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Although Calliope helped start it off the right way, today has been tough so far. Work has just been crazy. There have been a lot of little problems with a couple of problems that may come back to haunt me thrown in for good measure. It's only a little after 3 o'clock now. I hope I get out of here before any other problems emerge.
Here's a quick recap of the weekend.
Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate so I didn't ride my bike. I'm really looking forward to getting back to it so I wish the weather would hurry up and warm up just a little bit in the mornings. Bicycling Magazine's 2007 Buyer's Guide came in the mail over the weekend and I'm going to be doing some research on a few they recommended. Calliope wants me to look into used bikes as well, but I'm not sure I know enough about bikes to be able to evaluate them well.
The rest of this entry is about the fiddling I did with my computer so if you aren't into tech stuff, you might want to just skip it.
I installed Ubuntu Linux (Feisty Fawn Herd 4) on my PC over the weekend. I've got it setup to dual boot with XP. I had to spend a lot of time trying to get the wireless networking going and I still don't have my video settings quite the way I want them. However, it's up and running. I admit I enjoyed the challenge of figuring out how to get things running, but I burned up a LOT of hours on this over the weekend.
Why did I do this? Well, there are two reasons, really. First, running Linux is like driving a car with a manual transmission, possibly even a manual choke. There's an unexplainable sense of satisfaction I get from "operating" the PC rather than just using it. I miss that with Windows. Second, I'm toying around with the idea of slightly changing my career focus. I may, and I stress MAY, start to focus on web development. There's still a lot of web stuff being done with non-Microsoft solutions and having a Linux environment would be handy.
Actually, there's a third reason. I recently installed Ubuntu on the "new" PC at church so I'm sure I'll be at least partially responsible for keeping it running. Fortunately, I'm not the only Linux person there so it won't be all on me.
Here's a quick recap of the weekend.
- We went to Franklin to celebrate Katy and Calliope's birthday with my out-laws on Saturday.
- Sunday was largely consumed by church, lunch,shopping, napping, then fiddling (more on that in a moment) with my computer.
Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate so I didn't ride my bike. I'm really looking forward to getting back to it so I wish the weather would hurry up and warm up just a little bit in the mornings. Bicycling Magazine's 2007 Buyer's Guide came in the mail over the weekend and I'm going to be doing some research on a few they recommended. Calliope wants me to look into used bikes as well, but I'm not sure I know enough about bikes to be able to evaluate them well.
The rest of this entry is about the fiddling I did with my computer so if you aren't into tech stuff, you might want to just skip it.
I installed Ubuntu Linux (Feisty Fawn Herd 4) on my PC over the weekend. I've got it setup to dual boot with XP. I had to spend a lot of time trying to get the wireless networking going and I still don't have my video settings quite the way I want them. However, it's up and running. I admit I enjoyed the challenge of figuring out how to get things running, but I burned up a LOT of hours on this over the weekend.
Why did I do this? Well, there are two reasons, really. First, running Linux is like driving a car with a manual transmission, possibly even a manual choke. There's an unexplainable sense of satisfaction I get from "operating" the PC rather than just using it. I miss that with Windows. Second, I'm toying around with the idea of slightly changing my career focus. I may, and I stress MAY, start to focus on web development. There's still a lot of web stuff being done with non-Microsoft solutions and having a Linux environment would be handy.
Actually, there's a third reason. I recently installed Ubuntu on the "new" PC at church so I'm sure I'll be at least partially responsible for keeping it running. Fortunately, I'm not the only Linux person there so it won't be all on me.