My good deed has been rewarded. I swept an older guy's chimney because he can no longer safely climb up his roof and was short on cash to pay a chimney sweep. His log splitter is sitting in my driveway now to make short work out of all the rounds I've scrounged. Says I can borrow it anytime I want. Also have my Permethrin spray ready to treat my clothes and only have one more day of work this week. Going to do a marathon scrounge session from Thursday to Sunday and line my whole driveway up with rounds, split them all, and be done with scrounging until the weather cools off.
My laptop is set up for a dual boot to either windows or Ubuntu. If I do nothing it times out and goes to Windows but if I select Ubuntu it goes there. If you already have Windows and are familiar with it, the various Linux based products can be confusing. They simply do not operate the same way so what you expect to happen when you do something may not be what happens. Actually the Linux OSs are not virus resistant to any real extent but very few people writing a virus code bother with Linux because so few people use it. If you want to be a hero to other virus writers, you need to cause lots of folks trouble. Its hard to do that on a platform that is not as widely used. Similar claims are made for the Apple OS for a similar reason. Nobody bothers to write a virus that will affect so few machines.
Very true. I'm setup for dual boot as well. I installed Xubuntu last night over Lubuntu. My wife is only familiar with Windows and finds Xubuntu much easier to navigate.
Oh I have run lotsa distros in the past. Sorta settled down once I had one good enough, which this is. I'm on limited cellular bandwith, so don't fool around trying this or that any more.
Actually I am hoping the docking stations get a little better and cheaper, would love to just come home and slide the phone into one and have full size everything from it.
If you're bored, please send me a PM with your thoughts concerning the various distros.
I think it's kinda funny how cell phones are getting bigger and bigger. I remember my aunt having one of those big brick phones in the 90s I guess. Thought it was so cool having the ability to make a phone call away from home. Then it seemed like the race was on to make smaller, more powerful phones. Now the suckers are getting bigger and bigger. Some of the models can barely fit in your pocket. Men will start wearing man purses soon just to carry their phones.
besides it's just in our jeans.[sic]
