January 30, 2010

Short Updates

Posted by Scott at 08:24 PM

Good morning! Brr. 4°F The girls compensated by bringing out the griddle and making eggs and pancakes this morning. I cleaned and topped off the primary wood stove. I was up late trying to figure out what is going on with this old Dell laptop and wireless. In the previous version of OS I had wireless working fine. 8:23am

Back from a great Step & abs class. Saw Michelle's radiologist in the locker room afterwards. It was nice to talk to him about something besides radiation therapy. 11:26am

Ya-hoo! After reading numerous forums on how to get the ancient WiFi on this ol' laptop (~2003-2004), I finally got a recipe that works! I was this close to just running to the store to buy a WiFi PCMCIA card to plug in the side. The laptop is currently doing its software updates. (Hopefully that doesn't break things now...) 12:43am

Tried to take the kids skating, but the parking at the rink was overflowing. So we're at the Pheasant Lane Mall. 2:40pm

Back home from the Mall. Doing more configuration of Claire's laptop. Boys playing SuperMarioBros Wii. 4:46pm

Thanks to Apple's "CUPS drivers" setting up the printer was a piece of cake on this old laptop. 5:08pm

Since this laptop is about half a dozen years old, at Gene Chouiniere's recommendation, I installed LXDE (related link) , the "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment". 6:14pm

Watching "Chuck", season 1, episode 8, "Chuck vs the Truth" with the girls. 7:20pm

Going to try and start reading a Frank Sheed book. Good night all! 8:23pm

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