It seems that my latest webcam pic, which was taken after a successful install of Red Hat 7.1 as a “play and learn” installation, has gotten the attention of non other than Lockergnome’s head Penguin himself, Tony Steidler-Dennison. Like I said in Tony’s comments, I’m still getting paid to be a Windows guy but what’s…
Yeah I did get a copy of Red Hat 7.1 installed and running on Friday night, then I was able to figure out how to download and install the latest version of Mozilla on that installation and do a little web-surfing late Saturday night/Sunday morning. There’s definitely a learning curve to this bad-boy, and my…
I got an itch to do something tonight, so I created a nice llitte 2GB partition on my old Win 98 machine and installed Red Hat 7.1. I know it’s not the latest version but it’s the one I’ve had laying around for a long time, meaning to get it installed. The installation was fairly…
Kevin’s place of business is going to get one of those Walmart-Microtel Linux PC’s to see how it works. I’ll have to be sure to keep an eye on what Kevin has to say about it. I’ve been thinking of picking one of those up as a cheap “learning” machine for myself. Short day today,…
Thanks to Andy for the pointer to Microsoft’s patch for the Secure Sockets problem that they claimed before wasn’t a big deal. Oh well, at least they did patch it! (Note the Win 2000 version of the patch is not available yet.) Doc has written up his Linux Journal article about his talk at Gnomedex….
Doesn’t appear as though anything major has been awaiting my arrival, with the exception of the failed hard drive that I already knew about last week. Replacement part should be in tomorrow so that will take care of that. I still have quite a bit of work that needs to get done over the next…