I’ve been installing Gentoo over the last day or so. Even though it takes a long time (I started from a stage two, which compiles basically everything), it seems to be worth it. Maybe it is just my imagination, but things do seem faster. I could also be because Mandrake started a lot of applications at startup and my current system isn’t. We shall see once I start adding the apps I use regularly.

Though still in the final stages of testing, Layout-o-matic looks like a useful, timesaving tool. In a similar vein to the earlier mentioned list navigation tool, List-o-matic. Excellent tools, indeed.

The new ShellOn interface in v3 is quite a departure from the version two interface. I think that it is easy to use once you have taken your first steps. However, judging by the emails that I’ve recieved in response to the beta and release candiate versions, the main problem people have is that they are presented with a blank application to start with and are not sure where to begin. 37signals have written up a post about this so-called blank slate problem.

Online? Moi? With my reputation? You’d better believe it! Woohoo =)

Prepare for some appage apperances soon.

I think I’ve tracked down the Server Resourse Exceeded error that crashes the site every so often. My thinking is that it was down to a rouge SQL query. Over the weekend, I was doing some SQL and suddenly remembered the “SELECT TOP n” command. That was not in the blog and chat select querys. This means that it was returning all the rows in the table, rather than just ten. Doh! Anyway, we shall see if that was the cause. My fingers are crossed =)