Back

Okay. Its been awhile, but I'm finally back on the web. I hadn't done any kind of updates an what, a year? But my need to vent motivated me to contact Time Warner and get the web space issues worked out. Roadrunner now offers a user-friendly webspace that doesn't allow FTP--not for people like me. They didn't give me hassle about switching to this space though.

FreeBSD on the other hand, has been a big hassle. I've been wrestling with it for the entire year. Being the lazy person that I am, I made the mistake of not using ports, and downloading packages for all the programs I wanted to run. Now I'm paying for that. My biggest obstacle to date is getting my HP Printer to work. Turns out there was a problem with HPLIP and the specific subset of HP printers that my printer happens to fall into. There's a patch, but in order to patch, I need to compile, which means...ports. I'm still not printing--I'm getting an error that says CUPSEXT could not be loaded. I'm guessing the next step will be to delete the cups package and install the port. I'm also fairly confident that in the not-too-distant future I'll have to remove ALL the packages and replace them with ports. Not looking forward to that.