24 Jul 06 Radio Free Charleston
Heading onwards with this, and hope to be up and running by September. Check out http://radiofreecharleston.com for the latest news
16 Jul 06 System Update
Decided to go ahead with a system update on main machine. Having recently purchased another business machine, and a copy of Windows MCE 2005 to go with it, I decided install Fedora Core 5 on that, and use the MCE software for this machine instead.
Ultimately, I’d like to get rid of Windows altogether. The main issue is quite simply drivers.
I recently changed the laptop over from Windows XP to FC5, and there is a noticeable improvement in speed. Everything I need is still available. There is now good quality open-source software out there for most applications. Outlook is replaced by Open Office, Firefox is always my browser of choice anyway. For image manipulation you can’t go far wrong with the Gimp; Xine is a great media player, Sound Juicer rips CDs, and NVu is a decent web editor. Getting the Wireless NIC to work was rather a challenge, but I got there, and now there’s no looking back.
Next time I look to get a laptop, I’m going to search out an OS free one; after all why pay windows tax? You don’t get that copy of Windows for free you know, it’s built into the price!
14 Jul 06 Closure
Yesterday, Thursday 13th, was the funeral of my father and hopefully will bring closure to a number of people, and a number of issues.
I, myself, very much endeavor to have a positive outlook on life, and try to find some good in events, and some good in all people. Sometimes that can very difficult, but I feel that life is too short to be dwelling on “if only” or “might have beens”.
None of us ever make all the right decisions or choices but from any bad ones that we make should hopefully come a learning curve from which we are better able to follow a different course of action if there is a similar challenge in the future.
Let’s hope we can all go into the future in a postive way. Onwards And Upwards!
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