Dear Blog # 6

Dear Blog

Haven’t posted in awhile, not even a poem of the day, well been kinda busy and kinda having fun, but I’m back.

For Christmas I got a hard drive dock.? I have lots of extra hard drives hanging around and none of them are the new SATA and this dock takes the old format and this way I can run Linux on a separate drive under a separate boot up so one does not destroy the other.? It took a bit to get working. For anyone trying this at home, the directions say to set your hard drive in the enclosure to master.? I’m here to tell it won’t work, have to set it to cable select. I used Ubuntu 8.10. I understand you can do this with Kubuntu 8.04 but it was to complicated for me. Kubuntu and Ubuntu 8.10 can do it for you automatically but Kubuntu 8.10 uses KDE 4.

KDE 4 – basically (It Sucks). Looks nice though, but you can’t do nothing with it except look at it and say, “gosh that looks so nice.” I can praise the KDE people because they started from scratch on this project and that is honorable, but why? KDE 3.5 was working just fine. KDE 3.5 was so easy to use, even a cave man could operate it. Now we’re back to having programing skills to operate Linux and a lot of people who jumped in are going to jump back out.

For those who want to give it a try, go to Ubuntu.com

(Ubuntu is an African word meaning ‘Humanity to others’, or ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world. )

Though I’m not that familiar with Gnome, the other side of KDE. Gnome is what Ubuntu uses, the most popular Linux in the world, so I figure I can get used to it. It’s a learning process, but I’m getting everything to work, so that’s cool.

Today is Monday the 29th of December and it is currently 66 degrees. It must be the end of the world. I figure I can go out and rake leaves, but them leaves ain’t hurt nobody. It’s not their fault the world is ending, maybe I’ll just leave those leaves alone, their not hurting anybody. Besides, the world is coming to an end and there’s better things I can do, like the dishes, somebody has to do the dishes. My advice to you, put in a good movie, get something good to drink or maybe smoke and just enjoy some time for awhile because there is nothing we can do. People are going to loose their jobs, die of heart attacks and heat stroke and other things and all we can do is smile and make it as good as we can for ourselves and each other. If you can help out a friend, reach out your hand. We cannot stop it from ending, but at least we can make it end happily.