Memnison Journal

Mere’s top wish for Christmas is a Mere-sized laptop, Ubuntu Linux only, please.   We know that her own laptop is something that she’s wanted for a while; the PC she ‘owns’ is my old one, and it’s a little slow in spots.  I’m not sure if we could gas it up with some RAM and [...]

My Ubuntu side of my main computer has not been working right since I upgraded to 8.10; there’s some sort of problem with the nvidia drivers, and it wants to drop everything down to 640 by 480.  I feel like I’m running a Fisher-Price PC.  Need some time to work that out.
By the way, I’m [...]

Let’s just say that the best of us get caught sometimes, and leave it at that.  Virus nailed my computer Thursday  in the late morning, and I spent an enormous amount of time nailing the SOB.  (One advantage of dual boot is that you can go over to the Ubuntu side and nail files that [...]

Does anyone here have any recommendations on software that writes out documents by voice commands?  No Mac-only software, please.  I can handle Ubuntu Linux or WinXP.

Frustration rant inside.  You are warned.  No politics, some job, some computer, some medical.
Also, happy birthday to LJ:quietdarkness!

If you’re in Second Life on a Linux system, never switch to another window, because you will never ever be able to get back in.  Sucker will jam every time.

Very interesting new browser, just released from Google.  I use a lot of Google stuff, and I was impressed with the speed and reliability of the thing.  It doesn’t have a Linux version yet, unfortunately.
I generally hate and despise Internet Explorer as clunky; I have found again and again that ‘The Microsoft Way’ is clunky [...]

Recently, Susan and I have been up to her Aunt’s house in Elgin or out to talk to her about her computer problems.  Auntie (Susan’s mom’s sister) operates a doctors’ organization that has a couple of big yearly meetings (for training updates, and other conference stuff) and some smaller ones, and it’s sometimes amusing to [...]

How often do you change the backgrounds on your computers, and what sort of stuff do you usally have there?
As for me:
WORK:  picture of Meredith roller skating from last May
LAPTOP: Picture of the twins from last year, looking very much like themselves…
HOME UBUNTU:  Comet McNaught over a sunset, with lots of dark, layered clouds.  (I [...]

First, the comic strip, and then, the Live Journal post.  You have to understand Sudo for the joke to work…and as an Ubuntu user, I sure do…
If I tried this at home, Susan (who knows no real unix-command-language) would give me a ‘Jim’s being strange and ignore him’ look and go on.

Meredith came in to the office and looked at the screen, and sternly said:  “You’re not using Linux, are you?”
Uh.  Er.  Um.
Same sort of voice you would expect to hear out of someone who was chastising you for using a gas-guzzler car and incandescent lightbulbs.
I told her that there were some things I was utterly [...]

You got a lot of stuff out of me last night because I was burning off DL DVD after DL DVD of Susan Backups - the system is stable enough to retrieve the data, it’s just not stable enough for standard work around here.
For the Ubuntu folks around here: I’m amazed at how interested the [...]