Archive for August, 2003
Dot-commers
Times have changed soooo quickly… I remember writing tons of letters via snail mail… people didn’t know how to write an email, and when I would give out my email address, I wouldn’t say karl “underscore” herrick “at” yahoo “dot” com, I would say karl “underscore, not a dash, but shift-minus-sign” herrick “at, that would be shift-2 on most keyboards” and then “period-C-O-M”. But now-a-days everyone knows what a dot-com is, and where the @ sign is on the keyboard. I suppose we have progressed. Some cities, like Half.com have changed their legal names to capitalize on this Internet business… well, I guess you can’t type in just Half.com, or else your reach eBay stuff… though if you type in
you’ll reach it just fine. So where do we go from here… We drive to Iowa and Indiana to see people face to face, and go home and e-mail until we drive long distances again. 
Iowa and Knoppix
Denise just IM’ed a bit ago and said the Knoppix download is at 80%… I hope it’s done soon… We gave it a little extra time by not leaving this afternoon at 5pm. Well, we aren’t staying home another night for that reason alone… I guess driving all night long isn’t a big deal to me, but I didn’t want to possibly break down on the side of the road at 2am in the morning.
Our car isn’t doing that good… and we have to take all precautions.
Tommorow morning… hopefully early… we are off. We seek to avoid major Labor Day traffic around Chicago, and are grateful that we are leaving the land of dreadful gas prices… $1.89 for regular unleaded.
Lamaze and Linux
Oh boy… we are watching the lamaze videos. As opposed to taking the class. It was $50.00 even with financial assistance. So we opted for the videos from the library. Tax payers dollars at work. Mine and yours!
So apart from my wife, pregnancy, and all of the other things of life… it seems I have found a new cool thing. Booting Linux off of a CD. Doesn’t change the hard drive… shows people how cool it is… and can be used as a complete system, or even a rescue disk. Okay… I’m a geek, I’ve been carrying a mini-distro on an 8cm cd in my wallet since yesterday. It isn’t that cool, but it’s neat to show it off to unsuspecting Windows users… HA!
The one I have been using is called LNX-BBC (Bootable Business Card)… it’s small enough to fit on one of those business card CDs. I’m bummed out because the web-browser that’s in it is way cheap. It’s called BrowseX, and it doesn’t do any modern web standards. Plus there aren’t many cool X-Windows apps… Definitely almost rescue-disk-only territory. So I have basically tuned out the idea of tiny distributions, and am downloading as I write this, Knoppix… it’s made by a German dude, and is supposed to be awesome. We’ll just see about that.
Alright… gotta go… more videos to watch!!!