Sunrise

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Sunrise, this morning. Only Linux utilities were used in getting this image from my camera and ready for my website: gphoto (a bit funky, probably became of my camera dock, but it works), gThumb, and Gimp.

Lily – Another Mystery Solved, Maybe

It was a gorgeous early fall day, so I asked my trainer if she had time to school me on Lily. After some flat work, which went well, we once more tackled the problem of trying to keep me from falling back as Lily jumped small jumps.

I’ve been here and done this on other horses, without a problem, so it has been a bit baffling why I have been so stuck on this. I’ve had a longish hiatus from real jumping, so I thought that might be part of the problem. For a while, we blamed it on me using a dressage saddle, even though I have successfully jumped in dressage saddles in the past. And I seem to have found a combination of pad and jumping saddle that make Lily happy at the present. It just has been one of those minor things that was starting to drive me crazy.
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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.