Monthly Archives: June 2003

2.4.21 Released

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Just a couple of days ago, the newest release of the 2.4 Linux kernel was released, after a lengthy period since 2.4.20. While there were very few truly new features, there were a great deal of improvements to existing drivers and subsystems….

And I could continue to repeat the same sort of reporting that many Linux news organizations would give you, but I won’t… What I will say is that I am really pleased with the driver changes for the ESS Solo1 sound chip. The driver actually plays audio right out of the box. There are still problems with it, however. The playback is a bit spotty. Every once in a while, I will get distortion and other problems. Usually unloading and reloading the drivers helps, but I hate to have to reboot for that! So, I went back and re-installed the ALSA drivers. Of course, the driver fixes in 2.4.21 could be entirely in vain, seeing as 2.6 is expected to use the ALSA drivers, anyway….

Now, everything is a bit quicker; there is a bit of improved performance overall.

Harry Potter == Devil?

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Matt Jones, over at his site makes some excellent points about the super-fundamentalistic tendencies that much of the Christian community seems to be holding (from an outsider’s perspective).

Far too many people take things far too literally. Besides, if Christian parents were so confident in their methods of raising their children, why should they have such vitriolic reactions to others reading it? Matt puts it very eloquently, that these are just fiction. Fantasy and exploration of imagination are natural tendencies. While imaginations often need guidance, stifling them with censorship is certainly not the answer.

Project Coming Together

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My hardware project is beginning to come together nicely. So far, I have all of the computer components I need, while the exterior case is something I need to work on. Actually, there is a gentleman who is going to help me out by bending the metal pieces I need for the back and the brackets to hold it all together. The only thing I have to do is draw it up so that he knows what I need.

Once I get those pieces, I can assembled everything and then begin to work on the operating system/system configuration. I am leaning towards a dual-boot configuration so that I can have full gaming support no matter which game I want to play.