Borklog: One entry

12 May 2001

Today was the local linux user's group (wplug installfest; where folks bring in their computers and we try to get linux working. It's also an opportunity for some of the group old-timers to play with new stuff, help newbies, and generally hang around. Some of the fun of today's installfest was wplug radio. xf86 and RageMax brought some microphones and a mixing board. After many configuration nightmares, they finally got it working on zman's machine, giving us a little live icecast network. Much hilarity ensued as folks were doing the Kompressor song into the microphone, hearing the various machines around the room play the results at different times (due to variying amounts of stream pre-buffering)

My task for the day was getting redhat installed on Virtual PC (it worked!) after many many reinstalls. (RedHat 7.1 failed hard after the install was nearly done. RH 6.2 locked up at boot time. RH 6.1 seems to work ok) and then install Oracle. I got most of the way through the Oracle installation before realizing I didn't have a Java component (damn!) and it was time to head home. Alas I'm now not able to get the Virtual PC networking in Linux working on my local network (*sob*), so I'll need to figure something else out.

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