I just finished up my order of the Microsoft Office System Beta 2 Kit 2003. All I had to do was pay for the shipping and I get a ton of stuff to play with and learn for the next few months. That will most definitely keep me busy, but it will also keep me…
Tony’s got a link to an interesting freshmeat article about there being too much free software. Tony’s remarks, ” This has been a bigger impediment to the growth of Linux than many people would realize. I see it in email every day – “Which text editor should I use? There are so many.” Or, worse…
Last night’s projects, while staying up to watch the Islanders shutout the Sharks 3-0, (whoo hoo!) included downloading a copy of Newsmonster and upgrading the Red Hat 7.1 Workstation to 8.0. On the Red Hat front, I still haven’t found a solution to the network card problem on the server edition of Red Hat, but…
Or, as my wife calls this post, “Oh, one of those boring techie entries”. 🙂 My second cd copy of disk 1 turned out to be much better, and I was able to get the installation to run successfully, for the most part. I’ve got a full server install of Red Hat, complete with Gnome…
Specifically, let’s talk about work hours and home hours. Much is being made about this article, which quotes a new study that says that people with home internet access wind up spending more time working from home than they waste surfing at work. It raises some interesting points. Here, we understand that there is occasionally…
I was writing an email to someone yesterday and trying to explain why I had taken so long to get back to them. So I started listing out all the things I’ve been doing since the end of 2002 that took time away from catching up my email. In the last month I’ve studied for…