So, today I passed my Network+ test. I’m a certified hardware and network geek now. Certified baby! All of you technophiles out there know what that means, right? It doesn’t mean shit! :) Actually, in my case it means that I can quit stressing about the damn Net+ test. Next in line is my MCP, which I’ve been stressing about for awhile now. I could have sworn that I failed, but to my surprise I didn’t. The test had many questions that were just wrong… Questions with vague descriptions and answers that were equally vague.

Being the terminal geek that I am (read: unix geek (get it?)), I finally got my workstation back up to par… It seems that when you compile your system with 486 CFLAGS (oops), and then you correct it midstream it busticates everything. At least that’s my latest theory. My root filesystem was horked, I couldn’t fsck it, and it just went downhill the more I tried to fix it. So, I recompiled the entire system and did a stage 1. Ugh. I also finally got Gentoo to install on our gimpy laptop. Had to do a Stage 3 + GRP, because the compiling kept overheating the stupid thing. Heidi needed a laptop to use out in the living room. She want’s XP, but the laptop can’t do XP… So I installed Gentoo, and RDesktop and she boots into KDE and invokes a Terminal Services connection to her workstation in the office. :) Yay Linux!