I’ve been meaning to give F9 a spin for some time, as I mentioned a bit back. Just haven’t had time to knock it out. But yesterday I picked up a new-to-me machine and that will become my new linux box. It’s an HP home entertainment type system. It had XP on it, my net install of Fedora 9 is almost half done.
Tropical Storm Fay is supposed to be blowing through some time today so they shut down schools and my office. So I’m working on my laptop over the VPN while the install chugs along. Kind of worked out nicely.
The new tower is an HP Media Center Photosmart PC m7170n. It was a work machine for a co-worker but he just upgraded to an new one. It’s got a 4 gHz processor, 3 gig of ram and 250 gig of storage. The machine it replaces had a 2gHz processor, 2 gig of ram and 25 gig or so of storage - so this is a nice step up on every front.
It has lots of media oriented extras that I will probably never use - this will be at my desk in the office. But it should run Fedora very nicely, give me all the dev tools I need and even let me host stuff I’m working on nicely.
Well - I am working too. Trying to get some Jesus Film databases all set for them, so I guess I’d better get back to that.
Netbeans 6.5 beta is available for download now. The list of features is just incredible. Every release just impresses me more. I think when I shuffle on out of DBA land, and have time to write more code, I may be able to get away with using netbeans for all development. Nice.
Below this is text from their announcement listing new/major features, etc. It does a lot more than what is in this list - but this hits a lot of things that maybe people don’t realize is there.
We just got back into Orlando today. We spent the last week in the Tampa area - Treasure Island to be exact. It was a nice, relaxing time which was just what we needed.
We spent a lot of time at the beach and the pool, took in a Rays game, visited the Florida aquarium and played a few games of Trouble. The kids took in some Disney channel, enjoying the fact that they had cable where we stayed. Ingrid and I each got to read a fluff novel, and I got to work through most of a really great book on intellectual property. Sounds boring but it really wasn’t. I’ll have a review up over at GeekBook pretty soon.
We are very fortunate to get to take the time for something like this. I also think about how nice it is to be so well off that we can just go stay somewhere, take a week off work, etc. Not everybody has that kind of luxury. I’m really thankful.
Next week the is the last of summer vacation for the kids. Then it’s back to school, so hopefully this gave them some nice summer memories. The first third of their vacation was OSP - so I think this kind of balanced it out.
We didn’t have internet access - for a week. And I lived. How about that?
This is welcome news on the desktop front. KDE 4.0 was getting ripped pretty well, but I think people were premature to jump in that direction. I’m still running Fedora 7 at work - I’ll move that to 9 this week so I can update to KDE 4.1 and give it a spin.
