Slackware 15

Since version 15.0 was announced not too long ago, I decided to install Slackware for the first time in years. I took a notebook that I was having trouble doing a factory reset of Windows 10 on to use as guineapig before I put it on my daily driver, as the last time I tried it, it took some effort to everything going properly. I think I finally gave up on it after I couldn't get my particular soundcard working properly. This time, I decided to just install everything, so chose a "terse" install and let it do its thing. It surprised me a bit to come back to it a little later to it asking me to set up lilo. Man, it's been ages since I've seen this, since most distros seem to use grub2 these days. It was a pleasant surprise, though, as it is still just as simple to use as it's always been. When everything was done installing (after a few config questions, such as which version of vi to use) and the system restarted, I was presented with the old, familiar login prompt. I added and logged into my user account, and startx brought X up without issues, but it wouldn't quit properly. I figured I'd be in the GUI more on this than I have with Slackware in the past, so I switched to a terminal, edited the inittab file to change the default runlevel to 4 so that X would come up automatically, and everything just worked. Next stop, installing it on my daily driver and seeing how difficult the nvidia drivers are these days ;)

One, an Algar the Bard cover

Pretty cool medieval cover of One.

Desperately Seeking Susan

Susan Thunder. That's a name I haven't heard in awhile.

X-Plane 11 vs MS Flight Simulator 2020

I've been doing some flying via X-Plane 11 lately, but I had an opportunity to check out MS Flight Simulator 2020 recently. While MSFS has better graphics, hands down, I was able to use some free add-ons to get really close in X-Plane. X-Plane has better physics, and supports multi-monitor (and multi-PC) setups out of the box. Both simulators automatically keep pilot logbooks for you, but overall, I definitely still prefer X-Plane.

Hackers (1995) - Honest Trailer

Honest Trailer for one of my favorite movies.

The Ghost in the Machine

A podcast on the Dodleston messages.

Welcome to Racoon City

I just got back from seeing Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City, and all I've really got to say is wow! Loved every moment of it, and how much closer to the game franchise it is than the previous iteration of the movie franchise. Lovers of the movies might not care for it unless they also enjoyed the games. Lovers of the games will probably enjoy it more than the previous movies.