 I am an East Coast expatriate hiding out in the Midwest... I am an urban gal living in the suburbs and occasionally hiding in the country I am a yoga practitioner, fitness enthusiast, believer in the mind-body-spirit connection... I am a mid-life "revert" to the Roman Catholic faith in which I was raised and which has become an enormous source of support, encouragement, inspiration, and joy in my life... I am a mom, sister, daughter, and wife... I am an explorer; adventurous and curious about the world and people around me... I am educated in the formal sense but I gain insight through everyday living... I created this blog at a time of great fear and apprehension in my life. I chose to sustain it because of the discoveries about myself and the world around me that it has revealed. What you can expect to find here: the documentation of a love-hate relationship with the greater Philadelphia area
reminiscing about the good-ole-days (the 80's!)
complaints about my various ailments and injuries, both real and imagined
pictures and stories of gardening, decorating, shopping, sewing
my love of irony
links to kooky news stories
way too much scatological musing for sane people
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Monday, January 10, 2005
Well yesterday I got my new-ish (well, new to me, that is) laptop; my old one was first ghosted then reformatted and fixed up so that my little one would have her own machine for all the various kindergarden-level PC games she got for Christmas. My clever and cautious husband also set up a proxy server on one of our machines here, and that functions as a super-mega-Internet filter for her machine so that she is limited to venture only to specific sites (NickJr.com, PBSKids.com, etc.) that he's setup for her.
My "new" laptop is his old Linux box; that is, its a very good laptop that he acquired cheaply so that he could install and teach himself all about Linux. Since he already had his fun with that OS, he offered the machine to me, so he had to reformat it, load on a Windows OS, put all the junk he ghosted on to it, and install the various programs I need.
Whew!
But he got it all done and yesterday I had to clean out the "ghosted" stuff that I really didn't need to retain, and move/reorganinze the files I did want to keep. Overall it seem sto be working nicely; especially since this machine has about double the HD space and processor speed of my old machine. Hooray!
So, I am posting today but I anticipate sporadic blog postings and visiting as I am trying to organize all of our paperwork for taxes (we do them as early as possible because we get a refund.) I also have some other paperwork-orineted chores to attend to, as well (bills, medical reimbursements, etc.)
Fun stuff, eh? At least now I have a functioning R key, so no excuse left for my typos!
Posted at 08:54 am by brandy101
 | Posted by brandy101 @ 01/11/2005 09:56 AM PST | | | Yeah, I used UNIX in grad school in all of my Civil Engineering classes, running iterations of algorithms on our SUN minicomputers. But now, c'mon what goofball is gonna use UNIX for bloggging...? hehehe. | |
| Posted by chrysalis @ 01/11/2005 08:01 AM PST | | | Yeah, Lyly, UNIX rocks from a command line aspect. Forget the GUI, give me a tty with root access any day! (I, too, was a UNIX sysadmin from 1987 through 1991.) | |
| Posted by Lyly @ 01/11/2005 07:44 AM PST | | | I miss my old Sun OS *sniffle* but now I'm a duel OSer, with a Mac and a PC at my disposal. Still, Unix is my favorite OS to work with on a command level. (I did system admin on a bunch of them for a while.) Haven't had to work with Linux directly, though it does power my PowerMac. and seems to work great. | |
| Posted by Michelle @ 01/11/2005 07:24 AM PST | | | I am anxiously awaiting the tax forms for our employer and the sale of some stock so I can get our taxes filed as soon as possible too. Some year I want to be #1. HA wouldn't that be a hoot. | |
| Posted by Michelle @ 01/11/2005 07:24 AM PST | | | I am anxiously awaiting the tax forms for our employer and the sale of some stock so I can get our taxes filed as soon as possible too. Some year I want to be #1. HA wouldn't that be a hoot. | |
| Posted by chrysalis @ 01/11/2005 05:53 AM PST | | | Wow, I hope this comment gets through to you, B! So your husband's a penguin, eh? I am an old-time UNIX guy. Meaning, 4.2 BSD (Berkeley UNIX), two decades before Linux' debut. My first personal PC in 1988-93 ran System V UNIX, so I know some of the problems that running a "productivity" machine with UNIX can present (problems that Linux is supposed to resolve). IMHO, UNIX is better for research, development (especially in C) or scientific applications. And for engineering -- all my designers are running tricked-out UNIX boxes! So, enjoy your newly Gates-ified box! | |
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