Good morning all. I hope everyone had a good weekend. The family is back after a good MSU homecoming trip. I wish I would have went but the sinus cold really was a bad one. The two days of class last week were very long but I am now much more prepared to take the SAFE test this week. So far no jury duty since the first trial.
Nothing big this week so far. Hope everyone has a good week.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Missing the Family
Beth and the boys are in Murray today for homecoming. I stayed home fighting a sinus cold and headache. Talking to Beth this morning and they are fine. The other day E got in trouble the other day at school. He and a friend were talking in class. He also taught the friend a little saying learned from his cousin Lexi. Talk to the hand Talk to the Butt Talk to the man from Pizza Hut. He told Beth and I while driving and we almost lost it. Being the good dad, I had to call and share this wonderful news with Granny and June. It just reminded me of all times June got me in trouble. I have decided that this is just a great line that needs to be shared with everyone. Have a great weekend all.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Thursday Night
More rain so no ball games tonight. Fall baseball has been a very wet ordeal. We have lost over 3 games form both E and Gman's seasons. I am glad they got to play though. E is really coming out of his moma's boyism and Gman has really stepped forward with his fielding. Gman needs to work on his batting. I am really considering batting cage trips this winter. The swing is ok but he needs to work on his feet and hips. The inside out nature of lefties really comes out in him. E needs the hitting stick. I did not buy one last month because it was not on sell like the baseballs and knee savors were. I will get one at some point though.
Still very tired from the week in class and the driving. Beth and the boys are going to homecoming in Murray tomorrow. If I am still this tired and fighting the headache still I think I will stay home. If I do I may finally get the new computer case and try to build the home server out of the parts I have been hoarding. And get the mattress from the old bed over to the Good Will.
We have had to put almost $2000 in the van this year. New brakes, flushed the coolant system, 100k mile tune up and then an intake valve ans sensor went out causing it to stall. I hope this will be it for a while on it. The truck is closing in on 150k also. I really would like to go a couple of years without an auto payment. It is very funny but Beth and I both think vehicles should be driven forever just like the ones our parents had.
Still very tired from the week in class and the driving. Beth and the boys are going to homecoming in Murray tomorrow. If I am still this tired and fighting the headache still I think I will stay home. If I do I may finally get the new computer case and try to build the home server out of the parts I have been hoarding. And get the mattress from the old bed over to the Good Will.
We have had to put almost $2000 in the van this year. New brakes, flushed the coolant system, 100k mile tune up and then an intake valve ans sensor went out causing it to stall. I hope this will be it for a while on it. The truck is closing in on 150k also. I really would like to go a couple of years without an auto payment. It is very funny but Beth and I both think vehicles should be driven forever just like the ones our parents had.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Monday Thoughts
I am at the SAFE class for 2 days. I am enjoying the class today. It is a lot of information but I feel that it will help me in the future. Any certification will be mobile and will be a good thing. I do wonder why all of these classes last for so long each day. Ten hours today and ten tomorrow. The CE class was 11 hours. After so long you just tune out and lose anything you may have gained by being there. At some point the training companies need to have some sort of educational background to figure out when to stop for the day.
I am missing Beth and the boys. Beth said Gman's game went good tonight. E's is Saturday. Thanks to Charlie and Jeff last night was great to get out of the hotel. Good luck with the surgery Charlie.
Short night tonight.
PS
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
A week with Ubuntu
Ok geek blog time.
I got an urge, thanks Jeff, to try out a different Operating system on my computer at the end of last month. I chose to us a Linux Os called ubuntu. It seemed like it should be easy to install, work with, and would not take up much space. Everything I read about it also said it will install in a partition on my hard drive shared by XP. I wanted this option so I would not have to do a full reload of XP after I was done messing around with ubuntu. I made plans for an easy experiment with something new. My first mistake was thinking anything I would try would be easy.
I download and burned the install live cd in about 30 mins. From there it went down hill fast. I assumed that any cd burning program would work to get the live cd correct. This is wrong. Imgburn and Infrarecorder
both burn cd images for live cds and bootable images. Imgburn does not play well with ubuntu. I usually use Imgburn. So the live cd did not work the way it should. For about 3 hours I loaded, removed, reloaded and fought with the cd trying to get it to work. I was going to give up but decided to try burn a new cd and used the burner on ubuntu's web page, infrarecorder. Low and behold the cd worked like it was supposed to. But I still had issues.
The cd gave you the option to run ubuntu like a program or load it onto your computer. I got the program option to work on the new cd. I went into unbuntu and looked around. I found a very easy interface that is very close to windows but did remind me of the old Mac Os I had to use with Holiday Inn's old training programs. I spent about 30 mins working on the desk top and going to the web. It seem to be very stable and easy to use. It was late and so I headed to bed thinking I would add it to the hard drive and try to be able to boot into both Os on the same computer the next day. Again thinking gets me into trouble everytime.
The next day starts out ok. I run the install form the live cd and answer all the questions. Ubuntu said it was done installing, had made a partition on my hard drive and need to reboot without the cd in the cd drive. I followed the easy instructions and restarted my computer. Did I say that nothing in this process was easy? On reboot I get a black log in page asking to boot into Xp or ubuntu. I choose ubuntu and then I get ......
Nothing.
A blank screen flashing cursor and no response from my key board or mouse. No Xp no ubuntu, no way to do anything. I reboot and try again. I know trying the same thing over and over again expecting different results is the definition of insanity. I now had a computer that would not boot at all. I restarted it and selected Xp on the boot menu screen. I also went and got Beth's laptop to get back on the internet looking for help.
I found a great web sight about all things Linux, Linuxquestion.org. It has a place for new users and ubuntu. I joined started a thread and got answers and suggestions very quickly. I also sent messages to Jeff and Roger on Facebook looking for answers. Thanks to everyone for the help. I figured out with these suggestions that ubuntu had decided to install itself on my external hard drive not the internal drive I wanted it to use. It was decided by those who know more than I that ubuntu did this because the external had a lot more space. Since the external is a USB drive ubuntu never gets a chance to boot because the computer never sees the drive until after its running. I disconnect the external and reload ubuntu onto the internal.
All of this takes a couple of hours of messaging, texting and emailing. I have now made a few new online friends and are feeling a little since of accomplishment.
Again any little step of progress leads to more problems. I get into ubuntu and start looking around like I had done the night before in the application version. My web browser of choice is Firefox. Ubuntu has a built in version and it work really well in the application version. It needed my add-on loaded but no big deal. In the booted version of ubuntu, Firefox would not run. The system gave me an error of not having enough space to complete the action. So back to the web on the laptop and looking for more answers. I now have a dual booting computer that will only surf the web in Xp.
Come to find out that ubuntu needs very little hard drive space to load, 2.3 gigs, but it needs more to actually run any program. Back to Xp and delete the partitions on the hard drive. Ubuntu is removed and the external hard drive disconnected. Re load ubuntu giving it 50 gigs to play in and back we go. Everything goes much easier this time and I am back to a dual booting computer and I can now surf the internet in both Os. I blame most if not all of these issues on myself. I did not do enough research and really was not paying attention to everything I was doing. I now come to the reasons I do not thing I will keep using ubuntu.
The main reasons I wanted to use ubuntu, or any linux Os, were its cost and use of hard drive space. I have been using it for a week now and I can say the cost is still a plus. The Os itself does not use a lot of space but the mounting of hard drives and the swapping feature use a lot of memory. It runs out a virtual memory very fast and I am still not sure why. The programs I run everyday, Firefox, Thunderbird, Blackberry and Aim etc. all run a little bit differently and seemingly slower because of this. Add ons for Firefox have crashed Firefox. Aim just plain does not run. Converting Thunderbird to ubuntu's client was harder than bringing in Outlook to Thunderbird. Blackberry does not support any Linux. I did not even try to play any of my games in ubuntu.
I have decided that with all of the flaws and issues with Windows I know why it is still the most used Os. It works. Pure and simple it works. It is expensive. It takes up a ton of space. Lots of people try to hack it and make viruses to crash it. But it works.
Now when does Windows 7 come out?
I got an urge, thanks Jeff, to try out a different Operating system on my computer at the end of last month. I chose to us a Linux Os called ubuntu. It seemed like it should be easy to install, work with, and would not take up much space. Everything I read about it also said it will install in a partition on my hard drive shared by XP. I wanted this option so I would not have to do a full reload of XP after I was done messing around with ubuntu. I made plans for an easy experiment with something new. My first mistake was thinking anything I would try would be easy.
I download and burned the install live cd in about 30 mins. From there it went down hill fast. I assumed that any cd burning program would work to get the live cd correct. This is wrong. Imgburn and Infrarecorder
both burn cd images for live cds and bootable images. Imgburn does not play well with ubuntu. I usually use Imgburn. So the live cd did not work the way it should. For about 3 hours I loaded, removed, reloaded and fought with the cd trying to get it to work. I was going to give up but decided to try burn a new cd and used the burner on ubuntu's web page, infrarecorder. Low and behold the cd worked like it was supposed to. But I still had issues.
The cd gave you the option to run ubuntu like a program or load it onto your computer. I got the program option to work on the new cd. I went into unbuntu and looked around. I found a very easy interface that is very close to windows but did remind me of the old Mac Os I had to use with Holiday Inn's old training programs. I spent about 30 mins working on the desk top and going to the web. It seem to be very stable and easy to use. It was late and so I headed to bed thinking I would add it to the hard drive and try to be able to boot into both Os on the same computer the next day. Again thinking gets me into trouble everytime.
The next day starts out ok. I run the install form the live cd and answer all the questions. Ubuntu said it was done installing, had made a partition on my hard drive and need to reboot without the cd in the cd drive. I followed the easy instructions and restarted my computer. Did I say that nothing in this process was easy? On reboot I get a black log in page asking to boot into Xp or ubuntu. I choose ubuntu and then I get ......
Nothing.
A blank screen flashing cursor and no response from my key board or mouse. No Xp no ubuntu, no way to do anything. I reboot and try again. I know trying the same thing over and over again expecting different results is the definition of insanity. I now had a computer that would not boot at all. I restarted it and selected Xp on the boot menu screen. I also went and got Beth's laptop to get back on the internet looking for help.
I found a great web sight about all things Linux, Linuxquestion.org. It has a place for new users and ubuntu. I joined started a thread and got answers and suggestions very quickly. I also sent messages to Jeff and Roger on Facebook looking for answers. Thanks to everyone for the help. I figured out with these suggestions that ubuntu had decided to install itself on my external hard drive not the internal drive I wanted it to use. It was decided by those who know more than I that ubuntu did this because the external had a lot more space. Since the external is a USB drive ubuntu never gets a chance to boot because the computer never sees the drive until after its running. I disconnect the external and reload ubuntu onto the internal.
All of this takes a couple of hours of messaging, texting and emailing. I have now made a few new online friends and are feeling a little since of accomplishment.
Again any little step of progress leads to more problems. I get into ubuntu and start looking around like I had done the night before in the application version. My web browser of choice is Firefox. Ubuntu has a built in version and it work really well in the application version. It needed my add-on loaded but no big deal. In the booted version of ubuntu, Firefox would not run. The system gave me an error of not having enough space to complete the action. So back to the web on the laptop and looking for more answers. I now have a dual booting computer that will only surf the web in Xp.
Come to find out that ubuntu needs very little hard drive space to load, 2.3 gigs, but it needs more to actually run any program. Back to Xp and delete the partitions on the hard drive. Ubuntu is removed and the external hard drive disconnected. Re load ubuntu giving it 50 gigs to play in and back we go. Everything goes much easier this time and I am back to a dual booting computer and I can now surf the internet in both Os. I blame most if not all of these issues on myself. I did not do enough research and really was not paying attention to everything I was doing. I now come to the reasons I do not thing I will keep using ubuntu.
The main reasons I wanted to use ubuntu, or any linux Os, were its cost and use of hard drive space. I have been using it for a week now and I can say the cost is still a plus. The Os itself does not use a lot of space but the mounting of hard drives and the swapping feature use a lot of memory. It runs out a virtual memory very fast and I am still not sure why. The programs I run everyday, Firefox, Thunderbird, Blackberry and Aim etc. all run a little bit differently and seemingly slower because of this. Add ons for Firefox have crashed Firefox. Aim just plain does not run. Converting Thunderbird to ubuntu's client was harder than bringing in Outlook to Thunderbird. Blackberry does not support any Linux. I did not even try to play any of my games in ubuntu.
I have decided that with all of the flaws and issues with Windows I know why it is still the most used Os. It works. Pure and simple it works. It is expensive. It takes up a ton of space. Lots of people try to hack it and make viruses to crash it. But it works.
Now when does Windows 7 come out?
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Good Night all.
Its getting late and its time for bed. The boys are asleep and I came in 2nd in tonight's poker tourny at Top Notch. Beth is feeling better and that is a great thing.
I am going to write up my attempts at running ubuntu and Xp on my computer but have not got a handle on how I want organize the post. Thanks to Jeff and Roger and the people at Linuxquestions.org for helping me to get it loaded.
So have a great night everyone
PS The Band - The Weight just came up on my LastFm. What a great song to end the day with
I am going to write up my attempts at running ubuntu and Xp on my computer but have not got a handle on how I want organize the post. Thanks to Jeff and Roger and the people at Linuxquestions.org for helping me to get it loaded.
So have a great night everyone
PS The Band - The Weight just came up on my LastFm. What a great song to end the day with
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday thoughts on Tuesday morning
First day of jury day went ok. Long day with a great deal of sitting and waiting. We started with 45 in the jury pool for a 2 day criminal trail. The Commonwealth attorney and the defense attorney asked us a few questions to determind who they would not want in the pool. This cut us down to 31. It took about 2 hours. I
We then had our 31 numbers, no names just numbers. 13 names were drawn for the jury and the alternate.
The case went fairly fast. Very little questions asked to the witnesses. A lot of lawyers going to the bench to talk to the judge. They have a white noise machine the judge would turn on each time. It was used so we the jury could not hear what they were saying.
At the end of testimony came my let down. Our numbers were put back in the box. My number was pulled out for the 2nd time of the day. I was the alternete. So I had sat through the whole trail listening not forming an opinion waiting for the end. I would not get to make a decision. I was dismissed and left thew court room. I felt so let down.
Today is another day and I head back in at 845.
Everyone have a good day
We then had our 31 numbers, no names just numbers. 13 names were drawn for the jury and the alternate.
The case went fairly fast. Very little questions asked to the witnesses. A lot of lawyers going to the bench to talk to the judge. They have a white noise machine the judge would turn on each time. It was used so we the jury could not hear what they were saying.
At the end of testimony came my let down. Our numbers were put back in the box. My number was pulled out for the 2nd time of the day. I was the alternete. So I had sat through the whole trail listening not forming an opinion waiting for the end. I would not get to make a decision. I was dismissed and left thew court room. I felt so let down.
Today is another day and I head back in at 845.
Everyone have a good day
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