Day: October 19, 2006

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Homeschool day 39 of 180
Government school day 31 of 175½

When I got home last night, I found that Kelly could not do her Spanish because she could not get the Rosetta Stone program to run. I checked it out. There is a small chance that there is something wrong with the disk, but it is probably something bigger than that. The system runs extremely slow at times and we were unable to run a whole bunch of programs without waiting for a long, long time for them to come up. The problem is that it is a Windows XP computer. We never have these kinds of problems on our Ubuntu Linux computer. It is all quite frustrating. The last thing I wanted to have to do tonight is work on a recalcitrant computer. The computer IS getting old though and we probably should get a new one. I was planning on waiting until the end of the year, but I probably should pull the trigger and get one. We will probably just run this old one as a Linux server and backup box.

I have been programming on our Ubuntu Linux computer for the last couple of months. Actually, we have switched over to the Kubuntu version of Ubuntu so I can program in C++ using the KDevelop IDE. I am working on a system to inspect rosettes for Quality Corners. The environment is really quite good. It is going to be very interesting to see how Microsoft’s introduction of their new operating system, “Vista” turns out. From what I have been reading, it is hard to imagine that it will be widely adopted as soon as it comes out. We would have to get all new computers to be able to use Vista while Ubuntu does everything we need and more on our current computers. The way we have used it, it has been way more stable than Windows, too.