[Sussex] The deathly silence?

[Geoff Teale]

It's been very quiet indeed...

For my part this is because I have been experimenting with my new 
machine.  For the most part I can say that the experience of running a 
dual Xeon workstation with Gentoo 1.4 has been wholly enjoyable - when 
you can be simultaionously compiling KDE3.1 and Mozilla at the same time 
as working on some large image files in Gimp, having two document open 
in OpenOffice.org and playing some MP3's and not even notice any lag in 
response then you've got to be happy (especially as i never once had to 
type the word `nice`).

My big bug-bear at the moment is that ATI Radeon support for GLX is 
borked at the moment which frankly sucks, but as games are not really a 
major part of my life I'm not that worried..

Python has again been my main focus for the last few days.  Increasingly 
I am being drawn towards technologies because of the people around them. 
  The Python community is a good example, the people involved with it 
seem far less egocentric than C/C++ or Perl developers. I think this is 
because of the nature of langauge - it is inherently simple - it puts 
value in elegance and design rather than in outright cleverness.

--
GJT
tealeg at member.fsf.org
Free Software Foundation

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GCS d? s+:+ a- K? w---$ O M+ V- PS++ PE- Y+ PGP- t--- 5-- X R- tv- b+++ 
DI++++ D G+ e++ h--- r+++ z+++
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------