System Rebuild Progress.
Dec. 8th, 2007 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupWell, yesterday I spent finding and installing new drivers and system patches and such. I haven't finished that yet -- I've yet to install my modem driver and I haven't gone to the ASUS website to find out if there is a newer version of my BIOS or updated system drivers I should be using (Their automated utility claims not, but its Engrish is so bad it may, in fact, be trying to tell me something else so I need to double-check).
Today will, no-doubt, be spent finding and installing the latest versions of the various bits of free software that I use. In at least one case (Xemacs) that is going to be rather involved since I've been using a pre-release version that needs to be compiled from scratch (because I insist on Unicode support, and its broken in the latest public release for Windows, but fixed in the CVS).
I'm sure I've got a ton of other things on my to-do list to get this system back to where I want it, but right now the lingering effects of that migraine are making it difficult to remember them all.
Ah well, I always figure it takes me 3-4 days to configure a Windows system to my liking, and today is only day 2. (It takes me much longer for a Linux system, BTW, partly due to unfamiliarity, and partly because I keep finding things I expect to be able to configure -- but can't.)
Today will, no-doubt, be spent finding and installing the latest versions of the various bits of free software that I use. In at least one case (Xemacs) that is going to be rather involved since I've been using a pre-release version that needs to be compiled from scratch (because I insist on Unicode support, and its broken in the latest public release for Windows, but fixed in the CVS).
I'm sure I've got a ton of other things on my to-do list to get this system back to where I want it, but right now the lingering effects of that migraine are making it difficult to remember them all.
Ah well, I always figure it takes me 3-4 days to configure a Windows system to my liking, and today is only day 2. (It takes me much longer for a Linux system, BTW, partly due to unfamiliarity, and partly because I keep finding things I expect to be able to configure -- but can't.)
