Well, I’m still wanting to work on the mathematics related post.  However,  my (old) computer has decided to get a bit unstable (it’s ok, it’s five years old).  So, I’ve had to take a slight detour and get my new machine up to “desktop” status.  I had it all working.  Well, except for any of the user level stuff:  dual monitors, skype, camera, etc.  And, since I hadn’t fired it up recently (I’d only been using it as a compute-horsepower juggernaut), I also need to update the darn thing.  So, I’m currently doing an:

emerge -uDavN --quiet world

Which will take a while.  And, I have to transfer a few hundred gig of files over.  Yes, I’m just unplugging and replugging the RAID array.  But, the home directory is on an old drive and I want to copy that to a new drive.  So, there’s a bit of work to be done before beta is up and fully running.  But, it will be nice because beta is really fast.  No, not so fast that I paid for diminishing returns.  But, really fast enough to make me smile.