Musings while not playing

The giant finger still hurts - but on the bright side I get to listen up to lots of new music.
My friend Mike, the musician who owns Sunshine Cycles and who turned me on to Nick Drake, lent me Alexi Murdoch's Time Without Consequence, eerily like Nick Drake, but really good in his own right. Listened once, will listen again. I like the dissonance in the simple arrangements. Mike knows music, particularly odd pop music, and is forever turning me on the the saddest truck driving drunk dog lost ballads, sobered up British instrumentalists, Scottish and Irish pop - just great stuff. I try to reciprocate, but he's usually heard them. Bob Marley is my latest offering - I got some CD's to replace the LP's still in pristine condition: Burnin' and Natty Dread. A combo of less precise hearing, and a no more Single A tube amps or custom dipole speakers takes some impact from the music.

Fedora 11

I just upgraded from Fedora 10 to 11. As usual the upgrade did not go well and I've spent a few days banging my head against the wall trying to get nvidia drivers loaded (It only works in single user, non-x display-mode without them), then getting sound to fully work.

Without going into details, because everyone has a slightly different system, I think next time I will change my strategy and do a clean install into the non-home partition. But before I do the install, I will list out all the packages that I've added by running:

sudo yum list > existing.packages

This will create a file that looks kind of like this: