Back to the Gentoo

Liz bought a new laptop over the weekend which came bundled with, dare I say it, Vista Home Edition. I refused to allow it in the house and so she promised to put Ubuntu on it instead.

I jest, she opted to put Ubuntu on it herself, entirely of her own free will.

Anyway I decided it was about time I got my finger out and sorted my laptop out. I've had it for well over a year now and it's still running ... oh god, it's too embarrassing to even admit, but I supposed you have a right to know ... Windows XP Home. There, I said it.

I only kept it on there because, at the time, I was too busy to format it and stick Linux on. I didn't really fancy the hassle of compiling up packages left, right and centre. But now that Liz was putting Ubuntu on her laptop I could hardly continue using XP Noddy(tm).

Unfortunately I now have about 47 Gb of data to back up before I can format the hard drive. Ouch. That's gonna take a while. But on closer inspection a lot of it was garbage and, with some careful binning of junk, I've got the list of stuff to back up down to about 7 Gb: 2 DVDs, I can live with that. With everything backed up the Gentoo'ing will begin tonight.

Today's picture is of Donnington Castle in Newbury. The sky came out completely white in two of the shots I took which gives a really strange feel to the photos: The castle looks like it's been cut out of one image and stuck onto a blank white canvas.

And finally:

The menu on the right is still malfunctioning. I will fix it ... one day.