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.
Dad, you will be happy to know that I got world book on this downstairs computer, and ran a virus check on it too. 81891 uninfected files were found. (literally)
Gee dad, you really have a grudge against microsoft.
Dad, I noticed that in your blogline you used the word \”frustrated\” and as walley said, ( sort of ) frustrated is just another word for not enough rich chocolate ovaltene. (c:
also, on the upstairs computer, the defragmentation that you told me to do earlier hasn’t started.
either that or the computer has started going incredibly fast
OK. Just leave it like it is and I will get to it when I get home. Let me know if it starts running.
dad, the computer is puting the wait icon on and then aborting what it did in the first place.
should I do a virus check instead of a defrag?
No. Wait until I get home. Don’t do anything.
ok