Touching bases...

OK, that title really doesn't sound right, does it?  But you know what I mean...

I've been going 'round the computer corral, trying to make sure everything is up to date while I have the chance.  So far, several Macs have been brought up to speed, my old Acer's copy of CrunchBang has been brought up to date, and I even managed to fire up the old Toshiba and make sure Linux Lite was copacetic.

The past couple evenings, I've been digging through the thumb drive case and testing out the various Puppy distros I have there.  Was running PhatSlacko all last night.  Enjoyable, with no problems whatsoever.  I had actually thought about just grabbing a copy of Puppy Slacko and fooling with it, but why?  Phat has everything there already, and it's up-to-date.  (I do notice the slightly slower boot-ups that people have been complaining about with the Slack versions of Pup, but it doesn't really bother me.  The thing that does kind of get me is the last of a sleep/hibernate feature.  I'm not sure about the version of acpitool that's in the Slackware archives, so I haven't installed it.)

This afternoon, I've been playing with MacPup, USB booting onto my X60s.  Everything was/is pretty well kosher, save for a slight bobble with my wireless (I'd been using at the last hotel I was in, so it was looking for the open hotel wireless), and some strange issue with the sound system, where it boots up with everything muted...  Weird.  While I was using FireFox, I clicked on the "About" option, and the system immediately informed me that there was an update available.  I'm now using version 22, which makes me very happy.

So, all in all, a pretty slow computer day.  I need to go out into the "big room" for a  bit, and get some fresh air.  And actually try to get some real world stuff done.  Monday is another work week.

Run, run, run...