It's mischief night this evening, but I don't think I'll see much toilet paper around here, considering the majority of kids in the development are either younger than four, or about my age.  Oh well, it's not like I'm missing anything.

So yeah, I'm getting quite annoyed lately with tacolinux.  The system oops'es every 6-8 days, usually due to some inability to handle a kernel paging request caused by seemingly random processes.  The first couple came from X, but then zsh started doing it ... so I'm discounting a bug in Xorg, probably foolishly.  I'd file a bug for the gentoo-sources ebuild, but I'm sure I'd get stoned for doing it becuase ...

• My kernel is tained with nVidia's modules that have a non-GPL license.
• I have a bad habit of mixing ebuilds from ~amd64 and amd64.

So, thinking it may be an nVidia bug, I've upgraded to the latest bleeding-edge version (1.0.7676-r1) of their Linux drivers.  I've also upgraded my BIOS, since I noticed the stupid thing stopped booting up 50% of the time, this weekend.  I don't think it's a memory problem, since 13 hours of Memtest86 3.2 didn't produce any errors (yes, I should leave it running for a week, just to be sure, but.. bah) or lock the system.  I'm pretty good at keeping tabs on my system temperature, so I'm pretty sure nothing's overheating.  We'll see if the BIOS and/or nVidia drivers fixed stuff, in a few days.

Speaking of Linux, I just saw the 2.6.14 announcement today.  Host AP actually made it into the Linus kernel.  Just.. wow.  It has a couple nice fixes, too:

15:11 < Unprompted> Fixed problem with amd64 machines named taco*.
15:11 < Unprompted>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
15:11 < Unprompted>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Oh, yeah.  I've added a custom start page for myself.  It's DB-driven, and maybe I'll actually make it fully-interactive and customizable, one of these days.. when laziness is defeated.

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