Five days until I fly. Much to do. I talk about some of it today. What I didn’t talk about was going over 350 miles yesterday.
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Hey Nate, it looks like it got fixed for the blog but my iTunes of the feed had the audio for the 21st for some reason.
Yeah, not a good time to fool with Linux on a new machine. Those new bits of hardware can be a problem. It’s enough for me to know that it bothers a bit to just stay with Windows alone (for now).
I’ve been having a bit of trouble with Ubuntu (Natty) as an upgrade. It’s hit and miss on viewing and ripping videos for some reason. It looks like I have all the right stuff. I installed Mint 11 on another partition and that has been working flawlessly. I am not using my regular /home partition with it and it is a clean install; so that’s probably why. Anyway, Mint is using Gnome 2 and I think they are committing to avoiding Unity. A lot of it is from Ubuntu. On Natty I’m using the classic Gnome which is still available, but I think it is not going to be an option in the next version of Ubuntu. I’ve looked at xfce and Lubuntu which uses LXDE. I kind of like LXDE. I used Icewm for a long time and that was very good, too. I’m pretty much a Linus Tovalds follower–went to KDE, then Gnome when he did. Now I think he is using xfce, but I’m a slow follower. 🙂
I am so very glad to hear that your maleness is safe. LOL It must be if you didn’t edit that bit out.
You mite want to try KDE again it has really improved in the last few releases. Some say it is slow but that has been getting better as well. It has really been a roller coaster ride since 4.0 but getting way better every day. Gnome 3 is going through that right now which is why Ubuntu went with Unity. One roller coaster good as another I guess. I currently use Kubuntu but have pclinuxOS installed and may be switching to that if everything works that I use. I am not a fan of rpm, I much prefer deb, but both work. It is sort of a rolling release so new stuff comes automatically and some don’t like that but I do.
Be careful trying to use windows you will get sucked into the MS BLACK HOLE $$$$ and all of us followers on linux will have to go follow somebody else. That would be sad.
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How do I get an AVATAR on here.
It’s displaying the Gravatar images. Part of the theme. Set it up at http://gravatar.com
And that’s a good point about Linux.
If I wait, it’ll be that much harder to swap over.
I’m trying to think if there’s anything I *need* to take with me to Maine that I can’t do on the Netbook…
I’m making an image of the machine … but first I have to clear off a backup disk to so I can dedicate it to that purpose. The image on this silly thing is already 40gbs.
I’m reminded that my backups are a mess and I should do something about that before it gets any worse.
I’m also reminded how old my main production machine is. It’s got a 40gb harddrive and when I got it, that was a lot.
Oye.
Well, time to start plugging machines in and merging directories.
If you are thinking that hardware is fast with windose on it wait until you have a fully set linux version installed. BLAZING!!
Men-who they are is what they are? Women-what they are is who they have to be? Think about that one. Women have fought for a long time to get out of that box and are still fighting it. Just sayin’.
Actually, I probably mis-spoke… Men are what they DO… as in, they are identified by their jobs… and yeah, women still have the harder task to break out of the barriers imposed by the male dominant paradigm that makes up most of modern social norm.
Yeah, I agree. I am lucky that my guy has always had varied interests throughout his career. He has incorporated those interests into his retirement. Fortunately for me, one of them is that he loves cooking, gourmet cooking. Like Ishmael, he usually likes to be puttering in the kitchen. I have definitely gained weight, but it is so goooooood. Am working on the weight, but he does not make it easy. Sigh! Anyway, I think it is important that guys not be defined by their job, but you are correct in that many put everything into the one basket. They are so busy doing that, that they forget to reassess. Poor Ishmael was shoved into it by a pretty hard jolt, but I can’t wait to see what emerges from the ashes.
You know, you can just load up virtualization and have both… I happen to like VirtualBox myself (http://virtualbox.org/). I’m currently running windows hosted on linux and linux hosted on windows on different machines.
Yes you can do that with visualization and have done that but mostly with server stuff. I have run windows in a virtualbox on linux for the very few things I had to have windows for. I have found that not everything will work in a vbox mostly USB stuff and some software. That is getting rarer but is still out there. The only windows software I have left is mapsourse for my garmin GPS so I just dual boot XP with Kubuntu as my default OS. Slower but I can’t get the GPS to find the usb connection in windows in a vbox. I don’t like linux running in a vbox in windows. It runs at windows speed and that is O SO SLOW.
Yeah, I know about virtualization, but it’s not someplace I’m going.