The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Slight misread by PP there. The link given is indeed to a perfectly free program, with no limitations. There's another program listed on that page which is also free, but is limited to 500MB, which strikes me as a bit silly. Ubuntu is a nice, big, fat, close to 700MB, last I looked. It has to be a fair size, as it includes things like OpenOffice and Firefox, straight off.

I see I've converted PP to being a Linux junkie, in two days. Once he's finished with his XP install (which sounds to be taking far longer than my virtual one), I hope he doesn't have it go belly-up on him, again. That would take the full 2 1/2 hours plus, again, whereas my virtual one takes a few minutes minutes to copy back from my snapshot 3,007,349,248 as at 2007-09-18 23:55, which includes all the goodies I want installed as well. Just a quick windiz update and bring AVG, etc up-to-date, and it'll be done. I'm even tempted, now I think about it, to regularly bring a stable, utterly clean copy up to date and re-save it. That way I'd have an instant fall-back. A pity Windows Skype doesn't seem quite to work in the virtual machine (very choppy sound), but that's no big - everything else seems to.

So... I want to try out Ubuntu Tribe (the "bleeding edge" beta release), but it says to just run it from CD (which doesn't handle my old graphics card), and warns against installing it to hard drive, unless you don't mind trashing the whole drive. So I've not seen it yet. But I will - by installing it on a virtual machine.

Also, seeing as I'm not really using my 1GB memory stick, I think I'll install Linux on that.

Humm, now you've gotten me wondering if I got the whole thing on CD. Yeah I did think about it, but when burning had forgotten the 500 mb limit, but got no warning. I may reburn my Cd's. I wonder if that's why we couldn't get the Delphi? to check mark. This machine is set to go, I was going to wait till I got the hard drive compressed, which probably I'll be able to do fully later today, takes a few hours count time, unless I check mark the box for the instant and defrag doesn't like that for the long term. Although I ran compression and defrag on the 32 bit last night and Linux seemed happy with it.

Junky? Me? I'll be hook line and sinker if I can ever figure out the damn repositories. It's cumbersome Lau, and it needs a fix. It is not newbie happy. And if there was ever a time for newbies to come into the fold, the time is now and it will even get better the closer XP comes to not being further supported. Apple was foolish not to take advantage, but no reason for Linux to be dumb too. Make em fix it Lau, I know you have the power.

That is perfectly true. I have been cured. Or was it tanned? Whatever it is they do to leather to preserve it. That is what women usually say when they compliment me on my looks: I am "well preserved". The word "sprightly" is used often when I demonstrate the road holding abilities and cornering performance of my Zimmer frame. I lowered the suspension on that. Did it myself. You can't trust the mechanics, these days. You know, this was all fields when I was young. Is that man in the next bed dead?

Is he dead? I dunno, but if you can't move it, paint it.

Where is everyone else? Have they been driven away by the tekky talk?

No just working all day to keep the breast bone away from the back bone.

Good Point.

Hi Hartz. You're probably right. I was thinking of starting a Dino-Aspie Ex-Café in the computer/tech forum. The thing is, the wave of geek speak washes over here, then recedes. I can actually speak for at least a minute without saying "computer" or "Linux".

PP. The CD was fine, because you checked it.

The repositories - they are just that. All Linux development is distributed across the globe. Generally is is gathered together in large "repositories" to make it easy to find. There's just more than one such repository, and not all contain everything.

E.g. the "Wine" people are a major project all on their own. ("Wine" = "Wine Is Not an Emulator" = the thing that you can run lots of Windows programs with). Anyway, they keep all their stuff in a separate repository from the big central ones.

Generally, you hardly have to know about them. We got involved with them because I was trying to get the "Automatix" stuff to work for you, which makes some things easier. What I now know is that their site was offline over last weekend, so it was all a waste of time, then.

Computer.

Linux.

That feels better.

Well, Lau, I am a new born geek, who has gotten obsessed with computers. So I am having a lot of fun.

By the way, has anyone heard from Merle? I haven't read any posts from her lately.

I expected her on tonight. She gets a phone call tomorrow. She is street smart and got a hold of us before, not using her office machine, so not sure what's up. It might be a paycheck thing, but I'll find out.

Double checked the burned CD's and both are at the size they should be, I dunno why, it clearly says 500mb for the ISO burner, but both are close to 700mb. Ok enough tech stuff...for now.

The software I downloaded (and virus checked, for fun) didn't say anything about a 500Mb limit. The software next to it, on the same page, did say that.

I tried to get a hold of Merle, no answer. Don't know whats going on, but I used a calling card and if she has caller ID, it would appear as some really far out number and I wouldn't answer it either.

I hope she's okay!

She just Skyped. She's doing her harddrive as I speak. She'll be back soon.

I only have a few minutes left on my Trac Phone account, so you had better try through Skype, Postie.

Merle