The Harbor with a Red Hat

So yeah, I had Wednesday off so I went fishing in Newport Harbor using live bait caught with an umbrella net (baby smelt, I think, could be way off).

Notes on umbrella nets:

- It's hard to catch fish at night.
- It's hard to catch fish if there's too much current.
- Keep chumming and be patient (Little fish like wheat bread, but not shrimp crackers.)
- Drop the net down at least 3 feet.

It was a productive day even though we didn't end up with any keepers. I caught two calico bass on a high low leader and my wife caught a baby shovelnose. Some people next to us caught 3 big shovelnose, a bunch of rays, and couple bass. It was a good day overall, nice weather and not too crowded.

I installed Red Hat EL4 on one of my home computers I use primarily for development. I was able to connect to the internet immediately which was nice because previously I was using Fedora 7 and had problems getting PPPoe to work correctly. I tried upgrading to Fedora 9 a couple days ago but I had problems burning the CDs from the downloaded ISOs. (I'm not a big fan of Fedora right now.) Anyways, now I'm trying to update Firefox to Firefox 3 and it won't work because Pango's not installed or something like that.

Lesson of the day:

Linux is for people that like spending a lot of time with their computers getting simple, everyday things to work!!