Actually, it's not that hard. There's a whole raft of low-end hotels that allow pets, and even a few high-end ones, though the high-end ones charge extra. What happens on the dog show circuit is that the more rabid (as it were) fans create entire kennels or grooming salons inside their RVs, most of which are bigger than our poor little Bigfoot. The amount of gear and paraphernalia required to groom and show dogs on a significant scale--most people show more than just one skinny little 10-pounder--is mind-boggling, and an RV makes things a lot easier to just get around.
Re: Congratulations!jeff_duntemannApril 22 2008, 00:16:37 UTC
Not yet. We've pondered "Mr. Big" (or perhaps I should spell it "Mr. Beeg") after Boris & Natasha's shadowy spymaster boss from Rocky & Bullwinkle, who was big in an entirely different sense. "Mr. Biggs" comes easily to mind around here because of the Chuck-E-Cheese clone kid birthday party place of the same name, but that's not an association that makes much sense.
So it's an open question. We may have to take another ride or two somewhere before it tells us its name. We're listening.
Re: Congratulations!obreerboApril 22 2008, 02:24:10 UTC
I'd be tempted to call it Greased Pig, after the shuttlecraft in TCB. (Incidentally, I started playing EVE Online not long ago, and I used Greased Pig as the name for my first "newbie ship"...though I've long since set that one aside in favor of more powerful ships.)
Congrats on your new abominable family member... er, sort of. ;) How's the gas mileage?
What types of programs are people using on Vista that makes them need to be rescued? I'm not a huge fan of Vista, and definitely recognize that there are better OSes that aren't quite so... quirky, but I haven't had any trouble doing what I need to do on my computer with it.
I'm not sure what sort of mileage the Bigfoot gets, but I'm guessing 10-ish MPG, which is what units of that general type manage. I won't know until I get a little further down on our first tank of gas and fill it up again!
As for Vista, it's any number of things. Nontechnical people see all the permission requests and think they're getting hacked and panic, or they try to install an older app or printer or external hard drive or something and run into a wall, or discover that IE's menu bar has somehow been hidden and can't find it. The Wi-Fi support is worse than XP's (which is at best incompetent) and even drove me nuts for awhile, and I've written a whole book on Wi-Fi.
I have yet to see anything in Vista that isn't needlessly different from XP. There are no advantages as best I can tell, and the system is lumberingly ponderous on anything but a blazing box with loads of memory and multiple cores.
If Apple ever comes up with a reasonably competent tablet, my next portable will be a Mac.
Okay, so it's really just the general incompetence of Vista overall. All of the changes I actually like are cosmetic (and therefore not actually *useful*, just pretty), and I hear that the Mac OSes have been capable of the pretty/flashy stuff for years. It could be that while digital is still my second language (we talk about "digital natives" at the library, and I'm just old enough to not be one of them), I'm close enough to that to not be bothered by the stupid stuff--because I really didn't have a choice when I bought it (and switching OSes seems like such a huge pain, as long as it's working "well enough"--which shows I'm also not a very good computer user! *g*).
Life after XP / Vista crash.
anonymous
April 22 2008, 13:13:38 UTC
Livin' in XP / Vista territory is a risky business. These ones make life easier after the inevitable OS crash. I had several GiB of digital fotos on XP PC, but luckily had a Knoppix available and could download them to an external HD.
Wrote to Seagate's customer support and asked about Knoppix. They did not have a clue about Knoppix, although their (Maxtor's) SafetyDril SW is based on it!
Re: Life after XP / Vista crash.jeff_duntemannApril 22 2008, 14:52:52 UTC
I keep a Knoppix rescue CD on the shelf for precisely that reason, though mercifully I haven't had to use it. All our digital camera photos are mirrored to an external hard drive (along with my various works in progress and many other things) so even if this system croaked hard, I doubt I'd lose much.
My family was thinking about picking one up after hearing about the deals, but we just let it go by. Oh well... You snooze, you loose. Nice looking ride!
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So, does it have a name yet?
Perhaps Galileo 7
-Jim
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So it's an open question. We may have to take another ride or two somewhere before it tells us its name. We're listening.
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What types of programs are people using on Vista that makes them need to be rescued? I'm not a huge fan of Vista, and definitely recognize that there are better OSes that aren't quite so... quirky, but I haven't had any trouble doing what I need to do on my computer with it.
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As for Vista, it's any number of things. Nontechnical people see all the permission requests and think they're getting hacked and panic, or they try to install an older app or printer or external hard drive or something and run into a wall, or discover that IE's menu bar has somehow been hidden and can't find it. The Wi-Fi support is worse than XP's (which is at best incompetent) and even drove me nuts for awhile, and I've written a whole book on Wi-Fi.
I have yet to see anything in Vista that isn't needlessly different from XP. There are no advantages as best I can tell, and the system is lumberingly ponderous on anything but a blazing box with loads of memory and multiple cores.
If Apple ever comes up with a reasonably competent tablet, my next portable will be a Mac.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoppix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystemRescueCd
Wrote to Seagate's customer support and asked about Knoppix. They did not have a clue about Knoppix, although their (Maxtor's) SafetyDril SW is based on it!
--Aki Peltonen
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