I talked to the Lorena and the kids in Mexico last night while I was washing clothes and doing a chores around the house. As is always the case when we visit Mexico the weekends are crazy with barbecues, visits to Allende, site-seeing, shopping, etc. Then, during the week, all the Mexicans have to go to work and to school, so we go from 5000 miles per hour down to about 2 miles per hour. That is where the kids are now. They might be getting a little bored. So, Kelly is planning to do a bunch of Betty Blonde comics so we will have enough for next week and beyond. She is also going to write one or two blog posts. Christian is working on installing Xubuntu on an old, piece or trash computer for his Tio Lynn. I think he is going to write about that for NerdHow. By the way, did you notice that today’s Betty Blonde was written by Christian. Lorena, of course, has many hours of important conversation with her mother planned. Really, that is the one thing that does not change whether it is the weekend or mid-week.
October 1, 2004 – Worker visit
October 4, 2004 – Busy weekend
Christian
Ok, Dad. The entire DCIM folder is being uploaded to FTP on the base directory named ‘something.7z’.
Installing xubuntu was a nightmare, but I finally got it up and running with all of lynns’ old mail (right before windows gave me a BSOD.)
Now it’s running twice as good and it looks better than my Vista laptop.( If I do say so myself. 😉 )
Very cool. Get a picture of Lynn using the computer with Xubuntu showing so I can put it up here!
wow! I am very impressed Christian! I have no idea WHAT you are talking about? windows? BSOD? Vista?
😉
Yes, they loose us often, but they make us laugh often too, so it is a happy trade-off! I love
Christian’s Betty Blonde, and I love Kelly’s too. I hope it stays a cooperative effort!
I very much appreciate all of your encouragement on all this. I think Christian should contribute, too.
It was worse than you think, Bryan. The computer they are using is a 128MB dinosaur laptop without a CD drive. He had to do a live install from a flaky version of XP. I do not think I could have done it!
Lyle
there is something fun and exciting about installing linux on old computers. There are two that are to be sent my way and I am looking forward to the fun times ahead.
That is very true Lyle. I STILL love doing it. Now it is getting up to the point where it is not necessary to babysit the thing after it is installed. Which distribution do you use for the old computers?
Tio Lynn
Hi Christian, thank you very much for fixing my ancient laptop, now it is working like new and I am considring using it for 20 years more