Archive for March, 2008
After a trip to Canada and talking to an old friend. He kept asking, do you know what so and so is doing, how about X and X, it got me thinking that I really need to get a hold of some of the people I used to hang around with but no longer are [...]
Linux desktop day 3
Thursday, March 6th, 2008No major problems today, the user had no issues :) Our PCL add on came from Canon today for our all in one. It was sent second day air, and I was told an engineer would come to install it. I was expecting a board. it was a license key, actually it wasn’t even a [...]
Linux desktop day 2
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Only 3 problems on day 2, all were fixed easily.
1. Sound did not work. Changed it to be USB and it worked, I have no idea why, but it worked and thats all I cared about
2. They couldn’t access a pop email account, ends up they were using the wrong username and password [...]
I hate credit card companies
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008I spend alot on credit cards. My biggest problem is maxing out the rewards too fast to where I do not get any airmiles or other rewards. I thought I had the best solution with United Mileage plus credit card. The agreement reads.
“3 The maximum number of miles you can earn with the United Mileage [...]
Day 2 linux followup
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008as a follow up, evolution does have in preferences, where I told the user to look :(, two fancy little check boxes, one for auto complete from contact list, and one for show images. Actually I really like that for show images it has a choice that you can show images for emails from people [...]
Noise
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008I heard an awful noise last night around 3:00am, sounded like a bark but not the bark of a dog, either that or it was very weird. The sound was coming from near my neighbours house and they have a dog and since its only a lady and her 6 year old living there I [...]
Day 2 linux desktop
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008So far the problems seem very minor. Most of they have to do with evolution, which I was a little worried about. Since it connects to exchange not using MAPI but instead logs into the OWA and snags the data I was worried about the speed and ease of use. The ease of use seems [...]
petsafe dog collars
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Well we’ve had it up and running for a week. one dog followed our daughter to the neighbours house, upon inspection I noticed that her collar no longer had the petsafe module attached. I’ve seen them ripped off before, when I had huskies, but this is the first time that I’ve seen the posts simply [...]
weekend
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Well for once I had a productive weekend, well productive you are thinking about getting things done around the house, not productive if you are talking about spending time with the family.
I got one garage door up, what a pain :( only a couple little mess ups, one involving anchoring in the front end of [...]
Today will be interesting
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Today will be the first full day, of the user on Linux desktop, on Friday we didn’t get around to switching the computer until around 1pm so there was a little testing but not too much.
What makes it even more interesting is the IT person with the most linux experience has called in sick today [...]
