Blogger ate my blog again. I really must get into using a wordprosser to write this blog. It turned out that I forgot to plug the computer into the AC. It ran for about an hour before shutting down. That is surprising for such an old laptop.
I went to Dan's to see about my car. He is replacing the light switch. The headlights would come on but not the dashboard light. I couldn't tell how fast I was driving at night.
Lula stood me up yesterday. I waited for her at the co-op most of the day and she didn't show. I got her computer working well. In fact I'm using it now and as long as I keep the battery charged up, it's fine. I might offer her $25 for it I could sell it to Dave for $75. Of course, I've got $32 in the wifi card. She might be happy with it just as it is.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Blogger ate my blog
I'm at the co-op waiting for Lula and blogging. When I posted a blog it evaporated. Once again this shows me that I should be using a wordprosser and then transferring it to blogspot. I haven't figured out how to do that yet.
Anyway Lula's machine seems to be working well with the new wifi module. I don't know when she'll be here but I do know that she spends most of the day here on Thursdays.
I bumped into Dave W. yesterday and he is making progress on both going to school and applying for disability. I'm glad for him. He has trouble seeing that he has a problem. I doubt that he'll ever be able to get another job. He's just too old and heavy.
That reminds me I need to apply for a job at Family Circle. They help developmentally disabled people. With my degree from NICC I might have a chance to get a job. I could use a little extra income.
Anyway Lula's machine seems to be working well with the new wifi module. I don't know when she'll be here but I do know that she spends most of the day here on Thursdays.
I bumped into Dave W. yesterday and he is making progress on both going to school and applying for disability. I'm glad for him. He has trouble seeing that he has a problem. I doubt that he'll ever be able to get another job. He's just too old and heavy.
That reminds me I need to apply for a job at Family Circle. They help developmentally disabled people. With my degree from NICC I might have a chance to get a job. I could use a little extra income.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Windows won
Out of desperation I loaded Windows XP on Lula's machine to see if it would work with the wifi card. It does. Now I know that the card and the software I downloaded for it are good. It just won't work with Windows 98 because it requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or later.
I bought another wifi card that says it will work with 98. It set me back $32. I'll have to ask Lula if she will spring for it. For such an old machine that is a lot of money.
I think I'll try to load Mandriva Linux and see if the new card will work with it. That would save having to load Open Office and Mozilla from a wifi connection. It would also work better and avoid viruses.
I selected new lottery numbers today. I used my new pendulem. They are: 12,16,34,43,53. The powerplay number is 16. I think the payout is high since a lot of people seemed to be playing.
Like I've said before I've never won anything with these numbers yet.
I couldn't get the new Ubuntu update to work because it presumes that you have a working internet connection when you first boot up. It runs a boot routine and goes straight to the website. Unfortunatly it doesn't give my laptop time to get connected to the wifi server. I'll have to see if I can upgrade the old way. I think I tried that and it didn't work. I just tried it again and had no success.
That's all for now.
I bought another wifi card that says it will work with 98. It set me back $32. I'll have to ask Lula if she will spring for it. For such an old machine that is a lot of money.
I think I'll try to load Mandriva Linux and see if the new card will work with it. That would save having to load Open Office and Mozilla from a wifi connection. It would also work better and avoid viruses.
I selected new lottery numbers today. I used my new pendulem. They are: 12,16,34,43,53. The powerplay number is 16. I think the payout is high since a lot of people seemed to be playing.
Like I've said before I've never won anything with these numbers yet.
I couldn't get the new Ubuntu update to work because it presumes that you have a working internet connection when you first boot up. It runs a boot routine and goes straight to the website. Unfortunatly it doesn't give my laptop time to get connected to the wifi server. I'll have to see if I can upgrade the old way. I think I tried that and it didn't work. I just tried it again and had no success.
That's all for now.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Old Laptop Hell
I'm in old laptop hell. I've been trying to get the wifi card on Lula's laptop to work. I've tried at least 5 different forms of Linux and most of them won't load after spending hours trying to. When I get one to load it won't work with the wifi card. I'm tempted to go back to Windows and swap my wifi card with hers. I have the commercial disk that came with my card. I don't know if I can get her software to work on my machine.
Before I do that I'm going to try Mandriva Linux. It's from 2006, which might be old enough to work with limited memory and yet new enough to run the wifi card. Its worth a shot. If that fails I'm going to try to get her wifi card to work on my machine and then convert her's to Windows.
Its a plan. I was up until 3:00 in the morning, working on this machine. If either of us had money it would make more sense to buy a new machine.
The coffee machine at Bookends and Beans is down. It gets all gummed up with the limestone water that we have here. John said that they use a couple of big filters in the basement but it still limes up.
Well back to old laptop hell
Before I do that I'm going to try Mandriva Linux. It's from 2006, which might be old enough to work with limited memory and yet new enough to run the wifi card. Its worth a shot. If that fails I'm going to try to get her wifi card to work on my machine and then convert her's to Windows.
Its a plan. I was up until 3:00 in the morning, working on this machine. If either of us had money it would make more sense to buy a new machine.
The coffee machine at Bookends and Beans is down. It gets all gummed up with the limestone water that we have here. John said that they use a couple of big filters in the basement but it still limes up.
Well back to old laptop hell
Monday, May 18, 2009
Lula's Solo
I've been working on Lula's computer. It's a Gateway Solo. I've been trying to get the wifi card to work.
I downloaded the driver from Linksys.com. The trouble is that it requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or better to run. It has 5.0 in it. Since I didn't have the wifi card working I couldn't download 5.5 or 6. I may try to get it on my Linux machine. I didn't think of that. Now I'm too late since I'm trying to load Linux (Ubuntu) on Lula's machine. It's having trouble with the ram. The distribution that I'm trying to load requires 256 meg of ram and Lula's machine only has 16o meg.
As long as I'm online I may as well try to get IE 6 from the Microsoft website. Then if I have to go back to Windows I'll have it. I'm tempted to just buy another card and load Windows. I'm a little short of money so I don't think I'll do that.
I might go to Suse Linux if I can't get Ubuntu to work. I really prefer Ubuntu but if it won't load then I'll have to try something else. I also have an old copy of Mandriva.
The day hasn't been a complete waste. I got my bicycle tires pumped up. Other than that it's been something of a waste. I've got laundry in the washer and dryer, but I didn't get around to mowing the lawn again. I'm spending too much time going to and from the computer.
The co-op notified me that the new pendelum is here. I'll pick that up tonight. It's here in plenty of time for the next lottery.
At least Lula's machine is working better than it was. It helped to charge the battery. Then Windows hung up and I ran Windows 98 setup. It still wouldn't see the wifi card. Lula said that she would look for the driver but I won't see her until Thursday. I downloaded what I thought would work, but had no luck.
I downloaded the driver from Linksys.com. The trouble is that it requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or better to run. It has 5.0 in it. Since I didn't have the wifi card working I couldn't download 5.5 or 6. I may try to get it on my Linux machine. I didn't think of that. Now I'm too late since I'm trying to load Linux (Ubuntu) on Lula's machine. It's having trouble with the ram. The distribution that I'm trying to load requires 256 meg of ram and Lula's machine only has 16o meg.
As long as I'm online I may as well try to get IE 6 from the Microsoft website. Then if I have to go back to Windows I'll have it. I'm tempted to just buy another card and load Windows. I'm a little short of money so I don't think I'll do that.
I might go to Suse Linux if I can't get Ubuntu to work. I really prefer Ubuntu but if it won't load then I'll have to try something else. I also have an old copy of Mandriva.
The day hasn't been a complete waste. I got my bicycle tires pumped up. Other than that it's been something of a waste. I've got laundry in the washer and dryer, but I didn't get around to mowing the lawn again. I'm spending too much time going to and from the computer.
The co-op notified me that the new pendelum is here. I'll pick that up tonight. It's here in plenty of time for the next lottery.
At least Lula's machine is working better than it was. It helped to charge the battery. Then Windows hung up and I ran Windows 98 setup. It still wouldn't see the wifi card. Lula said that she would look for the driver but I won't see her until Thursday. I downloaded what I thought would work, but had no luck.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
I'm at the Co-op working on Lula's computer. It's biggest problem was that the battery was totally discharged. I had to reboot it three times to get it to work. It has Windows 98 on it and is really slow. I couldn't get the wifi card to work. I downloaded the software from Linksys's site. I'll try loading it at home. If that doesn't work I'll load Linux and go from there.
My dowsing the lottery failed again. Why do I think that my spiritual guide has any better idea of what the lottery numbers are. I'll keep at it and try a crystal pendulum. Those are supposed to work better.
I went for a walk up Trout Run Trail today. I only walked about a mile but it was very pretty.
I tried to get my digital camera to work. I had to load Windows 98 on one of my desktops to work with the software that came with my camera. It worked but now I have to get the pictures on to the internet. I was able to use a cd writer to make a disk with some pictures on it. I will have to experiment with the blog site to see if it will take my images from my camera.
My dowsing the lottery failed again. Why do I think that my spiritual guide has any better idea of what the lottery numbers are. I'll keep at it and try a crystal pendulum. Those are supposed to work better.
I went for a walk up Trout Run Trail today. I only walked about a mile but it was very pretty.
I tried to get my digital camera to work. I had to load Windows 98 on one of my desktops to work with the software that came with my camera. It worked but now I have to get the pictures on to the internet. I was able to use a cd writer to make a disk with some pictures on it. I will have to experiment with the blog site to see if it will take my images from my camera.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
lottery numbers
Its Saturday and time to give out my picks for powerball. They are: 11,23,27,36,51. The powerplay number is 11. Like I've said before, none of my picks have won anything yet. With my luck maybe you should simply pick anything but these numbers.
I went to La Crosse this morning. I picked up a book on making lists. It got me to thinking about things I need to get done.
I got kicked out of Bookends and Beans because they close at 4:00 PM on Saturdays. I went to the gas station and entered my lottery numbers. From there I went to to Co-op with its glare problem. It's not too bad today because the Sun is hitting at a good angle.
One of the things I need to get done is to send pictures to my blog. I've been stymied by my old digital camera (Polaroid 320). When it was built they were using Windows 98. My XP machines won't work with it. I tried Linux and 1 version had me select the camera from a list. When I did it still didn't work with it. I'm tempted to load Windows 98 on my slowest desktop and take it from there. I'm using it as a server for my network so it will get involved. I guess that I need a project anyway.
Another project I should get going on is prospecting for gold. It would be a way of bringing in some income without being employed. I'm afraid that it might get expensive. I would need three major expensive items: 1. a four wheel drive vehicle ( preferably an old Toyota Landcruiser) 2. A small pop up trailer 3. A metal detector.
The Landcruiser would be a major project in itself. I would have to get a junked vehicle and rebuild it. I prefer Landcruisers for their stability. They were also built like tanks.
Another thing I was thinking about was to get the bicycle out and go for long trips with it. I watched a group of bikers on the way to La Crosse this morning and I felt a bit jealious. I need to get out there.
I just bumped into Lula. She is from Eithiopea. She's a refugee from somewhere in that area. She works at Opportunity Homes. They help developmental disabled people.
She has a laptop that doesn't work and she is bringing it to me to fix. I suppose that it's a bad battery. They always go bad on laptops. It could be the hard drive. We'll see when she gets it here.
That's it for now
I went to La Crosse this morning. I picked up a book on making lists. It got me to thinking about things I need to get done.
I got kicked out of Bookends and Beans because they close at 4:00 PM on Saturdays. I went to the gas station and entered my lottery numbers. From there I went to to Co-op with its glare problem. It's not too bad today because the Sun is hitting at a good angle.
One of the things I need to get done is to send pictures to my blog. I've been stymied by my old digital camera (Polaroid 320). When it was built they were using Windows 98. My XP machines won't work with it. I tried Linux and 1 version had me select the camera from a list. When I did it still didn't work with it. I'm tempted to load Windows 98 on my slowest desktop and take it from there. I'm using it as a server for my network so it will get involved. I guess that I need a project anyway.
Another project I should get going on is prospecting for gold. It would be a way of bringing in some income without being employed. I'm afraid that it might get expensive. I would need three major expensive items: 1. a four wheel drive vehicle ( preferably an old Toyota Landcruiser) 2. A small pop up trailer 3. A metal detector.
The Landcruiser would be a major project in itself. I would have to get a junked vehicle and rebuild it. I prefer Landcruisers for their stability. They were also built like tanks.
Another thing I was thinking about was to get the bicycle out and go for long trips with it. I watched a group of bikers on the way to La Crosse this morning and I felt a bit jealious. I need to get out there.
I just bumped into Lula. She is from Eithiopea. She's a refugee from somewhere in that area. She works at Opportunity Homes. They help developmental disabled people.
She has a laptop that doesn't work and she is bringing it to me to fix. I suppose that it's a bad battery. They always go bad on laptops. It could be the hard drive. We'll see when she gets it here.
That's it for now
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