So I was bored and decided to go into the local mass retailer to poke about and look at stuff… I ended up staying longer than I expected and walked into this…
Behold! Snow Flurries!
But I would go to my car and see this…
Yeah, it snowed in Dallas alright… and to think I doubted the chances… Who’d have thought… To my people in Dallas/Fort Worth, if you can… stay the fuck inside and avoid the idiot drivers on the roads. If you have to step out… bundle and glove up. Drink hot tea or coffee to keep warm.
I decided I gotta be a little nutty just to have some fun… So I was curious if there was a way to install the KDE 4 core packages to get an internet experience with KDE 4 on my laptop, Suzaku. Sure enough, the process to install it for Gutsy was detailed here: Kubuntu.org – Be Free with KDE 4.0. Unfortunately with my family’s ADSL connection, it may take me a while to install the packages. The boredom of slow downloads is pretty painful or in Bender’s words from the movie “Bender’s Big Score”:
Suicide Booth, Gimme your best shot! Electrocution please, a side order of poison! Helloooo… Kill me, you stupid machine!!! What the..? Local calls 50 cents?! It’s a street corner telephone parlor!
Though I imagine that when the downloads finish installing and provided everything functions… I will probably feel like saying another one of Bender’s great quotes from the same movie:
People will call me a failure! Others however will call me the world’s sexiest killing machine, who’s fun at parties!
Welp, time to wait for the download or even possibly prep for the gym.
Update: 11:20am – Seems it finished… Time to reboot my X session and kick into KDE 4
Well, in child-like excitement, I decided to spin a copy of the KDE 4 Live CD on Suzaku to play before buckling down for a full review… but there was a bit of a problem. I was hoping to directly play with things that involved internet connectivity, but the CD did not bundle in any wireless network apps. From first impression, it’s a clean looking environment. I am really looking forward to seeing it in real action on a production level operating suite such as Kubuntu, openSUSE, PClinuxOS, etc. Maybe tomorrow when I am more awake, I can sit down and play with what all I can that doesn’t require an internet connection… Unless anyone doesn’t mind me coming over to jack into a LAN port to play around with some serious eye candy. Hell, the Live CD recognized my native resolution to boot!
I will leave a bit of humor to close this short post… Nothing more embarrassing than having the KDE 4 log-in and log out sounds just blasting out of your laptop speakers at 2am in the morning and completely waking your family, all because openSUSE doesn’t recognize my onboard volume controls and refused to mute.
I was wondering why I couldn’t send out mail via my mail server, but I couldn’t figure it out all night… until this morning. Turns out I needed to reverse the last 2 digits of my mail server’s port to get everything rolling. So for those needing a laugh, feel free to laugh at my expense. LOL!
