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Skriven 2006-12-24 16:59:00 av Carol Shenkenberger
     Kommentar till en text av Stephen Haffly
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*** Quoting Stephen Haffly from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***


SH> We never did make it any further west/east than Hawaii.  We did get a
SH> good taste of oriental food there, and that is one of the things we mi
SH> the most besides the mild weather.

Well, you did have a year in Korea right?  Without Ruth?  Isolated duty or 
something.  I could have the amount of time wrong and dont recall the actual 
location.

SH> Anyway, we are slowly getting settled in.  Both my primary system and
SH> laptop are currently running Fedora Core 6 quite well although for Fid
SH> I still am dual-booting the laptop so I can continue to use Profession
SH> Point.

Boxes and boxes <g>.  On fedora, I havent ever seen it.  If you are familiar 
with others, is there one a bit like it that I might know?  My 'at home' 
versions have been Debian (early version), Red Hat (several versions), and SuSe

though I have had others at times just to play with.  Workwise, name it and 
i've probably seen it including the hardened B2 level ones used at the main 
gateways at the joint duty main-coms (PACOM, EUCOM, ACOM, etc).  SIPR<->NIPR.

SH> I did have to replace a printer.  It officially became a dinosaur when
SH> could no longer get the ink cartridges it needed (Canon BJC-610)

I know the feeling.  I replaced on finally that was a charm, but the dot matrix

paper (needed sheets with the perforations) was hard to find and the ribbon was

about impossible.

SH> Office Depot had this one with a $50 rebate, which will reduce the pri
SH> before tax from $149 to $99.  The timing and circumstances were right
SH> Ruth let me purchase it.

Sweet <G>.  Now remember that when she hits you up for her foot pedal!  (evil 
grin).

SH> I expect that this will cut the per page cost of printing down nicely.
SH> I like the Brother MFC-420CN multifunction unit we have, but ink isn't
SH> cheap, even if it does use the separate ink tanks for each color and
SH> black.  I can now limit the use of the one to when I need/want color,
SH> and use the laser printer for the bulk jobs when I only need black. :)

I cut the price down really easy here.  I got a USB one and my XP wont talk to 
it.  SuSe though loves it and is happy to print.  Now when Charlotte plays, she

has to boot to SuSe to print.  Evil maybe but it works.


SH> I hope you are getting your computer problems addressed.  I like havin
SH> multiple computers so I have some redundancy.  So far, I have not had
SH> this Windows XP(home) installation die on me like yours died on you.

Oh I actually havent gotten around to it!  I have the install stuff, just been 
busy wth Xmas stuff.  I'll add it was the laptop only that has the problem and 
on checking, Vaos have issues with the FN key which is very unfortunate as they

tie many things to it.

I should be able to recover around it but if not, I strip it and put XP back on

or SuSe.  I'm thinking hard on just a straight SuSe but want to get the most 
current version if so.  I cant YAST the 9.1 anymore as it's a bit too old and i

like simple YAST update.  10.2 is out and I'm thinking about getting a copy.

SH> fix things along the way.  One of the best things I did was to set up
SH> separate administrator and user accounts.   I only use the administrat
SH> account for maintenance, not for daily work.  I figure that I can't go
SH> up as much when I am logged in as a user, and that practice seems to
SH> save me a lot of grief, although it does have its annoyances.  It is o
SH> of the many practices I have learned over the years.  I tell Ruth (and
SH> others) that I do my computing in "paranoid mode".  A little paranoia
SH> can be a good thing.  there are a lot of bad people out there who real
SH> are out to get you.

Heheh true!  My BBS even runs that way.  Have to use the local keyboard to get 
at my account and then use the local keyboard to change it to 'sysop level'.

                                       xxcarol

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