Here is a collection of links I have found useful for my beginning Linux experience. They range from help sites to news sites and are in no particular order

http://www.control-escape.com
http://www.linuxlinks.com
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/
http://lxer.com/
http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/
http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/penguin.html - Lego Penguin
http://www.xpenguin.com/penguinlinks.php
http://www.linuxjournal.com/
http://www.linux-mag.com/

Denver is starting to melt out. It was a gorgeuos 50-55 degrees and sunny all day. Finally was able to sit outside and enjoy lunch at the local drinking establishment. It's been months since I've been able to do that. Sure was nice.

Now, if we could just get a little more melt off, it could be bike ridable around here again.

Man, haven't posted in a coons age.

Here are a couple of new links I have found recently pertaining to the installation of XP and Ubuntu:

Installing Ubuntu: A comparison of Ubuntu 6.06 and Windows XP
http://rhosgobel.blogspot.com/2006/06/installing-ubuntu-comparison-of-ubuntu.html

This weekend, I reinstalled XP and Ubuntu.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221756

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I have been running Ubuntu for a good month and a half and have enjoyed the experience. I have had a couple of problems along the way, but overall, everything has gone incredibly smooth.

Picasa started acting funny a few weeks ago. It requires me to change the permissions on 2 nvidia files after every shutdown. It also imports photos in reverse order of time stamp and photo number. Very bizarre.

Thingamablog still requires to be started from a terminal window.

I am still playing around with music files and my iPods. I have started copying my music onto my laptop with the intention of trying out Banshee's ability to sync with my Nano. Right now I am burning all my purchased iTunes music onto cd's so that I don't have to rely on a Windows machine to update my iPods.

I have liked using Tomboy for making notes and gFTP has worked fairly well for me as a replacement for WS_FTP.

I do miss not having Roboform anymore. I am using KeePass for my passwords, but it doesn't intigrate into a web browser. I guess I could memorize my passwords, but just think of all the brain cells that would require.

A couple of photos from the local park showing the amount of snow still there from when the city was dumping in the parking lot.

01.15.2007

02.21.2007

The second photo shows how much dirt was picked up during removal.

I have been taking the light rail here in Denver a fair amount recently and I have noticed something odd. In all the stations there are no clocks. There are lighted displays in all the stations that give information, but not the time. It just struck me as odd.

With Ballmers recent FUD about patent threats against Linux (and if anyone knows about stealing intellectual property, it would be MS!) I found Open Source, the Internet and the Decline of Microsoft on drdreg.com an interesting read.

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Check out Show Us The Code - an open letter to Steven Ballmer

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doofus - I won't be holding my breath waiting on Dell to start selling Linux machines. I think it was just a bunch of hot air.

Tom Toles - 02.26.2007