Author: Elaine

Linux

I am exhausted from a day spent exploring Linux. For some time, I have been intrigued by the idea of using Linux as my primary operating system. However, I didn’t want to give up Windows 98 on my machine in case I decided to go back. A few days ago, I bought a sixty gig drive, and yesterday Jack installed it for me. I’ve installed Linux Redhat 9 on the new drive, as a dual boot system with Windows 98. Everything went fairly smoothly until we attempted to use DHCP when connecting the LAN. Nothing we tried worked, and Jack finally set up static ip addresses in the router so we could use them instead.

However, everything seems to be working now for my machine, for both Windows and Linux. First thing tomorrow, I will install Mozilla 1.4 since the distro we used provided Mozilla 1.2. Then, I will probably attempt to get Windows file sharing working using Samba.

My goal is to see if I can do everything I normally do on Windows in Linux, with the exception of updating the household accounts in Quicken.

Learn2Stamp

Learn2Stamp is a website that has a series of tutorials on a variety of rubber stamping topics. For example, under backgrounds, there is a useful article on how to make “Faux Handmade Paper”:http://www.learn2stamp.com/paper/paper01.shtml. I saw this technique demonstrated at my stamping club a while ago.

J-Walk Good News

Yesterday, the writer of J-Walk Blog announced he was discontinuing his excellent weblog. Today, he stated that the emails and posts about his decision made him reconsider. I am so glad that I took the time to send him email yesterday about how much I had enjoyed his weblog over the past few months since I found it. Now, if he would just add a comments feature.

Carved bull

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I was charmed by this carved bull at the “Royal Ontario Museum”:http://www.rom.on.ca/explore/current.php.

Carving Gallery

This Native American Swap of carved art was taken from the Native American swap of the Carving Consortium. Also check out the other items in the menu at the top of the page. I have some other soft block carving related information at my “Carving Topics”:http://www.stardel.com/homecarv.htm page.

Citrus Moon

Citrus Moon has free tiles, backgrounds and other graphics. Unlike most of these collections, this site permits “commerical use of these patterns”:http://www.citrusmoon.net/about.html without payment and allows use of patterns if they have been colored or resized. The site also contains “tips”:http://www.citrusmoon.net/tips.html about how to make your own tiles.