While I’m building an amarok collection

Ok, so I’m currently dumping my collection into amarok, there aren’t many tasks that bring my pc to its knees, but this is one of them Even if I lower the priority of the process, it still bogs the machine down pretty hard. It might be the sqlLite engine, its probably choking on the size of my collection, it could also be the ntfs-3g drivers. No biggie though. (note to self: try running amarok with different sql server.) It will take some time, and now I’m kinda bored.

I’ve been using Ubuntu since December. I’ve been messing with it a lot, and thus reinstalling it a few times, but am finding that I prefer to use linux more with each passing day. I use a dual boot now, but linux is the default desktop. I use windows for games, and to archive my email (I still haven’t figured out a good way to get my outlook mailbox into evolution)

As far as gaming is concerned, I’m finding that I don’t miss my windows games as much as I thought I would. Right now there are two reasons for this, Mame and DosBox. Mame is an emulator for classic arcade games (Karate Champ, Raiden and Flying Shark being my favorites.) And DosBox is a DOS emulator for linux. It supports most of my classic DOS games. including Fallout and X-com: UFO Defense. I’ve tried to set these games up in Windows, even with DOSBox, and could never get them working right. Now I can enjoy them again. If I start now, I might even be able to finish all of the 20 years worth of computer games I have stashed in boxes around the house. I wonder if I’ll be able to play Planescape: Torment in linux, that game was freakin’ brilliant.

Next tests are getting Fallout 2, and Baldur’s gate under wine.

‘the pump don’t work cuz the vandals took the handles’

~ by mugwump67 on February 11, 2007.