Exploring the *NIX World

As the title implies I have been on an adventure. As a guy who has been into computers for a long time sometimes you get tired of things working so well. Last week my I noticed my netbook slowing down so I figured it was time for a backup and reinstall. I backed up all my data, made a bootable USB (got to have it for the netbook installs) and got read for a quick job. At some point between downloading a new iso and installing I got a bright idea. I figured I would look around for something new. I've had my netbook for a little over a year and the first thing I did was install Ubuntu. At the time it was the smartest thing to do. I was never a fan of Ubuntu but I knew it would work on my netbook.

Lately I've been getting tired of Ubuntu and thought it was time to try a few other things I had been looking at. So over one week's time I have tried; PCLinuxOS,Kubuntu,Mint,OpenSuSe,OpenSolaris,Mandriva,and a few other experimental OS's I found.

After seven days of testing everything under the sun I realized that I was happy with Ubuntu and decided to give it one more try. After the install and update. I started using the netbook as usal. I noticed better performance, response, and speed. Just as I had assumed in the beginning it was just time to do a fresh install.

So after one week of torturing myself I will tell everyone to just reinstall. Don't think of reasons to hate your OS to justify finding something new. If it works, let it work!

Casey

New Year

Greetings All,

It's a new year and with that like everyone else I have "resolutions". I've been thinking about doing a lot of things and the new year is a good excuse to try to start. I've started working on a Linux distro with a few friends so that has kinda forced me to learn to code. I've been reading a lot about C and basic OS architecture.

I've also gotten into the beginning stages of putting together a podcast. I'm starting my second quarter Thursday and I guess the new schedule will determine how much of this new stuff I get to do. I'm still trying to blog as much as possible. I'm doing this,Twitter,and Facebook. I've slipped on all of these things. I will also make that a resolution.

Happy 2010,

Casey

Want to Change Things up?

Hey Everybody that's not reading this blog,
I started this blog to document the goings on while I started going back to school. I figured that it would be this thing where something new happened everyday. It's not. Yes, I'm still in school and doing pretty well, but there is not enough to blog about more than once every three months. I want to keep this blog going and eventually turn into something more so I have made this decision.

Modern Geekery will keep going and it will be more of my thoughts about what ever I feel needs to be expressed. I'm not talking online journal but just what I think of news,reviews,products,new tech, etc.etc. I hope this goes better than trying to document sitting in class everyday. I will still be updating the process of my returning to school but there is so much more out there for me to add my two cents to.

Wow! So Busy!!

Greetings all,

I know I promised the big First Day post but I never knew how busy it would keep me! I thought that two days a week would provide so much home work. I have three classes and they all require about three to six hours of reading and home work. I will say I enjoy going to school more than I expected.

I guess going to high school you feel obligated to wake up and go to school and do the work just to keep your parents off your back and count down the days till you can leave for the last time. College has been a totally different story. I didn't do to well on the ASSET test so I have a high school math class and I even enjoy that because I'm learning a few things I never picked up back then.

I've been thinking a lot lately and I might take a writing class and look into maybe doing some tech writing for a site like arstechnica or engadget. Not saying I could do it but it sounds like something I would love to do.

So to wrap this up, the past three weeks of school have been a blast. Once again I will try to make time to post something useful here.

First Day Jitters

Well, I think I've got everything sorted out for tomorrow. I've got all my books ordered and shipped. Got a few notebooks and pencils, laptop, and a fancy back pack to put it all in. After the entire summer being spent getting my GED and finding a school that would accept the GED, getting my financial aid,and just all around worrying about everything, this is a good day. I've got the first day jitters just like I did when I was younger. "What if the kids don't like me mommy?"
I think its gonna be all good and smooth sailing for awhile. I guess I'll have to update tomorrow after school. Pretty cool that I get to say "after school" again.

It is Official

Ok people it is now official, I have received my financial aid letter and I register for classes tomorrow. Let me tell you how relieved I am. Now starts the search for books. Being that I live in North Georgia and go to a small tech school (for now) it's harder than you think to find these books. They say that you can find all the books on their online store but that is not true. Some of the classes I have to take aren't even listed on the site. What I have found I opted to look on chegg.com and bigwords.com and found that I can get by with spending about $175 instead of the estimated $500+ they say. So today has been devoted to finding the classes I'm taking and finding the books ISBN to see how much I'm going to save (yeah I said it). If anyone is reading this yet please reply. I'm hoping to make this site something useful in the future and I would love feed back and ideas. I hope to soon get my own domain and try my hand at designing the page from scratch. Check out my twitter and facebook as well its all on the side pain. Thanks for reading.

Sorry For The Delay

Ok, I know as a new blogger I should be posting everyday but I've had so much going on the past week. On the upside, I finally got everything turned in for my financial aid. I go for registration Thursday morning but I'm still kinda worried that I wont get the financial aid before the 16th. If that happens I'm gonna have to drop a good many classes till next semester when I can reapply for the aid. Like I said this week has been super crazy, birthdays,school stuff,broken sink, a lot has happened. I don't have much to say but I felt real stupid for not posting in over a week when I said I was gonna post almost every day. I've been working on keeping this and the Twitter up so bare with me until I get posting and tweeting into my daily schedule.