Well, I didn’t make it on Thursday after all. I was working on a project all day and finally stopped about 10pm. But, I hadn’t finished the prequel novel, either, so I didn’t really want to go yet. Yesterday I finished the novel, but today is the first Saturday. I’ll wait another day or two. [...]
Star Wars Day!
May 19, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Well, it’s finally here. Star Wars Day — you’d think it was a National Holiday or something, with everyone mentioning it in their advertisements. It was even on this morning’s CBS Morning News, with an interview of Mark Hamill. I’ll be there, sometime. Maybe today, maybe not. Well, it’s not what you think — I [...]
Swimming Pools are Like Boats
May 18, 2005 By Leave a Comment
The Mother-in-Law’s computer
May 16, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I solved a nagging problem with my Mother-in-law’s computer. She had purchased a Compaq Presario (AMD Sempron 3000+, 512MB, 120GB hard drive). She liked the computer. But, she could not reliably get a dialtone for her modem. When I last visited, she bought the computer and I set it up. All was well that first [...]
Picking a Linux "distro" for a webserver, part 2
May 15, 2005 By Leave a Comment
SimplyMEPIS 3.3 looks like the best alternative so far — reasonable for desktop use and for server use. Updating packages the Debian way (Mepis is a derivative of Debian Linux) is easy. Adding packages (I had to add MySQL and phpMyAdmin) is easy. I’m still working on fine points of my system. Continue reading “Picking [...]
Picking a Linux distro for a webserver
May 14, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been checking out the various Linux distributions for a web server project. I already had SuSE 9.0 Professional installed on my in-house Linux box, which I use for development purposes. I added a new hard drive to check out several of the alternatives, and set it up to be able to boot between them. [...]
Western Nature Photography
May 13, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I found a very interesting nature photography site the other day. Norman Koren is a photographer living near Boulder, Colorado. Most of his photos are beautiful nature studies from the the western U.S., although he has some excellent photos from overseas trips, too. He has put many of his photographs on the website in a [...]
The Joy of a Large Hard Drive
May 12, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Linux, Xandros and Computer Power User
May 11, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been slowly reading the May issue of Computer Power User magazine, also known as CPU Magazine. Imagine my surprise to find multiple articles about Linux in this issue, including a 5-page lead-off article about Linux for WinXP users and a 6-page article about the Xandros distribution. Xandros wants to give the Windows user a [...]
There’s a new Lego Star Wars cartoon
May 10, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I hope everybody heard about and got to see the cartoon short Lego Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick on Sunday night. It was extremely well done. Fortunately there was a posting about it on the our local science fiction club’s mailing list (Star One Delta), or I would have missed it. It was broadcast [...]