Upcoming weekend.

Well this weekend (well Thursday morning) kethry will be leaving for a long weekend away at her parents. Which means all kind of geekery time for me. Huzzah!!

Most of it started today really while I tried to figure a way to get putty on a USB stick  so keth has a way to connect buhkit.net from her mom’s laptop. Normally putty writes to the windows registry. Thanks to straterra for pointing out that I can have putty store information in files rather than windows registry. This will also deal with the fact that I don’t have to worry that kethry has to figure out how to setup putty. Now she can just plug it in, click putty.exe and connect straight away.

Things to do:

• Probably upgrading both Hades and Persephone to -current. (upgrade or reinstall)
• Upgrade Dionysus (my Toshiba Tecra PII laptop) to the latest of -current and the (sorta) latest SVN pull of XFCE 4.6 [1] (with thanks to rworkman)

• See if can convert my USB stick to ext3. [2]
• Create the USB Installer on they USB stick, so I can have some way of booting Slackware-current’s installer.
• Find a way to make more use of my 256MB (sure go ahead laugh) USB stick, than just a 25 MB Slackware boot disk. [3]

• Still ponder why this piece of shite Lite-on DVD does not want to burn DVD’s in the first place. [4]

• Drink beer, lots of it ;-)

[1] – XFCE 4.6 is really starting to look interesting. Although I am not sure that the extra clicks needed for the menu are helpful, It starts to fill in a nice gap below KDE and bare bones window managers ala openbox and fluxbox

[2] – Just for the heck of it. Considering I don’t have any Windows computers myself, so most data I transfer is between linux boxen anyway. Plus it beats using FAT16. If I really need to transfer data between a linux host and a windows host, I can always use kethry’s USB key.

[3] – Slax looks actually sorta interesting at 187 for the USB image. I wonder how much of it is really usefull. As for what I want really. Preferably a way to boot the latest slackware stable/current kernel, some minimal tooling would be nice, but the rest of the disk usable to transfer files.

[4] – Luckily, it does still write CD-RW’s. But I really would like being able if nothing else to make slackware-12.{1,2}.iso’s and slackware-current.iso’s. Just if I need to reinstall some computer without a net connection and not having accesss to my local mirrors.