Monday March 26, 2007

I've had my ups and downs lately.

One down was the fact that I didn't get the job of my dreams. A pure Linux job, but since I don't really have any formal education I can use to my advantage, I lost to a better suited person and that's only fair. The show must go on and I've now taken new steps to create a brighter future for my family and for myself.

One up is the fact that I'm now trying to get some education. I've applied at the University in Oslo and other schools to get a Bachelor degree in Computer Science. I've also applied for schooling in economy and IT-management at a business school in Oslo. It feels good knowing that I've atleast tried, but I've a feeling that other people will get the places in school before me due to the lack of education I have.

Thanks to my cousine, Sigg3, my server now has a brand new PSU (Power Supply Unit). I thought it was the reason for my server dying every so often, but I now believe it may be that the CPU isn't getting enough power to run at high loads and I'll look into it when time comes. For now it's just a hazzle and I don't want to do it. Simple as that.

What wonderful words. I live by them now and I always think that I can. I've been negative for too long and it's time for me to look up, look forward with a smile on my face and love what I am.

After I applied for that Linux job I wanted to brush up on some of my skills and decided to begin using Linux more often. This resulted in a search for a good desktop instead of my installation of OpenSuSE I had. I tried a few distribution before landing a cool desktop called Sabayon Linux, now at version 3.3, and what I found so cool was that it uses Beryl as part of the desktop. Beryl is eye-candy for the desktop and it looks good, works well and has even greater potential.
Besides, Sabayon Linux is based on Gentoo and I just love the way Gentoo works. Sabayon Linux is binary, compared to Gentoo where one has to compile every single component from scratch when installing, and it's compatible with the Gentoo respository. Updating packages is easy and installing new packages is just as easy. It just works.

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