E.J. Svoboda

I use Fedora Core 4 at work and have had occassional problems upgrading it on my work linux box. Right now I am able to run the latest Linux kernel on it but every once in a while the latest Kernel refuses to boot and I’m stuck using an earlier release. At least with Linux I can always boot to an older release without any problem.At home, I use Ubuntu on my laptop. The one drawback on Ubuntu is that there’s not a ton of updates from release to release but it is very stable. Releases occur every six months with security fixes released on an as needed basis. There’s also the ability to add some additional programs through an extra distribution. My only complaint thus far is that I won’t be able run Firefox 1.5 until the next release of Ubuntu which is due in April. My other compaint about Ubuntu is that it defaults to a user having to use the “sudo” command anytime a super user function needs to be done. Thankfully, it is easy to reset the super user password and avoid the use of “sudo”.

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Small leak from the dishwasher turns into a Sunday spent fixing the dishwasher.Compression fittings will be the death of me.The only advantage to doing your own plumbing are the major brownie points with the wife.

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I live in the world of Windows most of the time (although I am typing this on my Linux laptop). My take is that any e-mail reader can be well confgured and used or poorly used. The key is to deal with e-mails when you see them.I have always been pretty good at creating specific folders for dealing with e-mail but my leap to being more efficient occured after using the Getting Things Done plug-in for Outlook. It improves many of the flaws that are within Outlook to the point of it being a pretty usable product.My advice to people who think they get too much mail is for them to unsubscribe from the various mail lists they signed up for along the way. Use a spam filter (I use spam bayes with Outlook). Skip the forwards. Don’t live on e-mail – by that I mean look at it periodically and triage it at one time rather than letting it interrupt the flow of your day. Even as a technology guy I have found that living on IM and e-mail just gets in the way of me doing anything that takes longer than a couple of minutes.

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O’REILLY: There ya go, Mike is — he’s a gone guy. You know, we have his — we have your phone numbers, by the way. So, if you’re listening, Mike, we have your phone number, and we’re going to turn it over to Fox security, and you’ll be getting a little visit.O’REILLY: No, Maybe Mike is going to get into big trouble, because we’re not going to play around. When you call us, ladies and gentleman, just so you know, we do have your phone number, and if you say anything untoward, obscene, or anything like that, Fox security then will contact your local authorities, and you will be held accountable. Fair?—————————————————————–Bill continues to bully. His show is on Westwood One but somehow he’s got Fox Security calling people. This is just silly.Watch Countdown on MSNBC. It’s so much better than the O’Whiney Factor and there’s actually reasoned discussions.

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