A real workstation at last!

Frustrated by Suse's refusal to provide an ISO for creating an installation CD, I turned to Debian & spent most of the day installing & configuring it on my PC workstation. The scroll-wheel on my mouse still doesn't work, since it's some obscure brand that Gateway bundles with their systems. But at least I now have Evolution & Mozilla-Firebird :-)

I also had lunch with Mike Godfrey, a UW CS prof whose sabbatical is being spent working on Jackpot. He's quite a personable guy & one of the few professional computer scientists with perfect vision.