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 http://town.half.ebay.com 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. :-)
Monthly Archives: August 2003
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!!!