making sense of new generation of Linux

There are several ways to run Linux:
1) Install Linux from installation CD the traditional way
- need CD ROM drive
- need new partition in harddisk
- can only run one system at a time

2) Run Linux from Live DC.
- need CD ROM drive,
- don't need new harddisk partition though
- only can run one system at a time

3) Load Linux Live CD from virtual machine
- don't need CD ROM
- don't need new harddisk partition
- can easily switch between host OS and guest OS!
- file sharing locally could be issue, but can be overcome through IP applications!

the flavors of Linux

Linux has come a long way since Linux Torvalds days. I was hunting for small footprint linux sometime back and bravo, there are so many of them available. There are versions that can boot directly from CD too - like damnsmalllinux and knoppix. The names they chose were funny too.
Well, I was looking for ways to install linux from ntfs though, and this feat has not been accomplished by many yet. There's this tool "instlux" that I thought I may use, but it turns out I couldn't load the aironet network module for my laptop, so I was stopped from installing the OpenSuse from network.
Then I was thinking maybe I could build a kernel and control the boot process so that it boot directly to open up a browser. In that way I won't have to wait long long for system initialization when all I need is a browser...

bash starteam

I must bash starteam. it's so slow. I don't like to use it at all. more than half my time is spent on trying to start and restart and start again the starteam client when it hangs.. it's a pain in my ass.

Transceiver module

I have a new assignment - make RIU hardcopy work on PDH-IFU... let's see what needs to be done.
1) how transceiver module interact with RIU and ODU
2) what changes introduced in RIU HC - I heard it requires new libHwModule

Founders at work

Hey, I'm reading this book called "founders at work". So far, the founders are all techie.. like google's founders larry & sergey. The most techie guy must be steve wozniak.. he designed the Apple II, add colors to it, and even designed a floppy disk drive for it personally... a tremendous feat at that time... it's amazing! I even read about the guy who started blogger :) he's cool.
It makes me think what's the most doable thing for a startup in this day and age. Cuong is talking about Web 2.0, and I'm like a system guy... well, we're gonna do something anyhow :)

it's hard to keep blogging

It's hard..
Just think about the hurdles you have to pass before a single character can be put online:
1) it takes the PC at least a minute to boot up (you have to do that once in a while when windows filesystem become cranky)...
2) it takes the IE some time to load...
3) the blogger server may be slow...

Will there be a dedicated blogger device in future? just like what I heard google is trying to do - coming up with a google handphone...