Once again, I missed all of the numbers on the lottery. I'm having doubts about my spiritual guide. It's probably something I'm doing or not doing. I lost my favorite pendulum, so I used my new crystal one. I probably needed to charge it or something.
I felt sick last night. I had pain in my lungs so I took a couple of aspirins. I feel a lot better now. I'm well enough that I may have to mow the lawn.
I couldn't get my computer to work with the internet at Java Johns, this morning. I may have to load a proprietary driver for my wifi card. It works everywhere else, though. I loaded ndiswrapper on this machine so that I can use other cards. That will only make sense to other hard-corps Linux users. It didn't seem to work so I'll reboot and if that doesn't work I'll reload it
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Loading 9.04
I'm at Cafe Magpie loading the lastest version of Ubuntu. I lost all of my bookmarks and such. It took a while to get all the needed drivers to work. For a while Ubuntu only saw what was on my hard drive. It refused to search the web site for packages. Only Linux users would know what I mean by that. After running updates, it saw all of the other packages.
I'm pretty happy with 9.04, but the main reason I loaded it was to have the latest and greatest version on my machine. There is something about having the newest.
I gave Alice her machine this morning. It beat me. I loaded Windows 2000 and failed to get the updates. It wouldn't work. I guess Windows gave up supporting 2000 entirely. I got my wifi card to work on her machine but I couldn't get her wifi card to work on mine. Lucent doesn't support their cards on their website.
Anyway, I told Alice to get a USB module from Belkin which I know works with Windows 2000. I hope she gets out to Wal-Mart before they're gone.
After she left I had an idea of where to get a driver. I was thinking about driversguide.com. I used to use them a lot when I worked on old laptops. I'll have to see if they are still around.
I should go home and mow the lawn but the neighbors are having a party. I might not get to it until tomorrow.
I'm pretty happy with 9.04, but the main reason I loaded it was to have the latest and greatest version on my machine. There is something about having the newest.
I gave Alice her machine this morning. It beat me. I loaded Windows 2000 and failed to get the updates. It wouldn't work. I guess Windows gave up supporting 2000 entirely. I got my wifi card to work on her machine but I couldn't get her wifi card to work on mine. Lucent doesn't support their cards on their website.
Anyway, I told Alice to get a USB module from Belkin which I know works with Windows 2000. I hope she gets out to Wal-Mart before they're gone.
After she left I had an idea of where to get a driver. I was thinking about driversguide.com. I used to use them a lot when I worked on old laptops. I'll have to see if they are still around.
I should go home and mow the lawn but the neighbors are having a party. I might not get to it until tomorrow.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Iowa City
I went to Iowa City this morning. I thought that it would take 3 hours but it only took 2 to drive there. Everything went well until I came home. I got out early and spent the morning at Barnes and Noble leafing through books and drinking coffee.
On the way home, part of my tailpipe fell off. I got to Dan's and he said that it needed a muffler as well as the tailpipe. It's going to set me back hundreds.
I then went to work on Alice's laptop. It's getting worse. I couldn't get the wifi card to work. the sound card doesn't seem to work with Linux either. Tonight I'm going to try loading Windows on it. I'll get it up to Windows XP. If that works, maybe I'll be able to transfer a copy of XP to her so she can use it longer than 30 days. Bill Gates is after world domination. He makes it so that things only work on Windows.
It's possible that the sound card is failing. I don't think it is, because on some of the older Linuxs it worked with the cd player.
I've got to go home and mow the lawn.
On the way home, part of my tailpipe fell off. I got to Dan's and he said that it needed a muffler as well as the tailpipe. It's going to set me back hundreds.
I then went to work on Alice's laptop. It's getting worse. I couldn't get the wifi card to work. the sound card doesn't seem to work with Linux either. Tonight I'm going to try loading Windows on it. I'll get it up to Windows XP. If that works, maybe I'll be able to transfer a copy of XP to her so she can use it longer than 30 days. Bill Gates is after world domination. He makes it so that things only work on Windows.
It's possible that the sound card is failing. I don't think it is, because on some of the older Linuxs it worked with the cd player.
I've got to go home and mow the lawn.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Still in old laptop hell
I'm still trying to get Alice's laptop to work. The newer Linux's work fine with the wifi card but mess up the sound card. I have to find something that works with both. Fortunately the wifi card is so old and common that most of the operating systems will work with it. I've only found a couple of systems that work with the sound, on the other hand. When I do find something that works I have troubles getting it to load. A lot of my CDs are made with re-writable media. There is something about those disks that make them unreliable.
I need to mow the lawn but I don't think I'll get to it since the county Democrats are meeting tonight. I should have enough time to run home and see if I got my latest operating system to load. Then I'll run off to the Democrat meeting. Maybe I'll try to get something mowed since I have to go to Iowa City tomorrow.
I have an appointment to see my shrink. I'm taking my car since the van makes it an all day deal. I'll have to spend half a day as it is.
I need to mow the lawn but I don't think I'll get to it since the county Democrats are meeting tonight. I should have enough time to run home and see if I got my latest operating system to load. Then I'll run off to the Democrat meeting. Maybe I'll try to get something mowed since I have to go to Iowa City tomorrow.
I have an appointment to see my shrink. I'm taking my car since the van makes it an all day deal. I'll have to spend half a day as it is.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Back to old laptop hell
My friend Alice has an old laptop (thinkpad 390x) which locked up because Windows 2000 insisted that she should change her password. She didn't remember her password so it became useless. I sold it to her about a year ago so I offered to repair it.
My first effort was to load a relatively new Linux (Mandriva 2006) on it. It worked except for the sound card, which produced garbage. I then tried Suse Linux 10.0. It had the same problem. I then went back to Windows 2000, after having to load Windows 98 to get 2000 to load. 2000 works pretty well with the wifi card and the sound card.
The wifi card won't work at Bookends and Beans which is only 2 houses away from her home. Bookends uses a password protection that Windows 2000 isn't up to.
I think I'll concentrate on getting Windows 2000 to work. It will take a day of downloading updates, including 4 service packs. Oh well, I guess I needed a project for a rainy day. I think I'll hang out at Magpies and use their wifi since it is the fastest around. I'm at the co-op now and theirs might be almost as fast.
I'm tempted to download some newer operating systems and seeing if I can get that sound card to work with the latest Linux. I can't use Ubuntu, which I really like, because Alice's machine only has 190 meg of RAM. The latest Ubuntu needs 256 meg.
I think I'll download the latest Mandriva now and see if I can get it to work. I've got it on one of my desktops and I'm pretty happy with it.
I made progress with my camera the other day. After enhancing some pictures I had something I wouldn't mind uploading onto this blog. After I fix Alice's machine I'll do that.
That all for now
My first effort was to load a relatively new Linux (Mandriva 2006) on it. It worked except for the sound card, which produced garbage. I then tried Suse Linux 10.0. It had the same problem. I then went back to Windows 2000, after having to load Windows 98 to get 2000 to load. 2000 works pretty well with the wifi card and the sound card.
The wifi card won't work at Bookends and Beans which is only 2 houses away from her home. Bookends uses a password protection that Windows 2000 isn't up to.
I think I'll concentrate on getting Windows 2000 to work. It will take a day of downloading updates, including 4 service packs. Oh well, I guess I needed a project for a rainy day. I think I'll hang out at Magpies and use their wifi since it is the fastest around. I'm at the co-op now and theirs might be almost as fast.
I'm tempted to download some newer operating systems and seeing if I can get that sound card to work with the latest Linux. I can't use Ubuntu, which I really like, because Alice's machine only has 190 meg of RAM. The latest Ubuntu needs 256 meg.
I think I'll download the latest Mandriva now and see if I can get it to work. I've got it on one of my desktops and I'm pretty happy with it.
I made progress with my camera the other day. After enhancing some pictures I had something I wouldn't mind uploading onto this blog. After I fix Alice's machine I'll do that.
That all for now
Monday, May 25, 2009
No open coffee shops
Its Memorial Day and there are no internet coffee shops open in Decorah. I went to the library where there is an underground parking area. There is an ac outlet next to a bench there. It is close enough to the library that I can connect to the internet there. I also might be able to use my battery and connect at other places but this is working.
I bought a camera yesterday since the pictures from my old one were so poor. I had to convert one of my desktops to Windows 2000 form Mandriva Linux. At least it sees the camera. The pictures are still poor. I may have to spend $100 for a camera instead of $20. If that is the case it won't happen for 2 months since I have dental bills coming up.
I'll experiment with the camera and get back to you on that. I also have to mow the lawn again today.
Catch you later.
I bought a camera yesterday since the pictures from my old one were so poor. I had to convert one of my desktops to Windows 2000 form Mandriva Linux. At least it sees the camera. The pictures are still poor. I may have to spend $100 for a camera instead of $20. If that is the case it won't happen for 2 months since I have dental bills coming up.
I'll experiment with the camera and get back to you on that. I also have to mow the lawn again today.
Catch you later.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Waiting for Lula
Once again, I'm at the co-op waiting for Lula. I saw her yesterday and gave her her computer. She was with other guys so I couldn't talk that much with her.
She said that she had copy of the driver for her wifi card that would work with Windows 98. I couldn't get it from Linksys's website so seeing is believing. If she has one, maybe we could sell it to Alice. She's looking for something better for her Windows 2000 machine.
Last night I put Mandriva 2008 on both of my desktop machines. Now I can get my camera to work on both of those machines. They also write JPEG files for my photos. That is a common format. I found a converter for serial to USB ports. It will set me back $30, but I'll be able to run my camera from the laptop. I may hold off and just get a better camera. The pictures on this one are very grainy to say the least.
I saw Jim today. He is still having troubles with shakiness. They reduced his meds but it doesn't seem to help. I told him that he should buy the bicycle to get around town on. He pointed out that if he went out of town he would have to have a trailer and a hitch on his car. that would cost more than the bike.
I don't think I'll list my lottery picks today. I'm spending a lot of time at the co-op and I'm not getting around to dowsing. I might go home right now and get it done in time yet today. We'll see.
I went home and dowsed the lottery numbers. They are: 5,15,24,37,52. The powerball number is 5.
Once again I'd like to point out that I've yet to win anything on the lottery. My spiritual guide doesn't always tell the truth.
She said that she had copy of the driver for her wifi card that would work with Windows 98. I couldn't get it from Linksys's website so seeing is believing. If she has one, maybe we could sell it to Alice. She's looking for something better for her Windows 2000 machine.
Last night I put Mandriva 2008 on both of my desktop machines. Now I can get my camera to work on both of those machines. They also write JPEG files for my photos. That is a common format. I found a converter for serial to USB ports. It will set me back $30, but I'll be able to run my camera from the laptop. I may hold off and just get a better camera. The pictures on this one are very grainy to say the least.
I saw Jim today. He is still having troubles with shakiness. They reduced his meds but it doesn't seem to help. I told him that he should buy the bicycle to get around town on. He pointed out that if he went out of town he would have to have a trailer and a hitch on his car. that would cost more than the bike.
I don't think I'll list my lottery picks today. I'm spending a lot of time at the co-op and I'm not getting around to dowsing. I might go home right now and get it done in time yet today. We'll see.
I went home and dowsed the lottery numbers. They are: 5,15,24,37,52. The powerball number is 5.
Once again I'd like to point out that I've yet to win anything on the lottery. My spiritual guide doesn't always tell the truth.
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