Don’t know whether to credit the Ribose with my productivity or not but I do seem to be coming out of my do nothing but sleep or sit and read slump. So far it’s one day with 2 doses and 2 days with 3 doses. Seem to have less muscle pain and lots more mental clarity. If it weren’t for the pollen induced sinus headache I think I’d feel pretty good, and even with it I feel better than I have in months so guess it’s doing something positive.
Have started going through the enormous backlog of unread feeds and posting about a few of the more interesting (to me) ones. Downloaded 2 distros and burned them to cd. Fixed the power supply board for a pinball machine and read a bit. Not in that order. 😉 Still got over 3000 posts to scan to clear it all out but am gaining on them. I think there were over 5000 when I started. Haven’t read them all, just skimmed the more interesting stuff and deleted a lot including several feeds that didn’t live up to my expectations.
Looks like I’ll be out and about tomorrow. Got to take the power supply board and reinstall it in the pinball machine and see what else is gonna need fixed on it. Also got a cleanup and repair to do on a commercial radial arm saw that I will look at and see what the deal is on. So should be a varied day at the very least. Tis about time to call it a night. Till tomorrow… 😎
Main Page – Business Edition Linux
Gonna have to set up a machine with this on it just to play around with. Looks like what I have been looking for in a home server.
TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL: SliTaz GNU/Linux, the Smallest “Desktop†Distro Ever Created
Don’t think it’s the smallest desktop distro ever created but it does sound interesting enough to download and try out. I know where I can get an old IBM Thinkpad that this would be about right for. Will have to pick one up and see how it runs on there.
15 years in the making, Wine 1.0 is in sight
Talk about a LONG development/testing cycle to get to 1.0… 😯 😉
Why Wal-Mart won’t have Linux desktops on its store shelves
Here’s what I found out. Customers did want to buy the computer, but they, and all too often the workers, were thoroughly confused because the PCs came with Linux and not Windows. The word “clueless” comes quickly to mind.
But let’s be realistic here. How much technical expertise do you think an average Wal-Mart customer, or any ordinary U.S. citizen, really has anyway? The one technically adept customer service representative I met told me, “These are the same people who really can’t tell the difference between the computer and its software. At best, they know they need Windows to run Quicken, Office and games. That’s it.”
Kinda what I figured had happened. But the Linux boxes are still available from WalMart online which is certainly better than them dropping the line completely.
Computerworld > Ohm sweet Ohm: Linux versus Vista smart homes
Some folks carry things to an extreme. Such as the first guy in this article. IMHO But to each their own… 🙄
PCLOS TinyMe – Nothing Tiny With This Little Fella
Gonna download TinyMe and give it a try. I have liked PCLOS since I first tried it and run it now on my Linux box but have several older machines that I would like to be able to use from time to time which don’t have enough memory or hard drive space for the full distro.
The best Linux system repair disk graduates to 1.0
Looks like I may have a pile of machines to reinstall/repair so am downloading this now.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Amish Paradise | PBS
Quite a thought provoking read. Especially the last few paragraphs… 😉
The Sietch Blog » You Are Not A Consumer, You Do More Than Consume
Interesting video which kinda, sorta but really doesn’t go along with the post.
I’m getting around to a serious (several thousand) backlog of posts in my feedreader, so a lot of the stuff I am (gonna be) posting/linking to is older stuff.
Building Stonehenge by hand, with gravity and sticks – Boing Boing
I’ve seen something about this guy before (and I think posted about him but don’t remember and am too lazy to look it up) but looks like he has gone further. Interesting stuff!
Steam powered Generator
Quite a nice little (?) setup. Tis something I have always wanted to do but never gotten around to.
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