I just finished installing Gnome 2.10 on Gentoo, with Alsa sound.

Excellent, too bad the computer is only a P3-600 and will function mainly as a file server, oh well! It was fun none the less.

Today there have been confirmed network problems with Comcast outages in the Bay Area. After calling them, they said no outage on the phone, but the Live Chat from their web site, they said there WERE outages in my area.

However, they’d rather hide that fact from you, even on their “Network Health” page for 408 area code, they claim “Healthy!
At this time, your Comcast High-Speed Internet service is operating normally. Check back frequently. Network Health updates for your area will be posted here.”

Now, what is the point of a Network Status page, that doesn’t report when there’s an outage? Well, the only conclusion I can come to is that they don’t want the negative publicity. So that’s why I’m posting. If they didn’t try to trick everybody, I wouldn’t have had a problem.

I finished reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy last night. It was a funny story, read through it in a breeze. There are a few names I recognized from technology companies, which apparently have taken their name from this book.

1) Google (they claim they got their name from a large number called a Google, but the word is also used in this book).

2) Babble Fish (in the book, it’s a fish that if you stick it in your ear, it will translate any language in the universe.

3) Trillian (not sure if this is the same as the Trillian Instant Messaging client)