Comments (0) 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.
LinuxPlanet – Tutorials – Creating a Contacts Database in OpenOffice – Managing Contacts
The second part of the OpenOffice tutorial. Good stuff!
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.
LinuxPlanet – Tutorials – OpenOffice.org Mail Merge and Labels – My Mail to Your Mail
Quick tutorial on using OpenOffice. Good stuff!
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!
Quite a nice little (?) setup. Tis something I have always wanted to do but never gotten around to.
Guess I’ve hit it too hard the last few days. Ended up inside all day and on the couch most of it. The time I have been up I’ve been cleaning up books, repairing books, and looking through software for selling books, so the day has been somewhat productive anyway. Will try for more tomorrow. Till then…
ThinkGeek :: Super Pii Pii Brothers
“According to the Japanese text on the box “Super Pii Pii Brothers promotes good bathroom skills and allows women to experience for the first time the pleasure of urinating while standing.” What we say is that virtual peeing is damn fun!”
If it’s an April Fools thing they went to a LOT of trouble. Check out the video! 😯 😆 😆 😆
Called Apple A Day this am and they have the D-Ribose in stock so we headed that way. Got there and got it. Nice helpful folks. Then since I hate to waste a trip we went to Goodwill, browsed, and got a few books. From there went to American Thrift Store in Rainbow plaza shopping center. Again browsed around, found a few books and I found a dress jacket that fits like it was tailored for me for $2.00! Ate lunch in the parking lot and I took my first dose of the D-Ribose. Then went to Eagle Rock Thrift Store and got some more books. And home we came after a short stop for groceries. I had a reaction to something at Eagle Rock which wasn’t pleasent but otherwise the trip went okay. Dropped Cat and the books and stuff off at the house, got my tools, scope, and cap tester at the yard sale trailer and went and worked on a video game monitor that the parts had come in for. Got it fixed, adjusted and reassembled without too much trouble. Also got the parts in for a pinball machine that I’ll get on tomorrow. Came home and Cat had supper ready so ate and took the second dose. Supposed to take 3 5 gram doses a day. Seems to have an effect on muscle pain and soreness within 30 minutes or so but it could be wishful thinking. From what I have read should take 10 days or so to have a noticeable effect. Will see how it goes.
For now am gonna go through some of the books we got today and then hit the sack Till tomorrow…
Global Nerdy | Creative Labs’ Forums Filling With “Dear John†Messages
😀 😀 😀 That’s what they get for telling their customers to piss off and cough up more money to get what they paid for when they bought their products.
Not that we really went anywhere but we did spend most of the day going from one place to the other. Started out by heading to Flamingo and Bill’s Flea Markets where we got a few books and wandered around hither and yon till we had seen all we could see. Then headed toward Oxford with a quick stop at Peddlers Paradise (which ain’t) for a quick browse and back in the van and onwards and south east wards to the Antique Mall out 78 east. Walked and looked and left without buying anything. Then went and parked by Oxford Lake and ate lunch and watched the ducks trying to bite the hands of the kids that were feeding them. After all that we could stand it was north to Jacksonville and a slow stroll through the antique mall there, again leaving with funds intact. Then the grocery store for milk, eggs and bread and home.
When we got in I unpacked a box of sea salt we got at Apple A Day health foods in Gadsden yesterday and found a newsletter that the guy had put in the sack and looked it over. Turned out there was an article on a supplement I had not heard of that seems to help with FMS and CFS with no side effects, called D-Ribose. I looked it up online and found quite a few sources for it so figured it would be available where other vitamins and supplements were, as in most drug and grocery stores. So after eating supper we loaded up in the van again and headed to Walmart in Jacksonville. No luck. Then tried WinnDixie. Nada. Down to Anniston and Walgreens. Another strike out. Last try was another drug store in Saks whose name escapes me right no but they had never heard of it either. So back home for the night. Will call Apple A Day tomorrow morning and see if they have it. If so will head over to Gadsden and get some and try it. Everything I have read so far sounds promising and makes sense from an energy point of view.
Long day driving and walking so am gonna hit the sack. Till tomorrow…
Global Nerdy | Creative Labs: Where No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
A MicroShaft Vista downgrade that I had read about before as well as a real good reason to NOT buy any Creative Labs products. 👿
Headed first to Goodwill in Gadsden this am. Found 3 books that were in good condition there then through to Attalla and spent several hours browsing through the Antique shops. Bought several books and a few other odds and ends. Cat noted the nasty looking clouds and we called it a day and came home. Got here and after checking the weather went to my folks house to get tomato and pepper plants. Sat and talked a bit till thunder ran us home again just in front of the rain. Cleaned up some of our plunder and ate then took a lie down with a book for a bit. Decided to get this out of the way and am gonna call it an early one in a few. Till tomorrow…
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