Duct Tape and Circuits

Ahhh the power of open source, not only is it helping with education in Brazil as this article shows, but it has to be a blow to Microsoft to boot. Imagine trying to do the same with M$ machines and servers, the cost would most definately be prohibitive.

I think this is another excellent step in the right direction. I could see where some thing like this would benefit a lot of schools.

Open source diary - ProInfo and Linux Educacional - KDE in Public Schools in Brazil.

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It has been at least a week and a half that I have been feeling trapped and wanting to both cry (but can’t) and fight (but not sure who or what.) It has been hard to get myself motivated to do anything, though I force myself to at least go for a walk every day. Which in some cases helped a little bit, but in others was not so good. Read the rest of this entry »

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I realized today it has been awhile since I posted any thing here, it has been a little strange for me for a little while now. Okay things are always strange to me, but that is besides the point. A week or so ago, I lost a member of the family. She was a Chinese Shar-Pei, she was the last of 3 that I had.and hardly left my side the last few months.

She was always there with a lick for my nose, and a wag of the tail when I was extremely down. I remember she used to love to have her teeth brushed, I still expect her to be waiting out side the bathroom door waiting for her turn. Not ashamed to admit that I cried for a few hours. I came home from a session with my therapist, and found her on the living room floor trying to get up to greet me at the door. She could not even lift her head, but I could see that she was trying.

I picked her up on my lap, and while the tears started to stream down my face, she passed from this world. If there is, and I pray it is so, a place for dogs to go when they leave this existance, I hope she found a good place. I miss her greatly. Her name was NuHi.

Pepper, my last dog, seems to have taken her place at my side. Never more then a couple of feet away at any one time. Though she will and can not take the place of NuHi, she has a place in my heart and will remain with me as NuHi did.

Other then that, well the county is start  forclosure procedings on my home of unpaid propertly taxes. Another thing to add to the constant mix of things fleeting in and out of my head. If I could slow that down some what, I maybe able to do something about it. But since I can’t work, and I rely on the meger amount of money the state gives me to support myself don’t think anything is going to get paid soon.

Been with out gas for the second month now, trying to get it turned back on, but wheels are not working in my favor. The Salvation Army is going to help, but I have to come up with  135 more, which I don’t have. My truck is having issues, I hope it is just a blown fuse, but if it is not doubt I will be able to get it fixed.

Computer wise haven’t really been doing a whole lot, hard to concentrate on one project that I have going. Pretty much scrapped it all and restarted, why you ask? good question, in the end I don’t have a clue. They just were not right is all.

I do hope to be able to install openSuse on my iBook my brother fixed for me. Just waiting on the power pack and off I will go. Soon as I do I hope I remember to take notes and I’ll blog on it.

Well that’s about it, for now anyways. I feel a good rant against everyone and everything so stay tuned.

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When you suffering depression or are on the downside of being bipolar, even simple things like taking a walk can be extremely difficult and painful experience. I had to go down town today, and it took me at least 3 hours to convince myself and motivate myself to walk there. With the way gas prices are, walking seemed the way to go. Read the rest of this entry »

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I happened apun my old iMac the other day, it’s one of those all in one deals. Think they called it a jellybean or something similar to that. Anyway I am running out of file space on my main system, and thought that just maybe it would make a nice little file server for a little extra storage and a few other things. After booting it up, first time I bet in over a year, I discovered I had already installed a linux system on it, but wanted to convert it to openSuse 11. Figuring it would make it a tad easier. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: howto, install, powerpc, Server
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There are many many posts saying why linux is failing. If I had a dollar for every post and article I’ve read or seen the title too I could probably buy a nce car or something like that. I will probably end up repeating what some one else has said, I just haven’t seen it yet. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Apple, Darwin, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, News and Media, Open source, Operating system
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Yes I know, I change the theme more then a woman changes her shoes, sorry ladies no offense ment. But I needed a change, and at least it is not a dark theme, and I need a little brightness in my world as of late.

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Today has not been a good day by any stretch of the imagination. Besides my depression, and an altercation with my son before I even had my first cup of coffee , my mouse and keyboard decide they have had enough and decided to go by the way side.

So off I got to the local Wally World (walmat for the rest of you folks) to get replacements. Which I was able to do with out to much problems, though it was money that I really didn’t have to spend. Luckly I had enough pop cans to turn in to cover it.

But I am used to a split keyboard and Wally world does not sell them, so I am stuck with a straight. Ugh, it is extremely hard for me to type. But least it works. Now if I could get the extra keys on both the keyboard and mouse working I’d be a happy camper. Unfortunately I can’t find anything in the suse distro to help me do that. Ah well , something else to put on the ever expanding ‘to do list’

Tags: keyboard, mouse, openSuse
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I have been searching and searching for a couple of things lately. Mainly a excellent rss reader and blogging editors for KDE. And even better yet, a combined RSS/Blogging application. But there none to be found, least not that I have located any, or at least that behaves like I feel one should.

Sure there is ScribeFire for Firefox, and it does okay in the browser. And that’s fine if I stumble across a page that I want to write a short comment on or something like that. But beyound that, least for me anyways, it lacks things. Don’t ask me what, my brain is racing bad enough as it is, I am lucky to be able to get this far lol. Don’t get me wrong, I recommend ScribeFire to people that ask me for something like that, it’s good, but….

And yes, I will probably try to come up with something myself, god knows I have the time. Bah..

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I stumbed on this page today, An Introduction to Bipolar Disorder - Psych Central. It’s down right scary to read something that describes one’s feeling, emotions, what ever. Makes you want to stop the world and get off for a few, just so you can catch your breath for a time.

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While it does not make feel any better about things or help my current situation at all, it at least gives me some ammo for those that look at me and think I am completely wacked. Well okay, I am but that is completely besides the point, I mean really. I didn’t ask of any of this, don’t want it, I’ll share, shoot I’m a giving person I’ll let you take lock stock and barrel.

Tags: bipolar, depression
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