Old Weird Ward
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Tuesday, April 15, 2003
- - - - - Things Computerish - - - - -
I like to wheeze and moan to myself about how hard life is when I can't
even get Linux to work on one of our computers around here, but I'm not
nearly as bad off as Chris Ward-Johnson, famed far and wide as Dr.
Keyboard. He lives in France, and according to
HREF="http://www.chateaukeyboard.com/2003/apr/wednesday_april_9_no_joy.
htm">his sad tale, getting high speed internet access in France is
definitely non-trivial.
Linux does work on my box, now that RedHat 9 is available. The
installed fonts are fuzzy, so I'm going to get TrueType fonts in there
to ease my eyeballs. I've got a few other things to get tuned up, but
my evaluation so far is pretty positive. I've been saying for some
time that Linux isn't quite ready for prime time, but I think that
RedHat has now hit the nail on the head, at least for mainstream office
use. Consider these items:
1. Ease of installation - quite good.
2. Availability of business software - Star Office/OpenOffice are Good
Enough
3. Email/Calendar/PIM like Outlook - Evolution
Those 3 items cover 95% of office situations.
This brings an interesting situation for me: Shall I continue along the
Microsoft Way, or jump ship and plunge into the Linux/Unix world? I
think I'll try to do both. At the very least, it'll be an interesting
journey.
- - - - - "Normal" Stuff - - - - -
Yesterday, made the Post Office run to mail off the taxes (we get some
back this year, Hurray!).
Planning is underway for a visit to the Great Soggy North in Olympia
for my Dad's 80th birthday party. Should be fun and relaxing. Details
are being ironed out, driving plans made, and dog-sitting arranged.
And why is it the Great Soggy North? Near Olympia, WA is a resort
lodge with an out-of-doors rain gauge that's 12 feet tall. The high
water mark on that thing is 10 feet. That's 120 inches of rain in one
year. I'd call that soggy, wouldn't you?
- - - - - Syria and Iraq - - - - -
"(Reuters) - Syria's ambassador to Spain, Mohsen Bilal, on Tuesday
called U.S. accusations that Syria harbored terrorists an insult and
criticized what he called U.S. blackmail."
Hey, Ambassador, ever hear of Hezbollah? How's about the Bekaa Valley?
And that's not "blackmail", it's "extortion". And you
guys had better be very, very careful.
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