linux thing I hinted about. Let me go way back, back to my first year at the junior college (or high school or whatever its equivalent is called). I was 16 years old and we had just gotten broadband connections to our homeplace. I found this Debian Linux which I had gotten recommended, and I installed it. Through fire and rain I stuck with Debian for about 1 year until my harddisk crashed and my entire system was wiped clean. At the same time I had a course at school which required me to use a Windows application which was not able to be run through Wine, and as a result I figured I could just use Windows until that time came. Well, I am still using Windows.

Perhaps this is about to change. I have for an extensive period of time been using Windows for my main operating system for many reasons, but mainly due to me wanting to play World of Warcraft. However, nowadays Wine is perfectly able to run WoW fluently, and I know several of my friends and acquaintances whom run it like this. As a result I am considering doing the same.

If there is one thing I could point out about what is good or possible supreme in Linux, it would be its great flexibility and possibility to change and fix the user interface as you'd like. Also, it is great just to do one emerge -av world to update every application you have ever installed on your system. And the worst thing? Well... I just cannot stand compiling the kernel of the Linux system. It's like 10 000 000 options and if you should be so unfortunate to erroneously NOT choose one of them your entire system can be fuxxed beyond belief. Linux is stable as heck, but once it dies, it dies hard.

I'll try to keep you posted! I have had a tendancy to keep blogging more whenever I have Linux on my computer. Weird... but true!

Since I acquired my iPhone, I have been annoyed by not being able to synchronize my iPhone with my stationary computer, since Windows XP x64 is not supported by iTunes 8. Thus I have installed Windows Vista Business x64 (I love that I get it for free through my school), and I am currently updating it.

I somehow like being back here again, but I still miss XP a bit. But I suppose I'll always do when I upgrade to Vista. Looking forward to Windows 7, though.