Author: Elaine

Bummer

I had noticed that Anita hadn’t been updating her Home Page as much as usual and had stopped checking it every day. Unfortunately, the cause was some serious health problems, which she wrote about in her weblog on Ocotber 15. I hope she makes a speedy recovery from her surgery and is soon back to posting regularly.

Paint

I am going to paint the kitchen. A friend, who loves to paint, will be coming over to help tomorrow. Knowing this is very useful, since it will inspire me to get the prep work done today, which is seventy per cent of the battle.

Linux Update

It has been about a month since I started using Linux (in the form of Red Hat 9) as my everyday operating system.

I had been a reasonably happy Windows user for years, ever since Windows 3.1. However, I have long been concerned with the direction that Microsoft is taking with both licensing and digital rights management in their software. As a result, I have been reluctant to upgrade from Windows 98, or purchase a machine with a modern Microsoft operating system installed. For several years now, I have been following the progress made by GNU/Linux on the desktop, wondering if it would ever provide the functionality I want in my primary computer.
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October Sunrise

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There are still leaves on the cottonwood tree. Unfortunately, this tree does not turn any gaudy colors in autumn: its leaves just sort of fade away.

An Indifferent Groom

It felt too cold and windy to ride when I went to the barn today. In all honesty, it isn’t that cold in an absolute sense, just when compared to the balmy weather we have been having for weeks.

The young woman who leases Hap is made of sterner stuff than I, and was riding him in the arena. I decided to fetch Lily from the mare field, and spend some quality time grooming her.
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Linux Learner’s Guide

The Linux Learner’s Guide has some excellent starter information, including how to compile your kernel. “Distrowatch”:http://www.distrowatch.com/ announces information about the various Linux distributions, and includes an article about good distributions for beginners. We weren’t too rigorous in our approach about which distribution to install: we just picked the one in the back of the Dummies book.